Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best things about Harvard College is that the strange youth, the non-conforming to all the passing college fashions of the day, has always had a place there. All the non-conformists do not grow into Theodore Roosevelts--far from it. But the steam-roller of undergraduate sentiment has never been able to make them all alike, and it is much to be hoped that it never will. No college has all the making of its sons. We hold it to be a special distinction of Harvard, however, that it gives the fullest possible scope to the development of their...
...members of the Committee in charge of the Harvard drive for the Roosevelt Fund, we wish to state our appreciation of what practically every member of the University has given or done to help make the drive a success. We are fully aware of how hard it has been for many men to make contributions, and we value the unanimous response to the Committee's canvass for funds all the more for that...
...feel that the gratitude of the whole University is due them. The work they did was truly work for Harvard, in that they made possible her giving to the nation a generous contribution toward its effort to honor and to keep alive the spirit and services of Roosevelt. We feel that for every fifty cents or dollar contributed by a Harvard student a little more will be known about that spirit and those services in time to come. JAMES G. KING, JR., '20, HUGH C. WARD '20, F. U. PERRY. '21, R. E. LABSEN...
...more day of the Roosevelt Drive; one more day to prove that this College is true American by its appreciation of him who was one hundred per cent. American. Already our subscription has beaten that of Yale. But Yale is not Roosevelt's own college. We cannot rest on our laurels. For the six of the University and the importance of the campaign, our total of fourteen hundred and seventeenth dollars is small indeed...
...Roosevelt, patriotism, courage, honor, truth; these words are inseparably linked together. Let us associate by our efforts one more word with this immortal chain--Harvard...