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...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended you should...
...that you have to face is a pretty dark one. Men enter with serious determination and singleness of purpose. You have got to find your way on. Here, you have the opportunity to gather strength to meet that battle. Today, as always, success depends upon the survival of the fittest. To be a success and gain some measure of happiness you must survive. To survive in this battle your brain must be trained. Here is your opportunity. Make the most...
Opinions are fostered in college. Material is offered, debatable points tendered, and one is urged to develop his ideas. Error is no fault; stagnation is the fatality. College urges criticism, for through criticism alone are weaknesses seen. Not petty criticisms, not revolutionary criticism, but a careful selection of the fittest and best...
...Nazi idea of race purity and of the emergence of a dominant national organism is a fantastic one. It is ridiculous to suppose that nations, purged of foreign elements or not, are subject to laws or natural evolution and the survival of the fittest. The absurdity is extreme in Germany where Teutonic, Alpine, Jewish, and Slavic stocks are thoroughly mingled...
...cotton planter and a resident of the South conversant with its conditions I want to assure Lawyer Stock that the old law of "Survival of the fittest" will do more than any act of legislature to reduce cotton production. I also believe that most thinking people regard such legislative action as a reflection upon the intelligence of people engaged in the labor of raising cotton, who must be protected by law to keep from breaking their financial neck, if still intact another year...