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Professor Ernest A. Hooton of the department of Anthropology was guest speaker at the Harvard Club of Berkshire banquet in Pittsfield, Mass. last week. Professor Hooton spoke on the subject, "What is an Anthropologist?"
Professor Hooten said that ten years ago a man sent his son to college with the instructions to get a good foundation in business so he could make himself a millionaire. About that time prosperity was in full bloom, but since it has backed around the corner, ideas have changed, and today, Professor Hooton thinks, more and more sons are being urged to study Philosophy, History, and the classics. The idea seems to be that a full brain is a more dependable thing than a full pocketbook.
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