Word: roosevelts
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When a newly initiated member of the Porcellian Club complained last year that sitting in a leather chair and singing praises to the walls was not the stimulating experience he had expected from club life, Theodore Roosevelt IV, '65 let him in on a bit of Porcellian philosophy. "We may be passive," Roosevelt said, "but we're aggressively passive...
...prime duties of every college man to become well versed in the great questions confronting this nation today and by so doing to fit himself to meet those questions squarely." Shortly afterwards committees were formed to work for the three major presidntial candidates, President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Governor Woodrow Wilson...
...College-wide straw ballot gave Woodrow Wilson 920 votes, Theodore Roosevelt 739 and President Taft 732. On election night students gathered in which received them from a Naval Broadcasting station...
...General Leonard Wood, chief of staff under President Theodore Roosevelt, had come to Harvard in the fall and urged that an adequate military reserve be maintained. The possibility of creating summer training camps was raised and in February, 1913 representatives of the Navy discussed the suggestion at the Union. Both proposals had the endorsement of President Lowell and were applauded in the CRIMSON. But, at the time, there was little reason for students to be preoccupied with these ideas, and most of the intramural debate that winter was concerned with the question of making hockey a major sport...
...January 1916., 1100 students volunteered for the University regiment which was drilled by a Boston recruiting officer Captain Cordelier. A straw ballot the Spring revealed the changed atmosphere of the College. Theodore Roosevelt defeated President Wilson...