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(410) 516-8348 Goodnow (Frank Johnson) 1859-1939
Papers (1880-1940)
Ms. 3 Size: 26 document boxes
(10.4 linear ft.) Processed:
By Provenance: The papers were given to the University by the Goodnow Family in 1940.
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Citation: Frank Johnson Goodnow Papers Ms. 3
Special Collections,
Milton S. Eisenhower Library,
The Johns Hopkins University
Goodnow (Frank Johnson) 1859-1939
Papers (1880-1940)
Ms. 3
Provenance
The papers of Frank Johnson Goodnow were given to the University in
1940. The papers were a gift of the Goodnow Family.
Biographical Note
Frank Johnson Goodnow was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on January
18, 1859, the son of Abel F. and Jane M. (Root) Goodnow. After
preparation in private schools in Brooklyn, Goodnow entered Amherst
College and received his A.B. degree in 1879. For a short time he
worked in a broker's office and then enrolled in the law school of
Columbia University, where in addition to such subjects essential
for admission to the Bar, he took courses in public law and
jurisprudence offered in the recently organized School of Political
Science. He received his law degree in 1882 and entered a law
office in New York City. Late in 1882 he was offered a position the
School of Political Science on the condition that he prepare
himself with a year of study abroad. After study in 1883-84 at the
Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and further work in
the University of Berlin, he took up his teaching in October 1884
at Columbia, giving some instruction in History as well as in
United States Administrative Law. Made Adjunct Professor in 1887
Goodnow became Professor of Administrative Law in 1891, and in 1903
Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science. He
produced a number of books in his particular field and between 1897
and 1907 received the Honorary Degrees of Amherst, Columbia, and
Harvard. Governor Theodore Roosevelt made him a member of the
commission to draft a new charter for Greater New York, and
President Taft chose him as a member of his Commission on Economy
and Efficiency. In October 1912 he accepted, on the recommendation
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the commission
of Constitutional advisor to the Chinese Government which took him
to China in March 1913. Returning to the United States, he took up
his duties as President of Johns Hopkins University on October 1,
1914 and was inaugurated May 20, 1915. One of his first major tasks
was to move the institution to the Homewood site. The greater part
of the work of the Faculty of Philosophy was transferred to
Homewood in the summer of 1916. In 1925 Goodnow proposed a change
in the educational policy of Johns Hopkins University which became
known as the Goodnow Plan, proposing the abandonment of
undergraduate work. The proposal was approved by the Trustees in
January 1926, but proved ultimately unsuccessful. The Institute of
Law was established in 1928, but the financial decline precipitated
by the Wall Street crash of 1929 led to the indefinite suspension
of its work. Goodnow resigned the Johns Hopkins University Presidency in
1929, but thereafter frequently gave graduate lectures in his
special subjects. He was for some time a regent of the University
of Maryland and a member of the Board of School Commissioners of
Baltimore. He married Elizabeth Buchanan (Lyall) in 1886 and had 3
children: Isabel C. (Mrs. E. Kendall Gillett), David F. and Lois R.
