College Spotlight: Johns Hopkins University

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Johns Hopkins University

  • Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins.
  • The enrollment total is 21, 726. Acceptance rate is 12.4%.
  • Johns Hopkins’ library collection includes more than 4.3 million titles
  • Johns Hopkins was a real person. And no, his name is not misspelled. The name “Johns” was a family name — formerly the maiden name of his great-grandmother Margaret Johns.
  • The university has its own ice cream, called Blue Jay Batter. The blueberry cheesecake flavor is made by Dominion Ice Cream.
  • Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. President, sang the “Star-Spangled Banner” in the Hopkins glee club. In 1916, he proposed the song as the national anthem.
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital was built on the site of an insane asylum. Hopkins bought the 13-acre site for $150,000 instead of following through on plans to build the hospital on his 330-acre estate in Clifton.
  • Hopkins’ Clifton estate is now a park and golf course, known as Clifton Park. Hopkins’ home is a pro shop.
  • Johns Hopkins has a scholarship specifically for high schoolers who get accepted from Baltimore public high schools.
  • The Gilman School, Baltimore’s prestigious private school for boys, was originally housed on the Johns Hopkins University campus when it was created in 1897. It was named after Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University.
  • The university’s Peabody Institute was the first academy of music established in America. The Mount Vernon school celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007.
  • Hopkins really doesn’t have a secret society. You probably assumed that a school with so many affluent and notable graduates had a secret elite equivalent to Harvard’s Skull and Bones or Yale’s Scroll and Key. Sorry, but no.
  • Hopkins has a big patch of grass that they call the “beach”
  • Fun fact: It’s down the street from Loyola.

The famous Peabody Library at Hopkins
By: Rayonna Jernigan

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