Students

Leonard Eckstein Opdycke informs President Roosevelt that he left his son, Leonard Opdycke, at Groton School and found out that Archibald B. Roosevelt was his table neighbor and classmate. Although Leonard Opdycke is good at books, he is a bit shy, and the elder Opdycke would appreciate if the president let Archie know about the fathers’ friendship.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-18

Ella Sears Bulloch petitions her nephew, President Roosevelt, on behalf of her sister’s godson, Gifford Cutler, who failed his exam for the United States Navy. She lists his relatives that Roosevelt would know. She explains that he passed in all subjects except spelling and is doing well in a quality technical school in Washington.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-09

Kermit Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt what he is reading and how the weather has been recently. He asks whether the Ute braves finally came to Roosevelt and if Roosevelt has sent the “Tartar tribe” back to Utah. Roosevelt mentions that he requested papers regarding the “Brownsville discharge affair” from William Loeb, as Barclay is debating on it and he has been working hard with him, although he belongs to the opposite camp. He asks if President Roosevelt thinks he will get “those two big battleships of the dreadnought class” that he has asked for.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-20

Denis J. Dougherty, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines, recommends that Brigadier General Smith appoint Captain Henry C. Reissar appointment to command a ship where Nautical School students will be present.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-04

Freshmen college students are being tested for “Beer Capacity,” on the “Cigarette Tester,” and the “Rah Rah Recorder” at “Sis Boom University.” Caption: The freshmen are taking their entrance exams.

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Comments and Context

Puck does take note of the autumn ritual that is the opening of the college year. Cartoonist L. M. Glackens employs reasonable cynicism by choosing to address entrance tests and ignore academic potential, specialized aptitude, and chosen fields of study. Instead he depicts the popular cliches about some students at some colleges — beer, cigarettes, and sports.

A college student, wearing cap and gown for graduation, offers to take the world off the shoulders of Atlas. Caption: Class of ’05 — I’ll relieve you of that now, Atlas, old man.

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Comments and Context

The “June Graduate” and his or her pretentious ambitions to immediately take on the world and all its challenges was an annual staple of editorial cartoons of the day, such as in this June 1905 cover drawing. The inevitable June cartoon featured the cap-and-gown generic character, joining the ranks of cartoon stereotypes like the Emancipated Women, the harried suburbanite, and an assortment of ethnic “types.”

In a rowdy classroom at the “Pan-American School,” Uncle Sam is the teacher admonishing Cipriano Castro, President of Venezuela, who holds a slingshot, planning a prank. Four other adults are present, “Holland, France, England, [and] Germany.” Three native children are sitting at desks. One is shooting a spitball that hits “Holland” in the face. Caption: In the Pan-American school.

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Comments and Context

This cartoon by J. S. Pughe in a Puck centerspread might cause present-day readers to wonder whether Uncle Sam has always had difficulties with Latin American leaders named Castro, or with the country of Venezuela. Leaders were different in 1905, but challenges were similar.

In a classroom, the rulers of several countries are the students. Most are identified by country and showing the attributes of their leaders, including, in the back row, “Russia” (Nicholas II), “Germany” (William II), and England (John Bull), and in the front row, “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “France” (Emile Loubet), Uncle Sam, Japan (Meiji, Emperor of Japan), and Italy (Victor Emmanuel III). On the far left, sitting on a stool, is “Turkey” wearing a “Dunce” cap. The teacher labeled “Diplomacy,” at the front of the room, points to a blackboard on which is written “If the Boer War cost Great Britain $825,000,000 what would a world’s war cost?” While most of the leaders ponder this question, Russia and Japan glare at each other. There are three wastebaskets filled with weapons.

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Comments and Context

“Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before.”

In an urban setting, many men wearing the cap and gown of college graduates are performing a variety of manual labor occupations. Caption: Sixty-eight million dollars were give for colleges last year; – if the mania for college education continues we may soon expect the above state of affairs.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-01-22

A crowd of school girls in tasseled caps with flags await President Roosevelt’s arrival.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905

A schoolboy stands outside a “Public School.” On the left is Charles M. Schwab sitting atop a large money bag labeled “Manager of Steel Trust $1,000,000 yearly salary,” resting on a steel factory; and on the right is Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller holding a balance scale in one hand and a tiny money bag with the label “Chief Justice of U.S. $10,500 yearly salary,” sitting on a large book labeled “Law and Constitution.” Caption: “Shall I be wise and great, or rich and powerful?”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-06-12

President Roosevelt being escorted out by a group of university officials

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-07-18

President Roosevelt on a platform addressing students at James Millikin University

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-07-03

President Roosevelt in academic robes addressing the crowd in Berkeley, California.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-07-18

President Roosevelt is pleased to hear from University of California President Wheeler how the students received Dr. Isaac Newton McCash’s remarks.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-05

President Roosevelt recounts the recent Congressional election wins across the country. He applauds the replacement of some Republican leaders in New York and Idaho. He is glad several border states near the South have also done well. Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are heading to Panama soon. Their son Ted has come home from Harvard after six weeks there and seems to be “deprest.” He cannot play football on account of his leg and is not popular among his classmates due to his arrest, but he appears to be doing well in his studies.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-07

Theodore Roosevelt suggests that two or three “good Catholic citizens” be located near each college and serve as a committee to make sure the intentions of the War Department are carried out in regards to the Filipino students.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-11

T. Thomas Bowers expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his regret that his wife’s illness will prevent him from teaching Archibald Roosevelt. Bowers offers to meet with Roosevelt to discuss Archibald’s education and expresses his confidence in the abilities of other teachers overseeing Archibald’s education

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Matilda Loewy requests from Theodore Roosevelt an account of the events of the Battle of San Juan Hill, as she feels that her classes at Public School No. 54 of Manhattan provide too brief an account of the Spanish-American War.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-31

Chinese students from across the mid-West have formed a resolution in preparation for Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Wisconsin in April. The students have named five representatives to greet Roosevelt, and have declared their admiration of his work for the country. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-19