The graduate economic seminary at Johns Hopkins University kept good records of the weekly sessions so that we know the names of all the presenters and their topics. I have added the academic backgrounds from the published Johns Hopkins Circular for graduate students either attending or presenting.
The economic seminary schedule for the following years have also been posted:
1922-1923
1923-1924
1924-1925
1925-1926
1926-1927
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POLITICAL ECONOMY
The Economic Seminary
“The students following Political Economy as a principal subject for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy met weekly under the direction of Professors Hollander and Barnett. The work of the year centered in the investigation of representative forms of industrial development in the United States, and in the analysis of significant activities of American labor organizations…”
Source: The Johns Hopkins University Circular, Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University 1926-1927, (October 1927, Vol. 46, No. 385), p. 63.
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MEMBERS OF THE ECONOMIC SEMINARY
1926-1927
[B = School of Business Economics; BE = Evening courses in Business Economics; E = School of Engineering; G = Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; SE = Social Economics; T = College for Teachers. The small “s” following a capital letter indicates a special student. Roman numeral indicates year of residence.]
Allen, George Levis. (G) I. S.B. Washington University 1905. Political Economy.
Allen, Paul Stephen (BE).
Adams, Beatrice. (SE) (G) II. A.B. Newcomb College, Tulane University 1925. Political Economy.
Black, Stanley.
Goodnow, Elinor Root (SE) (G) II. A.B. Vassar College 1913. Political Economy.
Hart, William Sebastian. (G) III. A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Economy.
Helbing, Albert Theodore. (G) III. Ph.B. Denison University 1923. Political Economy.
Hodgkins, Alton Ross. (G) I. A.B. Bates College 1911; A.M. American University 1926. Political Economy.
Lampen, Dorothy. (BE) (Ts) (G) I. A.B. Carleton College 1926. Political Economy.
McCulloch, Mary W. C. (SE) (G) II. Political Economy.
McDaniel, J. Milton. (G) II. A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Economy.
Morrissy, Elizabeth. (Gs) VI. A.B. Beloit College 1908; A.M. Johns Hopkins University 1922. Political Economy.
Murchison, Lucia. (SE) (GE) II. A.B. Agnes Scott College 1922. Political Economy.
Powlison, Keith Eon. (G) III. A.B. Columbia College 1922. Political Economy.
Rea, Leonard Owens. (G) III. A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Economy.
Reid, Gertrude. (SE) (G) II. S.B. Elmira College 1925. Political Economy.
Schneider, David Moses. (G) III. E.E. University of Kieff [sic, Kyiv] 1921. A.M. Johns Hopkins University. Political Economy.
Snoke, M. Elsie S. (Mrs.) (SE)
Street, Helen Merryman. (SE) (G) II. A.B. Salem College 1921. Political Economy.
Taylor, Lyra. (SE) (G) II. LL.B. Victoria College, Wellington (New Zealand). Political Economy.
Van Hall, Madeleine W. (SE) (G) II. A.B. Radcliffe College 1925. Political Economy.
Walker, Mabel L. (S) (G) I. A.B. Barnard College 1926. Political Economy.
Wine, Helen. (SE) (G) II. A.B. Western Maryland College 1923. Political Economy.
Faculty
Dr. Professor Jacob Harry Hollander, Professor of Political Economy
Dr. George Ernest Barnett, Professor of Statistics
Dr. William O. Weyforth, Associate Professor of Political Economy
Dr. George Hilles Newline, Associate Professor of Accounting
Dr. Broadus Mitchell, Associate in Political Economy
Miss Theo Jacobs, Associate in Social Economics
Dr. George Heberton Evans, Jr., Instructor in Political Economy
Seminar Presentations 1926-27
October 6, 1926
The session’s first meeting of the Seminary was held on October 6. Members of the staff gave informal accounts of their summer activity.
October 13, 1926
Professor Hollander read a paper on “The Royal Commission on Indian Currency”.
October 20, 1926
Professor Barnett read a paper on “Family Allowances”.
October 22, 1926
Incident to the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the University, the Department of Political Economy held a reunion of alumni Friday afternoon, October 22. The meeting was held in the Seminary Room. Professor Hollander presided. He told in outline the history of the Seminary under the seeral professors and lecturers who have directed its work. He then called upon old members of the seminary to give their reminiscences of work in the department.
