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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...adoption of the new policy of the Athletic Committee towards the minor sports has come the necessity for prompt and ready University support of the organizations by which these sports are carried on. I am speaking through your columns particularly in the interests of fencing, but what I shall say, can, I think, be applied equally well to hockey, lacrosse, and basketball...
...good legislatures the financial interests of the country should be kept apart from the government as much as possible. The spirit of the citizen should be raised and he should be taught to have courage and to say what he thinks without fear of contradiction. Every citizen of the United States should keep constantly before him the splendid vision of his country, as no other young country has ever had such opportunities as are found here...
...Democrats now say that the gold standard is firmly established. They are in a position to know. Under Cleveland the national finances were trembling on the precipice of free silver. The gold reserve was the lowest in American history. Cleveland defended this reserve in spite of the unpopularity of his measures. As a result, the Democratic party put up for its next candidate a strong silver man, thus repudiating Cleveland for having performed as great an act of bravery as any president has ever done. On the other hand, the Republican party has always stood for monetary safety and security...
...personality of the Republican candidate, the Democrats are welcome to all they can say. Roosevelt's stand for Cuban reciprocity against the wish of many influential men of his party, speaks eloquently for the man himself...
...Through you I wish to give my heartiest greeting to the Harvard Republican Club. I need hardly say how deeply gratified I am that there should be such a club in my old Alma Mater. I wish you well in every way. (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt...