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Three articles from The Youth’s Companion. In the first, Arthur Twining Hadley discusses the role of newspapers in society and politics, and advises how boys can improve the quality of newspapers. The second is a story about a Mr. Hardwick inventing an alarm clock. The third is a chapter of a story about the Black Star Line by Ralph Delahaye Paine.
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1908-11-05
Booker T. Washington and President Roosevelt are both to receive honorary doctorates from Yale, and White people should not feel distressed by this fact. Honoring Washington will not lead to “nigger rule.” He, and all Black men, should be considered deserving of the same honors as Whites, especially because they have overcome greater challenges to earn them.
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1904-10-22
President Roosevelt greatly enjoyed having Representative Kent visit the White House, and hopes that he had a good time. Roosevelt was surprised at Arthur Twining Hadley’s choice of John C. Spooner and J. Pierpont Morgan to receive honorary degrees from Yale University, but does not think that it will do enough damage to William H. Taft to prevent him from winning the presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-03
Hartford Courant editor Charles Hopkins Clark is unsure of the etiquette for replying to President Roosevelt. Clark encloses a letter to reach him through the unknown recipient (likely a secretary) along with the letter from Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley.
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1907-09-04
President Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the slip and is glad President Hadley of Yale reached the conclusion he did.
1906-02-24
Newspaper clipping announcing a dinner given by President Roosevelt in honor of William H. Taft.
1902-02-06
Yale professor and university president Arthur Twining Hadley looks through a huge magnifying glass trained on a laborer labeled “Trust Employee.” However, what Hadley sees through the lens is a “Trust Slave” linked by a ball and chain to “Trusts.” On the ground, at Hadley’s feet, is a piece of paper stating “Dangers of trusts and imperialism. Prof. Hadley.”
Many journals of opinion, editorialists, and political cartoonists between the 1880s and early ‘teens decried the rise of trusts and the increasing stranglehold of monopolies on American business. Many powerful cartoon statements were published. However, there was an ambiguity when deference was paid to the prosperity, booming world trade, low prices, and high wages in many industries, brought about by industrial combinations known as Trusts. In a widely-noted speech in 1901, President Hadley of Yale attacked the ills sustained by the living standard of the working class. This was one area, in Puck‘s view, where Trusts had a beneficial effect.
Puck points to a group portrait of Matthew Quay, standing on the left, Richard Croker, seated in center, and Senator Platt, standing on the right — political bosses of, respectively, Pennsylvania, New York City’s Tammany Hall, and New York State. Puck sarcastically asks Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley why these gentlemen do not measure up to his ideals for politicians.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-24
Theodore Roosevelt has just finished reading Arthur Twining Hadley’s Undercurrents in American Politics, and he discusses Hadley’s conclusions, particularly as they relate to the records of American presidents through the Civil War.
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1915-07-08
With a series of excerpts from relevant letters, President Roosevelt strongly refutes allegations from anonymous sources quoted by William Dudley Foulke. These sources allege that Roosevelt had planned to nominate John K. Beach to succeed William K. Townsend on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, but then withdrew his promise to appoint Beach in favor of Walter Chadwick Noyes, in order to secure a delegation favorable to William H. Taft to the Republican National Convention.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt was concerned by Benjamin Ide Wheeler’s letter, and wishes that what Wheeler said could be taught to some people on the east coast. He wishes that Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, had not chosen this particular moment to give honorary degrees to J. Pierpont Morgan and John C. Spooner. Roosevelt still thinks that William H. Taft will be elected all right.
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1908-07-06
President Roosevelt sends William H. Taft two letters, which he says explain themselves. Roosevelt thinks that United States Representative William Kent is a good person, although a bit of a visionary. There has been some grumbling about Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, awarding honorary degrees to J. Pierpont Morgan and John C. Spooner, but Roosevelt thinks that there is not much importance in this.
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1908-07-03
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear that Felix Adler is going to Berlin, Germany. Roosevelt believes that Adler is helping to strengthen goodwill between the United States and Germany. He asks Adler to send his regards to Emperor William II if he sees him.
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1908-04-08
President Roosevelt tells Columbia University President Butler that he is glad that Benjamin Ide Wheeler is going to be the next professor. Roosevelt notes that Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley has “suffered somewhat” because he has not gotten a personal letter from him this year. Roosevelt asks Butler to tell Wheeler to remind him about it.
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1908-04-05
President Roosevelt thanks Charles Hopkins Clark for the letter, which he has sent to Yale University President Arthur Twining Hadley.
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1907-09-05
President Roosevelt agrees that Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Smith should write what he suggested to Senator Frank B. Brandegee regarding the appointment of Walter Chadwick Noyes to a judgeship, to avoid tension. Roosevelt asks Smith’s opinion on the enclosed letter from Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University.
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1907-09-02
President Roosevelt asks Commissioner of Corporations Smith if he can “quietly secure some backing” for John K. Beach, who Roosevelt is inclined to appoint to a judgeship in Connecticut.
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1907-07-18
President Roosevelt shares his thoughts on several personnel matters with Secretary of War Taft, and returns several letters.
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1907-07-02
President Roosevelt received Nicholas Murray Butler’s recent letter, and is pleased at the choice of Arthur Twining Hadley, remarking that “no better man than Hadley could have been chosen.” He looks forward to seeing Butler soon.
(Hadley had recently been approved to serve as Roosevelt professor of American history at the University of Berlin for the 1907-1908 academic year)
President Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the slip. He is glad that Yale University president Arthur Twining Hadley reached the conclusion that he did, but cannot follow the reasoning used to reach it. He notes in a handwritten postscript that “it would be quite as difficult to achieve practical results for good in the field of action, by the aid of college presidents as by the aid of senators.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-24