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...author begins by showing that the advanced races instead of pushing on, are in reality going backward, and that civilization instead of building up the races of men, is steadily dragging them down. His proof of this phenomenon rests on a firm belief that "heredity and not environment is the chief maker of men." We, as a civilized people, preserve the weaker members of our race by medicine, hygiene, and sanitation. Then, in the generations that follow, the offspring of these weaker members is as large as that of the strong; and the weaker characteristics are all passed on, quickly...
...profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their...
...children. Of them and of their problems, she is far more willing to speak than of her work. She is essentially a home-loving woman; her interests, while broad, are concentrated in her home, a new home?for she has recently been married again to William Morrow, of the firm of Stokes, her publishers...
...Curtiss praised especially the Case System of the Harvard Business School, by which the student has to work out the solution of an actual problem which confronted a business firm. "This gives him the experience of grappling with all kinds of difficulties which he will later face in the world of affairs...
...once finely intuitive and keenly observant. She is that most unusual person, the interpretative reporter ; for she can not only see the events which are tramping about her; she knows well the souls of events. She is eager, tender, possessed of a magnificent tolerance, in spite of a firm ethical creed-and her artistic creed is similar; for, while she might permit herself to experiment, she never gropes, is never sloppy in her style...