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...scholar who set out to count the number of times the word the occurred in Shakespeare would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James...
Favorite subjects of research are Shakespeare (102 studies), Milton (46), Chaucer (44), Balzac (40), Goethe (39) and Spenser (33). U. S. writers in whom scholars are most interested are Whitman (16), Melville, Emerson and Poe (14 each). Compiler Osborn found many duplications, e.g.: Two scholars, at Southern Methodist and Ohio State Universities, are compiling bibliographies of Poet Archibald MacLeish's works...
...Yale's most brilliant hurdlers of recent years, Shields took second in the 1937 International Meet. This year, however, he started slowly and finished only third in the Crimson-Blue dual meet behind Donahue and Dick Osborn of Yale...
...yard high hurdles--Donald A. Donahue '41; Richard Osborn...
...Durstine, who began as general manager of BBD&O, became president in 1936. But there was no little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...