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...Hooton on Jews. Harvard's Professor Earnest Albert Hooton is a popeyed, witty anthropologist who is noted for his pessimistic views on the state of mankind in general. Last week Anthropologist Hooton, no Jew, published in Collier's as outspoken and provocative an article on the Jewish question as the U. S. press has printed in many...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...
Earnest Albert Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Curator of Somatology, and member of the faculty of the Peabody Museum, suggested in Collier's magazine today that assimilation of the Jewish minorities by intermarriage is the only solution of the "Jewish problem...
...that students should be forced to study human biology," Hooton went on. "I merely urge that, at any rate, they rub up against some sort of animals and study them objectively...
Agreeing with Hooton, Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology, said that biology lies at the roots of society. "Our entire life is based on biological laws. Our government arises from biological needs." Hisaw likewise pointed out the necessity of acquiring the scientific method of approach...