788. [page number] 5. [end page number] is-self perpetuating. Moreover, heredity and education are obviously complimentary [sic] factors. Even aside from all eugenical considerations, it is appallingly tragic that the larger proportion of each generation should be born from families most handicapped by poverty and ignorance. Meanwhile those upon whom we bestow our greatest attention and to whom we give the finest training for parenthood reward this attention with sterility. Men who graduate from the famous Eastern Universities have just about one half the number of children necessary to reproduce their families, to say nothing of providing for an increase proportionate to the increase of the general population. The situation is even worse in the case of women graduates. About fifty percent of the graduates from Vassar, Wellesley, or Mt. Holyoke never marry or at least not until more than twenty years after graduation. Those who do marry have, on the average, very few children. A study of the families of American men of Science, shows, in spite of a very low rate of infant mortality, that these families are tending towards extermination. There is much loose talk about race suicide. But we need have no fear on this score. The human race shows no tendency to disappear. Its present tendency is toward a terrific increase and congestion of population. This is graphically portrayed by E. M. East in "Mankind at the Crossroads". It appears that the population of the earth doubled during the