Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Anthropologist Dorsey was 63 when he died, still as interested in man as he was when Harvard gave him its first doctor's degree in Anthropology (1894). For over 30 years he worked at his job all over the world, which every anthropologist must take as his province, went on many an expedition organized by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. When he wrote Why We Behave Like Human Beings (1925) it caught the crowd. Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a bad but enthusiastic sentence in praise of it: "As a layman with a vast curiosity about...
...fortnight ago Sir Arthur Keith remarked: "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning and war is her pruning hook." This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Arthur's dictum last week became Professor Franz Boas' rhetorical opportunity. Professor Boas is also a great anthropologist, and 1932 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The A. A. A. S. last week was at Pasadena, holding its first summer meeting. Ordinarily at the regular annual meetings (Christmas school holidays) the incoming president presides and the retiring president gives a learned address. As an innovation for the summer meeting President Thomas Hunt Morgan sat still while President-elect Boas talked...
...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...
...President. To preside over their next year's meeting (in New Orleans) the scientists chose able Dr. Franz Boas, anthropologist of Columbia University. Born in Minden, Germany, 72 years ago, Dr. Boas became interested in ancient man at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel. In 1887, three years after he returned from his first exploration, at Baffin Land, he married Marie Krackowizer of New York, has had three children. He has been a member of the anthropology department of Columbia for 34 years, belongs to 31 scientific societies...