Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt America League, for which a plan has been drawn up by a committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, consisting of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard; President MacCracken of Vassar; Dr. James Sullivan, New York State Historian; Mr. H. S. Weet, Superintendent of Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...
...principal function of the Roosevelt America League will be to correlate and combine every school or college activity, physical, intellectual and civic, to the end that all these activities may find their focus in the one word--America...
...Such are the general purposes of the organization whose formation we are recommending to the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The details call for certain definite efforts for physical development, intellectual expression and civic or patriotic work. These details are stated in the report which the Committee has drawn up and which is now being printed in pamphlet form for general information, criticism and comment...
...government will be given in connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including one in Colonel Roosevelt's own home state...