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 almost all the 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
GRADUATE COURSES
The graduate instruction in Political Economy is designed primarily to meet the needs of advanced students preparing for a professional career in economic science. The courses afford systematic instruction in general economic principles, intimate acquaintance with special fields of economic activity, and, most important of all, knowledge of and ability to employ sound methods of economic research. The work centres in the Economic Seminary, the membership of which is limited to the most advanced students, and the primary design of which is to develop scientific research in economic study and investigation…
…The Economic Seminary
Two hours weekly through the year.Professors Hollander and Barnett.
Wed., 2 p.m. Gilman Hall 315.
The work of the year will be the study of representative forms of industrial development in the United States, and the analysis of significant activities of American labor organizations.
Source: The Johns Hopkins University Circular, Vol. 45 (March 1926), pp. 67-68.
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MEMBERS OF THE ECONOMIC SEMINARY
1924-1925
[G = Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the small “s” following a capital letter indicates a special student.]
Bloch, Kurt (Dr. ) (G) I. Ph.D. Frankfurt University 1922. Political Science.
Dempster, Margaret (SE) (G) II. A.B. Goucher College 1923. Political Economy.
Evans, George Heberton, Jr. (G). A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1920. Political Economy.
Hart, William Sebastian (Gs) I. A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Economy.
Howard, Charles Harold (G) I. S.B. Gettysburg College 1923. Political Economy.
Jones, Sallie Elizabeth (SE) (G) II. A.B. Goucher College 1923. Political Economy.
Kemp, Maude Pustan (SE) (Gs) II. A.B. Wittenberg College 1923. Political Economy.
Marshall, Rebecca Snowden (G) I. A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1923. Political Economy.
Mitchell, George Sinclair (G) II. A.B. University of Richmond 1923. Political Economy.
Morrissy, Elizabeth (Gs) IV. A.B. Beloit College 1908; A.M. Johns Hopkins University 1922. Political Economy.
Moyer, Margaret Elizabeth (G) II. S.B. Florida State College for Women 1923. Political Economy.
Newman, Andrew Jackson (Gs) I. A.B. Washington University 1910; A.M. University of Missouri 1911. Political Economy.
Nussman, Lillian Mabel (SE) (G) II. A.B. Holllins College 1923. Political Economy
Powlison, Keith Eon (Ts) (BE) (G) I. A.B. Columbia College 1922. Political Economy
Shocket, Louis (G) II. A.B. University of Richmond 1923. Political Economy
Shaw, K. W.
Swanson, Mary Laura (SE) (G) II. A.B. Provincial University 1923. Political Economy
October 15, 1924
The opening meeting of the economic seminary of the session was held in room 315 on Wednesday at 2 o’clock. Professor [Jacob H.] Hollander read a paper on “The American School of Political Economy”.
October 22, 1924
Professor [George E.] Barnett read a paper on “The Introduction of Glass Bottle Blowing Machinery”.
October 29, 1924.
Associate Professor [William O.] Weyforth read a paper on “National Bank Notes.”
November 5, 1924
Dr. [Broadus] Mitchell read a paper on the “Child Labor and the Southern Cotton Manufacturing Industry”.
November 12, 1924
Miss Jacobs read a paper on “The Health Officer and the Social Worker”.
November 19, 1924
Mr. [George Heberton] Evans [Jr.] read a paper on “Apartment Rents in Baltimore”.
[(G) V; A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1920. Political Economy]
November 26, 1924
Thanksgiving recess.
December 3, 1924
Mr. [George Sinclair] Mitchell read a paper on the “Unionism in the Textile Industry”.
December 10, 1924
Mr. [Louis] Shocket read a paper on the “Influence of the Jews on the Unions of the Needle Trades”.
December 17, 1924
Dr. [Kurt] Bloch read a paper on “Knapp’s State Theory of Money”.
December 24 and 31, 1924
Christmas Recess.
January 7, 1925
Miss [Elizabeth] Morrissy read a paper on “Unemployment Insurance in the Clothing Industry”.
January 14, 1925
Professor [Jacob H.] Hollander read a paper on “Liberalism and Taxation”.
January 21, 1925
Professor [George E.] Barnett read a paper on “The Introduction of Automatic Glass Bottle Machinery”.
January 28, 1925
Mrs. [Louise Cleret] Seibert read a paper on the “French Labor During the War”.
February 4, 1925
Dr. [Kurt] Bloch read a paper on “The Dawes Plan”.
February 11, 1925
Dr. [William O.] Weyforth read a paper on the “National Bank Notes”.
February 18, 1925
Mr. [George Sinclair] Mitchell read a paper on “Some Minor American Economists”.
February 25, 1925
Mr. [Louis] Shocket read a paper on “The Experience of the Jewish Clothing Workers in Russia”.
March 4, 1925
Mr. [George Heberton] Evans [Jr.]: “Unreliability of a Sample of Apartment Rentals in Baltimore”.
March 11, 1925
Mr. [George Sinclair] Mitchell: “History of the Textile Unions”.
March 18, 1925
Dr. [Kurt] Bloch: “Reparation Payments under the Dawes Plan”.
March 25, 1925
Mr. [Keith] Powlison: “Hours of Labor”.
April 1, 1925
Mrs. [Louise Cleret] Seibert: “French Labor During the War”.
April 8, 1925
Easter Recess.
April 15, 1925
Mr. [Leonard Owens] Rea: “Municipal Indebtedness”.
[(G) I; A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Science]
April 22, 1925
Mr. [Andrew J.] Newman: “Legal Avoidance of the Federal Income Tax”.
April 29, 1925
Mr. [Charles Harold] Howard: “Seniority in the Railway Brotherhoods”.
[S.B. Gettysburg College 1923. Political Economy]
May 6, 1925
Mr. [William Sebastian] Hart: “Labor Turnover in Department Stores”.
[(Gs) I; A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Political Economy]
May 13, 1925
Miss [Margaret] Dempster: “The Adequacy of Workmen’s Compensation in Maryland”; Miss [Maude] Kemp: “Financial Campaigns of Social Agencies”.
May 19, 1925
Mr. [Jacob Elry] Metzger: “Agricultural Practice in Maryland, 1865-1924”.
[(Gs) III; S.B. Pennsylvania State College 1911. Plant Physiology]
May 20, 1925
Miss [Margaret E.] Moyer: “Individualization in Social Case Work”; Miss [Mabel] Nussman: “Follow-up Work in a Venereal Clinic”.
May 21, 1925
Miss [Sallie E.] Jones: “Ex-Wards of the Henry Watson Children’s Aid Society”; Miss [Laura] Swanson, “Organizations Among Poles in Baltimore”.
Seminary ended for the year.
Source: 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, 1924-25, (November 1924, Vol. 43, No. 355).
The Johns Hopkins University Circular, Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University 1924-1925, (October 1925, Vol. 44, No. 364), p. 74. Also lists names and topics for seminar speakers.
Image Source: Webpage “Gilman Hall circa 1920” in the Hopkins Perspective, 1876-Today collection.