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Johns Hopkins

noun

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873). Synonym: Hopkins.

A university in Baltimore.

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... just been published in the series of the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. It is based on lectures delivered in the Johns Hopkins University in 1912, and later revised for publication. The subject involves one of the most intricate problems in American history, and Professor Cox has spared no pains in searching for new sources of information. ...

— The Enclosures in England - An Economic Reconstruction • Harriett Bradley

... accepted thirty years ago, there are at least two great American universities of to-day which would not have come into being, the means devoted to their support having been divided among others. These are the Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago. What would have been gained by applying the argument in these cases? The advantage would have been that, instead of 146 so-called universities which appear to-day in the Annual Report of the Bureau of Education, ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... which I have devoted myself." His biographer says that he spent about one quarter of his working hours during ten years of his life in advocating colonization. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, said at a meeting of the Maryland Historical Society held in Latrobe's memory that "probably his greatest distinction outside of his professional life was acquired in promoting the cause of African ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... monige geweareth' (1599) and 'hafaeth aes geworden' (2027).—In a paper published some years ago in one of the Johns Hopkins University circulars, I tried to throw upon these two long-doubtful passages some light derived from a study of like passages in Alfred's prose.—The impersonal verb 'geweorethan,' with an accus. of the person, ...

— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin

... "Shakespeare and His Forerunners" resulted from his work with his classes in Elizabethan Poetry. "The English Novel" is the course of lectures on "Personality Illustrated by the Development of Fiction," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in the winter of 1880-'81. As we read the printed work in its depth and strength, we do not realize that his wife took the notes from his whispered dictation, and that his auditors as they listened ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

Words linked to "Johns Hopkins" : altruist, moneyman, Hopkins, university, financier, Baltimore, philanthropist