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President Roosevelt hopes that Mary Channing Wister’s husband, Owen Wister, recovers from his illness soon. He completely agrees with the statement she sent, and has forwarded it to Commissioner of Education Elmer Ellsworth Brown. Roosevelt sends his love to the “blessed chicks.”
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1909-02-03
President Roosevelt forwards Secretary of the Interior Garfield a copy of a letter from Secretary of State Elihu Root related to the education of Chinese students in the United States. Roosevelt directs Garfield to transmit the papers to Commissioner of Education Elmer Ellsworth Brown, and instruct him to give aid in all appropriate ways.
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt seeks to call Senator Allison’s attention to the need for increased appropriations for education and support of Native Americans in Alaska, along with the support of the reindeer industry. Roosevelt briefly comments on the need for expanded actions by the Bureau of Education to promote sanitation and health in Native American villages. Roosevelt urges that congress provide the full appropriation that Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield has asked for.
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1908-02-28
President Roosevelt tells Columbia University President Butler that as soon as William Torrey Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, announces that he is retiring, Roosevelt will announce that Elmer Ellsworth Brown will be his replacement. He will write to Harris along the lines that Butler suggested.
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1906-06-17
President Roosevelt does not need any more endorsements to convince him to appoint Elmer Ellsworth Brown as United States Commissioner of Education, but asks Columbia University President Butler to tell University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler to secure the support of the two Senators from California. As soon as current United States Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris resigns, Roosevelt will appoint Brown. He asks Butler to tell Brown to come visit Washington, D.C., as Roosevelt wishes to speak with him.
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1906-06-09
President Roosevelt comments that the letter he received from University of California professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown was “awfully nice,” and that Brown seems to be everything that Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler described him as being.
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1906-05-22
President Roosevelt will not speak to anyone about the matter involving the retirement of Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris that Columbia University President Butler wrote to him about. In the meantime, he will commit to Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown as a candidate to replace Harris, unless Butler thinks that Maurice Francis Egan, another potential candidate, would be better.
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1906-05-11
Charles P. G. Scott informs members of the Simplified Spelling Board of the upcoming annual meeting on April 4 and 5 and gives a brief overview of the itinerary. A provisional program is also included.
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1911-03-28
Charles Rufus Skinner asks Theodore Roosevelt to recommend him to President William Howard Taft for Commissioner of Education for New York.
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1911-04-29
John D. Morris is sending Theodore Roosevelt some materials on the After School Club under separate cover. Morris asks that Roosevelt endorse the movement and become a member of the National Council. He briefly highlights some of the major figures associated with the movement, and hopes that Roosevelt finds the movement valuable enough to lend it his influence.
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1911-03-04
H. H. Cherry, President of the Western Kentucky State Teachers College, invites Theodore Roosevelt to give the address at the dedication of the school’s new building. He provides details about the building, the school, and who will be at the dedication.
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1911-02-10
Mary Channing Wister updates President Roosevelt on her husband Owen Wister’s health as he has been slowly recovering from an unknown fever. Wister also thanks Roosevelt for forwarding her suggestions to Commissioner of Education Elmer Ellsworth Brown. Wister updates Roosevelt on issues regarding education.
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1909-03-02
Dr. Storey informs President Roosevelt that Roosevelt was elected Honorary President of the American School Hygiene Association. Storey lists the other elected officers and councilmen.
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1907-05-15
Nicholas Murray Butler tells Theodore Roosevelt that William Torrey Harris, upon his retirement from the Bureau of Education, has accepted the first retiring allowance of the Carnegie Foundation for his service to American education. Butler enthusiastically supports the appointment of Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of Berkeley, California, to replace Harris at the respectful time.
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1906-06-08
The Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foundation has authorized Dr. Pritchett to tender to Dr. Harris, commissioner of education, a retiring allowance of $3,000 in case Dr. Harris wishes to take the opportunity to retire from active services in order to spend the rest of his life in study and literary work. This will be done in the next few weeks and will be done with all possible tact. If Harris decides to retire, Nicholas Butler suggests Professor Brown, of the University of California, be considered for commissioner.
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1906-05-10
Nicholas Murray Butler does not want President Roosevelt to feel committed to Brown simply on his recommendation, but Butler does feel that Brown is the best man available in case Harris retires.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-14