Education, Higher

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt thanks Kermit Roosevelt for the letter and asks if the monthly funds will be enough. Roosevelt is lining details up for Africa. He is is pleased that Kermit will focus on his studies, and he doubts that Ted Roosevelt had visited Harvard without getting in touch. William H. Taft is likely to win but Roosevelt is alarmed at William Jennings Bryan’s strength. It is now fall, and recent visitors have included Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley, James C. Cooley, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Harvey L. Simmons to Theodore Roosevelt

Harvey L. Simmonds asks Theodore Roosevelt to support Fisk University by recommending it to potential donors, speaking to influential philanthropists, and visiting the school to address the students.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

Creator(s)

Simmons, Harvey L., 1859-1936

Letter from A. Lawrence Lowell to Theodore Roosevelt

Harvard University President A. Lawrence Lowell enjoyed his visit to the White House, but missed the opportunity to speak with President Roosevelt about immigration law. Though Lowell knows Roosevelt will be too busy during his trip to Massachusetts to visit, he asks if Roosevelt could address Harvard to help students see the connection between their studies and “the battle of life.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-16

Creator(s)

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund

President Roosevelt regrets that he is unable to attend the meeting of the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund. He is very interested in the appropriations of a fund for the School in Nashville and believes there should be no further delays on the part of the trustees. Roosevelt had the opportunity to visit the school grounds and feels that swift action will help “build enlightened sentiment and good citizenship in the South.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes his son Ted Roosevelt at Harvard, and is pleased about news related to the school’s Porcellian and Dickey clubs. The President asks Ted to give his regards to a number of his fellow classmates, and encourages his son not to neglect his studies.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Greeting from Marietta College, 1906

An informational pamphlet for visitors to Marietta, Ohio, giving them information about the city and Marietta College. Includes many pictures of places on the campus and in the surrounding area.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Marietta College

Letter from William S. Williams to Theodore Roosevelt

William S. Williams claims to represent “Chicane University,” and says that his institution wants to arrange a series of lectures by Theodore Roosevelt on the “New Morality,” as “many of our students with old-fashioned views refuse to accept treachery, deceit, blackmail, enforced poverty, and murder by infection as virtues.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-07

Creator(s)

Williams, William S.

Letter from John Firman Coar to Theodore Roosevelt

John Firman Coar asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be “willing to express [his] sympathy with the purpose of the Mass Meeting” referenced in an enclosed petition. Coar notes that that many other prominent citizens have already signed it, and feels that Roosevelt’s endorsement of the meeting would drive support for higher education in Brooklyn and Long Island. He includes a leaflet that explains in greater detail the “present lamentable situation” in education which threatens to get worse if any present colleges are forced to close.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-02

Creator(s)

Coar, John Firman, 1863-1939

Letter from Melvina P. Webb to Theodore Roosevelt

Melvina P. Webb writes on behalf of two young men who are trying to work their way through college. She would like to know if Theodore Roosevelt will give a lecture in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of an effort to raise money for them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-08

Creator(s)

Webb, Melvina P. (Melvina Prudence), 1869-

Letter from John Firman Coar to Theodore Roosevelt

John Firman Coar asks Theodore Roosevelt to reconsider the education situation for Brooklyn and Long Island as he feels there was a miscommunication. He requests a meeting with Roosevelt to discuss the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-27

Creator(s)

Coar, John Firman, 1863-1939

Letter from Harvey D. Blakeslee to Theodore Roosevelt

According to Harvey D. Blakeslee, the Municipal University Movement is truly democratic in its aim to bring higher education to the general populace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-10

Creator(s)

Blakeslee, Harvey D. (Harvey Dwight), 1877-1949

Letter from Byron S. Hurlbut to Theodore Roosevelt

Harvard Dean Byron S. Hurlbut has spoken with Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., as well as spoken about him with Professor Theodore Lyman. They both agree that he has grown in maturity and they are pleased with his progress. He had asked to go away on a trip with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, but Hurlbut did not consent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-21

Creator(s)

Hurlbut, Byron S. (Byron Satterlee), 1865-1929

Letter from Henry S. Drinker to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry S. Drinker, President of Lehigh University, thanks President Roosevelt for the letter, and hopes that his time at Oyster Bay, New York, has provided Roosevelt with some relief from the pressures of Washington, D.C.. Drinker feels that there is a need to protest against “the very superficial and very ill-judged advice that is being given to some of our educators and clergymen.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-07

Creator(s)

Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937

Letter from Frederic Jesup Stimson to Theodore Roosevelt

Frederic Jesup Stimson praises President Roosevelt because while they might differ on the means needed, the ends they hope for are the same. Stimson sent Roosevelt a syllabus on the history of legislation last week. This week he sends a document from his constitutional law course that he thinks Roosevelt might find interesting. He has also asked his publishers to forward a copy of one of his novels about which Roosevelt asked. In a postscript, Stimson mentions that Woodrow Wilson’s health is poor, and he cannot do the Phi Beta Kappa oration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-13

Creator(s)

Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943

Cornerstone is laid for Rice Institute building

The Houston Chronicle describes the recent ceremonies at the William M. Rice Institute surrounding the laying of the cornerstone of the administration building. In addition to describing the ornately carved cornerstone, the article makes mention of the speeches given at the ceremonies, including a history of William M. Rice and the institution he provided for in his estate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

Creator(s)

Unknown

The William M. Rice Institute at Houston

The William M. Rice Institute recently held ceremonies for the laying of the cornerstone of its administration building. The institute promises to be a valuable and unique contribution to Texas’s educational life. Texas is blessed with a staggering amount of natural resources, and the state will have to work to keep its “intellectual and spiritual life […] at even pace at least with the growth of our industrial life, lest we accumulate great wealth and learn no other use for it than to pander to the passions that debase.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

Creator(s)

Unknown

The relation of education to good government

In a commencement address to the faculty and students of the University of Illinois, German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg urges the graduating students to use their theoretical and practical knowledge for the public good.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-09

Creator(s)

Sternburg, Hermann Speck von, Freiherr, 1852-1908

Letter from Corinne Roosevelt Robinson to John Campbell Greenway

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson consoles John Campbell Greenway on the death of Patty Macomb Flandrau Selmes, discussing how alike Greenway and Selmes were and acknowledging their bond. She requests that Greenway please write her a line about Isabella Ferguson, and in a handwritten addendum acknowledges that she later received a telegram from Ferguson. Robinson discusses her son’s and grandson’s travel plans, and hopes that Greenway might take an interest in her grandson Douglas Robinson.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1923-07-26

Creator(s)

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to John Wallace Riddle

Kermit Roosevelt has a year of hard work ahead of him with his Harvard examinations. He is also trying out for the rowing crew in spite of the bad weather and had a good holiday riding and jumping horses every day. Roosevelt visited Robert Harry Munro and Isabella Ferguson in New York twice. The Roosevelts had plans to take the Mayflower down the Mississippi River, but Archibald B. Roosevelt is developing diphtheria, so it is out of the question.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1909-04-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to John Wallace Riddle

Kermit Roosevelt will be taking his final examinations in a week. He has found it difficult to get back into his studies after leaving during his freshman year and coming back a junior. Roosevelt plans to complete his degree next year.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1908-1912

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943