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...too, the mantra in Cambridge was laissez-faire. Harvard provided no education in citizenship, in how to "join with others in trying to make things better...excessive development of individualism in a few." It would take Theodore Roosevelt decades to realize — and to act forcefully on the realization —...

...that it was not enough. It was part of 536 a man's duty not merely to take care of himself but also "to join with others in trying to make things better...abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few."1 In no small measure, he learned this by rolling up his sleeves and doing; but he also credited...