PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT COLLEGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 131, 29 November 1902, Page 13 (Supplement)

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT COLLEGE.

, -o» — Fairfax H. Wheelan, who was a classmate of President N Roosevolt at Harvard College, says :— "Roosevelt came to College a flat-chested, somewhat under-ixed, anaemic-looking fellow, with no individuality expressed about him whatever. H»> j had, I remember, prominent eyes, proI minent teeth, and straggling, pale yellow side-whiskers. He first distinguished himself as a boxer, at which art he excelled. He always strapped a pair of glasses across his nose wlmi boxing, and so skilled was he that they were never j broken. By hard, serious.' and faithful exercise he at last built himsalf into a broad-shouldered, robust athlete. When he first came to college, Roosevelt was a very ordinary writer. He never held a high mark in his written exercises, but yet he diligently cultivated the art of writing, until now he has a creditable list of works after his name. Roosevelt I was no speaker. At one of our freshmen class meetings he endeavoured to nominate a man for President, and could onb - sputter and stammer. Words seemed to come too fast for him. Novr he is a j fluent and forceful spea&er. Eoosevelt ' graduated twenty-second in his cla-ss, but ! within three years of leaving Harvard ' he had written his 'War of 1812,' was j leader of his party m the New York J Legislature, and candidate for Speaker of ' the Lower Hou=e." — San Francisco Argonaut.