Theodore Roosevelt

at this man who became as much of a Westerner as an Easterner, who was understood and trusted by the

, wherever he came from, does he try to keep up old quarrels between North and South. Theodore Roosevelt was an American, and admired by Americans everywhere. Foolish folk who talk about the "effete Ea

he Natural History Society, and took honors, when he graduated, in the subject. His father had encouraged his desire to be a professor of natural history, reminding him, however, that he must have no hopes of being a rich man. In the end he gave up this plan, not because it did not lead to money, for never in his life did

glasses. But he practiced with a rifle, rowed and boxed, ran and wrestled. In his vacations he went hunting in Maine. Boxing was one of his fa

velt's way to hide his thoughts in silence because of timidity, and then call his lack of action by some such fine name as "tact" or "discretion." When there was good reason for spea

the coach began tormenting him. When he tried to fight them off, he found himself helpless. Either of them could handle him, could hit him an

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ause every good boy should have it in him to t

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e should be ashamed to submit to bullying, without instant retaliation, shou

ay called "The American Boy" in "

black eye. It turned out that another boy had teased and pinched the first boy's sister during church. Afterwards ther

id Roosevelt to the broth

did not approve, and Rooseve

g match he once won "a pewter mug" worth about fifty cents. He is honest enough to say that he was proud of it at the time,

for two, and he fought fair. He entered in the lightweight class in the Harvard Gymnasium, March 22, 1879. He won the first match. When time was called he dropped his hands, and

little taller, and had a longer reach, and so for all Roosevelt'

ok part in three or four college activities, and was fond of target shooting and dancing. It is told that he never spoke in public, until about hi

id that to make one side defend or attack a certain subject, without

ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a

ed and published two years after he graduated, and in it he showed that his idea of patriotism included telling the truth. Most American boys used to be brought up on the stor

ow-countrymen the mistakes they had made and the disasters which followed. It did not seem patriotic to him to dodge the fact that lack of wisdom at Washington had let our Arm

ned kind of history, which pretends that all the bravery is on one side. He did his best to get at the truth, and he knew that the English and Canadians had fought bravely and well, and so he said just that. Where our troops or

history of this period that he was later asked to write the chapt

. This caused him to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa, the society of scholars. Before he g

Thayer, what he was goin

use of better government in New Y

know exac