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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, 1889-1914 1 I wish to express in behalf of all my colleagues the exceeding joy we have in the return of so many members of the staff of the hospital and of the graduates of our school. Our dearest possession is the work of these men, and the most significant event of this celebration is their return on this occasion. Much that I might desire to say has already been touched upon. I will add a few words as to what went before the opening of the hospital in 1889, and the situation which existed at that time. We had first of all a generous endowment. In the letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees, we also had the most memorable sentence already quoted: " You will bear in mind in all your work in relation to the hospital that it is my desire and purpose that this institution shall be a part of the medical school of the university for which I have amply provided in my will." That is the keynote, it remains the keynote in all that has been done in the hospital and the medical school, and I think we may fairly claim that the wishes of Johns Hopkins in this regard have been fulfilled by his trustees and by those working in the hospital and school. When one stops to consider that these words were penned by a layman in the year 1873 when the medical education was at an extremely low state in this country, and how even today they would be remarkable, it is well for us to pause to pay tribute to the extraordinarily enlightened sentiments of this beneficent donor. Throughout the construction of the hospital, the conception of Johns Hopkins that it should be a part of the future medical school, was never lost sight of, and all honor to that great man Dr. Billings, who advised the trustees so intelligently in all of these matters...

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