"Jubilee" at Johns Hopkins University

BY E. E. C.

The Associated Press has doubtless made every one acquainted with the recent occurrence in connection with the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. This "Jubilee," which celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the existence of the University, was a notable event, a veritable "red letter day" in its annals, and also in those of the city.

The spirit of the occasion was manifestly that of good-will and love from all, to all. The pardonable pride and loving interest in the University, expressed by its older and younger sister-universities, goes to prove that it is possible for those interested in and pursuing kindred tastes and objects to work together in the bond of unity, each glorying in the progress and higher achievements of the other, seeing in this their own possible advancement. The spirit of brotherly love and interest, devotion to higher ideals from their standpoint, evidence of hard-earned honors, the joy, zeal, and youthful spirits of its retiring and in-coming presidents, were wholesome object-lessons for even Christian Scientists.

It may interest the readers of our dear Sentinel to know that there was a sprinkling of Christian Scientists among them. Three Christian Scientists, wearing the cap and gown of the University, had their places in the long procession of men distinguished for their good work among the leading educators of to-day, and occupied chairs on the platform.

One of these for eight years "Associate in Electrical Engineering" in the University, resigned bis position there in 1899 and since then has devoted his time and energies to the cause of Christian Science. Another has served the University for eleven years as "Associate Professor of Greek," and the third for the same length of time as "'Associate in Chemistry." A fourth, also a graduate of this University, is at the present time a well-known and highly respected member of the Baltimore Bar.

Two of these gentlemen are members of the Mother Church in Boston, and all four are regular attendants upon Christian Science services.

The motto of the Johns Hopkins University, "Veritas vos liberabit" (The truth shall make you free), together with the colossal statue of Thorwaldsen's "Christ, the Divine Healer," standing in the vestibule of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, will do their work as educators, by lifting the thought of humanity, until both become real to the human consciousness, and the Christ-Truth makes man free indeed.

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