Letter from John J. O’Rourke to Theodore Roosevelt
John J. O’Rourke pleads with President Roosevelt to expand the scope of the Catholic institutions that Filipino students are sent to beyond the University of Notre Dame. There are many other Catholic institutions that are worthy of receiving these students, and limiting them to only one Catholic university produces a negative public sentiment, shown in several editorials O’Rourke encloses. O’Rourke has been told by the president of a Catholic college that they do not have special faculties for teaching courses in agricultural topics, and he encourages Roosevelt to appoint a committee of laymen to help instruct the Filipino students in practical courses of agriculture and mechanics, in addition to the courses in Classics and metaphysics that they are receiving at universities and colleges.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-10-17