A Civic Biology, Presented in ProblemsHunter, George W. (George William)
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A Civic Biology, Presented in Problems
Hunter, George W. (George William)
Biology; Sanitation
In 1667 Elizabeth Tuttle, "of strong will, and of extreme intellectual
vigor, married Richard Edwards of Hartford, Conn., a man of high repute and
great erudition. From their one son descended another son, Jonathan
Edwards, a noted divine, and president of Princeton College. Of the
descendants of Jonathan Edwards much has been written; a brief catalogue
must suffice: Jonathan Edwards, Jr., president of Union College; Timothy
Dwight, president of Yale; Sereno Edwards Dwight, president of Hamilton
College; Theodore Dwight Woolsey, for twenty-five years president of Yale
College; Sarah, wife of Tapping Reeve, founder of Litchfield Law School,
herself no mean lawyer; Daniel Tyler, a general in the Civil War and
founder of the iron industries of North Alabama; Timothy Dwight, second,
president of Yale University from 1886 to 1898; Theodore William Dwight,
founder and for thirty-three years warden of Columbia Law School; Henrietta
Frances, wife of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, who, burning the
midnight oil by the side of her ingenious husband, helped him to his
enduring fame; Merrill Edwards Gates, president of Amherst College;
Catherine Maria Sedgwick of graceful pen; Charles Sedgwick Minot, authority
on biology and embryology in the Harvard Medical School; Edith Kermit
Carow, wife of Theodore Roosevelt; and Winston Churchill, the author of
_Coniston_ and other well-known novels."
[Illustration: This record shows the inheritance of artistic ability (black
circles and squares). (After Davenport.)]
Of the daughters of Elizabeth Tuttle distinguished descendants also came.
Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Chief
Justice of the United States Morrison R. Waite; Ulysses S. Grant and Grover
Cleveland, presidents of the United States. These and many other prominent
men and women can trace the characters which enabled them to occupy the
positions of culture and learning they held back to Elizabeth Tuttle.
Euthenics.--Euthenics, the betterment of the environment, is another
important factor in the production of a stronger race. The strongest
physical characteristics may be ruined if the surroundings are unwholesome
and unsanitary. The slums of a city are "at once symptom, effect, and cause
of evil." A city which allows foul tenements, narrow streets, and crowded
slums to exist will spend too much for police protection, for charity, and
for hospitals.
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