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59. Qu. Las.3. For TR’s bookishness, see Fanny Smith to C, July 1876: “If I were writing to Theodore I would have to say something of this kind, ‘I have enjoyed Plutarch’s last essay on the philosophy of Diogenes excessively.’ ” (qu.Rob.96.) Fanny’s Perchance Some Day (see Par. in Bibl.) is the most charming and the least cloying of Roosevelt family memoirs. Copy in TRC.
60. Par. 31 ff.
61. Cutler memorandum. Walt McDougall, in This Is the Life (Knopf, 1926, 129–30), remembers TR as the village boys saw him, “undersized, nervous, studious … and somewhat supercilious besides.” Inevitably known as “Four Eyes,” he was game to fight but was forbidden to, on account of his spectacles.
62. Mor.13; Cutler memo.
63. TR to M, Aug. 6, 1896, TRC.
64. TR.DBY.356.
65. Donald Wilhelm, qu. Put. 125.
66. Par.28, 140, 29.
67. Ibid.
68. TR to B, Sep. 20, 1886; Cutler memo. TR passed his second round of Harvard entrance exams in the spring of 1876.
69. Rob.90.
70. The phrase is Putnam’s, reflecting a conversation he had with Mrs. Joseph Alsop Sr. (Put.170 fn.)
3: THE MAN WITH THE MORNING IN HIS FACE
Important sources not in Bibliography: 1. Wilhelm, Donald, TR as an Undergraduate (Boston, 1910). Copy in New York Public Library has the added value of irascible marginalia by another classmate, Richard W. Welling.
1. Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 27, 1876; Pri.31.
2. Wilhelm, Undergraduate, 19. Hag. Boy.51–2 confirms this anecdote. See also Woo.1–2.
3. Hag.Boy.15; Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, TR’s classmate, at final Harvard History Lecture (un. clip, 1926, TRB).
4. King, Moses, Harvard and its Surroundings (Cambridge, 1880) passim; Put. 129.
5. Put. 131; Grant, Robert, “Harvard College in the Seventies,” Scribner’s May 1897; Thayer, William Roscoe, TR: An Intimate Biography (Houghton Mifflin, 1919) 16; Wis.19; Put.130. The majority of the students were Republicans (note in TRB).
6. Qu. Pri.32.
7. Pri.33–4. Put.135–6.
8. Put.136.
9. Mor.42; TR to B, Oct. 15, 1876.
10. Pri.32; qu. Put.131.
11. Wis.12: “he stood out.” Montage from Wilhelm, Undergraduate, 31, 35, 41, 54, 63; Pri.33; Welling, Richard, “My Classmate TR,” American Legion Monthly, Jan. 1929; Richard Saltonstall, qu. Put.138; Gilman, Bradley, Roosevelt the Happy Warrior (Little, Brown, 1921) 1–2.
12. Welling, “Classmate,” 9.
13. Anonymous reminiscence of TR Sr. in Philadelphia Press, April 7, 1903. The conversation took place at Moon’s Lake, N.Y., in Sept. 1876.
14. Reminiscences of classmates William Hooper and Henry Jackson in HKB.
15. Thomas Perry, qu. Put.140; Hag.Boy.54; Rii.27; Tha.21; PRI.n.
16. Wilhelm, Undergraduate, 9.
17. Mor. 16; Laughlin, J. Laurence, “Roosevelt at Harvard,” Review of Reviews, LXX (1924) 393 illus.; diagram by TR in letter to B, Oct. 6, 1876; TR to B, Sep. 30.
18. TR to MBR, Oct. 29, 1876.
19. Mor.23–4.
20. Cut.10; Hag.Boy.54.
21. Mor.26; ib., 23. TR also caused another disturbance this winter, according to Richard Welling: “Part of his initiation into a Harvard secret society was to sit in the gallery of a Boston theatre and applaud loudly during all the quiet moments throughout a performance of Medea, a task which he performed with such characteristic zeal that he was speedily invited to decamp.” Memo in PRI.n. See also Gilman, Warrior, 74.
22. Not to mention a certain Annie Murray. See TR to B, Jan. 22, 1877.
23. Memo by Martha Waldron Cowdin, future wife of Bob Bacon, in TRC. Elsewhere in PRI.n. Mrs. Bacon remembers TR as “a campus freak, with stuffed snakes and lizards in his room, with a peculiar, violent vehemence of speech and manner, and an overwhelming interest in every thing.” 24. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 8, 1880; ib., Oct.
24. 1878.
25. See Wag.86–88.
26. Put.141; TR.Pri.Di. Apr. 18, 1878.
27. Mor.39; TR to B, Feb. 5, 1877; TR to MBR, Oct. 6, 1876; TR to B, Nov. 12, 1876.
28. Wilhelm, Undergraduate, 31; Thayer, TR, Mor.25.
29. Gov. Curtis Guild Jr., qu. Wilhelm, Undergraduate, 31; John Woodbury, qu. ib., 41.
30. Mor.27.
31. Laughlin, “Harvard,” 395–8.
32. Put.139; Thomas Perry, qu. ib.
33. German,