Word: kelvinator
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Under Daniel Coit Oilman, Hopkins' first president (1876-1901), the university grew mightily. Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D. The medical school, with its famous four-Sir William Osier, William H. Welch, William S. Halsted and Howard A. Kelly-was for years the best in the U.S. Other campuses followed the Hopkins in emphasizing advanced research. Even Harvard's imperious Charles W. Eliot had to concede that "the graduate school of Harvard University . . . did not thrive until the example...