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Show HEAD OF HARVARD. The new head of Harvard University must believe in heredity. Here is a brief statement of his famllj's worth as presented by a Denver writer: The new president of Harvard Is a son of Augustus Lowell, the founder of Lowell Institute in Boston. That is a pretty good start In life, to begin with. He Is a brother of Perclval Lowell, one of the world's foremost astronomers. as-tronomers. He is a relative, though not a descendant, of James- Rusaell Lowell, American's greatest poet, and he has another brother on the United States circuit bench. Clearly, this Is a family of "intellectuals." And it is but one family of many such in America. We have thank heaven no aristocracy, no scheme for passing on privileged graft to the third or tenth generation. But the laws of heredity work ust tho same In America Amer-ica as in Europe, and there are many American families with a ' record through the years that might be envied en-vied by the bluest blooded stock of the Old World. Such a family are the New England Adams. When John Adams was elected president he had already a pretty good line of public-spirited public-spirited ancestors behind him. His son, John Qulncy Adams, perhaps the greatest of the family, overtopped his father In both genius and public services. ser-vices. His son. Charles Francis Adams, was minister to England in the days of the civil war, and did service to the republic re-public that cannot be measured in ordinary terms. The Adams family are 6tlll In public life In one way or another. an-other. The brilliant and peculiarly fearless writer, Samuel Hopkins Adams,' Is one of the old stock, though whether in the direct line or not wo do not know. Our own Colorado family fam-ily Is a branch of the New England house. That Is one of the instances of an American family lasting through many generations. |