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President Roosevelt sends his congratulations and best wishes for the success of the Colorado Springs Y.M.C.A.
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1903-11-12
President Roosevelt regrets that his schedule will not allow him to accept Tonkin’s invitation to lay the cornerstone of the new YMCA building.
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1903-08-31
President Roosevelt hopes for the success of the home missions.
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1903-02-13
President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the fiftieth anniversary dinner of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the City of New York.
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1902-04-18
President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the dedication of the Naval Young Men’s Christian Association, but offers to invite Mr. Moody, the new Secretary of the Navy, in his stead.
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1902-03-24
President Roosevelt is pleased with Orville G. Frantz’s work and wishes him success. Frantz is the President of the Harvard YMCA.
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1902-02-24
William E. Henderson writes Theodore Roosevelt concerning his faith in the Bible, and his work to place Bibles in hotel rooms across the United States. Currently, Henderson is attempting to place 25,000 Gideon Bibles in the hotel rooms of hotels along the Pacific Coast of the United States. Henderson asks Roosevelt to speak positively on the project.
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1912-04-20
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.
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1911-09-13
L. E. Hamlet asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to deliver an address to the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) to commemorate the completion of a new YMCA building in Charleston, West Virginia.
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1911-08-31
Peter A. Peterson invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak at an upcoming meeting in support of the establishment of a Young Mens Christian Association in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He encloses a newspaper clipping about the preparations that have been made for the organization.
Reverend Clark, who is to be present at the meeting, is likely Francis E. Clark, founder of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor.
The Young Men’s Christian Association in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has planned a trip to Oyster Bay, New York. Olof Gates wonders if the group of men and their wives, about 80 people, might visit Theodore Roosevelt during their excursion.
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1911-05-23
W. E. Read has heard Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches on the topic of the Bible and the placement of Roman Catholics on the Board of Directors of the YMCA. Read shares his thoughts on Catholics being involved in the YMCA.
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1911-05-06
W. B. Prentice informs Theodore Roosevelt that the Los Angeles Young Men’s Christian Association heeded his advice and is organizing one for “colored” members. Prentice also provides a list of topics for Outlook articles primarily focused on the acquisition of Lower California.
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1911-04-27
Charles Phillips notes the Catholic papers have reported on Theodore Roosevelt’s remarks on Catholics and the Young Men’s Christian Association. Phillips encloses his editorial on the subject.
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1911-04-21
Walter H. Johnson sends Theodore Roosevelt a sermon by John E. White and an editorial in reference to the Young Men’s Christian Association and Roosevelt’s speech in Reno, Nevada.
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1911-04-17
Helen Thomas Flint applauds Theodore Roosevelt’s decrial of the Young Men’s Christian Association for denying Jews and Catholics the ability to hold office. She reports that the ban also includes Unitarians. As a Unitarian, she hopes Roosevelt’s influence will bring much-needed change to the organization.
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1911-04-06
Charles Phillips extends sincere thanks. to Theodore Roosevelt, and will use what Roosevelt wrote to Cleveland H. Dodge regarding Catholics and the Y. M. C. A., omitting all names as Roosevelt requested. He explains that much of his interest comes through his association with Maurice Francis Egan, who also helped Phillips originally meet Roosevelt.
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1911-03-27
Michael J. Riordan thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his note about the Y.M.C.A. He feels that the spirit in which Roosevelt wrote “must produce in its proper time abundant fruit in the way of Christian Progression.”
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1911-02-28
Cleveland H. Dodge agrees with Theodore Roosevelt’s position on the Young Men’s Christian Association but cautions it will take time for the organization’s majority to recognize the need for a change. Although, the YMCA recently appointed a committee for this purpose, from which Dodge hopes some action will be taken. He wishes Roosevelt a “delightful and profitable trip” and wants to talk when they both return from the West.
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1911-02-20
Senator Lodge encloses a letter from the YMCA of Brockton, Massachusetts inviting Theodore Roosevelt to address the organization some time this spring.
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1911-02-16