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Johns Hopkins

noun

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873). Synonym: Hopkins.

A university in Baltimore.

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... the Philosophical Faculty of Johns Hopkins University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by John Lesslie Hall, late Professor in the college of William ...

— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker

... I go to Baltimore. Trent has got me an appointment in Johns Hopkins. You will never forget me, but your life will be full again of other people and other things." He hurried his words, seeking to strike the note of her ambition and so turn her mind from her present pain. ...

— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor

... place in the student body. So great was his thirst for knowledge, however, that his graduation from Princeton did not satisfy him. Accordingly, he next went to the University of Virginia where he was graduated from the law school in 1881. But even this did not satisfy, so he spent two years in Johns Hopkins University, receiving in 1885 the degree of Ph.D., the highest degree that any university ...

— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... sure the book will accomplish precisely what is set to be its purpose."—Prof. James W. Bright, Johns Hopkins University. ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... colleagues and students at Goucher College and in the College Courses for Teachers, Johns Hopkins University ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

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