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...connection with the securing of the Eskimo teeth models from Commander MacMillan, Dr. Fernald arranged with Professor Hooton of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to secure impressions of the teeth of Yucatan natives during a southern expedition. These people are famous as vegetable eaters. Most of them eat no meat whatever. It was found that their teeth were very much decayed. At a surprisingly early age, their teeth lost all semblance of even a normally healthy condition, and most of them, when middle aged, had practically no teeth, whatever. It has been the experience of most dentists that those people...
...elaborate investigation of criminals throughout the United States is being conducted under the direction of Professor E. A. Hooton of the Anthropology department, who recently received one of the Milton Awards. Professor Hooton is carrying on his research in connection with Dr. Winfred Overholser '12, director of the division of the examination of prisoners in Massachusetts...
...This study was initiated through the desire of the department of Mental Diseases to secure comparable anthropological data to be correlated with the elaborate psychiatric and sociological records of country jail prisoners of Massachusetts which the division has been gathering for over three years," Professor Hooton explained to a CRIMSON reporter...
Stefansson, who has lived among the Eskimos on a meat and water diet for a period of seven years, will speak on the "Effects of Meat Diet on Eskimos and White Men." Professor E.A. Hooton of the University is collaborating with Stefansson in a series of experiments to lest the effect upon health of an all meat diet...
...recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according to Professor Hooton, is not yet definite, but with delicacy of technique increasing, it may be possible to determine exact relations between race, physical stigmats and abnormalities and crime...