Word: roosevelt
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Twelve hundred and twenty-six dollars is the grand total collected so far in the University drive for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund. Team A, headed by Hugh Ward '20, is still well in the lead, with $527.50 to its credit, while Team C, under R. E. Larsen '21, is in second place with $359,50. Team B, under F. U. Perry '21, has collected...
...mass meeting at the Union last night, William Roscoe Thayer '81, Roosevelt's college friend and foremost biographer, traced the main events of the Colonel's career, and closed with an cloquent plca that all Harvard men subscribe to the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, no matter how small their contributions. J. G. King, Jr., '20, Chairman of the Harvard Committee for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, followed with an appeal for further support of the drive, and pledges were distributed throughout the audience. After a moving picture of various haunts and friends of Roosevelt in the West, it was found that...
...Thayer has recently come into prominence throughout the country by the publication of his book, "Theodore Roosevelt," last month. Leading biographical critics consider this work as the best life of Col. Roosevelt ever written. The author has been associated with the University for many years. In 1906 he was sent as a delegate from Harvard and the American History Association to the International History Congress at Milan, and from 1913 to 1919 he served as Overseer. The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him in 1913. Among his many works, the one perhaps most closely connected with...
...Many of Roosevelt's Friends in Film...
...Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends," which will follow Mr. Thayer's address, was filmed under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and the personal supervision of Hermann Hagedorn '07, author of "The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt." As a background the film shows such of Roosevelt's hunting grounds as the Bad Lands of the West, Medora, the Kootenai and Big Horn Mountains and the sites of Roosevelt's ranches. Many of Roosevelt's western friends and companions appear in the picture, among them Joe and Sylvane Ferris, Jack Reuter and Mrs. Margaret Roberts...