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The University is named for Johns Hopkins, who left US$7,000,000 in his 1867Events January 8 African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again January 30 Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of J will for the foundation of the University and Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins. It is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest hospitals, and has topped U. News and World Report's (at the time, it was the largest philanthropic bequest in United States history), the equivalent of approximately US$86,542,022 in the year 2003 (this personal gift only being surpassed by alumnus Michael BloombergMichael Rubens "Mike" Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a businessman and mayor of New York City. Bloomberg was born and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He made his fortune selling financial-information terminals to Wall Street f's total donation of US$100,000,000 during the 1990s). The University opened February 22February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 312 days remaining, 313 in leap years. Events 1290s BC The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple. 1281 Martin IV becomes Pop, 1876, with the stated goal of "The encouragement of research ... and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell." The University's first president was visionary educator Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman ( 1831- 1908) was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1831, Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first pres, and its motto in Latin is Veritas vos liberabit – "The truth shall make you free". The undergraduate student population at Hopkins was all male until 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January, though many graduate programs were integrated earlier.
The University was designed from the start to marry scholarship and research, and graduate education has always been of key importance. All students at Johns Hopkins are encouraged to pursue original research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins undergradates produce research by the time of graduation. Johns Hopkins receives more federal research grants than any other university in the United States, which is vital considering its smaller endownment size relative to its peer institutions. The University is affiliated with 31 Nobel laureates. It boasts a wide spectrum in terms of its academic strength covering various fields from international relations and art to humanities and social and natural sciences.
In 1900, Johns Hopkins was one of only fourteen research universities to found the elite Association of American Universities (AAU).
In addition, people often mistakenly assume that Johns Hopkins' forename was "John" (much to the annoyance of alumni of the University and other informed persons). His forename is from a family surname. His great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, married Gerard Hopkins, and who named their son Johns Hopkins, whose name was passed on to his grandson.
In an excerpt from a commencement address from University President William R. Brody (May 2001):
"In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, Mark Twain wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: "A few months ago I was told that the Johns Hopkins University had given me a degree. I naturally supposed this constituted me a Member of the Faculty, and so I started in to help as I could there. I told them I believed they were perfectly competent to run a college as far as the higher branches of education are concerned, but what they needed was a little help here and there from a practical commercial man. I said the public is sensitive to little things, and they wouldn't have full confidence in a college that didn't know how to spell the name 'John'."
More than a century later, we continue to bestow our diplomas only upon individuals of outstanding capabilities and great talent. And we continue to spell Johns with an 's'."