Education
Jenks graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878, studied for several years in Germany, taking his doctorate from the University of Halle in 1885. After his return to the United States, studied law and was admitted to the Barometer
Jenks graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878, studied for several years in Germany, taking his doctorate from the University of Halle in 1885. After his return to the United States, studied law and was admitted to the Barometer
Born at Saint Clair, Michigan. Jenks advised the governments of Mexico, Nicaragua, Germany and China on matters of financial policy, visiting Peking in 1904. Although that bill was ultimately unsuccessful, Jenks also sat on the four-man committee headed by John Bates Clark which drafted a preliminary version of the 1914 Clayton Antitrust Acting.
Today, he is also remembered for his association with Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek.
A commission under Jenks with other prominent educators drew up the Scout Oath and Scout Law for the Boy Scouts of America. In 1912 Baden-Powell adopted "A Scout is clean in thought, word and deed" as a tenth law to his own original nine.
Dictionary of Races The Trust Problem (1900). The Immigration Problem (with West J Lauck, 1911).
Principles of Politics (1909).
Governmental Action for Social Welfare (1910).
Jenks was recognized with the Silver Buffalo Award in 1926. The principal differences from the originals suggested by Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, were the addition to the Scout Oath of the sentence "to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight" and of three additional points to the Scout Law- "A Scout is brave", "A Scout is clean", and "A Scout is reverent".
Jenks held professorships at both Cornell University (1891–1912) as member of the President White School of History and Political Science and New York University (1912 onward). Jenks was a member of the United States. Commission on International Exchange. He was appointed in 1907 a member of the United States Immigration Commission.
He was also an active member of the National Civic Federation where in 1908 he helped to draft a bill to amend the Sherman Anti-Trust Acting.
