1883      HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph.D         History.
1883      MAURICE BLOOMFIELD, Ph.D       Sanskrit and Comp.  Philology.
1883      WILLIAM K. BROOKS, Ph.D        Animal Morphology.
1883      THOMAS CRAIG, Ph.D             Mathematics.
1883      CHARLES S. HASTINGS, Ph.D      Physics.
1883      HARMON N. MORSE, Ph.D          Chemistry.
1883      WILLIAM E. STORY, Ph.D         Mathematics.
1883      MINTON WARREN, Ph.D            Latin.
1884      A. MARSHALL ELLIOT, Ph.D       Romance Languages.
1884      J. RENDEL HARRIS, A.M          New Testament Greek.
1885      GEORGE H. EMMOTT, A.M          Logic.
1885      C. RENE GREGORY, Ph.D          New Testament Greek.
1885      GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, Ph.D       Inorganic Geology.
1885      HENRY WOOD, Ph.D               German.
1887      RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D           Political Economy.
1888      WILLIAM T. COUNCILMAN, M.D     Anatomy.
1888      WILLIAM H. HOWELL, Ph.D        Animal Physiology.
1888      ARTHUR L. KIMBALL, Ph.D        Physics.
1888      EDWARD H. SPIEKER, Ph.D        Greek and Latin.
1889      Louis DUNCAN, Ph.D             Electricity.
1889      FABIAN FRANKLIN, Ph.D          Mathematics.

At the opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the principal physicians and surgeons of that foundation were appointed professors of the University, namely, arranged in the order of their appointment: 

1889      WILLIAM OSLER, M.D             Medicine.
1889      HENRY M. HURD, M.D             Psychiatry.
1889      HOWARD A. KELLY, M.D           Gynecology.
1889      WILLIAM S. HALSTED, M.D        Surgery.

In selecting a staff of teachers, the Trustees have endeavored to consider especially the devotion of the candidate to some particular line of study and the certainty of his eminence in that specialty; the power to pursue independent and original investigation, and to inspire the young with enthusiasm for study and research; the willingness to cooeperate in building up a new institution; and the freedom from tendencies toward ecclesiastical or sectional controversies.  They announced that they would not be governed by denominational or geographical considerations in the appointment of any teacher; but would endeavor to select the best person whose services they could secure in the position to be filled,—­irrespective of the place where he was born, or the college in which he was trained, or the religious body with which he might be enrolled.

It is obvious that in addition to the qualifications above mentioned, regard has always been paid to those personal characteristics which cannot be rigorously defined, but which cannot be overlooked if the ethical as well as the intellectual character of a professorial station is considered, and if the social relations of a teacher to his colleagues, his pupils, and their friends, are to be harmoniously maintained.  The professor in a university teaches as much by his example as by his precepts.