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228 A Short History of Nursing year course, the separate training school announce- ment, with publication of a fully organized course of study, the introduction of lectures on social service, the full-time nurse instructor, and higher admission standards, which were gradually raised to require full high school. The Johns Hopkins adopted the eight-hour day in 1895 though as we have seen the Farrand Training School anticipated it in this reform. Many well-educated women were attracted to this, and other foremost schools, and went out as leaders in the development of educational and public health work. Other university hospitals were established in various parts of the country, in connection with medical departments, and nursing schools belonging to such hospitals became nomi- nally a part of the general university system. In most cases, however, no attempt was made to put the educational work of these schools on a university basis, or to consider the pupil nurses as in any sense students of the university. In 1897 the University of Texas took over the John Sealy hospital of Galveston and established it as a uni- versity hospital, the nursing school being recog- nized as one of the regular schools of the medical department. The nurse in charge, besides her usual title of Superintendent of Nurses, was called