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...voice of the Church should be heard in your columns. Advertising is a golden opportunity and a stern duty to promote and protect the welfare of humanity."?Bruce Barton of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...
...President Osborn sat down, Curator Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced hurdlitchka) of the U. S. National Museum, an anthropologist, rose to rebut: "There is endless chance for further evolution and it is going on. To assume that the evolution of man is ended blocks every road to the future. . . . There is that [Biblical] belief that man was created and not evolved. Sometimes it is subconscious. But it has its effect...
Ambitions Excited. Had President Osborn desired, he might have shunted this discussion aside and set his colleagues' ambitions galloping. Waiting in Manhattan was his veiled announcement that on Jan. i, 1933 he would resign the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History. He will have been president 25 years, an official 42. The way he told of his retiring was to conclude his annual report with the hope that by that date the third generation of museum trustees, whose remaining lifetime "may be estimated at 20 years . . . will be able to step into the boots of the president...
Maecenases. The late John Pierpont Morgan was a first generation trustee. The present John Pierpont Morgan is a second generation. His son Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., already cooperating with President Osborn on the Museum Endowment Committee, is obviously of the museum's third generation...
Exhortation. Before President Osborn leaves, he wants to raise $7,500,000 and thus give the museum the $22,500,000 endowment it needs. And just as heartily he wants able young men to work for and with the museum. His appeal was an exhortation...