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Buzzards and stud sparrows...
...hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second generation", to quote the cheerful Californian, "there would be a race of superman gods on earth...
...owners. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate. Racing interests recently acquired. Bought the Rancocas stud founded by the late Pierre Lorillard at Jobstown, N. J. His former champions: Purchase, Grey Lag, Cirrus, Mad Hatter...
...Significance. The classic story of Rosebery illustrates the place of the Grand National in British thought. In 1868, when the young lord was expelled from Oxford for keeping a racing stud, he proclaimed to his young friends three ambitions: to marry the richest woman in England; to be Prime Minister: to win the Grand National. He married Hannah, only daughter of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild. He became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in 1894. He won the Derby three times. He is alive today (one year younger than Chauncey Depew) with one chief regret: no horse of his ever...
...think that there might be formed a military college with a three-years' course on the same general lines as West Point. I would admit boys of the age of sixteen, physically fit, without examination, merely dropping them on their failing to maintain a proper standard in their stud- ies. During their three years in college I should have them under strict military discipline, with a prescribed military course, lectures in the morning, practical work in the afternoon. At the age of nineteen, on completing their studies, they should be well prepared for a second lieutenant's commission, and even...