[Letter] October 9,1894,Johns Hopkins University.[Baltimore] [to F.H. Giddings]

October 9, 1894, Johns Hopkins University. [Baltimore]

Dear Friend:
           I am at the
old stand, and
business is proceeding.
I expected a small
class, and have one only
a trifle smaller than
the one of last year.
But far from forty are
in the economic
division, though it
is rather under that
figure than above it. I
have not made an
accurate count.
 One of my men,
Bentley, is recently
from Berlin, where he
heard a brilliant
young sociologist. Bentley
says he is the acutest
mind in the university.
His aim seems to be
akin to yours, namely,
to bring the science to
exactness. I wish I
recalled his name,
but it is a two syllable
name and I should
say it began with an S.
What will interest you
is that he said to
Bentley one day, "You
have an eminent
sociologist in America, I
find, Professor Giddings,"
so you see what will
come when the larger
book is published.
 I had a delightful
day at New York, and
think with especial
pleasure of the new
position and work
in which I found you.
You have the cream of
what academic America has
to offer, and I am glad
with you.

      Yours Very Truly,
          John B. Clark