Abstract
Writing some months after the death of his former mentor in 1901, Prof. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton remarked: If I were sum up my impression of Dr. [Herbert Baxter] Adams, I should call him a great Captain of Industry, a captain in the field of systematic and organized scholarship.... The thesis work done under him may fairly be said have set the pace for university work in history throughout the United States. Similar testimonials from colleagues and former students, occasioned by Adams's surprise resignation from his Johns Hopkins professorship and premature decease soon afterward, could be easily multiplied.' Subsequent historiographers have been in substantial agreement with one another and with Adams's contemporaries as the nature of his role during the formative period of the American historical profession. He owes his fame among American historians, wrote Bert J. Loewenberg in 1972, to his talent as a teacher and his genius as an organizer. 12
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