(Mrs. John V. A. MacMurray). Goodnow died on November 15, 1939.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of about 12,000 items and spans the
years 1880 to 1940. The majority of the material is Goodnow's
correspondence, but there are also lectures, addresses, writings
and printed material. The correspondence has been filed alphabetically by the writer
with copies of Goodnow's replies attached. An alphabetical list of
the principal correspondence follows. Of particular interest is the
correspondence between Goodnow and Lord Bryce, the eminent British
jurist, historian, and diplomat. These letters relate to Goodnow's
research on the Tweed Ring and are filed in Box 26. Materials relating to Goodnow's interest in China are together
in Box 25. His lectures, addresses, and writings have been filed by
date or alphabetically by title when there was no date . The final
series consists of awards, honors, and appointments. Correspondents: Adams, Henry Carter (1851-1921)
Baldwin, Simeon Eben (1840-1927)
Bryce, James (Viscount) (1838-1922)
Bullock, Charles Jesse (1869-1941)
Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862-1947)
Carpenter, William Henry (1853-1936)
Commons, John Rogers (1862-1945)
Fairlie, John Archibald (1872-1947)
Fisher, Walter Lowrie (1862-1935)
Flexner, Abraham (1866-1959)
Folks, Homer (1867-1963)
Garfield, James Rudolph (1865-1950)
Garner, James Wilford (1871-1938)
Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau (1831-1924)
Gray, John Henry (1859-1946)
Greene Francis Vinton (1850-1921)
Hart, Albert Bushnell (1854-1943)
Hepburn, Alonzo Barton (1846-1922)
Hollander, Jacob Henry (1871-1940)
Holt, Henry (1840-1926)
Howe, Frederic Clemson (1867-1940)
Ingalls, Melville Ezra (1842-1914)
Insull, Samuel (1859-1938)
Jackson, Samuel Macauley (1851-1912)
James. Edmund Janes (1855-1925)
Jameson, John Franklin (1859-1937)
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple (1856-1929)
Jerome, William Travers (1859-1934)
Judson, Harry Pratt (1849-1927)
Keppel, Frederick Paul (1875-1943)
Kirchway, George Washington (1855-1942)
Knapp, Martin Augustine (1843-1923)
Lindsay, Samuel McCune (1869-1959)
Low, Seth (1850-1916)
Mitchel, John Purroy (1879-1918)
Munro, William Bennett (1875-1957)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner (1869-1913)
Ogden, Robert Curtis (1836-1913)
Putnam, George Haven (1844-1930)
Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr. (1874-1960)
Rowe, Leo Stanton (1871-1946)
Seager, Henry Rogers (1870-1930)
Shaw, Albert (1857-1947)
Smith, Charles Sprague (1853-1910)
Taussig, Frank William (1859-1940)
Villard, Oswald Garrison (1872-1942)
Willoughby, Westel Woodbury (1867-1945)
Woolsey Theodore Salisbury (1852-1929)
Container List
Box 1 Correspondence A - Be Box 2 Correspondence Bf - By Box 3 Correspondence C - China Medical Board Box 4 Correspondence China Medical Board - Cl Box 5 Correspondence Co - D Box 6 Correspondence E - Fr Box 7 Correspondence Fu - Gu Box 8 Correspondence Ha - Har Box 9 Correspondence Hat - Ja Box 10 Correspondence Je - Laz Box 11 Correspondence Le - Max Box 12 Correspondence May - Mof Box 13 Correspondence Mol - Pa Box 14 Correspondence Pe - Ral Box 15 Correspondence Ram - Rel Box 16 Correspondence Rem - Sh Box 17 Correspondence Si - T Box 18 Correspondence U - Wi Box 19 Correspondence Willoughby - Z
1931-32 outgoing letters
Box 20 Lectures
["The Beauty of Self-Sacrifice"] [1913]
["Contributions...Asiatic Peoples Have Made to
the Political Development of the Human
Race"] [1913]
"Criticism of the Draft Constitution" [1913]
"European Efficiency" [1913]
"Modern Educational Ideals" [1913]
"The Education of the Chinese Official" [1913]
"Training Officials for Public Services"
with course outline [1913]
"History and Principles of Colonial
Administration" n.d.
"The United States System of Governing
Dependencies"
["Governing Dependencies: The Phillipines"
n.d.
"Caesar Borgia and His Times" n.d.
"Cecil Rhodes" n.d.
"The Development of the Calendar" n.d.
["Eastern Mediterranean Lands"] n.d.
Geographic Society Lecture n.d.
"Marco Polo and His Times" n.d.
"Our Debt to Byzantium" n.d.
"Some Tendencies of Modern American
Democracy" n.d.
