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Earnest A. Hooton, the University's late professor of Physical Anthropology, once displayed his academic prowess by swinging into a lecture on a rope. William W. Howells, who filled the late master's professorship here in July, once captivated Wisconsin students with a portrayal of a rampant gibbon. In addition to equalling Hooton's capacity for charades, Howells also appears to have the brilliance of his predecessor...
...available only to concentrators since the new professor hasn't time to teach more than Advanced Physical Anthropology this year. By next fall, however, he hopes to have mastered the routine of his position, and will take on the basic course in the field, Anthropology 1, thereby completely filling Hooton's post. Howells has followed Hooton before. Hooton's influence over him, as well as the other present members of the anthropology department, brought him to follow the late professor to a find in Ireland at Galen Priory, an old monastery, where the buried monks "were packed in like sardines...
...teach at a university. There was an opening at Wisconsin, and through it, he rose to a full professorship and the chairmanship of his department. He was also a professor of Integrated Liberal Studies, Wisconsin's optional version of General Education, before he was brought here to succeed Hooton...
...later added that a majority of the students polled by the late Ernest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, felt that the General Education program gave them a greater "sense of values," "development of clear thinking," and "understanding of the physical and social world in which we live...
Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...