Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the teachers will be permanent members of the college. Others will be borrowed from the university, and still others (e.g., Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Novelist-Poet Babette Deutsch) will be guest professors. Wherever their professors come from, the college's 10,000 adult students may be sure of one thing: they will be getting as sound an education as any undergraduate could hope for. It will, says Louis Hacker, be "formal education. We won't teach them how to repair their radios. And if they want to learn about soap sculpture, they'll just have...
...early Spaniards who came to Southern California in the 16th century found the local Indians a dull lot. The native tribes raised no crops, did little hunting, lived relaxed lives on acorns and sea food, and offered only feeble resistance to Spanish soldiers and missionaries. Last week Anthropologist Phil C. Orr of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History described some huskier, earlier and odder Californians whose remains he discovered on barren Santa Rosa Island, off Santa Barbara...
...years Dr. Orr had been digging up skeletons of the Canalinos, the small, fish-eating Indians who lived on the island when the Spanish arrived. One day, while tramping the island, he stumbled on a skull half-buried in the sand. It did not take an anthropologist to tell that this skull was peculiar: it was painted or dyed a brilliant Chinese...
Diligent search by Japanese soldiers, who had been tipped off by a Tokyo anthropologist, failed to uncover the fossils. Postwar investigations by American scientists and marines were equally unsuccessful, although the searchers traced missing freight cars, ranged from Chinwangtao south to Tingtao, poked into long-sealed "godowns...
...Nonsense," retorted Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, head anthropologist at New York's Museum of Natural History. "What would we want them for? ... It just makes good propaganda...