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...Stark statement made many scientists thoroughly angry. They formed a committee, chose as its spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...
Last July, with an endowment from Crane Co.'s Cornelius Crane, an amateur anthropologist, Count Alfred opened his institute in Chicago to teach General Semantics to educators and maladjusted people. Meanwhile, in about a dozen schools, colleges and hospitals, his students also had begun to teach the new science. Last week was published a collection of papers reporting their accomplishments...
...personnel of the new addition to the over-crowded Hygiene Building has been drawn from both Harvard and outside sources and a physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, physiologist, anthropologist, social worker, and two secretaries...
...anthropologist, Carl Coleman Seltzer '29, was a research anthropometrist at the Columbia Medical Center in 1930. Three years later he got a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From 1933 to 1935 he was a National Research Council fellow in Anthropology. The next year he was statistical and anthropometric research assistant to Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology. For the past year he was research assistant in the Fatigue Laboratory...
Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man), of receding, apelike chin and human brain case and teeth, who is approximately the same age as Pithecanthropus. His skull was discovered near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist...