relish. That editorial work involved self-abnegation, it meant a subordination of personal ambition to the promotion of the interests of American scholarship, it meant resigning at least in a measure the delightful, if arduous exercise of constructive activity. It was after all following in his footsteps and subscribing to his faith in the power of the press-for he was a believer in the power of the press, and the Johns Hopkins Press, which he founded in the face of criticism, will hold the University to its high mission and maintain the University in its high repute, whether the worshippers at the academic shrine be few or many.

And so it was that he revealed to me, as he revealed to so many, the path of duty, and after walking in it with steady if not eager feet all these years I have publicly acknowledged my obligation to him and publicly confessed that I could not have been more usefully employed. My recompense of reward is his recompense of reward and the circumstances are not unlike. For he also was too much of a student not to regret that in his busy life he had not found time to set his seal to some supreme achievement in letters or science. But it must have been a consolation to him-nay, I am sure it was a consolation to him to know how many of the successes of his followers bore the impress of his administrative genius. And it is only as one of many that I have attempted to show how he energized as well as organized the Johns Hopkins University, only as one of many that I bear this testimony to our great Taskmaster. No testimony is needed, none would suffice for those who knew him as a friend.

The audience then arose and sang the Doxology, and the exercises closed with a brief prayer and the benediction by Professor EDWARD H. GRIFFIN, Dean of the College Faculty.

LETTERS RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT REMSEN

CARDINAL GIBBONS

that I have always

I take pleasure in saying admired Dr. Gilman. He was a splendid type of the public-spirited citizen. Our city had no more ardent and efficient worker for its material and intellectual progress. There was no movement inaugurated for the city's improvement which did not receive not only his approval, but also his whole-souled support and active co-operation. But above and beyond all other works which have stamped the name of Dr. Gilman upon the affectionate memory of the citizens of Baltimore, which have merited their gratitude, and which we can point to with especial pride, stands pre-eminent the great university which he established and over which he presided so admirably and so long.

HONORABLE ANDREW D. WHITE

I need not tell you how fully earned the tribute is which you purpose to pay to Dr. Gilman. He has deserved well, indeed, not only of Baltimore and of Maryland, but of the whole United States. The republic of science and letters throughout the world also owes him a great debt.

I have known him well ever since we were fellow students at Yale, fifty-five years ago, and I have never known a day during that whole period when his thoughts were not upon some enterprise for the good of his fellow

men.

What he did at Johns Hopkins was a work of genius. We all knew him before as an admirable worker in various fields, but I think that none but his most intimate friends realized, until he founded your institution, the real originality of that mind which was destined to render

such vast services to the higher education in our own country and in others. It has been my good fortune at various times to labor with him in various enterprises, and to be thrown into very close and confidential relations with him, and I can say that in every capacity in which I have ever seen him tried, he has proved himself a master.

Recognition of his merit was far wider than it at first might seem, and it is to me not only a pleasure but a duty to testify that the welcome he received from the foremost men of science and literature in Berlin, when he visited that capital and university preparatory to taking charge of the Carnegie Institution, was very striking. I had previously had occasion to know of the deep impression his personality and ideas made at Oxford and Cambridge in England, and it was with especial satisfaction that I saw such recognition coming from other sources, equally high, but less inclined to admire American university achievements. The realization of his ideas in Baltimore, even though not yet complete, has marked an epoch in the history of civilization in our country.

I might dwell upon the personal characteristics revealed in this intimate relation between us, which has lasted more than half a century, but the qualities which I have known in him and which have led me not only to respect and admire but to love him, must have shown themselves to many who will be present with you, and, beside this, I hardly dare trust myself to open a subject so full of memories which are among the greatest and most sacred treasures of my life.

PRESIDENT ANGELL

I beg to express my thanks for the invitation to be present at the meeting in commemoration of President Gilman, on November 8th. I regret that my engagements render it impossible for me to accept. I should be glad to

express, by my presence, my great personal regard for him and my high appreciation of the great value of his services to higher education in this country.

PRESIDENT ALDERMAN

Permit me to thank you for remembering me in extending the invitation to be present at the meeting in commemoration of Dr. Gilman, on November 8th. I regret that it is not possible for me to be present, for I assure you that my spirit is in thorough sympathy with the purposes of the meeting. It was my fortune to know Dr. Gilman well for the last eight or ten years, and, of course, I knew, as a student, of his service to American education, and especially the tremendous service he performed in the building of Johns Hopkins University. No American who has worked in the field of education has a clearer title to just and honest fame.

PRESIDENT JUDSON

The University of Chicago feels acutely the great work which President Gilman did in the founding of Johns Hopkins University. American universities, to-day, owe a large part of their advanced ideas and of their achievements in the line of real university work to the founda tion and example of Johns Hopkins. President Gilman's memory will be enshrined in the history of American universities for all time.

DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL

I cannot let pass the formal invitation to the commemoration service for Dr. Gilman without a word of regret on my part that I cannot be present. I have just arrived at home and am overwhelmed with correspondence and

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engagements, and have also to be in Baltimore later in the month at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

We must, all of us, deeply regret the passing away of this estimable and accomplished gentleman, who has done so much for education and, indirectly, for the science of the country.

HONORABLE SETH LOW

I regret very much that it is not possible for me to be present at the meeting in commemoration of Dr. Gilman, to be held on Sunday next. My friendship for him as a man and my appreciation of his work both urge me to attend; but, unfortunately, circumstances forbid.

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I avail myself of this opportunity, however, to say that, in my judgment, Dr. Gilman's influence upon the higher education in the United States was so fruitful that he will be permanently remembered as one of America's greatest educators. It was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it of marble. With equal truth, it may be said of Dr. Gilman that he found the United States a land of colleges that gave to men broadening education, and he left it a land of universities, also, that train specialists as well as they can be trained anywhere in the world, in every department of human knowledge. This was a gift to the United States surpassing, in its possibilities of benediction, all the treasures at the command of Aladdin's lamp. The American people may well do honor to such a man, while we who knew and loved him will bear his name inscribed upon our hearts.

PRESIDENT QUIRK

I beg leave to offer to you as President of the University and friend of Dr. Gilman, lately deceased, my sincere expression of sympathy and sorrow. In view of the