Daniel Coit "D. C." Gilman was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the second president of the University of California, Berkeley, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution.
Daniel Coit Gilman
Portrait of William Charles Gilman, father of Daniel Coit Gilman, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Gilman and University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper in 1903
Gilman's home in Baltimore
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, a railroad executive. The school was incorporated in 1871. The Sheffield Scientific School helped establish the model for the transition of U.S. higher education from a classical model to one which incorporated both the sciences and the liberal arts. Following World War I, however, its curriculum gradually became completely integrated with Yale College. "The Sheff" ceased to function as a separate entity in 1956.
Chemistry Class in 1898
Second President's House, home to the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, 1847–1860
Joseph Earl Sheffield, the school's namesake
Plaque commemorating Sheffield Hall