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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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... Phillyloo Bird declared that this vocal explosion caused the seismographs as Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, to register an earthquake somewhere, it had on the blond Freshman a strange effect. The vast mountain of muscle lumbered heavily across the room, gazed down at the howling ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... students at Goucher College and in the College Courses for Teachers, Johns Hopkins University this book is ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... beginning of this chapter he urged the "educational value of the natural history sciences." In 1869 in a speech in Liverpool; in 1870 at University College, London; in 1874 as his Rectorial address in the University of Aberdeen; in 1876 at the opening ceremonial of the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore; in the same year at South Kensington; in 1877 in a separate essay; in 1881 in an address to the International Medical Congress: at these different times and addressing different and important ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... of Johns Hopkins," the Gray Mahatma answered. "I have traveled all over the United States seeking for one man who might be trusted with the rudiments of our ...

— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy

... say too much in praise of this system. Many a medical, or law, or theological, or philosophical student, or one who is going in for a scientific course in engineering or mining, would profit enormously could he go from Harvard to Yale, or to Johns Hopkins, or to Princeton, or to Columbia, and attend the lectures of the best men at these and other universities. Many a man would have gone eagerly to Harvard to hear James in philosophy, Peirce in mathematics, ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

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