Pioneer

This history of the early years of the Johns Hopkins University covers more than the establishment and development of this institution. It deals with a period of re-thinking and reassessment in higher education, when many of the fundamental problems of educational principle were tackled. "This history of the early years of the Johns Hopkins University is much more than the story of the establishment and development of one of the most distinguished institutions of higher education in the United States. The book deals with a period of re-thinking and re-assessment in higher education ...Many of the fundamental problems of educational principle ...were tackled at this stage of the University's history and the book deals fully with the questions of conscience and of politics which were involved in their solution." -International Association of Universities Bulletin