Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Supplmentary to vision is the requisite of valor or moral courage. The world is filled with men gifted with a divine power of vision, but who lack the valor that is necessary to put what they have seen to some use. What would Theodore Roosevelt have been worth without the moral stimulus which prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality...
...funeral services for Theodore Roosevelt today will be marked by simplicity and the absence of an impressive public ceremony. According to his wishes, no flowers will be sent, no honorary pallbearers will be chosen, no eulogies will be delivered...
...President, which members of his family will attend, followed by a Protestant Episcopal service in Christ Church to be read by the rector, Reverend George E. Talmage, at 12.45 o'clock. As the church has a seating capacity of only 500 persons, admission will be by ticket. Colonel Roosevelt will be buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, a beautiful spot overlooking Oyster Bay cove...
...Theodore Roosevelt found Harvard a place where a man thinks for himself because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary...
Above all, Roosevelt carried with him through life the principles and standards which Harvard men are expected to make their guides. It is impossible to measure the enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...