The Eugenic Plan and the Stanford Engineer

Stanford's first president, David Star Jordan, was an anti-war eugenicist. He worried that the bravest Anglo-American men were going to get taken out in war. But when Germans realized they could conquer world militarily, Stanford had to come up with some way to fight wars without risking your genes. The answer: Science and technology for fighting wars from afar. And that starts with avionics, that starts with planes. It starts with figuring out who's smart and removing them from the front lines.