Word: roosevelt
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...Another year gone. Time again for this column-which was named after the Theodore Roosevelt quotation cited above-to take note of some of the people who performed honorably as winners and losers in the public arena. This was not a terrific year for elected officials; only one is mentioned in this column, and he lost his race. Happily, the public arena is not limited to elected U.S. politicians. There were others who made their mark...
...Roosevelt High...
...which cargo containers filled with paper, steel, tires and chemicals were dispatched to consumers around the country and across the ocean are now shuttered. "The opportunity to go to college is about all the students here have now, besides low-paying service jobs," says Mason Grahl, assistant principal at Roosevelt High, where traditionally far less than half the seniors go on to college. To change the mind-set, Grahl and his boss, head principal Mary McFarlane, are administering tough love by enforcing the new state graduation requirements now. This year's seniors are exempt, but for juniors, it has meant...
...planning to go to college consider the new rules an unfair burden. At a student assembly, McFarlane heard cries of "Why us?" when she announced the changes. Her response: "Because it's the right thing to do." Renee Bojanowski is a college-bound junior and honors student at Roosevelt. She says the grousing notwithstanding, the urgent need for a new attitude is beginning to sink in among members of the student body. When a university admissions director met with seniors recently and told them that they will need more than a diploma to qualify for the vast majority of desirable...
...such treasured relics as former University president John Thornton Kirkland’s original published writings and pamphlets, diary entries, and a copy of his resignation letter, as well as an inscribed first edition of 1899’s “The Rough Riders” by Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880. For those with more modest budgets, one bookseller displayed moderately priced pop-up books. Whether looking to pick up a studious, studly intellectual, or just hoping to supplement your library of leather-bound books, Boston’s International Antiquarian Fair has you covered. Well, maybe next...