Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more concrete proposal for peace through education has been made at Beloit College, Wisconsin. Dr. George L. Collie, Dean of the school and widely known anthropologist, said in an address welcoming President Irving Maurer to his new duties that much could be accomplished towards the melting pot by bringing representatives from many races to Beloit as students...
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...
Prof. G. Elliot Smith, distinguished anatomist and anthropologist of the University of London, traced in the relics found in TutankhAmen's tomb resemblances to cultural elements from remote races, affording proof of the widespread diffusion of early culture. Many of the same arts and crafts were found in the Egyptian delta as early as 3400 B. C. and in Polynesia...
...years expeditions headed by Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, distinguished anthropologist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, of Harvard, have been exploring the little-known ruins. Now a well-organized group of scientists and engineers, including Dr. Morley, John F. Barry, William Barclay Parsons, Dr. Marshall H. Saville of Columbia and Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution, is surveying the field preliminary to a more exhaustive explor ation. Restoration and preservation of the astonishing Mayan architecture is the prime task in view...
Assistant Professor E. A. Hooton of the Department of Anthropology in the University will be the final speaker before mid-years. Professor Hooton will address the Club at luncheon on January 19 on the subject of "The Race Question from the Standpoint of the Anthropologist...