Idler Goodnow

Italian villages on the Mediterranean. Sunlight, blue sky and water on the Riviera. Stimulating talks with fellow-scholars in quiet Oxford closes, in dingy European university towns. The calm, still air of delightful studies in the great libraries and museums where Europe protects rare volumes and manuscripts from the ravaging American millionaire. These things beckoned to many a great Johns Hopkins scholar last week.

One heard the call. President Frank Johnson Goodnow, 69, resigned, giving the trustees of Johns Hopkins until July 1, 1929 to find a successor. Said he: "A younger man should be president."

An authority on administrative law and municipal government. Dr. Goodnow is the university's third chief. Under his administration, Johns Hopkins last year (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) returned to its original plan of concentration on advanced studies. It will drop the first two years of college work as soon as funds are found to meet the loss in tuition fees.

His successor chosen, Dr. Goodnow will "loaf for a while"; in May will represent Johns Hopkins in England at the three hundredth anniversary of Harvey's discovery that blood circulates; will probably ride around the Mediterranean.