Dixon's The Racial History of Man persuaded Hulse to give anthropology a try, and, because of his late start, he needed to take all available courses. Two years later, unhappy at Williams and having endured a total of seven years of Latin, he was able to transfer to Harvard as a member of the class of 1927.Ī pre-Harvard reading of Roland B. His effort to enter Harvard College on graduation was thwarted by poor scores on his Latin examination, so he entered Williams College. He continued his education at the Cathedral School and then Candler College in Havana, but in 1918 he was sent back to Ridgefield School, a boarding school in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The family moved to Havana in 1915 when his father became Missionary Bishop of Cuba. New York was his home and his early education was in its public schools, with summers spent at his maternal grandparents' house in Northampton, Massachusetts, until he was nine-years old. Hulse was born in New York City in 1906, a son between two daughters, Mary and Charity, of Hiram Richard Hulse and Frances Barrows Seymour Hulse. The new Hulse, the one honored by membership in the National Academy of Sciences, saw the integrated way genetics and culture shaped individual human beings that was awarded in 1934-after a brief, war-induced sojourn into sociocultural anthropology, there would emerge from the conventional physical anthropology encrustment, chrysalis-like, another Fred Hulse. Who would have imagined that from this traditional and tardy beginning-his Ph.D.

His only prewar publications 1 were a description of skeletal remains from an archeology site (1941) and an account of the racial origins of the Japanese (1943). He learned, but did not particularly like, another favorite endeavor in the field, human osteology. Hulse's graduate work was entirely standard in its primary focus on the notion of race being a nominal reality that can be parsed into its historical constituents by a series of observations and measurements on peoples' heads and bodies. Hulse's intellectual trajectory in physical anthropology in a clearer way than it did perhaps any other of the more than two dozen doctoral students mentored in this field over four decades (1913-54) by Harvard University's extraordinarily influential Earnest A. WORLD WAR II and its timing impacted Frederick S.

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