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President Roosevelt thanks Stanford President Jordan for the note and enclosed letter from a teacher. However, he feels he is in a “grave quandary” in how to proceed with the matter due to the fact that public sentiment of the state is against him.
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1906-12-18
On behalf of the New York Schoolmasters Club, Matthew W. Quinn invites Theodore Roosevelt to be guest of honor and make an address on any subject Roosevelt might choose. The club has had many distinguished speakers and they believe an address by Roosevelt would highly honored. Quinn remembers Roosevelt signing a relief measure to provide salaries for the teachers in Queens when the city failed to provide.
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1911-10-05
President Roosevelt tells Columbia University President Butler that he is glad that Benjamin Ide Wheeler is going to be the next professor. Roosevelt notes that Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley has “suffered somewhat” because he has not gotten a personal letter from him this year. Roosevelt asks Butler to tell Wheeler to remind him about it.
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1908-04-05
President Roosevelt tells William Sturgis Bigelow that he is glad to hear about the coins, and thinks that the pictures that Bigelow mentioned would be something that people would “make a great yell about.” He suggests that Bigelow make a request that the United States permit the introduction, which would let Secretary of State Elihu Root see if it is possible to do anything. Roosevelt promises to do what he can to arrange for an interchange of professors between the United States and Japan.
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1908-01-20
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 believes Arthur Hamilton Lee handled the “Swettenham matter” efficiently, calling the matter itself a “cosmic incident” and citing others like Swettenham in American Government, most notably General James Harrison Wilson. He was amused by the opinions of John William Burgess, who was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt professorship in at the University of Berlin. While Roosevelt admires some of Burgess’s scholarly accomplishments, he considers Burgess “hopefully wrong-headed” and criticizes his first lecture denouncing the Monroe Doctrine.
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1907-04-08
President Roosevelt asks James Burrill Angell, president of the University of Michigan, if he knows of any chemist who would be willing to work with Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson. Roosevelt does not believe that a practicing physician would be willing to accept the low pay, but perhaps a college professor would be willing to work for the government.
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1907-03-19
President Roosevelt reaches out to Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota, on behalf of Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson. Wilson is seeking to hire someone, and he thinks a young professor from the chemistry department or the medical school would be the most suitable candidate. It would be difficult to hire a physician at the salary level he can offer. Roosevelt has sent a similar request to James Burrill Angell, the president of the University of Michigan.
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1907-03-19
President Roosevelt received Nicholas Murray Butler’s recent letter, and is pleased at the choice of Arthur Twining Hadley, remarking that “no better man than Hadley could have been chosen.” He looks forward to seeing Butler soon.
(Hadley had recently been approved to serve as Roosevelt professor of American history at the University of Berlin for the 1907-1908 academic year)
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1906-04-26
President Roosevelt would like Samuel McCune Lindsay to be able to stay another year in Puerto Rico without it affecting his chance to become a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. It would be a great public service.
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1904-04-25
This document reports the significant moments in Albert Leopold Mills’s military career. Highlights include his extensive career as a military instructor, his involvement in campaigns against the Crow and Sioux, as well as the battles at Santiago and Las Guasimas in Cuba, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Colonel John W. Vrooman reports in a letter to William Loeb, which encloses this document, that this copy represents what was contained within the “beautiful engrossed album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a handsome leather cover.” The album was a souvenir at the Union League Club dinner celebrating General Mills on August 29, 1906.
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1906-09-06
President Roosevelt will write to the “Carnegie people” regarding Professor Goebel’s request.
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1904-02-04
Seth E. Meek refers back to an effort made during Roosevelt’s presidency to conduct a “biological survey” of the Panama Canal zone, and now asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on whether this effort should be made. Meek then explains that his motivation for asking is his upcoming lecture on the canal zone, and wants to have input from multiple people who had a stake in that decision process.
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1911-09-01
Albert T. Sinclair thanks Theodore Roosevelt for answering his letter, and outlines the various scholars and professors he has already attempted to speak to about Celts and Celtic languages. Roosevelt’s letter satisfied what Sinclair has feared, namely that there is no one with the time and equipment necessary to do the work, and he pledges himself to do the best he can with it. Sinclair also comments on some boxers he met, and reminisces about his time in Ireland.
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1911-02-23
Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler is delighted that President Roosevelt might be able to receive the visiting Kaiser Wilhelm Professor Rudolf Leonhard and his wife at the White House. Butler has enclosed a letter with additional details and a list of committee members for the event. Butler notes that the the event should be on a similar scale with what is done in Germany, and that the date is flexible based on Roosevelt’s schedule.
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1907-10-31
President Roosevelt runs after a lion that he fires at while “naturalists, professors, etc.” follow behind him. Kermit Roosevelt fires a pistol while sitting on a tree branch.
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1908-12-07