New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
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To Train Experts
Johns Hopkins to Have Great
School for Practitioners.

l. That the recent growth OF this country
calls for the higher development of its en-
gineers, lawyers. physicians, scientists and
educators is the belief of many profession
al and industrial leaders in this city who
are to-day perfecting plans 70 offer on
American soil the advantages Of extended
work in every field The removal OF Johns
Hopkins University to new quarters in
Baltimore and the establishment of schools
Of higher engineering and Of Jurisprudence
in connection with its other graduate de-
partments are some of the steps that ars
being proposed toward equipping America
with those facilities for higher learning
that now must DE sought abroad. With
university for practising professional men
thus set up near the capital OF the ma
. lion it is believed that Americans Will be-
better able to handle their present press
ing industrial as we'll as scientific and edu~
cational problems
Men rather than marbled structures ars
desired 70 round out the university in
which it is hoped any lawyer and engineer
in the country may soon be able TO MT him.
self for higher attachments. Since Johns
Hopkins was founded thirty-hve years ago
with the primary object OF advancing
knowledge through research, brains TO Be
developed more than buildings to be looked
at has been the governing idea of the In
stitution according TO its graduates
Though the new campus structures. to
which it is expected many professional
workers will flock. are being planned on a
large and adequate scale. 1t has been de-
cided that they must have the simplicity
OF intellectual workshops instead OF the
elaborate ornaments of the show buildings
of many colleges
Toward realizing this ideal OF a university
for advancing all the scientific. professional
and educational IaborS of America So1Ao
has been offered by the General Educa-
ton Board with the provtso that Sdoo.Ov pa
subscribed in addition to complete a mil
lion-dollar fund, half OF which Is 10 oe
preserved as a permanent endowment
Many industrial leaders, irrespective OF
their own college affiliations. are reported
to be interesting themselves in this move
nent to provide higher training and re-
search facilities The intensive training or
the nations physicians and lawyers al the
extended university is also said TO be at
tracing the support Of men and women All
over the country
That every state in the Union numbers
many graduates of Johns Hopkins among
its college and professional leaders is
shown by tabulated statistics compiled by
Robert H. Grimes secretary of the extern
sion committee of the university. al It's
headquarters, No. ST Wall street, In this
city. While hundreds of physicians are
scattering the benefits OF their advanced
training at the medical department OF this
institution in almost every locality on the
continent. it recorded that graduates OF
other departments are active in editorial,
scientific, engineering and Industrial work,
as Well as in solving the civic problems OF
sanitation conservation and government
survey throughout the country III the
methods and spirit that have been be-
hind the achievements of John Hopkins
alumni along these lines can be spread to
new ana higher fields of research. IL is pre-
dicted that the entire nation will feel the
benefits in increased efficiency among all
its professional workers