Education

Articles from The Youth’s Companion

Two articles from The Youth’s Companion. In the first, Commissioner of Education Brown reflects on self-taught Americans and what makes a good teacher. He believes it is important that eventually boys become motivated to be their own schoolmasters, using President Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Agassiz as examples. The second article is a chapter of the story A Cadet of the Black Star Line by Ralph Delahaye Paine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-19

Exhibit B: correspondence regarding Jernegan’s School History

David P. Barrows submits messages about Prescott Ford Jernegan’s School History and Adeline Knapp’s Story of the Philippines. Knapp’s book covers much of the same material as Jernegan’s book, but “in a much inferior way.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-08

Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft does not believe it is necessary nor desirable to appoint Father Edward J. Vattmann to assist William A. Sutherland in the matter of the Filipino students.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-11

Leading and prominent citizens’ response to plan to establish an educational monument to the memory of Senator Hanna

Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-27

Dr. Schurman favors Filipino independence

In a speech, Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University, spoke in favor of independence for the Philippines and advocated for the government buying the land owned by the friars and selling it back to the Filipinos.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-23

Facsimile of the message of President Roosevelt to the Wadsworth Baraga Class

In a facsimile, President Roosevelt says, “Education in things spiritual and moral, even more than the education of the head and hand, is necessary to the making of the brightest light of enlightenment.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-10

Our country and the scholar

A publication of the address by Owen Wister, graduate of Harvard University class of 1882, originally delivered at the award of academic distinctions. Wister discusses the importance of developing scholarship in the United States and gives examples of fine American ingenuity. He exhorts the assembled students at Harvard to become well-versed in a variety of fields.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-23

Lumbwa industrial mission

Willis R. Hotchkiss describes the progress of his missionary work at Lumbwa in British East Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12

Shall the solid south be shattered?

Advance proof of an editorial by Julian LaRose Harris on the South’s political future, intended for publication in the March issue of Uncle Remus’s Home Magazine. Harris discusses the reasons why white southerners currently vote only for the Democratic Party, and why this has caused a stagnant political landscape that the Republican Party might exploit. Harris supports the disenfranchisement of African American citizens. However, he asserts that the focus on this disenfranchisement in the South has resulted in the diminishing influence of Southern Democrats over national Democratic Party policies and presidential nominations. He suggests that president-elect William H. Taft could encourage more bipartisan voting by white southerners if he heeds their political appointment suggestions and refuses to give federal appointments to African American candidates.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02

Letter from A. S. Draper to Theodore Roosevelt

A. S. Draper requests to speak with President Roosevelt regarding department appointments and the opposing opinions of Governor Odell and Dr. Butler. Sloan will make inquiries “into all phases of the subject with great care.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-18

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler discusses legal decisions involved in cases with Charles Rufus Skinner in New York State’s education system. He also mentions that he is still sick with grippe but believes he will recover soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-27

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler encloses a letter from Leigh Hunt to President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-03

School where Lincoln went

Sheet music for “The School Where Lincoln Went,” a popular song with a chorus toasting Theodore Roosevelt attending Harvard University, President Taft attending Yale University, and Abraham Lincoln attending “the old red school house.” The cover features an eagle atop an illustration of a red school house surrounded by pendants for Harvard and Yale.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1910

Postcard from Edna Kuhuert to Elsie Kuhuert

Edna Kuhuert thanks cousin Elsie Kuhuert for the Easter card she sent. Edna starts school next week and “papa is busy seeding now days.” It appears Albert wrote the message and Edna added her signature. On the postcard front, a well dressed bear walks in the door to find a female bear sweeping alongside the caption “Busy bears -Thursday.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1910-04-12

Progressive service documents: First quarterly report of the Progressive national service

A booklet published by the Progressive National Committee. The publication lists the names of people in the Progressive Party’s administration and outlines the party’s ideals and goals. The Table of Contents is as follows: Organization of the National Service; Division of Administration – Organization of State Services, Office Organization; Department Work – Social and Industrial Justice, Conservation, Popular Government, Cost of Living and Corporation Control; Bureau of Education; Bureau of Legislative Reference.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-03-31

Extract of letter from Lyman Abbott

Lyman Abbott is keeping William H. Fleming’s letter so he can show it to his son. Abbott wants to help men like him, but does not know how to do it without arousing the antagonisms of the South. Abbott asks the recipient if he has met Robert C. Ogden.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-12

Remarks of President Roosevelt to the school children at Salem, Oregon, May 21, 1903

Theodore Roosevelt thanks the people of Oregon. He specifically thanks the teachers and pupils of the Indian schools. Roosevelt focuses on not treating people as part of a caste, but instead highlights the importance of individual attributes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-21

Address of President Roosevelt at Ellensburg, Washington, May 25, 1903

Theodore Roosevelt praises the people of Washington for focusing on the area’s industrial resources, while also thinking of creating a “higher life” through governmental policy. Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of “clean living and fair dealing.” Children must also be trained in how to overcome difficulties, not avoid them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-25

Remarks of President Roosevelt at Wallula, Washington, May 25, 1903

Theodore Roosevelt speaks of what irrigation can do to the region. He also highlights his happiness with the development of the school system.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-25

Address of President Roosevelt at Walla Walla, Washington, May 25, 1903

The people of Washington have so much in soil and climate, but the quality of citizenship is what counts most. Theodore Roosevelt advocates for the highest possible standards in measuring citizenship. Roosevelt also speaks of his expectations for college students.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-25