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The writer challenges the pessimistic view of the degradation of American society, including quotes from President James Roscoe Day of Syracuse University and Chancellor Henry S. Drinker of Lehigh University.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-29
Robert Grant apologizes to Theodore Roosevelt for failing to attend the Harvard Commencement. He sends Roosevelt some salmon and explains that he was fishing and settling his family at Murray Bay during the month of June. He continues with various pleasantries and acknowledges the death of John Hay.
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1905-07-02
Carroll D. Wright thanks President Roosevelt for attending Clark University’s first commencement ceremony.
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1905-06-23
Nicholas Murray Butler is giving President Roosevelt the schedule of his upcoming trip along with the address where he can be reached. He wants Roosevelt to know that he will be meeting with the Emperor at Wilhelmshohe in August to discuss the interchange of professors and educational subjects. Butler is also congratulating Roosevelt on his role in the Japan-Russian matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-15
A program from the Commencement Day ceremonies at Miss Spence’s School for Girls from which Eleanor Butler Alexander graduated.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-05-24
President Roosevelt giving diplomas to members of the graduating class at United States Naval Academy. Note spiked helmet on marine officer in foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
Article describing Sewanee’s recent commencement exercises and its growth as a university.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-09
An itinerary for President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Harvard for the commencement.
1905-06-27
Chauncey M. Depew and Thomas Collier Platt hold awards “For Good Attendance” and “Reward of Merit” at commencement exercises, with Charles W. Fairbanks sitting in the background in the Senate chamber.
Puck began to focus its aim New York State’s two Republican senators on January 10, 1906, in a cover cartoon portraying Thomas Collier Platt and Chauncey M. Depew as Falstaff and Prince Hal from Shakespeare’s King Henry IV casting about for some men to bribe. Word had leaked out — if a huge publicity campaign can be called “leaking” — that William Randolph Hearst had bought Cosmopolitan magazine. It pledged to be the muckraker among muckraking journals. It hired David Graham Phillips to be its lead investigator; he was to expose the United States Senate as a cancerous center of corruption, and the face of Depew would dominate the first cover.
A young man with a “B.A.” diploma in his pocket leaves various sports equipment on the ground behind him as he strides forward into a bright future. The world, in the shape of a globe, appears at his fingertips. Caption: Commencement Day, 1904.
Keppler’s cartoon is a seasonal cliche that is more an editorial cartoon than a political cartoon — portraying the optimistic college graduate, feeling that the world is at his finger-tips.
Minutes from the meeting of an unnamed committee with suggestions regarding commencement and Howard K. Beale’s visit as a speaker for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Symposium.
1958-05-21
President Roosevelt in academic robes addressing the crowd in Berkeley, California.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
1958 summer commencement program for the State Teachers College of Dickinson, North Dakota.
1958
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines an invitation for Roosevelt to attend the commencement festivities at Perkiomen Seminary.
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1912-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he will be unable to attend the commencement at Wilberforce University.
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1912-06-15
Frank Harper respectfully declines the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital’s invitation for Theodore Roosevelt to attend the graduation exercises of the Margaret Fahnestock Training School for Nurses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-30
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James K. Patterson for sending a copy of his commencement address at Hanover College and enjoyed seeing him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-01
Theodore Roosevelt regretfully tells Professor Albert Bushnell Hart the he will not be able to attend Harvard University’s commencement ceremonies this year. Further, Roosevelt will not be able to address the Centennial Meeting of the Antiquarian Society next year. He cannot say more about it at this time.
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1911-06-16
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with the success of the Tuskegee Institute’s commencement exercises.
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1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt informs Guy Murchie that he will not “get on this commencement day.” If he could come, he would certainly attend the dinner, although he would not want to speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-03