Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

The cakes — and the students — kept on coming for two hours on Feb. 22, when the Johns Hopkins family took a break to celebrate Commemoration Day, the anniversary of the university's founding in 1876. Homewood's Levering Hall was all decked out for the occasion in sable and gold bunting, and scores of faculty, staff and students turned out in their finest JHU regalia to honor the spirit of the date, which also marked the installation of Daniel Coit Gilman, the university's first president.

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