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...gathering made up largely of undergraduates and professors attended the dedication of the Roosevelt Memorial Tablet last Saturday at noon. The tablet was presented by Charles G. Washburn '80 of Worcester, for the Massachusetts Committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The house upon which the tablet is placed is at 38 Winthrop Street, between the Yard and the Freshman Dormitories. The tablet, written by President Eliot reads: "Here Theodore Roosevelt lived during four formative and fruitfull years as a member of Harvard College...
...University will observe Theodore Roosevelt's birthday today with simple ceremonies at noon held before the house in which he lived during his four years in college. The memorial tablet, placed upon the house at 38 Winthrop Street, which is between the Yard and the freshman dormitories, is the gift of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and the presentation will be by Mr. G. Washburn '80, of Worcester, a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt. President Lowell will receive the gift on behalf of the University, and the presiding officer will by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, chairman for Massachusetts of the Association...
...connection with the tablet to be placed on the house where Theodore Roosevelt lived while in College there will be placed in the Treasure Room, of Widener Library a collection of books and manuscripts of Roosevelt with portraits and original drawings for political cartoons. The books comprise a fairly complete collection of Mr. Roosevelt's writings arranged in chronological order and laid out so that they can be examined freely...
...tablet to be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt records that here "Harvard's greatest alumnus" spent "four formative and fruitful years," a verdict in which all but a few will concur. But the voice of the cynic and the iconoclast will make itself heard, inquiring whether after all Roosevelt's connection with the University, or ours for that matter, has really been formative...
...primary purpose of the tablet, according to Prof. Hart, is to keep Roosevelt in the minds of the young. "No one," he said, "can pass by now without recalling the man that once lived there...