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...sophomore year, the younger Roosevelt??s elder cousin Theodore “Teddy,” class of 1880, had already ascended to the American presidency...
...Roosevelt??s deluxe trio of high-ceilinged rooms—now B-17 of Adams House—features an oak fireplace and modern amenities such as central heating and electricity. While many of his peers weathered New England winters by purchasing coal to heat their rooms manually, Roosevelt was able to hire a maid service and porter to perform these duties...
...Current Adams House Masters Judith Palfrey ’67 and Sean Palfrey ’67—who is the great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt??have initiated an effort to restore the FDR suite to the condition when Roosevelt inhabited...
...process of renovating the suite, which will be the only existing memorial at Harvard to the former President, has highlighted a dramatic shift in undergraduate residential life over the last 100 years and has chronicled Roosevelt??s shift from a privileged youth to the populist icon who was elected to the American presidency four times...
...Following World War I, new technology made farms more efficient, creating large crop surpluses, low grain prices, and slim agricultural profits. Farmers suffered the fallout, convincing Roosevelt??s future advisers that capitalism had failed and only government could prevent further hardship. A decade later, these professors-turned-bureaucrats saw the bogeyman of the 1920s as the cause behind the Great Depression: an unregulated market...