Excerpt from Sir William Osler, Bart: Brief Tributes to His Personality, Influence and Public Service In thinking of the early days of The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital and the development of the medical school, my memories begin with the founder - Johns Hopkins. As a small boy between 10 and 12 I sat on the same bench with Johns Hopkins many Sunday mornings at the Friends Meeting on Eutaw and Monument streets. I cannot remember that he ever spoke to me, and I remember him merely as a rather unkempt old gentleman. At that time he had announced his intentions for his double bequest, had, in 1867, incorporated the two institutions that were to bear his name, had appointed his trustees, and had bought the site for the hospital. Galloway Cheston, the president of the university board; Francis T.King, president of the hospital board; Francis White, James Carey Thomas, James Carey, and other trustees, were also constant attendants at the meeting, and it is pleasant now to think that in the congregation there were represented the founder, his trustees, and the rising generation which was to be benefited by the bequests. Johns Hopkins believed that his wealth had been given to him for a purpose, and, to use a Friendly form of speech, that he would be "given to see" how to dispose of it. He had asked advice freely and much had been volunteered, and many of his advisers have claimed that they suggested the objects of his bequests and the forms which they should take, but I like to think that the wise instructions that he gave to his trustees were finally determined in meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.