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...Hooton Recommends Biology...
Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, stated strongly that a good course in biology ought to be included in the education of every college student. "Man is an animal and ought to know himself and his fellow animals--inferiors or superiors. The neglect of biology in education seems to me one of the most fundamental errors committed by unenlightened pedagogues...
Regardless of Dr. Hooton's scientific approach, the public will find the implications clear: that criminals and prisoners are a debased lot; they were born that way; there is little hope for them. Advocates of the Mad-Dog school of penology finally have contemporary textbook backing...
Sheldon's measurements which total 10,000 from students at Chicago, North-western, Wisconsin, and other small Western coleges as well have led to "very much the same results" that Hooton exposed in his latest work on "Crime...
Explaining what he termed a "close relationship" with Professor Hooton's study, the research associate said: "There is no question but what my work supports his contention that by careful measurements of the physical proportions of individuals we can throw a good deal of light on the psychological and physical differences...