"James Fenimore Cooper" to the PL Club
"William Harvey and His Work" to the PL Club
"Scientific Luck" to the PL Club Box 21 Addresses Public Ownership Commission Dinner 1906
"Private Rights and Administrative Discretion"
1916
"Democracy in Education" 1916
"Needs of the University and Recent
Benefactions" 1916
Commencement, Maryland Institute 1916
JHU Alumni Dinner 1917
"The Maryland Budget Amendment" 1917
"Review of the Year's Work" 1918
"Constitutional Foundations of Federal Public
Health Functions" 1919
"Annual Review by the President" 1919
"Founder's Day Address" 1920
"President Goodnow's Address" 1920, 1921
Commencement 1922
Bryn Mawr College 1922
Commencement 1922
"President Goodnow's Address" 1922, 1923
"Freedom of Expression in the University" 1923
"President Goodnow's Address" 1924
"Commemoration Day Address" 1924, 1925
Box 21 (cont.) Commencement 1926
Baltimore Training School for Teachers n.d.
["Democracy and Education"] n.d.
["Higher Educational Work of the Presbyterian
Church"] n.d.
["Humanistic Studies"]n.d.
["The Immediate Future of the University"] n.d.
["Minimum Standards...Professional School"]n.d.
["Research"] n.d.
["The Rising Tide of Color"] n.d.
"Some Modern Tendencies in Higher
Education" n.d.
[Commemoration Day?] n.d. Box 22 Writings "The City and County of New York"
["Development of Printing in China"]
"Historical Geography"
Johns Hopkins University Report of the
President 1917
Johns Hopkins Medical School, Preliminary
Report...Buildings, Laboratories, and
Libraries
"The New Indian Constitution"
"The Office of Prosecutor [patent law]"
"The Relation of Economics to the Law"
"Sinking Fund Assets"
fragments
reviews of Municipal Government (1909)
Social Reform and the Constitution (1912) Box 23 Writings Goodnow, Frank J. Selected Cases on the Law of
Taxation 2 vols. (1905
Goodnow, Frank J. Selected Cases on the Law of
Officers 2 vols. (1906)
Goodnow, Frank J. Selected Cases on Government
and Administration 1 vol. (1906) Box 24 Subject Files Aid to the Needy Committee 1936
Alliance of Civic Organizations Constitution
American Political Science Association
1904, 1906
Child Life in New York City Study Committee
Columbia University
Commission on Economy and Efficiency 1916
(includes material on Taft Commission)
Box 24 (cont.)
Congestion of Population in New York Commission
1909
Layman's Association of All Angels' Parish
by-laws
New York State Constitutional Amendments,
Progressive Party
[Public Ownership Committee]
Tweed Ring: writings
Hall v. Bryce
James Bryce Letters 1888-1909
John Notman Letters 1891-92
newspaper clippings Box 25 China Material Incoming Letters 1915, 1928-29
Invitations
List of Chinese Laws 1911-12
[Draft of Chinese Constitution 1913]
"The Parliament of the Republic of China"
"The Draft Constitution"
"Dr. Goodnow's Memorandum"
Printed Versions of China's Constitution
Goodnow, Frank J. China. An Analysis
1926 typescript
Printed material on China
Barraud, J.J. Projet de Constitution pour La
Republique Chinese 1913
Newspaper Clippings
Certificate Awarding Goodnow Medal at
Inauguration of President of the Chinese
Republic
"Professor Goodnow and the Chinese Republic"
By Kenneth B. Pyle 1960 Box 26 Biographical Data
Printed Material re: Goodnow
Photographs
Elizabeth L. Goodnow Passport
Frank J. Goodnow Passports
Land Deeds
Awards, Honors, Appointments
New York National Guard 1880
Contract with Chinese Government
JHU Inauguration 1915
Maryland State College of Agriculture 1916
Maryland State Board of Agriculture 1916
International Congress on Administrative Science
1919
Awards, Honors, Appointments
JHU 50th Anniversary 1926
Box 26 (cont.)
Board of School Commissioners 1928
American Political Science Association 1929
JHU Resignation 1929 Oversize Awards, Honors, Appointments:
JHU Inauguration 1915
JHU 50th Anniversary 1926
St. Andrews Society 1892
L.L.D. University of LouVain, 1927
International Commission...between the U.S. and
China for the Advancement of Peace 1928
(Calvin Coolidge)
L.L.D. Princeton University 1917
New York Charter Commission 1900 (Theodore
Roosevelt)
American Philosophical Society 1920
2 Chinese Scrolls
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