Word: roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will give the next of the series of war lectures planned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Monday of next week at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. "The United States Navy" is to be the subject of Mr. Roosevelt's talk, and he will discuss the organization of his department and the role that naval warfare has played in the world struggle for democracy. The preceding lectures of the series have been held on Wednesday evenings, and the present departure from the usual day and hour...
...Roosevelt, after graduating from the University, took a degree at the Columbia Law School. Three years of practice on the New York bar preceded his election to the senate of the Empire state in 1910. He became Assistant Secretary of the Navy under the Wilson administration in 1913. At the last election for members of the University Board of Overseers, Mr. Roosevelt was one of the nominees chosen...
Although no announcement has yet been issued concerning the future schedule of lectures, the series will be resumed after Mr. Roosevelt's talk on Monday, and will continue throughout the remainder of the year. Wednesday evening will again be the time set aside for the subsequent lectures. Dean Haskins, of the Graduate Schools, is the chairman of the committee chosen from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to have general supervision of the entire series...
...first regimental review for the R. O. T. C. will take place next Monday afternoon, November 26, at 4 o'clock, when the University Committee on Military Science and Tactics will review the Corps on Soldiers Field. This committee consists of ten members: George Baty Blake '93, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, Amos Tuck French '85, Langdon Parker Marvin '98, Samuel Parker, George Cheever Shattuck '01, William Davies Sohier '11, Eliot Wadsworth '98, Alexander Whiteside '95, and Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D., '84. Although all these men will not be able to be present, it is expected that most of them...
...oldest Greek letter society in America. The University chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was established in 1779; its list of members comprises such names as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick Jesup Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather the leaders in scholastic attainments from each class, and also to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body...