Following the meeting in the Seminary Room, Professor Barnett entertained the alumni of the Departments of Political Economy, History and Political Science at tea in the Historical Library. Those attending the reunion of the Department are as follows:
| Victor Rosewater | William A. Wetzel | Alfred B. Morton |
| A. Herbert Fedder | James W. Chapman | William O. Weyforth |
| Joshua Bernhardt | Broadus Mitchell | G. H. Evans, Jr. |
| M. A. Mechanic | A. M. Sakolski | L. Owens Rea |
| G. H. Newlove | Edward W. Bemis | Dorothy Lampen |
| K. Morimoto | David A. McCabe | Albert T. Helbing |
| Robert Merrick | L. F. Schmeckebie | George L. Allen |
| B. W. Arnold | Theo Jacobs | J. Milton McDaniel |
| D. M. Schneider |
At eight o’clock in the evening, fifty past members of the Seminary and members of their families were guests of Professor Hollander at dinner at his home. Several were present who had not found it possible to attend the afternoon meeting.
October 27, 1926
Dr. Mitchell read a paper on “Installment Buying”.
November 3, 1926
Mr. Powlison read a paper on “Substitution of Other Materials for Wood and Their Relation to the Lumber Industry”.
November 10, 1926
Mr. Helbing read a paper on “The Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor”.
November 17, 1926
Mr. Schneider read a paper on “The Workers’ Party and the Furriers’ Union”.
November 24, 1926
Dr. Evans read a paper on “History of Preferred Stock”.
December 1, 1926
Miss Jacobs read a paper on “Trade Unions and Social Work”.
December 8, 1926
Dr. Newlove read a paper on “Graduate Schools of Business”.
December 15, 1926
Mr. Rea read a paper on “The Financial History of Baltimore Since 1900”.
Christmas Recess.
January 5, 1927
Professor Barnett read a paper on “The Validity of the Index Numbers of the Cost of Living”.
January 12, 1927
Miss Taylor read a paper on “Juvenile Courts in the United States”.
January 19, 1927
Miss Adams read a paper on “A Survey of the Hospitals of New Orleans”.
January 26, 1927
Mr. Schneider read a paper on “The Workers’ Party and the Miners’ Union”.
February 2, 1927
Miss Morrissy read a paper on “Unemployment Insurance in the Clothing Industry”.
February 9, 1927
Professor Hollander read a paper on “The Theory of a Universal Glut”.
February 16, 1927
Dr. Mitchell read a paper on “The Industrial Revolution in the South”.
February 23, 1927
Miss Lampen read a paper on “Land Reclamation in the West”.
March 2, 1927
Mr. Helbing read a paper on “The Union Label Trades Department and the Railway Employees Department of the American Federation of Labor”.
March 9, 1927
Miss Walker read a paper on “Finances of Public Libraries”.
March 16, 1927
Mr. Newman read a paper on “The Conception of Income”.
March 23, 1927
Dr. Weyforth read a paper on “The McFadden Bill”.
March 30, 1927
Mr. Hodgkins read a paper on “Baltimore’s Trade with South America”.
April 6, 1927
Professor Hollander read a paper on “John Bates Clark as an Economist”. Professor Barnett read a paper on “The Theory of the Entrepreneur”.
April 13, 1927
Mr. Newman read a paper on “Significance of Depreciation as Applied in the Administration of Federal Income Tax”.
April 20, 1927
No meeting. — Easter Recess
April 27, 1927
Miss Reid read a paper on “An Index of Dependency in Baltimore”.
May 4, 1927
Miss Streett read a paper on “Hospital Facilities for Negroes in Baltimore”.
May 11, 1927
Miss Van Hall read a paper on “Domestic Difficulty Cases of the Family Welfare Association”.
May 18, 1927
Miss Wine read a paper on “The Intake of the Family Welfare Association”. Miss Murchison read a paper on “A Study of Juvenile Gonorrheics in Baltimore”.
(last meeting)
Sources:
Johns Hopkins University. Eisenhower Library, Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives. Department of Political Economy, Series 1. Minutes of the Economic Seminary, 1892-1951. Folder “1922-1940”.
The Johns Hopkins University Circular, University Register, 1926-27, (February 1927, Vol. 46, No. 378). For full names and educational backgrounds of students in the seminar.
The Johns Hopkins University Circular, Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University 1926-1927, (October 1927, Vol. 46, No. 385), pp. 63-64. List of names and topics for seminar speakers without dates.
Image Source: Jacob Harry Hollander (ca. 1918) from Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries’ graphic and pictorial collection.