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Edwin A. McAlpin asks Theodore Roosevelt to serve as an Honorary Vice President of the American Boy Scout movement and to provide financial support, outlining the organization’s goals of moral, physical, and mental training for American youth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
The Council of Seventy of the American Institute of Sacred Literature calls for a convention to create a national organization that will promote improvements in religious and moral instruction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02
President Roosevelt sends George W. Penniman a brief note, saying that moral and spiritual education is more important than traditional education in making good citizens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-10
After attending Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at General Grant’s tomb, Lewel R. Reid expounds to Roosevelt on his thoughts on the themes of the address—”Duty” and “Self-denial”—alongside American figures who have displayed these virtues. Reid invites Roosevelt to embark on a venture to bring moral reform to the United States, and requests a meeting to discuss the topic further.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-30
Alfred J. Wakeford invites President Roosevelt to spend a few months lecturing in Great Britain, starting in October 1909. The lectures are “needed for the spiritual & moral quickening” of British life. Wakeford will happily accommodate Roosevelt if a later time would be more convenient.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-14
Press release of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt that was read at a banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In the letter, Roosevelt expresses support for the mission of the Boy Scouts organization. He discuses the qualities that all American boys should have and is glad that the Boy Scouts of America is fostering patriotism and citizenship in American boys.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-10
President Roosevelt, in his address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School, discusses the qualities that make a decent boy and man. In particular, the President elaborates on duty, philanthropy, scholarship, and athletics.
1904-05-24
Blank pledge to vote for legislation that will create a national organization to improve religious and moral education.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-06
William Rainey Harper is working to create a new national Bible school organization and is hoping for President Roosevelt’s support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-06