Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...generation will be drawn the men who in positions of greater or less importance will represent Harvard before the world. The watchword of a progressive institution or country is "opportunity." Here and now we have the opportunity to so shape our lives that they will pay to Mr. Roosevelt, Professor Sabine, and the others the tribute that it is now our burning desire to express...
Would Theodore Roosevelt wish a magnificent memorial? It would, perhaps, become very magnificent, for as people loved him so they would give, and the amount would be large. Of course, that might be controlled. Individual subscriptions could be limited to a nominal amount. But then, what kind of a monument are we talking about? Do we mean something in heroic art, like an equestrian figure on a mountain in silhouette against the sky, or something for the service of mankind...
...President Theodore Roosevelt '80 was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, yesterday afternoon. The flags of the nation were at half-mast in solemn remembrance of his loss as several hundred close friends gathered in the little Episcopal Church shortly after noon for the final service...
Among those who attended the ceremony were representatives of the Harvard Club of New York, about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...
...privacy and simplicity of the last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire...