students be allowed to choose elective courses, or should their classes be prescribed by their course of study? How was religion to be integrated into a sectarian institution? Brown offered his own ideas, one of which was that the university should send into the world “upright, refined, and highly cultivated young men.” He also declared that the aim of the new university should be “to bring together a competent corps of professors, some of whom, if possible, should be teachers in the largest sense, that is, should have the ability and the leisure too, to add something by their writings and discoveries to the world’s stock of literature and science….” This idea was paraphrased and endorsed by President Gilman in his Inaugural Address delivered on February 22, 1876. Almost three years before he died, Brown wrote his memoir. In it, he referred to Quaker Johns Hopkins as a "wealthy Union man" and a member of a committee of bankers who gave $500,000 to the city of Baltimore after the first blood in the Civil War was shed there. Hopkins selected Brown as one of the trustees of the university (but not of the hospital) who would oversee the construction and founding of the institutions now known as the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital. See also Baltimore Plot George Proctor Kane 1860 United States presidential election Thomas Holliday Hicks John Merryman Ex parte Merryman Maryland, My Maryland Henry Stump References External links 1812 births 1890 deaths Mayors of Baltimore Maryland Constitutional Unionists Maryland state court judges People of Maryland in the American Civil War 19th-century American judges