Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reasonably doubt whether the English universities have in the last generation importantly assisted British democracy, while one cannot, I think, doubt that Harvard has importantly assisted in the development of American democracy throughout its existence...
Nevertheless, throughout his life he held fast to his allegiance to Harvard. Here he spent four of the foundation years of his great career. Here after retiring from the presidency of the United States he was president of the Harvard Alumni Association. Here his name reappeared upon the catalogue as a member of the Board of Overseers...
...thoughtful work on whatever the gentleman undertook. That landed him in Phi Beta Kappa, by direct action. Or rather it landed him among people who chose college because it was a place to do something, and then did it as well as they knew how. That principle he carried throughout his life. He never skimped or spared himself. He put Theodore Roosevelt, all there was of him, right into whatever he undertook...
Theodore Roosevelt found Harvard a place where a man thinks for himself because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary...
...also in his love of and belief in his College! Four other Roosevelts have followed him in the direct line into the records of Harvard University--just as four stars have appeared upon the family service flag! He loved Harvard, recognized his indebtedness to Harvard and throughout the nation and the world, caused the name of Harvard to be known as the first proving ground of a great knight...