Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-18
Johns Hopkins New Policy
Promises Cain i'm Prestige

50 many hundreds of thousands of
graduates are turned out of SO many
machines every season; there must be
something at the top TO show for II
ala great scholar, mathematician,
physicist, pathologist, philosopher.
The New York World finds that the
country is well supplied with places
where the undergraduate can acquire
a standard education" but asserts
that I've are woefully lacking In
places where the graduate student
can pursue his work serenely, away
from the distractions of drop-kicking
youth. The interesting speculation
however" continues the World, "is
whether other places will follow suit;
whether we shall see a general aban-
Comment of the attitude that marks
our college at present. Sound research
real contribution to human knowledge
lives forever, and so does it's fame
THAT its decision will have the ef-
feet of bringing similar action else
where Is to he doubted" saws the
Schenectady Gazette, "for other col.
leges are committed strongly to the
undergraduate training idea And by
making such change they would
lose more than they would gain. But
without doubt there is room in this
country for Johns Hopkins as post
graduate institution. It can in that
role perform services of inestimable
value in the field Of education. And
there should I've more such places
rather than fewer" The Nashville
Banner. recognizing that 1.-The great
universities of the land are endeavor-
ing to give the best higher-educatio
facilities that are possible. and Johns
Hopkins has set a high mark for it
self offers the general comment:
"An educated people make a safe Ma
ton. The triumph of democracy is
based upon educated units. We are
universities are keeping abreast of
the times in every respect"
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1.-THE old ideal of the university as
distinguished from the college," states
the New York Herald Tribune, twill
he regained. It is a refreshing sort
of doctrine. 1t is making an appeal
to the belief of many men of large
means, and the money for the new
experiment seems to be forthcoming.
1t is clearly a return to the primary
function of a university. which Is to
educate students out of ignorance, to
train them in methods of scientific re-
search and to inspire them with love
and respect for learning" A tribute
from the Portland Evening Express
is accompanied by the statement that
"the universities of the country are
now giving greater encouragement to
research work than they did when
Johns Hopkins was founded. but the
Baltimore institution still retains it's
lead in that department of education"
The Lowell Evening Leader also re-
marks that Johns Hopkins proposes
to put the responsibility on the stu
dent himself to set his own standards
of achievement" and that those,
after all, are what really count" To
the Memphis News Scimitar the dead
ening weight of numbers Is a potent
reason for getting away from the old
system.
"What Johns Hopkins has DONE"
in the opinion of the Norfolk Daily
News 'other large institutions would
like to do. They would like to put
the responsibility for the younger
students where it could most effective
ly be carried-on their own home
folk" while the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
concludes that 1.-The advantage to q
research university of being without
freshmen and sOphomores Is too APP
parent to require any elaboration"