Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While at Harvard Mr. Roosevelt was President of the CRIMSON and one of the three members of the Class Committee. He took an interest in politics and social service, working for the Political Club and the Phillips Brooks House. He was a member of the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding, the Institute of 1770, and the Signet Society...
...shown always a keen interest in the University, being an overseer from...
...selecting Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commencement Marshal for 1929 the Alumni Association has made an eminently fitting choice. Prominent in undergraduate affairs and at one time President of the CRIMSON, Mr. Roosevelt has continued to take an active interest in Harvard since his graduation. From 1918 to 1924, years of special importance in the development of Harvard policy, he served as an Overseer of Harvard College...
...Imperative changes recommended in the curriculum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious, in the sense of making him keenly aware of a kinship with other schools, is impossible, but such illumination as the annual report is welcome for its message to those who take the trouble to read...
...existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron who shudders at the drinking-orgy reports from the campuses in her magazine are sisters under...