Daniel Coit Gilman (July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman's inauguration as Hopkins president, in which capacity he served for 25 years, is "commonly taken as marking the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S.," according to TIME magazine.
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