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45. FDR to Mama and Papa, May 14, 1897, 1 Roosevelt Letters 97.
46. Ibid., June 25, 1900, 356–357.
47. In 1933 FDR ascribed the remark about boyhood ideals to Phillips Brooks, 1933 Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 419, Samuel I. Rosenman, ed. (New York: Random House, 1948).
48. Quoted in 1 Roosevelt Letters 362. Philosopher William James lamented that the young men who lived in the Yard “seldom or never darken the doors of Pudding or the Porcellian; they hover in background on the days when the crimson color is most in evidence, but they nevertheless are intoxicated and exultant with the nourishment they find there.” William James, “The True Harvard,” 12 Harvard Graduates Magazine 7 (September 1903).
49. Eliot, strongly influenced by the intellectualism of German universities, subscribed to the unity of the quest for knowledge. As he expressed it in his famous address on the aims of higher education, “There is today no difference between the philologist’s method of study and the naturalist’s, or between the psychologist’s method and the physiologist’s. Students of history and natural history, of physics and metaphysics, of literature and the fine arts, find that, though their fields of study are different, their method and spirit are the same. This oneness of method characterizes the true university.” For criticism, see Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1936 342–346 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936).
50. 1941 Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt 460.
51. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 209; Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography 77 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985).
52. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 218–219; Ward, Before the Trumpet 230.
53. 47 Harvard Alumni Bulletin 444 (April 28, 1945). Bowie subsequently became pastor of New York City’s Grace Church.
54. FDR Diary, October 1, 1903, FDRL.
55. FDR to SDR, October 7, 1903, 1 Roosevelt Letters 434–435.
56. Schlesinger, Crisis of the Old Order 324. “Perhaps the most useful preparation I had in college for public service was on the Harvard Crimson,” Roosevelt said many years later. Quoted in Nathan Miller, FDR: An Intimate History 39 (New York: Doubleday, 1983).
57. The Oregonian (Portland), April 20, 1914.
58. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 213.
59. FDR to SDR, January 6, 1902, 1 Roosevelt Letters 403.
60. SDR, My Boy Franklin 55–56.
61. Quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 243.
62. To Sara, FDR wrote, “Last week I dined at the Quincy’s, the Armory’s and the Thayer’s, three as high-life places as are to be found in blue-blooded, blue stockinged, bean eating Boston!” January 12, 1904, 1 Roosevelt Letters 447.
63. Roosevelt’s remark was made to Bamie’s son, W. Sheffield Cowles, Jr., who was returning from Europe with President Wilson in 1919. Letter, Cowles to Nathan Miller, March 18, 1980, in FDR: An Intimate History 35, 513.
64. Lathrop Brown was elected to Congress from New York as a Democrat in 1912 and later served as joint secretary to President Wilson’s Industrial Conference in 1919. His remark was made to Frank Freidel and is reprinted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 237. Brown himself was a member of Porcellian.
65. Freidel, Apprenticeship 52.
THREE | Keeping the Name in the Family
The epigraph is from James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View 17 (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976). Also see David B. Roosevelt, Grandmère: A Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt 168 (New York: Warner Books, 2002).
1. The New York Times, March 18, 1905; Town Topics, March 9, 1905.
2. James Roosevelt, My Parents 33. Or, as their son Elliott wrote, “If [father] was no more than a boy in terms of his experience with women at the time of their marriage, mother was no more than a child in her knowledge of men.” Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park 25 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973).
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