[Seed] Eugenics Record Office Founded, Financed by E.H. Harriman, John. D. Rockefeller, Others

News Type: Other — Seeded on Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:41 AM EST

Article Source: The New York Times

history, race, eugenics, 1913, john-d-rockefeller, harriman

Extends Work in Eugenics, March 30, 1913

The Eugenics Record Office was established at Cold Springs Harbor in Long Island with the stated aim, among other, to "study of the origin of and the best methods of restricting the strains that produce the defective and delinquent classes of the community..."

A Board of Scientific Directors was organized for this board, including such illustrious names as...

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Chairman; Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology, John Hopkins Hospital, Vice Chairman; Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale University; Prof. Lewellys Barker of Johns Hopkins Hospital; Prof. E. E. Southard of Harvard University and Director of the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston, and Dr. C.B. Davenport, who will be Secretary of the board and resident director."

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Better babies.

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#1 - Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:33 AM EST

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Better babies.

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#1.1 - Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:48 AM EST

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Beginning about a century ago or so, there were Better Baby contests that judged the tykes on the basis of physical attributes, etc.

Watts and Sherbon added a hereditarian explanation for human differences to the Better Babies Contests' earlier focus on child development and welfare. Thus completed the transformation of Scientific Baby Contests as a vehicle popularizing eugenics ideas.

You'll find other references, too, in other states.

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#1.2 - Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:03 PM EST

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Ah. I was not aware of that. Excellent addition to the conversation.

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#1.3 - Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:01 PM EST

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