ABSTRACT
Thus far we have spoken principally of the American college. Brought from England in colonial times, this institution at first was really more akin to a secondary school—what the Germans would call a Gymnasium—than it was to an agency of the higher learning. We turn now to the rise of a more elaborate educational structure in the United States, one which more properly merits the name “university.” The origins of this movement can be traced back to the era of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, although its full realization did not come until after the founding of Johns Hopkins in 1876.
