Word: anthropologist
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...world of philosophy, literature, history and art. They took courses in logic, ethics, esthetics, gulped down big doses of music, economics, architecture, studied some of the major concepts in the social and natural sciences. Though their classwork was done mostly in seminars, they heard lectures by such scholars as Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rousseau's Confessions), Brandeis University's Ludwig Lewisohn (Faust), Colby's President Julius Seelye Bixler ("Empirical Calculation of Consequences"), and Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm ("Psychology and Ethics"). They visited the U.N., the museums...
...faculty addition would be necessary for a General Education course on Africa. A British Empire historian, a Government Department expert on nationalism, an anthropologist, and a geographer could easily combine efforts to produce a valuable course. Graduate students from Africa might give occasional lectures. Perhaps the College could acquire a lecturer from Boston University to direct the course, a valuable extension of Harvard's interest in interuniversity cooperation...
...almost everything else in priority. Soustelle's appointment promises a firm hand at a critical moment in France's relations with North Africa. A cold, intelligent member of a French Calvinist family, Soustelle entered the famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 17, graduated at 20. An anthropologist and married to an anthropologist, he voyaged to Mexico and South America, wrote a series of outstanding books on the Inca and Aztec cultures. Politically on the left, he joined De Gaulle in London shortly after the fall of France. Later, having proved himself a ruthless and stubborn administrator...
...proposed in the bill, the Adult Authority would comprise a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist, a cultural anthropologist, an educator, a criminologist, and a lawyer or judge. It would determine correctional procedure and psychological and social treatment appropriate to each convict. In addition it would fix the length of sentence...
...report saw a great need for an anthropological linguist. "The highly developed state of linguistics and the importance of the field to the anthropologist make the absence of the person who is primarily a linguist our most conspicuous weakness in the field. "If we ever get another permanent appointment," Willey said, "a linguist is what we would like to have...