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EniTOit's CiiAiu.
oflho John Ilopkin's Un'vorsity of Haiti
more to glvo a course or lectures thcio at
an inrly day ami lias boon granted leave
of absence by the Wisconsin logenls for
that puiposo. Prof. Allen is one of those
quiet, thoughtful seholais who docs thoi
oughly well whatever he undertakes. Ills
long training in the Go-man Universities
will enable him to render elllcient service
to the Baltimore institution, the first and
only real University yet established in
America.
It is yet a question among many wheth
er the time lias come for the establish
ment In our country of a University in
fact, or in the continental sense of tho
word, or whether wo have, as yet, the
men and material for its successful equip
ment. Some also, preeminent among whom
is Pros. White, of Cornell, have thought
that such an enterprise should be under
taken by the general government and the
Institution, when established, be known
as the National Unlversl'v. Others have
maintained that our true com so was to
wait the natuial order of things until
some of our older and better endowed
colleges had grown into the University
pioper, anil they have been wont to point
willi hope to tho rapid strides in this di
rection that Ilarvaul has of late been
making. But while these have been talk
lug, the authorities of .John Ilopkin's
University have been quietly, successfully
at work in laying solid tho foundations
of tho institution under their fostering
charge. Fiom time to time the public
has noto of their pi ogress, as, for Instance,
in the calling to responsible duties of
such accomplished scholars as Prof. Al
len, and now that institution may bo ro
gardcil as a fixed fact and America no long
er be said to have not ono real University.
True, the attendance is small, for the high
grade of Scholarship requisite to admis
sion is not easily reached and for the
more potent leason that, as yet, in our
country, theio is little demand for tho
really higher and profounder scholarship;
but this makes no difieronco. Tho Uni
versity is not dependent on numbers for
its success. Indeed a largo attendance at
this eaily stage of lis caieer would hupn
ma facie evidence of tho most conclusive
kind that it is not what it claims to lie.
"Wo hail tills University then as a cheer
ing indication that America is fast com
ing to her maturity. It is the II: si indica
tion of the dawn. It is, at least, some
small pint of the substance of tho thing
long hoped for. Of course 3 ears, possi
bly generations, or even centuries of ef
fort aie yet needful before it can even
hope to attain the solid position of n
great continental school. iNr verthcless It
is much to be able to read the cud from
this beginning.
It is u noteworthy ciicumstancc
that this institution should have been
founded in the comparatively southern
city t)f Baliitnoio. Tho future greatness
of this o'ty, however, is well assured. It
possesses all the advantages both of an in
laud and maratimo metropolis. Its easy
accessibility and nearness to the Missis
sippi valley lias already thrown into its
hands tho lionN sliaio of the gieat Inter
continental trallle. Despite therefore the
advantage already gained by .Now York,
Baltimore is not unlikely to become tho
great metropolis of the Alleghany slope,
and, so, of the American Continent.
Then, in the words of tho prominent Sci
entist, Prof. Huxley, this institution,
which he dedicated rather to original re
seat cli than to instruction, will bo the
chief, crowning glory of tho city as of tho
nation. E.
"PLAGIARISM."
A very just and deserving criticism,
found in tho Lawroncc Collegian, upon an
article appearing in a former number of
tho Studunt, calls forth some remarks
upon a topic, much to our embarassinent
and mortification. That any of tho con
tributors of the Studknt would be guilty
of tho contemptible act of plagiarism is
bomethlng that never before entered our
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