Word: osborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming lectures of Henry Osborn Taylor will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History* wrote out a curtain raiser for his trustees. It was his 1929 budget, prepared for their annual meeting last week...
...because the dollar's present purchasing value is little more than half its pre-War value (when most of the endowments were set up), the Museum lacked enough money to pay for its multifold activities. This year's deficit is $106.,00. To make it up President Osborn asked the trustees to contribute their own cash, as they had done for previous deficiencies...
...passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager. President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content...
...Osborn gave the first heave. He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body. "There is no conflict between science and religion. Some of the greatest men on science have been very religious." Dr. Joseph Mayer, head of the Tufts College sociology department, hastened to aver: "I disagree most emphatically with Mr. Barnes...