Excerpt from Daniel Coit Gilman's, "The Launching of a University," New York, 1906, Dodd, Mead & Co., pp. 122-124. Gilman recalls the trials, tribulations and successes of opening the Medical School at the Johns Hopkins. He writes of the Doctors and Professors involved with the school from its inception, including Osler, Kelly, Welch, Halsted, among others.