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of his class who took honors, his subject being natural history.

Mr. Roosevelt seems at this time to have followed that all-round activity, and to have attained that high excellence in each field which is the ideal of college experience. He was well toward the top as a student, but he was far too human not to have a full share in the social and political life of the institution. In his sophomore year he was one of the forty men in his class who belonged to the Institute of 1870. In his senior year he was a member of the Porcelain Club, the Alpha Delta Phi, and the Hasty Pudding Clubs. Of the last named he was secretary.

His membership in the clubs of a less social nature shows what kind of a college man he was. In rowing, baseball and football he was an earnest champion, although seldom an active participant. In other athletic contests he was a familiar figure. It was while at Harvard that he became proficient in boxing, an art that stood him in good stead at an important stage of his career as an assemblyman, when the argument of brute force was invoked to suppress him. Boxing was a regular feature of the Harvard Athletic Association contests, and "Teddy,' as

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he was universally called, was the winner of many a lively bout. He has never been a believer in a negative policy, and some of his happiest epigrams have sprung from his knowledge of the art of self-defense.

During his college days Mr. Roosevelt kept a horse and cart, the latter one of the extremely high ones that were in vogue at that time, and which to-day may be frequently seen on the boulevards of American cities. In this he drove almost every afternoon. His love for the saddle was developed later, when he adopted the life of a cowboy. He was a familiar figure in the society of Boston, where his dashing and picturesque ways made him a welcome guest. There is a photograph extant, taken at this time, which shows him with a rather becoming set of whiskers. It was taken at graduation and is highly prized by his classmates. The picture shows a young man of mature thought and sober judg

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Mr. Roosevelt had his share in college journalism. During his senior year he was one of the editors of the Advocate. Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of American history in the college, was editor-in-chief. It is not plain just

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HIS GRADUATING YEAR AT HARVARD, 1880, AND ALSO AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS

what work Mr. Roosevelt did on the Advocate. The future author of "Winning of the West" seems to have contented himself with purely editorial duties or to have thought too little of his writings to claim them, for the files of the paper reveal but one article signed by him, and this bears only the initial “R." However, this article is identified by his associates on the publication. It is entitled "Football in Colleges," and is merely a résumé of conditions of the game at Yale and Princeton. It has little of the nervous force and picturesque style of his later writings. The one Roosevelt touch is in the closing paragraph, which reads: "What is most necessary is that every man should realize the necessity of faithful and honest work, every afternoon." The last two words are in italics. The utterance is characteristic of the man, and valuable in that it points thus early to his driving qualities.

An incident recalled by his classmates is equally characteristic of Mr. Roosevelt and shows that he did things much the same way then that he does them now. A horse in a stable close by Mr. Roosevelt's room made a sudden noise one night, which demanded instant attention. Mr. Roosevelt had retired, but without stopping

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