The launching of a university, and other papers; a sheaf of remembrances

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Preface

It has been my good fortune to be often invited, in different parts of the country, to deliver addresses on important occasions, most of them historical and educational. Those which have been printed in pamphlet form are now lost to sight almost as completely as those which rest in manuscript destined to the fire. Consequently the following pages have been brought together in the hope that by their perusal some of my colleagues and friends, and especially those whom I have known as students, will find that pleasant reminiscences are awakened.

The first three articles were contributed to Scribner*s Magazine and are included in this volume by the kind permission of the publishers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, and the editor, Mr. E. L. Burlingame ; and one of the articles printed in the Century Magazine is likewise reprinted by the kind permission of the publishers. I have not hesitated, now and then, to enlarge these papers, and I have added some articles hitherto unpublished.

Nothing is here included which appeared in an earlier volume, entitled University Problems.

Baltimore, December, igoj.

Contents

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

I Reminiscences of Thirty Years in Baltimore

(1875-1905)