Anthropology

World wide acclaim of the University's Anthropology Department has gathered momentum in the past few years until today students of Anthropology and its allied subjects convenes at Harvard from many nations to take advantage of "the best Anthropological library in the world," a scope of study which no other university can touch, and the instruction of an excellent, if small, staff.

Concentration requirements in Anthropology are about average, with six and eight courses necessary for regular students and honors candidates respectively. In each case two courses may be included from relative fields.

Only one and one half of these courses (Anthropology lab and A) are required of all concentrators, and this can be considered no hardship since these same courses have consistently rated among the most popular with the entire student body.

Little Lab Work

Since only two courses in the field, Anthropology 2a and 13, have any laboratory work connected with them and those in a limited amount, the field probably allows its concentrators more time for sampling other areas of study than any other science field in the College.

A small field, with the present 40 concentrators split evenly between Radcliffe and Harvard, Anthropology does not encourage concentration for those not really interested and wishing to go out for honors. At present, 13 of the 20 male enrollees and 7 of the 20 Radcliffe students are honors candidates.

The size of the department has made possible what is one of the highest tutorial standards in the College, for the work of outside instruction has fallen entirely to the five professors lecturing in Anthropology.

Concentrators have their choice of going into any one of the three subdivisions of Anthropology: (1) Physical Anthropology, (2) Archaeology and Ethnography (descriptive Anthropology), and (3) Social Anthropology and Ethnology (division of races).

Hooton Spicy Lecturer

Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology specializing in the first area, spices his lectures with slightly off-color anecdotes and slang, but still manages to get the subject across thoroughly. A regular in the nation's slick-papered magazines, Professor Hooton makes his courses among the most sought-after in the College.

Carleton S. Coon and Clyde M. Kluchhohn, Professors of Anthropology, Hooton's counterparts in the last two areas respectively, also use many of Hooton's tricks but to a lesser degree. Both are interesting and cover the topic of study well.

Highly regarded as a good field of concentration for pre-medical students, especially course 2a, a study of the skeleton, Anthropology, however, graduates chiefly men who continue their studies either by joining field expeditions or by taking graduate work in the subject.

Although it is not the rule, College course credit is sometimes gained by concentrators through work with recognized expeditions.