Letter from Carroll D. Wright to Theodore Roosevelt
Carroll D. Wright thanks President Roosevelt for attending Clark University’s first commencement ceremony.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-06-23
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Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to G. Stanley Hall
Theodore Roosevelt argues that the United States needs to be taught of the extreme wickedness and folly of pacifism. He compares pacifism to treason and believes fighting against military readiness is the same as fighting against the United States.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-11-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Frisbie Hoar
President Roosevelt agrees with what Senator Hoar says about Wendell Phillips. Hoar is not to take it as an “absolute promise,” but, if he is still President in 1905, Roosevelt would like to attend the first commencement at Clark University under president Carroll D. Wright.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-03-22
Letter from George Frisbie Hoar to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Hoar would like to speak with President Roosevelt for a few minutes about Carroll D. Wright. Wright has the opportunity to become President of Clark University but will need to leave the Labor Bureau to do so. Hoar wants to see if an arrangement can be made for Wright to hold both duties for a time until a successor is named.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-20
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Text of a speech delivered by Daniel Henry Chamberlain describing the Spanish-American War as “unmixed, pure evil” and in opposition to American colonial policy. At the same event, the annual dinner at Sanderson Academy, Charles Eliot Norton and Charles S. Hamlin spoke in support of Chamberlain’s point of view, while G. Stanley Hall expressed disapproval of the harsh terms that had been used to describe President McKinley.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-08-22