Despite the claims of Chairman Earnest Hooton, Anthropology is no field for a man wanting a liberal education centering about man's development. That is what most juniors and seniors in the field agreed; the department has its advantages and disadvantages, but it has no place for the dabbler.

One of the advantages of the field is Hooton himself. His Anthropolgy 10 is universally acclaimed as an excellent sythesis of cultural background and hard scientific fact. Another point about Anthropology is the possibility for close cooperation between instructors and the few concentrators.

Professors Are Few

This last point does not contradict Hooton's main difficulty with the field--back of professors to teach courses. Many courses are given by members of the Social Relations Department or the Peabody Museum staff whose first love is not teaching anthropology.

Concentrators in the field feel this pancity of teachers when they find that courses they had planned upon taking care given but once every two or three years.

This necessitates studying things that they are not really interested in, but which come at open hours. The shortage is particularly rankling because all honors candidates are required to take eight courses in the field, and almost all are honors candidates.

Lack of integration between the different courses is often cited as a weakness of the field. A basic split between man's physical evolution and his cultural progress is not overcome, although the field is divided into the sub-fields of Physical Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnology, and Ethnology and Social Anthropology. The courses tend to cover one rather small topic very thoroughly.

Facts, Facts, Facts

The two basic courses in the field, 10 and 1, are given on a level which makes them popular distribution courses. Once you get past these two, you will find, as one concentrator put it. "a tremendously large number of facts from which you must pick and choose."

Quite a few gradate students study in the field, and College men complain that some regular courses are given on a graduate level.

Hooton realizes these defficiencies in his field and is trying to correct them. Courses like this year's Anthropology 100, which was "heartily hated," are being revamped to include less material.

The Department estimates that approximately one-half of the men who are graduated in it go into Anthropology as their life-work. For those who are thinking of doing this, the field offers as fine & department as will be discovered in the country.

For those who would like to learn some interesting facts about people, this is possibly not the place.