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That for 50 years there has been each year among Johns Hopkins' matriculants an average of one potential college or university president, and 29 college professors.
That, counting only living alumni, Johns Hopkins has turned out educators sufficient to man 50 college faculties. (Contrary to the popular impression Johns Hopkins produces more educators than physicians.)
That, according to famed Electro-Mechanist Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: "No rich man in the United States should die without leaving something to Johns Hopkins, the pioneer university of the United States."
Malcontent
In Pulaski County, Ky., Teacher Bertha Mize of the Short Creek School, thirsty, drew herself a glass of water from the school cooler. It looked, she thought, a little queer. The water seemed cloudy. Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion was mutual.
*Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), son of English Quakers in Maryland, built up a wholesale grocery business in Baltimore, starting in his 25th year with money from a moneyed uncle. He built so well that he was able to do private banking in a big way, extending credit and signing notes for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and, during the panic of 1873, for many a Baltimore and Philadelphia firm. He aided Southerners after the Civil War with credit, meeting George Peabody who was doing the same thing. Here was a coincidence: both men were bachelors, both had made fortunes of ten millions, Peabody by advancing cash, Hopkins by advancing credit. Johns Hopkins learned that George Peabody had given Harvard University an institute of archaeology, Yale an institute of physical science. "There are two memorials that will live forever," mused childless Mr. Peabody. "A university. . . a hospital. . . ." Childless Mr. Hopkins soon left $3,500,000 for a university, $3,500,000 for a hospital.
**In his class ('78) were also the late Dr. Josiah Royce, Harvard philosopher ; Dr. Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan political economist; Dr. Thomas Craig, editor of The American Journal of Mathematics.