The medal's obverse bears a portrait of Goodnow, facing right. Signed on truncation, M. Miller sc.
The reverse bears the Johns Hopkins University seal framed by ivy. Across lower half, TO / FRANK · JOHNSON · GOODNOW / PRESIDENT · 1914-1929 / FROM · HIS · COLLEAGUES / JUNE · 11 · 1929
Frank Johnson Goodnow (1859-1939) was an educator and legal scholar. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Amherst College and Columbia Law School. After graduation he was offered a position in the School of Political Science on the condition that he prepare himself with a year of study abroad. He met that requirement by enrolling at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and at the University of Berlin. After teaching for more than two decades, assisting with the drafting of a new charter for Greater New York, and drafting two consitutions for China, he became president of Johns Hopkins University in 1914. For the next fifteen years he worked on improving Johns Hopkins' financial position and finally retired in 1929.
The circular medal measures 69.8mm in diameter and was struck in bronze by the Medallic Art Company of New York. No mintage is reported.
References: MACo 1929-069