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SYMPOSIUM 



ON THE LOOKOUT FOR YOUNG MEN IN VARIOUS 



SCIENCES. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



W J McGee. 



In considering the promise of anthropology as a field for 

 work by younger men, it should be remembered that the field 

 is a particularly broad one. Other sciences find their object- 

 matter and their opportunity in some special class of phenome- 

 na; anthropology deals with man, not only in general but also 

 as a science-maker. Partly for this reason, the research is 

 particularly attractive and especially stimulating and broaden- 

 ing; and other things equal the grasp of the specialist in this 

 science ought to be — and generally is — large and strong. 



Unfortunately the opportunities either for student or work- 

 er are less in anthropology than in some other branches of 

 science. Thus far the subject is not well recognized in college 

 curricula, while the pressure for development in other depart- 

 ments tends to retard its introduction. Just now, too, state, 

 federal, and related institutions are concentrating activity along 

 other lines, so that anthropology may be said to be temporarily 

 ni eclipse; and although this condition can not long persist, it 

 is a present discouragement. The chief opportunities are those 



