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...public interest is not always accompanied by commensurate public financial support. The Museum received $400,000 in cash and specimens last year from benefactors, which was more than in any prior year. Yet in making his annual report of the Museum's affairs last week, President Henry Fairfield Osborn* was obliged to tell the trustees that the institution was financially crippled...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, President, 18th year...
...Born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn was graduated in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton University in 1896). He accompanied Princeton explorations in the Far West, studied anatomy and histology in Manhattan, biology in Britain with Balfour and Huxley (meeting Darwin there), taught at Princeton until 1890, when he was chosen curator of vertebrate paleontology by the Museum he now heads. He has prosecuted extensive fossil explorations for the Museum, discovering and identifying many lost species (especially reptiles and pachyderms), and building up the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. Among...
...caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have smashed by many an inch the present "world's record" of 6 ft. 8 5/16 in. (held by Harold M. Osborn of Illinois). Should the towering Watusi blackamoors ever send a picked team of runners and jumpers to the Olympic Games, great might be the havoc they could wreak...
Henry J. Allen, owner and publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kansas; Brace Barton of Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, Advertising Agency of New York; Nell H. Borden, Assistant Professor of Advertising in the Harvard Business School; M. T. Copeland, Professor of Marketing in the Harvard Business School; Mac Martin, President of the Mac Martin Advertising Agency of Minneapolis; Malcolm Muir, Vice-President and Chairman of the Sales Board of the McGraw-Hill Company, Publishers, of New York; Stanley Resor, President of the J. Walter Thompson Company, Advertising Agency of New York; Tim Thritt, Advertising Manager of the American Multigraph Sales...