By the late 1920s, 376 American colleges were offering courses in eugenics. The
army of enthusiasts included, at various times, the presidents of Yale, Harvard,
Stanford, the American Museum of Natural History, and the universities of
Michigan, Wisconsin, and California. State fairs also embraced the eugenic
cause. Known for celebrating grand champion sows and other masterworks of animal
husbandry, they now added a “human stock” section, where competitors vied for
the blue ribbon in the “Fitter Families” contest. A traveling display warned,
“Some people are born to be a burden on the rest,” above a light that flashed
every 15 seconds to indicate that another “$100 of your money” had just gone
“for the care of a person with bad heredity.”
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