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...Hooton dominates the Department, is noted for his wit and his ability as a teacher, and is highly respected in his field. In course A. required of all concentrators, his ability as a vaudeville comedian is proverbial, as is his knack for putting across solid material with an interesting touch. He is also liked in the physical courses, 2 and 22, where he is probably the foremost authority in the country. Although top notch in physical anthropology, Hooton is unpopular in 4a, his only course in the social half of the field. Coon, in 4b, is considered far superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropology Judged Easy, Interesting Concentration | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

Criticizing the post-War plan set forth yesterday by Dr. Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said last night that any such scheme to create "a synthetic race of German people made up of non-Germanics from other countries to replace the present stock in the Reich" is untenable both in theory and in practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN OPPOSES HOOTON'S PLAN OF DISPERSING GERMANS | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

Sorokin denied Hooton's thesis that Germans are inherently militaristic. He pointed to world history, which he claimed showed that virtually every century has had a different aggresive influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN OPPOSES HOOTON'S PLAN OF DISPERSING GERMANS | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

Sorokin, in addition offered a three-point program for the post-War world, which contrasted with Hooton's plan. This program consisted of military supervision over German armament for at least a decade after the War, a just treatment of German political, social and economic problems, and a policy granting the Reich full freedom to exercise German intelligence in the cultural progress of the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN OPPOSES HOOTON'S PLAN OF DISPERSING GERMANS | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

Professor Hooton ended on a some-what more optimistic note, though. "Removed from their national environment and scattered in small groups among the civilized peoples of the world. I have little doubt that the descendants of these Germans would prove themselves as constructive, socially-minded, peaceable and intelligent members of society as the Germans of '48 have been in the United States," he concluded...

Author: By Joel M. Kane, | Title: HOOTON CALLS FRANCE AND RUSSIA "SICK NATIONS," BLASTS NAZI REGIME | 11/15/1941 | See Source »

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