The Outlook Volume 89 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...row. The news was received with something like consternation by those who were eager for a Harvard victory. No Harvard crew had ever been more carefully trained. The eight men had been chosen for months, and during the time had been practicing together. Now one of their number was to be taken from the boat. No substitute, however good an oarsman, could do as well as he. The offense for which the punishment was inflicted at first seemed to many cf the alumni not very serious. A rule of the University forbids the students from using the books in a certain collection except within the library itself. In violation of this rule, the oarsmen took a book which at least one of them needed in preparation for an examination. Apparently without full knowledge of the facts, certainly without a realization of the seriousness of the offense, two loyal sons of Harvard, the President of the United States and the First Assistant Secretary of State, sent the following despatch to the President of the University: To President C. IV. Eliot, Cambridge: Is it not possible, and would it not be more fitting and just, to substitute another punishment for Fish and Morgan if, as is stated, they merely took away a book which they were permitted to use in the library? It seems to us, and, we feel sure, to the great body of graduates, that it is unfair and unnecessary to make others suffer for an offense of this kind for which some other punishment might surely be found. Theodore Roosevelt. Robert Bacon. The reply states the case tersely: To President Roosevelt, White House, Washington: Each man did a dishonorable thing. One violated in his private interest and in a crooked way a rule made in the common interest, while the other gave a false name and did not take subsequent opportunity ...