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Johns Hopkins

noun

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873). Synonym: Hopkins.

A university in Baltimore.

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... Association, particularly of the Standing Fund of $100,000 of which she had dreamed and which she had started to raise. Now, like an answer to prayer, Mary Garrett and President Thomas, fresh from their successful money-raising campaigns for Johns Hopkins and Bryn Mawr, offered to undertake a similar project for woman suffrage, proposing to raise $60,000—$12,000 a year for ...

— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

Words linked to "Johns Hopkins" : university, financier, moneyman, Baltimore, altruist, philanthropist, Hopkins