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On the eve of his retirement as the first president of Johns Hopkins University there came to Daniel Coit Gilman the opportunity to direct the fortunes of an institution that promised to become the most important research enterprise in the United States. Moreover, with the financial backing of the institution's founder, Andrew Carnegie, who had set aside as an endowment United States Steel bonds worth ten million dollars, Gilman faced the refreshing prospect of guiding an institution that was free of the usual budgetary deficit.
I appreciate the opportunity of replying to Professor Wieruszowski's lengthy and generally critical review of the Seven Medieval Kings. That I found her strictures for the most part unwarranted will not surprise. Few writers can admit that they could have been so wrong!
In the late nineteenth century, when universities were being created in the United States, the question arose of whether colleges could survive in the new era. When, for example, a faculty member from the University of Chicago traveled to a nearby college town in 1894, the local audience had to be assured that “the lean and hungry universities” did not intend to devour the fat and innocent colleges. In fact, the occasion of this visit provides an illustration of one way in which colleges survived in the age of the universities.
Near the drive that leads-to the top of Monticello a simple monument marks the grave of the third President of the United States. The inscription names the three services for which Thomas Jefferson wished to be remembered: author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty and of the Declaration of American Independence, and father of the University of Virginia. The first two cleared the way to new heights of spiritual and political freedom. The other envisioned a trained and dedicated leadership for an intelligent citizenry.
John Orville Taylor was one of many prominent educators of the eighteen thirties and forties who labored continually to win public support for popular education. One can safely infer that his efforts to muster common school support were comparable with those of his more publicized contemporaries; yet today he receives little recognition from educational historians for the part he played in laying the groundwork for the American public school.