Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual fall rowing regatta opened yesterday afternoon with a race between Thayer 3 and Eliot 3 as the initial event, the former winning by a length and a half over the mile course. Today the regatta will begin in earnest with a schedule of four events...
...first of these races will be called at 4 o'clock between Thayer 1 and Eliot 1, to be followed at 4.20 by a race between Thayer A and Eliot A. The Freshman dormitory crews will take to the water at 5 o'clock. These dormitory races will be divided into two groups: the first between the three Freshman third crews, and the second between the three fourth crews and the fifth Smith crew...
William Roscoe Thayer '81 will be the chief speaker at the meeting to be held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt '80 in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Thayer, who is considered foremost of Roosevelt's biographers, will speak on "Some Interesting Incidents in Roosevelt's Career." Following this, there will be a two-reel moving picture entitled "Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends." All members of the Union are invited and will be admitted upon showing their membership cards...
...Thayer's book, "Theodore Roosevelt," which is characterized by leading critics as probably the best ever written about the former President, is the latest of his many works. The author has always been closely connected with the University, taking part in many graduate activities and serving as Overseer from 1913 to 1919. In 1906 he was sent as a delegate from Harvard and the American History Association to the International History Congress at Milan. Shortly afterwards he was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy. In 1898 he published "The History and Customs of Harvard University...
...meeting will be held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt '80 in the Living Room of the Union on next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. William Roscoe Thayer '81, foremost of Roosevelt's biographers will deliver the principal address, speaking on "Some Interesting Incidents in Roosevelt's Career...