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THE announcement of the impending retirement of Prof. T. C. Hodson from the William Wyse chair of social anthropology in the University of Cambridge in September next will be received with regret by all who are interested in the advancement of studies in that branch of the science of man, not only within the University but also at large. When Prof. Hodson was placed in charge of this subject at first in 1926 as reader in ethnology and from 1932 as occupant of the chair which he now relinquishes, he brought to the teaching of a subject which, more than almost any other in the academic curriculum, demands breadth of view and a sense of realities, a wide and varied experience. This began after he had taken his degree at Queen's College, Oxford, with some years as a member of the Indian Civil Service stationed in Assam, and embraced service with the Indian forces during the Great War, and a period as principal of an ex-Service men's college, of which the curriculum had been strongly influenced by his faith in the educative and broadening influence of the point of view of the anthropologist in the approach to educational and cultural problems. It is in some sense a mitigation of the regret which will be felt at Prof. Hodson's retirement that his successor, who has also served in India, by experience and by conviction, is well qualified to continue the work which Prof. Hodson has always had most nearly at heart, in the firm belief that a knowledge of anthropology is the best and the most essential qualification in the administration of the affairs of the varied peoples of the British Empire.
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Prof. T. C. Hodson. Nature 139, 497 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139497b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139497b0