约翰·霍普金斯大学：真理必叫你们得以自由
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Johns Hopkins University (informally Johns Hopkins， JHU， or just Hopkins) is a not-for-profit private research university based in Baltimore， Maryland， United States. The university was founded on January 22， 1876 and named for its benefactor， the philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Daniel Coit Gilman was inaugurated as the first president. Johns Hopkins University offers studies for both full-time and part-time students in a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate academic fields including medicine， education， business， nursing and engineering. The school competes in NCAA Division I men"s and women"s lacrosse and NCAA Division III for all of its other athletic programs including men"s and women"s basketball， football， wrestling， f ield hockey and soccer.
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Feature： Johns Hopkins University， in Baltimore， Maryland， offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in many disciplines， but it is world-renowned in the sciences. The National Science Foundation has ranked it the number one school in science， medical， and engineering research and development for the past 31 years. The university"s medical school is very well respected worldwide. In order to be accepted to the medical school， you must have attended an accredited college or university and gotten a degree. If you apply to the medical school before you graduate， you must successfully complete your undergraduate degree.
Institutions： The Johns Hopkins University Press， founded in 1878， is the oldest American university press in continuous operation. Along with the hospital， Hopkins established one of the nation"s oldest schools of nursing in 1889. The school of medicine was America"s first coeducational， graduate-level medical school， and was a prototype for academic medicine that emphasized bedside learning， research projects， and laboratory training. In 1909， the university was among the first to start adult continuing education programs and in 1916 it founded the US" first school of public health.
生词助读
not-for-prof it [ntf：rprf it] adj. 非营利的；无利可图的
inaugurate [in：ɡjureit] vt.
创新；开辟；举行开幕典礼；举行就职典礼
continuous [kntinjus] adj. 连续的；持续的；继续的
prototype [pruttaip] n. 原型；标准，模范
中文概述
约翰·霍普金斯大学（常简称"霍普金斯大学"）建于1876年，是一所位于美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市的著名研究型私立大学。巴尔的摩一直是美国最大的都市中心之一，有马里兰州的"精神首府"之称。
这所大学的名字在中文里常译作"约翰·霍普金斯大学"，其实，大学的正确英文拼法应为"约翰斯·霍普金斯大学"（Johns Hopkins University）。Johns这一罕见的名字来自捐资人霍普金斯的曾祖母玛格丽特·约翰斯（Margaret Johns）的姓氏。这个姓氏被霍普金斯家族作为名字传承了下来。
医学与公共卫生领域历来是霍普金斯大学的强项。霍普金斯医学院与哈佛医学院齐名。在霍普金斯大学，医学系是极有魅力的专业。而生物系也是全校人数最多、最受欢迎的系。霍普金斯大学皮博迪学院（即音乐系），是全美最顶尖的三所音乐学院之一。学校的特色之一就是学生的职业指导非常优秀，包括简历撰写，择业指导等。并为学生提供一些专业领域的就业信息。
霍普金斯大学是全美第一所研究型大学，其目标为："鼓励研究以及独立学者的进步，使得他们可以通过自己精湛的学识推动他们所追求的科学以及所生活的社会前进。"约翰霍普金斯大学是美国第一所以讨论班方式授课、第一所分专业录取本科生的大学，其理念和模式都对后来的美国大学产生了巨大的影响并纷纷效仿。
霍普金斯大学的校友、教师和研究人员中先后有37位诺贝尔奖获得者。
梦想成功录
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).
懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
Nothing in the world is difficult if you set your mind to it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。
They who cannot do as they would， must do as they can.
不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
