[page number] III [end page number] some speed and when I went to college I took to the track very naturally. That speed came through the blood. Every breeder of horses, cattle, poultry and hogs knows this law perfectly and chooses the males and females very carefully. Jack Dempsey could not bat and field like Kiki Cuyler nor could Kiki Cuyler punch like Jack Dempsey because each came from a different blood strain. As Dr. Davenport of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has pointed out, after extensive research, our physical traits, good and bad, and our diseases run in families and are determined by blood, or, to speak technically, by the germ-plasm. The same law applies to mental and moral traits. Many years ago I can remember my grandfather showing his hot temper by scolding my mother. I can remember too, alas, how that same hot temper flashed in my father, fine man that he was. And I myself, all my life, have had to fight my hot temper constantly, and, alas, have sometimes gone down in defeat. The Pilgrim fathers sent their blood down through three centuries and have produced some of our finest scholars and political leaders. From them we have received such statesmen as John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Levi P. Morton, Elihu Root, Chief Justice Taft, General Leonard Wood, Daniel Webster and Pres. Zachary Taylor; such literary geniuses as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, Frank Munsey, Percy MacKaye, and Winston Churchill. On the other hand the jail-birds that England sent to found Sidney, [sic] Australia, bred an enormous brood of criminal children. And of course there rises to our memories once more the well know contrast of the Edwards blood and the Jukes blood. In 1900, the descendents [sic] of Jonathan Edwards numbered 1,394 of whom 295 were college graduates.