Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-04-28
AMBITION OF
JOHNS HOPKINS
University Has Started Plan to
Raise 100000.
STEP TO AID HIGHER EDUCATION
John o. Rockefeller Has Offered $780,.
600 il $4,000 More Is Raised, and
Trustees Of Baltimore Institution Of
Learning Propose to Raise Another
Million Dollars.


Learning Propose to Raise Another
Million Dollars
Steps to develop what will proha bly,
be the greatest institution Of higher
education in the United states were
taken the other day when. By the ac-
don Of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller and
the trustees, faculty and alumni Of
Johns Hopkins university. a, Balti.
more. a committee was organized to
raise 100000 and add schools Of
law, teaching. engineering and proven.
tive medicine 10 Johns Hopkins.
These four schools will be Of the same
high level as the Johns Hopkins uni.
versity and medical school The six
big institutions in one will be moved
to a large estate AT Homewood. just
outside Of Baltimore
A committee on endowment and ex.
tension has been named 10 raise the
$2.O00.oo0. OF this amount $4,000
has already been offered by the gen
eral education board from the income
of the John =. Rockefeller foundation
for higher education If an additional
sum Of not less than $4,000 Is raised
by Dec 81. 1910. The committee has
undertaken 10 raise the money to NEE:
these conditions and TO raise the fur
ther sun. Of S1.O00,00O.
The university authorities have had
under consideration for some time sew
eral lines Of proposed extension. 1t
has been desired to establish depart.
ments Of scientific study and research
In practically newer fields and to en-.
large the work Of these departments
which are already established
Outline Of the Plan.
An Official statement issued by the
university authorities outlines the
plans rs follows:
A school OF higher engineering is TO
be established. Here graduates of
technical schools and practicing en-
gineerS may come and take up the re-
search work which is - needed in the
technical lines. There VIII arise
body ot trained scientists and worker,
in research from viii u the nanufac.
free Gr1w
There is need for the establishment
of school Of iur.snr,,dan q which
viii :u.G u Instruction in the higher
bran Les %. tie law and opportunity
for scientific resedrc h-histor.cal. COM
parative and critical There is at
present no >uch institution in the Unit
cd In, 1.,-
wholly vocational or professional in
character
~ department Of preventive medi-
cine is also planned AZ an adjunct of
the medical school. More and more
attention is being given to the public
health The need of properly trained
men and women 70 carry on the work
of prevention is urgent. That the mat
ter is more and more engaging the
public attention is shown by many
recent suggestions that there be es
tab.i>hed >ecretarysAip Of the pub
lie health in President Tatts cabinet
Great Teachers School.
Then training school for teachers
is to be established. 1t was formerly
held that no particular training was
necessary for teachers in the lower
grades Of the public schools, but to-
day IDEAS have changed. People are
beginning to realize that the educa-
tional training of boys and girls must
be placed IL the most competent hands
Another phase Of the university's
activity upon which the move to
UomewoOd will have a particular bear
ing is its collegiate department. This
department will increase quickly with
the erection of dormitories and closer
association Of the men in quiet re-
treat like Homewood, where all the in
Struments of student activities are at
hand. The group system Of under
graduate studies. which has been used
at Johns Hopkins from the start. is
being rapidly adopted by other col
leges.
with the strong incentive to work
which comes from surroundings Of
great intellectual activity such as exist
In the university it is predicted that
the collegiate department after its re-
noyal to Homewood will appeal to
many young men who now turn to the
other colleges on account Of the more
fascinating undergraduate life exist.
ing there. A special endowment for
the college is one Of the particular
aims Of the committee. Here will be
firmly established a college Of a some
what distinct type. in which without
Ieglecting athletic and social interests
the subordination Of these forms Of
activity TO the intellectual ends for
which institutions Of learning exist
will be recognized"
One Of the largest athletic fields IN
the country is planned. and botanical
gardens will be laid out.
Alumni throughout the United States
have been asked TO assist in the work,
and the prediction is made that the
entire amount will be IN hand by the
close Of the year.
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