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...summary: Harvard 2nd Noble and Greenough Lee, Ansden, l.w. r.w., Whittemore (Capt.) Harding, Bonbright, c. c., McDowen Pierson, Canning, r.w. l.w., Summers Graves, r.d. l.d., Partridge Tilt, Bohlen, l.d. r.d., Osborn Smith, g. g., Newell...
Origins. The "cradle of the human race," believed by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History, and other paleontologists to be in Central Asia, was really in Central Europe, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, distinguished physical anthropologist, of the U. S. National Museum. The earliest known true men lived in Europe, and the skeletons of extinct apes have been discovered there. He set the origin of man at 400,000 or 500,000 years...
...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 a mistake and take...
...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...
...fellowship was begun at Michigan in 1921 by Chase S. Osborn, former Governor of the state, with a fund of $5,000 to provide a " fellow of creative art" with a " salary which will allow him to live without worrying about means of subsistence, to provide working facilities, to relieve him of all academic duties, and simply to allow him to work at the production of his own pictures, poems or whatever it may be." Last year, and again this, an anonymous donor supported the fellowship...