Addressing an ROTC Wartime Emergency
This year’s congressional and presidential approval of bills authorizing more than $160 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan makes one wonder what Johns Hopkins administrators in July 1942...
View ArticleHealth Costs in Baltimore — 1936
It is 1936. You are living in Tokyo and, unexpectedly, you become pregnant. You want to go to the United States to have your baby. What do you do? You ask your husband, a reporter for the Tokyo...
View ArticleIsabel Hampton, First Superintendent of Nursing
On May 20, 1889, Elisa P. Perkins, former superintendent of Bellevue Training School for Nurses in New York City, sat down at a desk in her home on North Washington Street in Norwich, Conn., and wrote...
View ArticlePreparations for War in 1941
Shortly before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Johns Hopkins administrators and faculty anticipated that the nation would be drawn into war. Letters and memoranda in the Hamburger...
View ArticlePsychology Exam — 1891
Johns Hopkins undergraduate students studying psychology today are likely to be preparing for their spring examinations in that subject, just as students did in 1891. A copy of questions on the...
View ArticleMilton Eisenhower, Postdocs and the Society of Scholars
Johns Hopkins University’s eighth president, Milton S. Eisenhower, never professed to be a scholar. His highest earned degree was a bachelor of science in journalism from Kansas State University. But...
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The Camera Club victory
When Johns Hopkins students decide something needs to be done, usually they find a way to do it, even if that might mean bribing a senior officer of the university. Consider the case of the Camera...
View ArticleCorresponding with President Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen, Johns Hopkins president, and professor of chemistry, could be direct and to the point in his correspondence. Take the exchange of letters between him and a PhD alumnus, Lyman C. Newell,...
View ArticleHonoring Dr. Gilman
This is part of an occasional series of historical pieces by Ross Jones, vice president and secretary emeritus of the university. A 1953 graduate of Johns Hopkins, he returned in 1961 as assistant to...
View ArticleHopkins History: The price tag of federal research support at SoM
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been receiving federal support for research for many decades. Faculty and deans of the school, and university presidents and trustees, have been...
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