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Sometimes Roosevelt's fighting was impromptu. Frederic Almy, his class secretary, recalls that during a torchlight procession in the Hayes-Tilden presidential campaign a bystander on the sidewalk said something derogatory. The impulsive Teddy threupon, recording to Almy, "reached out and laid the mucker flat...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

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