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Society too may cultivate a proper pride in 

 good inheritance. Much of value would be ac- 

 complished if the silly pride in ancestral 

 wealth or position or environment which 

 touched our forebears only superficially and 

 never entered into their germ plasm, or the 

 still sillier claims of long descent, in which we 

 are all equal, could be replaced by a proper 

 pride in ancestral heredity, a pride in those in- 

 herited qualities of body, mind and character 

 which have made some families illustrious. A 

 proper pride in heredity would do much to 

 insure the perpetuation of the line and to pro- 

 tect it from admixture with baser blood. 



Among other contributory measures which 

 serve to promote good breeding among men 

 must be reckoned coeducation, as well as other 

 means of promoting good and early marriages. 

 The president of a large coeducational insti- 

 tution once said that if marriages were made 

 in heaven he was sure that the Lord had a 

 branch office in his university. I had occasion a 

 few years ago to investigate the eugenical record 

 of a coeducational institution, which is not un- 

 known in the world of scholarship, and found 



