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President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Byron S. Hurlbut that he intends to take Kermit Roosevelt on Safari with him next year, and asks for advice about how Kermit can best schedule his courses so that he can graduate with his Harvard class upon his return.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-21
President Roosevelt thanks Edgar Huidekoper Wells for his letter to Arthur Woods, and writes that Kermit Roosevelt will be pleased to have Wells as his advisor. He hopes Wells and Woods will be able to visit when they are in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-21
President Roosevelt thanks Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells for taking an interest in his son Ted’s education, but feels that the standards that Wells has set out in a recent letter “put an altogether impossible ideal before him.” Roosevelt feels that he cannot ask his son to do more than he himself did, and explains how he found himself ranked at Harvard. Roosevelt hopes that Ted will be able to join the Porcellian club, and that he will do some philanthropic work while at Harvard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-20