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President Roosevelt reports to President Eliot of Harvard University that he spoke to Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon and Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee concerning Merrill. Both share the opinion that Merrill is not suited for a diplomatic career. Roosevelt will review everything before deciding.
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1908-08-22
President Roosevelt tells Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, he had been able to stand against Andrew Dickson White but concedes when the President of his alma mater writes, he has to make an exception. While it may be right for the good of the service, Eliot does not know how difficult it is to keep an approximate geographical equality for the service.
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1908-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Frederic Adrian Delano’s suggestion and believes that some of the proposed meetings of the Board of Overseers should be held in Cambridge. As Roosevelt is not certain that he will be able to attend the meeting scheduled for May 10 due to a prior engagement, he asks Charles William Eliot if there are any particular meetings of the Board that spring that he should make sure to attend.
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1911-04-21
President Roosevelt congratulates Harvard University president Charles William Eliot on a long and successful career on the occasion of his retirement. He also invites Eliot and his wife to attend the Judiciary dinner and stay at the White House on January 28.
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1908-11-23
President Roosevelt did not know that the telegraphs that he sent to Charles William Eliot, the president of Harvard College, would be made public, and now sends him a letter so that if the matter comes up in the future Roosevelt’s position would not be misstated. Roosevelt feels that the the removal of Sidney W. Fish and Charles C. Morgan was too severe. While Roosevelt agrees with the idea of enforcing honor from Harvard’s college students, he feels that the action taken in this case has had the opposite effect.
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1908-07-10
President Roosevelt agrees with Charles William Eliot about railroads and tariffs, and will look into the professors at the Naval Academy. Roosevelt also speaks on the current status of the United States returning the indemnity to China.
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1907-06-19
President Roosevelt reassures Harvard President Eliot that he did not believe Eliot’s report was an answer to his speech. Roosevelt asks Eliot to bring Edgar Huidekoper Wells with him to Washington, D.C., so they can meet others and talk. The two men “are not as far apart as people believe as regards athletics.” Eliot will agree with Roosevelt on the Brownsville affair once he knows more.
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1907-03-11
President Roosevelt is disappointed that he cannot meet with Harvard President Charles William Eliot in person at this time. Roosevelt wishes to discuss a plethora of topics, including football, the Brownsville affair, and a man named McCall, who he describes as an “undesirable.”
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1907-02-20
President Roosevelt wishes to see President of Harvard Eliot to talk over the “many interesting points” raised in his letter. He discusses General Leonard Wood’s leadership during the Spanish American War, currents attempts to avoid intervention and occupation in Cuba, the conceit of educated men, and dealing with the “negro problem.”
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt updates President of Harvard Eliot on Secretary of War William H. Taft’s investigation into American agitators’ influence in the Cuban conflict. He discusses the “curious” opinion of having General Leonard Wood take control in Cuba given the previous backlash against him, even though Roosevelt considers him one of the “best officers we now have.” While Cuba is his immediate concern in foreign affairs, Roosevelt discusses the issues concerning the Hague and the Panama Canal.
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1906-09-22
President Roosevelt informs President of Harvard University Eliot he is speaking at the fiftieth anniversary of the Michigan State Agricultural College on May 31. Before taking stronger action in Cuba, he will do everything in his power to facilitate a peaceful agreement. He will contact Secretary of War William H. Taft about Americans financing revolutionists.
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1906-09-20
President Roosevelt informs President of Harvard Eliot of his plan to send a separate message to Congress regarding the Reed memorial and asks him to send supporting materials to raise a subscription for the widow. Regrettably, he is unable to speak at Harvard next year. In “strict privacy,” he shares of President of Cuba Tomás Estrada Palmas’ request to intervene and in connection, discusses the justification of the Revolutionary War.
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1906-09-13
President Roosevelt disagrees with Harvard President Charles William Eliot that football should be stopped. He knows “scores” of young men who have morally and physically benefited from the sport. He believes that brutality and abuses should be removed from the game, but the effort to remove them is hindered by people who are instead trying to abolish it.
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1905-12-21
President Roosevelt asks Harvard University President Eliot to show the enclosed copy of Paul Joseph Dashiell’s letter to Harvard football coach William T. Reid, William Roscoe Thayer, and Mr. Dana. Roosevelt also includes a letter from a man from Buffalo that should be shown to the same people. It appears that the Yale football team believes just as much as Harvard that its team has “nearly a monopoly of the virtue.”
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1905-12-09
President Roosevelt tells Harvard President Eliot that he has written Paul Joseph Dashiell to get his explanation of an incident that occurred in a football game he was umpiring. Roosevelt would like to discuss football with Eliot this winter. Three of his sons play football and he believes it has done them good, and he wants to save the sport and eliminate the brutality of it. He believes that officials should be hired who will not tolerate brutality, even if it is done under the rules. Finally, Roosevelt asks Eliot for facts about an alleged incident in the Harvard-Yale game.
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1905-12-05
President Roosevelt tells Harvard President Charles William Eliot that the dismissal of George T. Moore from the Department of Agriculture was the necessary course of action, and that he cannot be reinstated.
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1905-10-15
President Roosevelt is frustrated with photographers and reporters harassing his son Ted Roosevelt at Harvard and asks if Harvard President Charles William Eliot can do anything about it.
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1905-09-29
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1905-07-27
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1905-07-24
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