This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II HIS VARIETY OF INTERESTS. ROOSEVELT was one of those rare men who can stand apart and survey their own lives and comprehend their own needs. He was not content to tramp along with other undergraduates, to learn merely what they learned, but he must desert into new paths and master the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II HIS VARIETY OF INTERESTS. ROOSEVELT was one of those rare men who can stand apart and survey their own lives and comprehend their own needs. He was not content to tramp along with other undergraduates, to learn merely what they learned, but he must desert into new paths and master the smallest details of his way. He has confessed that one reason why he has succeeded is because he has consciously put himself in the way of learning new things and of getting new experience. His unflagging spirit of inquiry, his precocious desire to participate in national politics and to have a voice in whatever took place about him, was the characteristic of an unusual youth; although there have been some undergraduates at Harvard more popular, there have been few whose social and practical interests were so judiciously apportioned. Only in his freshman year did he hold himself aloof from activities outside the pale of his college work. He was one of eight young men, all destined for prominence in college and in after life, who, at the opening of college went apart from the other students at Memorial Hall to organize a dining club in a house a short distance from the Yard, first at Mrs. Morgan's on Brattle street, and for the last three years, at Mrs. Wilson's on Mt. Auburn street. Here, round an unpretentious table, in a bare little room, he was to cherish contentedly seven of his most intimate friends. He never dined regularly at Memorial Hall. He was not elected a member of the Kappa Nu, the only freshman society, nor was he an officer in his freshman class. Only once does he stand out in its activities; then, in a meeting called to elect a new captain of the freshman crew, Robert Bacon, he climbed on a chair and in his first stump speech...
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