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President Roosevelt proposes a schedule for his visit to Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts to William Sturgis Bigelow, including breakfast and stops at Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Harvard University. Roosevelt asks Bigelow for his thoughts on this plan.
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1907-02-09
Although his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, will not be able to see Bishop William Lawrence on her way to Groton, President Roosevelt would like to come by Lawrence’s home if he will allow it. Roosevelt asks if Lawrence remembers his critique of Harvard University President Charles William Eliot, who has recently endorsed Representative Samuel W. McCall. McCall, like Richard Olney, is attempting to embarrass the administration without regard to the welfare of the nation, Roosevelt says.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt is eager to plan his visit to Cambridge, Massachusetts with William Sturgis Bigelow, including breakfasts with friends and statesmen, and a lunch with his son Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at the Sphinx in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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1907-02-02
President Roosevelt informs Reuel W. Beach, of the Harvard Advocate, that he cannot accept the invitation to luncheon in Cambridge because his schedule is already full.
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1905-02-23
President Roosevelt accepts Professor Hart’s invitation to Cambridge, but doubts that his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, will accompany him. Roosevelt generally does not like his wife to travel with him because such trips are exhausting for her.
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1905-02-17
President Roosevelt asks James Alfred Roosevelt about the rooms to which he applied at Randolph Hall at Harvard University on behalf of his son, Theodore Roosevelt. The president will be satisfied by number 28 and wonders if that was the suite James Alfred Roosevelt had in mind.
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1904-12-28
William Howell informs Helen Jackson Cabot Almy that he will give her letter to Theodore Roosevelt when he returns at the beginning of August. Her letter references the memorial for James Russell Lowell in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1897-07-26
Gerard Carl Henderson asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can lecture students on the Progressive Movement during his visit to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Harvard Board of Overseers meeting.
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1911-12-02
Charles William Eliot hopes Theodore Roosevelt can attend the last two Overseers’ Committee meetings of the academic year. Most of the board members from Massachusetts oppose a three-day meeting in Cambridge.
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1911-04-22
George Cabot Lee of Lee, Higginson & Company provides details and instructions pertaining to President Roosevelt’s banking arrangements for his Africa trip. Letters of credit with two London-based firms and their corresponding letters of indication being sent, both with this missive and by separate cover. A blank letter of credit is also enclosed, as a precaution in case Roosevelt requires more money than anticipated in Africa. Lee specifies which of these documents Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, must sign, return, and forward. In a postscript Lee notes that he can have Kermit come in to Boston from Cambridge to sign the necessary items if it is more convenient.
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1909-02-01
Senator Lodge encloses a letter from the pastor of a large congregational church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1909-01-20
Harvard College dean Byron S. Hurlbut tells President Roosevelt that his son Theodore Roosevelt has not been attending classes or responding to summonses to Byron’s office.
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1907-12-02
William Emlen Roosevelt sends his cousin, President Roosevelt, a letter and pamphlet from Franklin Bache. William has recently met with Paul Morton and Frank A. Vanderlip about the currency matter, and he asks the President if he would like to meet to discuss the matter or if he should express his opinions in a letter. William has recently visited with his sons, and he is looking forward to hearing about the President’s trip to Panama.
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1906-12-03
Oliver D. Filley explains to President Roosevelt what has been done to try to arrange a race between the crew teams of Harvard and Cambridge. Filley feared it would be impossible for Roosevelt to act in any unofficial way, and that his writing might put the Englishmen in a position where they could not refuse with grace if they could not arrange a match. However, Roosevelt’s letter of support was greatly appreciated.
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1906-07-18
Fred Leavitt and Waldo Peirce send President Roosevelt a copy of the lease for Ted Roosevelt’s suite in Dunster Hall.
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1906-01-24
Fred Leavitt and Waldo Peirce write to President Roosevelt in order to gain his signature for surety on Ted Roosevelt’s lease of Suite #20 Dunster Hall at Harvard.
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1906-01-16
Charles William Eliot thanks Theodore Roosevelt for donating a St. Gauden’s medal to the Harvard College Library. Eliot continues to point out Roosevelt’s contribution to “American criticism” of college education.
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1905-07-15
Charles William Eliot asks President Roosevelt to write to Secretary for Appointments H. S. Thompson with further details about the living arrangements and compensation he would provide for a tutor for his son Ted. Ted desires to enter Harvard at age eighteen. Eliot states that this is a good age for “an ambitious and sturdy boy.”
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1904-08-26
Kermit Roosevelt discusses a conversation he had with a school dean about his attendance, his concerns about the rifles he and Theodore Roosevelt will take to Africa, and slides he saw at a recent Audobon Society meeting of famed ornithologist Frank Michler Chapman’s trip to Africa.
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1908-11
Charles Bonaparte wrote to Episcopalian Bishop William Lawrence about the concerns expressed by people about giving Senator Henry Cabot Lodge an honorary degree from Harvard.
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1904-05-09