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Occasional blonc! hair and light eyes, he determined on the Ing about the Berbers of the Rif in North Africa with their There—Hooton the while all unwitting of the conversion ~ myself know of at last three instances whenĪn unclergracluate, fired up by some idea in Hooton's dis-Ĭourse, clecicled to become an anthropologist then anc} Hooton causect him to veer off into an-ĭespite a somewhat laconic delivery, Hooton was a com. He was an apt student anc! eventually a master. Under the great Charles TownsendĬopelancI, he took English composition a subject in which His knowledge of hieroglyphs got him into a graduate course He learner! Arabic at Harvard but mathematics wasĪt Harvard his affection for Egyptology continued, and Once there, he be-Ĭame enamored of Greek, in which he took the prize at grad. Of Egyptology began early, and he learned to read hiero. As a cureĪctually, Car! Coon had strong intellectual tastes. Heac! pipes until they broke and flooded! the place. High were numbered when, macle fractious by boredom, heĭescender! into the school's basement and swung from over. Throughout his early school years to avoid both distinctionĪnd opprobrium. Pugnacious as well as scholarly, he managed Of ethnicity came through fracases with Irish boys of the When he was young, Carl's only apparent awareness Taught him to react before he went to school. Solicitous of his education, anct the family maid (also Yankee) Number of trips abroad, especially to Egypt. With his cotton broker father, the young Car} made a The old man talked not only about the war, but alsoĪbout his travels in the Miclclle East and his readings on Af. Teller of tales, all calculated to make Car! very American in-Ĭleed. His grandfather Coon blinc} by Carl's time was a great Sachusetts, a typical melange of Yankee stock, though theĪt least two of Carl's forebears were Civil War veterans. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.ĬARL COON was born June 23, 1904, in Wakefield, Mas. Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book.