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...along with other people, the pragmatism of Dale Carnegie rather than that of James and Dewey--such was the lesson of Harvard the young F.D.R. learned, Frank B. Freidel, professor of History and a Roosevelt biographer, commented in a talk last night before a capacity audience in Harvard Hall...
While gentleman's C's, the prerogative of the Social Register set in the bygone era of the Gold Coast, satisfied the youthful squire of Hyde Park, he devoted himself with "incredible energy and perseverance" to extracurricular activities, Freidel emphasized...
F.D.R. achieved his greatest college fame in extracurricular activities. "Any chronicle of Roosevelt at Harvard must inevitably bear much outward resemblance to Stover at Yale," Frank Freidel has said, "with its hero ever striving onward and upward from one extracurricular triumph to another...
...today's standards, and perhaps by the standards of the time, however, Roosevelt's editorial range was conventional indeed. Freidel claims that his policies varied little from those of other alert college editors of his generation. He continually attacked both the football team and the student body for lack of spirit, he proposed a separate section in the stadium "where ladies may enter without fear of being asphyxiated" by tobacco smoke, he advocated boardwalks in the Yard during the wet winter months, and he successfully campaigned for better fire-fighting equipment in the Yard dormitories. His regime was evaluated...
...annual Harvard-Radcliffe Conference on Careers in Education will open today. Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Frank B. Freidel Jr., professor of History, and Judson T. Shaplin '42, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, will deliver the main speeches...