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Waldo B. Fay is glad to have Quentin Roosevelt as a potential student at Fay School for 1908 and has enclosed an application. Starting in 1907 would be preferred as another boy is starting then. Boys who start at nine years of age do well and adapt quickly.
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1906-09-20
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.”
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1906-07-07
The Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foundation has authorized Dr. Pritchett to tender to Dr. Harris, commissioner of education, a retiring allowance of $3,000 in case Dr. Harris wishes to take the opportunity to retire from active services in order to spend the rest of his life in study and literary work. This will be done in the next few weeks and will be done with all possible tact. If Harris decides to retire, Nicholas Butler suggests Professor Brown, of the University of California, be considered for commissioner.
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1906-05-10
Catholic Archbishop of Manila Harty urges Father Doyle to intercede with President Roosevelt to have Father Hall appointed a chaplain for the Catholic soldiers in the Philippines. Harty explains why he has felt it necessary to write a series of articles for the Catholic press about a history of the Philippines written by David P. Barrows, superintendent of education in the islands. Harty and other bishops believe the Bureau of Education is opposed to the Catholic Church, and he wants Catholics to understand Barrows’s bias.
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1906-05-01
Endicott Peabody believes that the new football rules are reaching the point where Harvard may consider allowing undergraduates to participate in it. He tells President Roosevelt at length about a visit from Roosevelt’s son Ted Roosevelt, during which Ted expressed some concerning ideas and positions regarding morality. Peabody tells Roosevelt so that when he sees his son he can “help him to a more sane point of view,” but asks Roosevelt not to tell Ted that he wrote about him.
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1906-01-30
William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt a form for a bond for George at college and says he is ready to take his chances on Ted.
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1905-08-01
United States citizens living in China request that the treaty between China and the United States freely admit merchants, travelers, and students from China, and that the treaty’s enforcement will be just and fair. Graybill explains that from a business perspective China is destined to become a large consumer of products supplied by the United States. The United States has an unprecedented opportunity to lead China educationally. A “friendly understanding” between the two countries is important to the preservation of world peace.
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1905-07-17
Silas McBee sends President Roosevelt an editorial and President Nicholas Murray Butler’s letter. McBee would like Roosevelt’s opinion on the stance he has taken about public education in America. McBee hopes to implement a similar educational system in the “old countries.”
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1905-04-28
James Bronson Reynolds reports of his travels in the Philippines, where he believes Filipinos have just complaints regarding liberty, with the powerful taking the spoils. Reynolds also spent time in China and believes there is great opportunity for trade in China, especially in cotton. He applauds setting up a commission or investigator there. Reynolds also writes of Chinese students in Tokyo.
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1905-05-07
Thomas W. Sidwell updates Theodore Roosevelt on his son Archie’s education. Archie has been making improvements in spelling, penmanship, and arithmetic. Sidwell believes that he will be ready for the Groton entrance exams next year.
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1905-02-09
Robert Thompson writes to President Roosevelt about the biography he wrote about Roosevelt called A Square Deal for Every Man. Thompson explains his desire to edit the book after the election so it reads less like campaign literature and circulate it to educators to “inspire the American youth to the real and practical duties of citizenship.”
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1904-10-10
Robert Thompson writes to Secretary Leob to forward a letter to President Roosevelt and to note he will take the matter up with Dr. Harris, Commissioner of Education, and a number of other prominent educators in the public school field, some time after the election.
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1904-10-10
The printed version of a speech Robert M. La Follette gave at the All Southwestern Conference for Social Centers on February 2, 1911. He advocates for the development of civic and social centers as a way to increase civic participation, especially in rural communities, which he says will strengthen democracy and increase civic progress.
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1911-02-17
George H. Maines expresses in his letter a proposal to raise funds for the battleship Maine by encouraging schoolchildren across the U.S. to each donate one penny. Maine outlines a plan involving governors, banks, and school superintendents to collect donations and urges support from educators and newspapers.
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1911-09-11
The business cards of Henry Reeves Edmunds and Cheesman Abiah Herrick each contain their endorsements for the invitation of Theodore Roosevelt to the annual dinner of the Home and School League of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1911-06-13
President Taft will open the Blind Workers Exhibition on April 26. There will be demonstrations of how blind merchants work, how blind students are educated, and how the blind enjoy games and recreation. The exhibition shows the public what is being done to help the blind. A list of committee members is included.
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1911-04-15
Resolution by Alexander Hogg to promote industrial peace between labor unions and corporations through education. The new instruction should embrace patriotism and provide more moral instruction.
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1907-12-29
President Roosevelt points at a sign that reads, “The Strenuous Life: bears I have met, boxing lessons I have taken, what I know about fencing, mountain lions I have devoured, what I know about jiu jitsu, band men from the Bad Lands I have met, powder I have smelt.” Six boys, including one holding “The Strenuous Life,” look at teacher Roosevelt. Caption: President Roosevelt, addressing the Groton Preparatory School: “Now, boys, don’t be molly-coddles.”
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1904-05-28
President Roosevelt sits at a desk and holds several books “Problems of Gov’t,” Presidency,” and Constitutional Government” as he looks down at his “African hunting outfit.” Uncle Sam asks, “Theadore, what are you doing?” In the background, “Congress” reads a “tariff” book. Caption: Theodore–Gee Whillikins, I wish it would hurry up and be March 4th!
Cartoonist Jay N. “Ding” Darling, despite his certified adulation of Theodore Roosevelt, nevertheless was able to tweak his heron and depict him as a schoolboy impatient for summer vacation of Christmas morning, or, his adventure of a lifetime, the large-scale exploration and hunting trip to Africa. The safari was planned to engage the president, almost immediately after leaving the White House, for nearly a year.
Uncle Sam stands in front of a class of men, including a “shopman,” “manufacturer,” “railroad man,” “lawyer,” “farmer,” “banker,” and “merchant,” and instructs them on a document titled “President on the live issues,” which each man holds a copy of. Caption: The teacher—”Our first reading lesson will be the article entitled, ‘President on the Live Issues,’ beginning on page one. We will continue through to the end as it is one of the best things that has been written.”
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1904-09-12