high-minded city, Baltimore." Let us persuade ourselves that this expression was not rash. Let us believe that there are hearts, in the city of the old man's love, from which this conviction will be echoed yet. Let us hope that there are men among us, to whom the possession of great wealth may yet suggest the association of their names and bounty, with those of McDonogh and Peabody, Hopkins and Pratt.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN ITS RELATIONS TO BALTIMORE.

AN ADDRESS

DELIVERED AT THE

SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY,

FEBRUARY 22, 1883.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

MR. PRESIDENT;

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GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD AND OF THE FACULTY:

AM very sensible of the honor which has been done me by the invitation to take part in your proceedings to-day, and yet I have accepted it with considerable hesitation. The topics which are most appropriate to the occasion will not bear superficial treatment in such a presence, and it is not easy for a man of my intellectual habits and restricted pursuits to give them any other. The problems of education, and particularly of the higher education, are occupying, at this moment, not only the best, but the best-trained minds of the world; and their study and solution have become a noble specialty, into which the best intentions will not justify rash intrusion. One may be permitted to say that what are irreverently called "crotchets" are not altogether absent from even the higher educational atmosphere, and there is, therefore, the greater reason for dispensing with the crude speculations of desultory thinkers.

I am not sure that it is not one of the most natural results of the system which this university represents and embodies,