"The Days of a Man ^igio 



Ariew A painfully interesting episode was mine when, 



type of ijy special request, I spoke twice to a club of college 

 men, about twenty in number, confined in the State 

 Prison at Charlestown. These formed in a way a 

 class by themselves, their services being utilized as 

 teachers to fellow convicts. Among them were some 

 individuals of marked ability but weak will. Prac- 

 tically all of the group were expiating crimes against 

 money or women, sudden temptation or a spasm of 

 anger having been the undoing of the most. The 

 president of the club, a former British officer, was in 

 for embezzlement, the secretary had used a pistol in 

 jealous rage, a third, whose case excited sympathy, 

 killed the wrong woman while firing at a faithless 

 wife, and one shot his sweetheart because she refused 

 to ride in his automobile! Still another, a distinctly 

 handsome man, had failed to resist the temptation to 

 do the "Raffles Act" with loosely guarded jewelry 

 at a week-end party. Two physicians were among the 

 number, one too smooth and elegant in manner, the 

 other burly and coarse. 

 Parental Speaking the second time on Eugenics and Hered- 

 anxiety \^y^ ^ topic chosen by my auditors, I found them 

 deeply interested in the subject — eager above all to 

 learn to what extent a father's sins are visited on the 

 next generation. 



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 As a university president, one of the aims I had 

 long cherished was the development of a medical 

 school on a modern foundation, and even before 

 Johns Hopkins was established I worked out a plan 

 quite in harmony with that adopted by President 

 Gilman and his associates. For medicine always 



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