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Representative Griest asks Theodore Roosevelt to accept President Henry H. Apple’s invitation to speak at the Franklin and Marshall College anniversary celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-09
Albert S. Perkins writes to Theodore Roosevelt about his passion for promoting the practical study of Ancient Greek in high schools. He asks Roosevelt to write him his opinion on the subject.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
Byron S. Hurlbut tells Theodore Roosevelt that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, can stay in New Brunswick for a few days past the opening of the new college semester if he finds it necessary.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-06
Walter L. Church asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to mention the lecture on the Railroad University in an article for The Outlook. He believes it would be a great benefit to the welfare of the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-03
Walter L. Church sends Theodore Roosevelt a proposal for the establishment of a “Railroad University,” suggesting it could serve as a nonsectarian educational institution and asking Roosevelt to help promote the idea through publication in the Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-13
Joseph W. Pennypacker enjoyed reading Theodore Roosevelt’s recent article, “A Noteworthy Project in Higher Education,” but wishes to point out what he views as an omission. In addition to the categories of state university, private university, and technical colleges, Pennypacker points to liberal arts colleges as a fourth type of institution of higher education, and argues for their importance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-23
Winfield A. Townsend thanks Theodore Roosevelt for recognizing Amherst in his Outlook article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
President Charles William Eliot of Harvard tells President Roosevelt about an incident where one person broke a rule and another person gave a false name. Being put on probation was the least punishment. Eliot thinks that a keen sense of honor is the finest result of college life, and believes that colleges and graduates should therefore condemn dishonorable conduct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-19
The article reports on the rising number of Chinese students coming to Japan to attend universities or to study naval and military matters. The article breaks down this student population into three classes: those sent at the expense of the Chinese government, those sent at public expense, and those who pay their own expenses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-26
This postcard shows two large buildings on Melbourne University’s campus, as well as the surrounding grounds.
1908
The Houston Chronicle comments on a pair of Texas-related items. The first of these, the involvement of Senator Joseph W. Bailey in keeping Senator William Lorimer in the Senate, notes Lorimer’s political alliance with Bailey in opposition to Canadian reciprocity, and mentions the political corruption and bribery Lorimer has been accused of which led to his election. The second looks at the creation of the Rice Institute, which was created using funds provided for in the will of William Marsh Rice. While construction of the institution is taking a long time, it is being built for the future, and will be a great place of learning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-02
This page from the Springfield Daily Republican presents Charles J. Bonaparte’s letter to the newspaper about Panama, as well as the newspaper’s editorial in reply.
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1904-09-26
Souvenir copy of the Harvard House Gazette, detailing the festivities surrounding the grand opening of the Harvard House in Stratford-Upon-Avon. The Harvard House originally belonged to the parents of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard University. The effort to purchase it for the university and restore it was led by Marie Corelli and funded by Edward Morris. A number of dignitaries and academics spoke at the ceremonies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-10
Edgar Huidekoper Wells of Harvard writes to Arthur Woods of Groton School to discuss the suggestion of Kermit Roosevelt taking six half-courses before leaving on President Roosevelt’s African Safari. Wells says that he thinks that, while few of these courses are available to freshmen, Kermit could likely get at least five half-courses together. Wells thinks it would be better if Kermit would take full courses, but acknowledges that there are difficulties in trying to do that. In certain meritorious cases, Wells says, students are allowed to split full courses, but this most often happens in the context of disease, and he is not sure how the administrative board would view Kermit’s case. Wells believes President Roosevelt should write to Dean Byron Satterlee Hurlbut to make sure he has the full facts. The first page of this letter is missing.
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1908-07
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to look into a question about a proposed university, and asks what he thinks the proper course to take would be.
1906-08-06
President Roosevelt addresses a crowd at the laying of the cornerstone of the McKinley Memorial on the American University campus. Roosevelt believes it is appropriate that the university should be founded by Methodists who “furnished the pioneers in carving out of the west what is now the heart of the great American Republic,” and that they should build a college to teach the science of government in McKinley’s name.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-14
President Roosevelt greets a crowd at the chapel of the University of Minnesota. He speaks about good and evil, higher education institutions, and physical development.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-04
Uncle Sam sits in a hammock, holding a fan, beset by swarms of locust-like pests streaming from a “Law School,” “Medical College,” and a “Theological Institute,” each carrying a diploma. Caption: The mills are starting up again for next year’s visitation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-09-22
President Roosevelt briefly addresses the crowd gathered in Athens, Tennessee, saying he is glad to see East Tennessee improving with growing cities, manufacturing, railroads, and universities like the nearby Grant University (now Tennessee Wesleyan University). However, he is even more pleased to see men and women of character and honesty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-08
At the center, a group of working class individuals complain about the selfish accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of society. The surrounding vignettes illustrate the philanthropic deeds of the rich, such as a “Museum of Art” open to all, “Low-Rent Tenements,” “Free Milk for the Poor,” “Free Ice for the Poor,” “Fresh Air Excursion for Poor Mothers and Children,” “Free Kindergarten for Poor Children,” colleges endowed by wealthy citizens, health care centers, and “Free” libraries. Caption: Chorus of the Poor Man, the Socialist, the Dissatisfied Laborer, the Populist Farmer, the Demagogue, the Chronic Idler, and the Struggling Professional Man–“Down with Selfish, Grasping Capital!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-07