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...Army research laboratory to be known as the "Institute of Man" will rise on the banks of the Charles in the near future, if Georges F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School and Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, can convince the Senate that the Boston area is the best site for the project...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
Democracy's "supporting in idleness" of inefficient, poverty-stricken individuals who should never have been born is an additional threat to the crumbling world, according to Hooton...
...wrinkle in peace proposals hit the headlines, got bandied around by an amused California press, and had a quick demise last week, when Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, put forward scientific birth control as a sure cure...
Speaking before a Stanford University audience, Hooton laid out a triple-headed campaign for raising the quality of society and securing the peace. Universal birth control "to prevent the incompetent from reproducing their kind," the weeding of social misfits from the educational system, and concerted efforts to raise the "low I.Q." of governments were proposed by Hooton...