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President Roosevelt would like Judge Gray to attend an upcoming meeting at the White House. The meeting will include people from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, to address how to get football to be played “on a thoroughly clean basis.”
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1905-10-06
President Roosevelt will do his “level best” in the matter Groton School Rector Endicott Peabody wrote about. He will get Secretary of War William H. Taft, a Yale man, involved, and asks if Peabody happens to know of any distinguished men from Princeton. He discusses the Roosevelt family’s schedule at Oyster Bay in the coming weeks and asks when Peabody can visit. He also asks if the Groton rules will allow his son Kermit to eat lunch in his canoe with his mother Edith when she visits him.
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1905-09-19
President Roosevelt is not sure if he will be able to attend the game that Charles Allen Munn invited him to, but would like to do so, and to see Princeton University as well. He would also like to accept the invitation to visit the Ivy Club, but asks Munn to check with Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson beforehand to make sure it would meet with his approval. Roosevelt hopes to avoid giving any speeches, and hopes that any luncheon would be small and informal.
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1905-07-24
President Roosevelt introduces his friend, Albert Halstead, to British politician James Bryce. Halstead wishes to ask Bryce some questions regarding governmental administration in England.
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1905-03-14
President Roosevelt sends John F. Wilkins and the Princeton class of 1894 his regards. Democracy and good government depend on college graduates acting “decently and squarely as American citizens.”
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1904-05-05
President Roosevelt continues to recover from his leg injury but his doctors advise against rail travel. As such, Roosevelt will be unable to attend Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president of Princeton University.
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1902-10-18
President Roosevelt will attend the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as president of Princeton University.
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1902-06-17
President Roosevelt holds Woodrow Wilson in high regard and would like to attend his inauguration as president of Princeton University. However, due to other commitments, Roosevelt cannot answer definitively at this time.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt is pleased that Woodrow Wilson has been elected president of Princeton University and hopes to attend his inauguration.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt introduces Minister to Peru Combs to Roscoe H. Channing, a former Rough Rider and Princeton University graduate. Roosevelt instructs Combs to set up an interview between Channing and Peruvian President José Pardo y Barreda, and hopes that he like his new post.
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1907-02-04
Howard Froelick asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an article for him on the opportunities for college men in politics to be published in the Princeton University paper. He is a candidate in a competition at Princeton and an article would help.
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1911-11-06
Joseph N. Ewing asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak to the Princeton University Law Club.
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1911-10-30
John M. T. Finney asks if Theodore Roosevelt would consider accepting the position of President of Princeton University.
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1911-10-17
William H. Wallace asks Theodore Roosevelt to give the commencement address for the American Whig Society at Princeton.
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1911-04-24
Henry Fairfield Osborn was pleased that President Roosevelt sent him a manuscript of his Romanes Lecture, and is equally pleased with the choice of subject. He will carefully study the manuscript to offer candid advice. Osborn will consult his wife about the dates of the diplomatic reception and Supreme Court dinner. He regrets being unintentionally disingenuous about being unable to attend Saturday because he is working on his book. In truth, although he is working “continuously” on his book, on Saturday he will be attending the Yale-Princeton football game with his sons.
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1908-11-12
Endicott Peabody thanks President Roosevelt for his letter and will speak with Kermit Roosevelt about Princeton, which he feels would provide a good education. He is glad Archie Roosevelt is looking healthy and that things have gone well with Alice Roosevelt Longworth. He is watching the fleet intently and is sure it will display the United States’ great seamanship. Peabody hopes Roosevelt’s success in service to his country brings him satisfaction and peace and wishes the family happy holidays.
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1907-12-16
John A. Herman is a graduate of Princeton University and has practiced law for over twenty-five years. Although his knowledge of Spanish is rusty, he believes he could quickly revive it. As Senator Knox may know, Herman’s relatives were soldiers, but lameness from a childhood accident prevented him from following suit. He vows to faithfully administer the duties of any office given him.
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1907-11-16
Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, writes to President Roosevelt, regarding Kermit and Hall’s absence for Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. It is the school’s policy to not allow students to leave for cousins’ weddings as they are so frequent. However, because Hall was orphaned and very close to the Theodore Roosevelt family, Peabody believes it appropriate. Peabody also discusses cheating allegations of Harvard and Yale football teams.
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1906-01-25
Endicott Peabody accepts an invitation from President Roosevelt to lunch at Oyster Bay. Peabody suggests Henry Fairfield Osborn might be the right Princeton man for the job of negotiating football rules. He also discusses Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s upcoming visit to Groton School to visit Kermit Roosevelt.
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1905-09-21
Endicott Peabody writes to President Roosevelt to discuss college football, specifically the unfair methods taught to players at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. He asks Roosevelt to meet with the coaches from these schools to convince them to play fair.
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1905-09-16