The Days of a Man 



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eminent husband. Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, their 

 daughter, had studied with Professors Wilson and 

 Osborn at Columbia and thus become greatly inter- 

 ested in questions of heredity and eugenics. So to- 

 gether we spent an evening discussing these matters, 

 and she did not find it hard to persuade her mother to 

 Endow- endow a scheme for genetic studies and records under 

 mentofthe ^|^g charge of Daveuport. Mrs. Harriman accordingly 

 Commis- gave the Eugenics Commission — afterward incor- 

 porated for the new purpose and limited to residents 

 of the Eastern states — a tract of land and farm- 

 house adjoining the Carnegie Laboratory, adding also 

 an iron fireproof structure for the preservation of 

 records. This gift became the vehicle of important 

 studies of heredity by Drs. Davenport, Henry H. 

 Goddard, Harry H. Laughlin, and several others who 

 have investigated various problems connected with 

 feeble-mindedness, as well as the still more vital one 

 of the origin and maintenance of superior strains. I 

 have had no further connection with the Eugenic 

 Laboratory, though retaining large sympathy with 

 the work. 



From a similar origin, the American Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, arose the excellent American Journal of 

 Heredity, edited at Washington for several years by 

 one of my former students. Dr. Paul A. Popenoe, who 

 (like nearly all the other young men I have called my 

 disciples) was drawn into the maelstrom of war. 



" Journal 

 of Hered- 

 ity 



In the early summer of 1910, accompanied by 

 Stolz, who as a Rhodes Scholar was due at Oxford In 

 October, I sailed for Europe with two primary pur- 

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