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...department of a large corporation to see for himself at Ellis Island. The man reported that not more than 20% of the immigrants were candidates for industrial positions, that not more than 10% would qualify, that probably not more than 5% would give satisfaction if employed. ¶ Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, spoke from the standpoint of anthropology: "In coldblooded, scientific language our best stock is threatened with extinction." Nevertheless, he opposed the "bias of this country in favor of the Nordic immigrant. This is a mistake. Selective immigration would prevent such...
...Among such thinkers might be mentioned Thomas Nixon Carver, Edward M. East, David Starr Jordan, G. Stanley Hall, Raymond Pearl, Franklin H. Giddings, Edward A. Ross, Irving Fisher, H. H. Goddard, Warner Fite, George H. Palmer, William P. Montague, Roswell H. Johnson, C C Little, Samuel J. Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Madison Grant, (Theodore) Lothrop Stoddard, Charles W. Eliot, Charles B. Davenport, Havelock Ellis, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Cox, Leonard Darwin, Dean Inge...
...Real Name is Cecily Fairfield...
Rebecca West, the English novelist and critic (whose real name is Cecily Fairfield), had just arrived in Manhattan and we were driving up Broadway. She found the Wrigley chewing-gum sign with its flashing colors delightful. She had found the harbor of New York inspiring. Said she: " I intend to remain in America a long time-long enough to write a new novel...
...Java ape-man and first of humanoid type discovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of Amsterdam, the discoverer, will be placed in a public museum for the benefit of all scientists, if a movement started by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, succeeds. The fossil remains have not been exhibited since the 1894 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...