Johns Hopkins University.

Johns Hopkins University consists of five or six brick buildings situated in the heart of the city. It has an endowment fund of $300,000 given by Johns Hopkins in the year 1867. Three of these buildings are laboratories; the chemical, the physical and the biological laboratories. The others contain recitation and lecture rooms and the library. There are no dormitories or dining associations. A student goes to college solely for work, and expects no class systems or class associations. He arranges his own board and lodging in some neighboring private house. In consequence of this arrangement, the faculty are never troubled with the vexing question of student disturbances.

The requirements for admission are about equal to those at Harvard, with a little more stress laid on French and German. A student may substitute them for Greek. For the college course, which is generally three years, the student has to choose, with some alternatives, from seven courses of study. If, for instance, he wishes to pursue a classical course, course I would be his choice. This includes Latin and Greek with the alternative of Mathematics or History. In Latin, besides composition there are nine authors to be read, among them Livy, Horace, Tacitus, Cicero and Juvenal. In Greek there are six authors, Lysias, Homer, Sophocles, and others. Supposing he desires the modern studies, then for Science he can elect course III, comprising Chemistry, Biology, and either Latin, Mathematics, or Italian. For a more literary course, he can take course IV which includes History, Political Science, and either Mathematics, a laboratory study, Spanish or Italian. Thus one can see the courses are well arranged and evenly balanced.

In some matters the students are not so well off as the Harvard students, Although there is the Congressional Library in Washington, which is about an hour's ride on the railroad from Baltimore, yet the students do not have the advantage of immediate reference to such an extensive library as we have here. In one of the college buildings is a very well arranged library of about 26,000 volumes. There is a gymnasium on the opposite side of the street.

In the American acceptance of the term, the institution is not a University; for instance, it contains no Law School or Medical department. Yet it is rapidly growing in size, and great improvements are contemplated. It owns many of the buildings in the surrounding blocks, and as its capital increases, it tears them away to make room for buildings of its own. Its friends, indeed, have every reason to be proud of its rapid growth.

N. E. H.