How Did President Eliot Have The Greatest Impact On Advanced American Education

In 1876, Daniel Coit Gilman was declared the first president of Johns Hopkins University, by a group of trustees including the presidents of Cornell, Michigan, and Harvard who believed the President Gilman was the obvious choice for the job. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, President Gilman had worked at the Sheffield School at Yale, and was the former president at the University of California Berkeley. From the will of John Hopkins, President Gilman had $3,500,000 to spend to create one of the most prestigious universities in America. Today, he would have had around 75 million dollars. The former president of UC Berkeley had a very tough challenge to create one of the best medical schools in America. After being declared president the trustees let him spend a year in Europe looking at the best universities and getting advice from some of the best professors and presidents in Europe or in the world. President Gilman changed the way the advanced educational process, colleges with only undergraduate programs, were done in America …show more content…
Some people might say President Eliot was more impactful than President Gilman because President Eliot created the first ever graduate school. Also President Eliot gave out the first doctorate degree in America. Since, President Eliot created the first graduate school and gave out the first doctorate in America people think he was the most impactful to the advanced American educational process. However, President Gilman was more impactful because he created the first successful graduate school. Also President Gilman gave out a higher-level doctorate than President Eliot because Johns Hopkins was more advanced and harder than Harvard. Finally, President Gilman improved upon what President Eliot had done at Harvard by refining the studies that Harvard already had to make the more advanced so they fit into his