Education, Higher

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

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.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-09

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

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

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

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson

Kermit Roosevelt outlines Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s upcoming visit. Roosevelt has been busy at school and Theodore Roosevelt is planning for an African safari.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1908-06-02

Address of President Roosevelt at the dedication of the James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 4, 1903

President Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of James Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. He thanks Millikin for what he has done in establishing the university. Roosevelt then speaks to the students about education and expressing gratitude for education through good citizenship.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-04

Remarks of President Roosevelt at Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 2, 1903

President Roosevelt speaks at Cedar Falls, Iowa, about national greatness and higher education. He speaks to students about good citizenship as a way to show gratitude for higher education.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-02

Personal diary of Theodore Roosevelt, 1878

Diary of Theodore Roosevelt for the year 1878. Roosevelt attended Harvard College and spent the summer in Oyster Bay, New York, and on an expedition in Maine. The major event of the year was the death of Roosevelt’s father. Roosevelt reflects on the death of his father many times throughout the year. The diary concludes with notes on Roosevelt’s personal finances and his “game record” for the year.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1878

Personal diary of Theodore Roosevelt, 1879

Diary of Theodore Roosevelt for the year 1879. Roosevelt attended Harvard College, spent the summer in Oyster Bay, New York, and went on two expeditions to Maine. The diary concludes with notes on Roosevelt’s personal finances and his “game bag” for the year.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1879

Personal diary of Theodore Roosevelt, 1880

Diary of Theodore Roosevelt for the year 1880. Major events include Roosevelt’s graduation from Harvard, entry into Columbia Law School, and a Midwestern hunting trip with Elliott Roosevelt. Roosevelt also engaged, married, and honeymooned with Alice Lee Roosevelt. The diary concludes with notes on Roosevelt’s personal finances and “game bag” totals for several years.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1880

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-02

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.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-08

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-01

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Letter from Carroll Smalley Page to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Page informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has taken up the bill to bring agricultural and industrial education to children who do not have access to college because they are sons of laborers and farmers. Germany has a system to prepare boys for apprenticeship and work starting at age fourteen. Page quotes Roosevelt in the report he encloses knowing Roosevelt is sympathetic to the project and hopes he will provide Page with encouragement by referring to the bill in The Outlook.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

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.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-07

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