Excerpt from University Problems: In the United States
The Johns Hopkins University was founded by John Hopkins, a merchant of Baltimore, who died in December, 1873, and bequeathed the principal part of his fortune for the establishment of a University and a Hospital. The University was opened to scholars in 1876; the Hospital was opened to patients in 1889; the Medical School was fully organized in the autumn of 1893.
The address which follows was delivered by the first president of the University, February 22, 1876.
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