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Professor E.A. Hooton of the Anthropology Department and William H. Sheldon, another Harvard researcher, took over the posture photo program in 1940, transforming it into a somatotyping campaign, Hersey says...
...Sheldon undertook a huge program, backed by Ivy League Universities, in order to photograph the elite and show that their physiques and temperaments were those of leaders and superior people," says Hersey, who is researching a book on this subject...
Harvard officials knew the true plans for the photographs, Hersey says...
...people who knew Sheldon all knew that the photographs were being used for his purposes," Hersey says...
...These scientists were not a minority, they were the mainstream of American social science," Hersey adds. "They thought that the immigration policies should be adjusted to preclude people from entering the country who were considered to be biologically inferior...