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HOOTON CALLS FOR A SCIENCE OF MAN

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Speaking during the intermission of the United States Rubber Company's broadcast of the New York Philharmonic program last Sunday, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, emphasized the necessity for having a "science of man."

Comparing education to "an artillery barrage sometimes so poor in timing that it slays its own advancing troops," Professor Hooton concluded by asserting that if science can tell men in what capacity they may best die, it should surely be allowed to tell them in what capacity they may best live.

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