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Harvard University President Charles William Eliot regrets that he will be away in Canada when President Roosevelt visits. He asks Roosevelt to speak to the students and try to improve their work ethic.
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1907-02-18
This cartoon depicts four different options for President Roosevelt after he leaves office: “President of Harvard,” “In charge of the Panama Canal,” “A member of the Peace Congress at The Hague,” or “U.S. Senator from New York.” Caption: A composite horoscope by the Hon. Champ Clark.
Only a year into President Roosevelt’s second term, editorialists, politicians, and cartoonists continually speculated on his future — as a young ex-president (he would be 50) with a range of professional opportunities; or, if he were to break his word not to seek a successive term, how American politics would be affected.
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte for his speech at Chicago, which showed his fair enforcement of the law. His attackers use the press and their wealth to recruit powerful people, like college presidents and corrupt judges, to their side at the cost of the “plain people.” These attackers know that developments like the Hepburn Rate Law, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and protections for workers have been effective against moneyed interests and criminals, but they are often lawyers or editors who answer to the corporations. The individual men to whom he refers are, however, merely puppets, and the true issue should be taken with the offenders who stand behind them and control enormous wealth. He and Bonaparte are not responsible for the economic panic, but are striving for the right “in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.”
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1907-12-23
Theodore Roosevelt wishes that there were a few more college presidents that Benjamin Ide Wheeler could influence.
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1912-05-28
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary suggests that M. T. Davis contact university presidents, as Roosevelt does not have the information Davis requested.
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1912-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James A. Hoyt for writing. He believes that Duncan Clinch Heyward is an ideal candidate for president of Washington and Lee University. Although he is not an educator, Heyward is broadly cultivated and personable. Roosevelt is hesitant to write George H. Denny and suggests Hoyt show him this letter.
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1911-10-27
President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman, editor of The Congregationalist, for passing on the comments of college presidents and those of Professor William Archibald Dunning of Columbia University.
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1909-02-27
President Roosevelt hopes the newspaper reports are true that A. Lawrence Lowell will be selected as president of Harvard, which he says will be a “fortunate thing” for the university.
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1909-01-12
President Roosevelt congratulates Henry S. Drinker on being the president of Lehigh University.
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1908-07-27
President Roosevelt regrets to inform Richard D. Harlan that he cannot fulfill his request, as it is impossible for him to meet every appeal he receives.
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1907-04-01
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 praises Yale University President Arthur Twining Hadley for his article on the the growth of luxury in the American college, and remarks that “it is a great comfort to have among the two or three leading college presidents one who can always be relied upon to say what is wise and sane as well as fearless.” Roosevelt wishes that the people who wish to abolish college football would pay attention to the reasons Hadley gives as to why it should be continued.
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1906-08-01
President Roosevelt is pleased to know that the chair named after him at the University of Berlin will be filled by Professor John William Burgess.
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1905-10-14
President Roosevelt was interested in the letter from Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California. Roosevelt has seen some of the same reaction to Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker, and he was sorry to hear about Metcalf. Roosevelt thinks Wheeler is wise to stick to the university, which is also the decision of Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.
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1904-09-05
President Roosevelt thanks his friend, Edwin Anderson Alderman, for the letter and kind words. The State Department has forwarded the letter of introduction to Alderman.
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1904-02-01
President Roosevelt approves of Nicholas Murray Butler’s suggestion and requests the names of the presidents of three unspecified institutions.
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1901-11-09
Harwood Huntington, whom Theodore Roosevelt appointed as Assistant Appraiser at the Port of New York, has been offered the position of President of the American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. The college educates foreign students who cannot enter American colleges. Before accepting the position, Huntington would like to meet with Roosevelt and discuss the school with him.
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1911-07-22
Arthur Twining Hadley thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter regarding Hadley’s article. He expresses his appreciation regarding Roosevelt’s influence for implementing a fair Tariff Law.
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1906-09-19
Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to the White House. He sends along unfavorable newspaper clippings so Roosevelt will know what is being said about him. Butler also comments on the state of the Republican party in Illinois and Wisconsin and that Elihu Root will be given an honorary law degree.
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1904-06-06
An invitation to a reception sponsored by the Syrian Protestant College for emeritus president Daniel Bliss and his wife Abby Maria Bliss on April 24.
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1911-04-24