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The Boston Globe covers a Harvard boxing match in which Theodore Roosevelt participated. Roosevelt won over William W. Coolidge, but lost to Charles Stedman Hanks in the championship bout.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1879-03-28
Students from Balliol College of the University of Oxford are traveling across the United States and will be near Dickinson, North Dakota, in early August. Reverend Sherrill asks if they could be shown some local history or attend Hermann Hagedorn’s speech.
1959-07-09
President Roosevelt does not recall the exact matter or letter that he had written about his boxing record at Harvard, but tells Thornton H. Simmons the results of some searching that he had done previously when a similar matter came up. Roosevelt states that he had never been light-weight champion, and tries to clear up questions about his athletic record. He cautions, however, that he does not want this matter published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-14
Herbert S. Underwood of the Boston Record has brought Thornton H. Simmons’s attention to newspaper clippings questioning President Roosevelt’s claim to the lightweight boxing championship while at Harvard. He was asked what year Roosevelt won the title and believes it was in 1878. His scrapbook also has Roosevelt winning a bout in 1879 but then losing a subsequent bout. He asks Roosevelt if his memory is correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-12
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Wallace Finley Dailey, Curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University, describes in detail two exhibits of Theodore Roosevelt material on display in the Theodore Roosevelt Gallery in the Nathan Marsh Pusey Library in 1977. One exhibit covers Roosevelt’s long relationship with Harvard University from his undergraduate student years to his death. The other explores Roosevelt’s relationship with his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby. In both exhibit summaries, Dailey quotes extensively from Roosevelt’s letters and speeches and provides descriptions of the photographs used in the exhibits.
Three photographs and one illustration accompany the article. One photograph shows Dailey examining the exhibit display cases. Another shows Roosevelt with a group of his Harvard classmates, and one shows Derby at the White House in 1902. The illustration is a drawing by Roosevelt’s classmate, Charles G. Washburn, that depicts a monument detailing Roosevelt’s many activities at Harvard.
An exemplary ballot of the Republican Party for the presidential primary of April 30, 1912, issued by the Taft League of Massachusetts. The ballot includes names of candidates as well as instructions for casting a vote.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation
1912-04-30