Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Great personal emergencies are the final tests of men's characters. Theodore Roosevelt, shot while making a speech in Milwaukee in the presidential campaign of 1912, insisted on finishing what he had to say. Premier Clemenceau, barely escaping from death's door has announced to Secretary Lansing that he will attend the Council of the Great Powers on Tuesday. Not even a bullet could stop the tremendous energy of the great American and the great Frenchman...
...Cambridge there will be a meeting of the associated churches at the First Parish Church. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, a classmate of Colonel Roosevelt's will address the gathering. There will be informal observations of the day at the morning services of a number of Cambridge churches...
There will be no special services at the Appleton Chapel, and, as far as is known, the Harvard Club of New York will be the only strictly University institution to observe "Roosevelt Day." A memorial service will be given in their clubhouse tomorrow afternoon...
Tomorrow the entire nation will pay reverence to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. The universality of the tribute exemplifies better than words the great recognition and esteem which America accorded to him during his life time. It is a mere question of months until a permanent memorial will be erected to commemorate his great service to the nation; but the consecration to his memory tomorrow shows that his name is "written upon the hearts of men" where it will remain imperishable...
...their respect to the memory of so famous an alumnus. There will be opportunities to hear addresses by Dr. Crothers of Cambridge, and other ministers in nearby churches. Also a popular memorial service will be held in Boston Sunday afternoon. It is eminently fitting that graduates and undergraduates honor Roosevelt at this time, as he honored the University during his life...