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1. fdrfoundation.org › franklin-roosevelt-at-harvardFrank at Harvard – The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation

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   FDR his senior year at Harvard. Frank had been at Harvard for less than a month when his 72-year-old father had a heart attack. James Roosevelt had been ill with heart trouble for 10 years. His attack came two days after news of a scandal involving the erratic “Taddy” Roosevelt, James’s grandson by his first marriage.

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   The unfinished portrait of FDR by Elizabeth Shoumatof. As Roosevelt’s attention turned from the ongoing economic crisis at home to the mounting crises abroad, Harvard’s opinion of him softened. In the end, most alumni came to fear Hitler more than they deplored the New Deal. “Mr.

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4. www.historycentral.com › FDR › FDRHarvardFDR At Harvard - Historycentral

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   FDR At Harvard. FDR and the Harvard Crimson. In September 1900, Franklin began his studies at Harvard. All but two of his Groton roommates studied with him at Groton. His roommate was Lathrop Brown, a fellow Groton alumni. They rented a four-room suite in Westerly Court. Franklin was a fair student. He maintained an average just above C.

5. www.harvardmagazine.com › 2014 › 09“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard - Harvard Magazine

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   Sep 12, 2014 · Harvard references will surely appear in the programs, but anyone eager to know more about the Roosevelt presidents’ Crimson ties will enjoy reading “ The Roosevelts at Harvard,” the sixth annual FDR Memorial Lecture, delivered at Adams House last spring by historian Geoffrey C. Ward. The longtime Burns collaborator wrote the script for ...

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6. www.fdrlibrary.org › fdr-biographyFDR Biography - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

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   Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harva...

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   The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal programs. To halt depositor panics,...

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   By 1939, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. New Deal reform legislation diminished, and the ills of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war. When Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939, Roosevelt stated that, although the nation was neutral, he did not e...

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7. millercenter.org › president › fdrooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt: Life in Brief | Miller Center

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   At Groton, FDR grew increasingly fond of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, a rising star in the Republican Party. FDR went on to Harvard College, where he spent more time on the college newspaper than he did on his studies. While at Harvard, FDR apparently declared himself a Democrat and began courting his distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt.

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   Did Frank Roosevelt go to Harvard?

   • Frank Roosevelt and “Jake” Brown, both New Yorkers, had become close friends as students at Groton School. Frank’s Groton career had been unexceptional, but his teachers liked him. He loved to sail and had thought of going to the Naval Academy, but he applied to Harvard at the behest of his father, who had studied law there.

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   What did FDR say about Harvard?

   • FDR acknowledged that fact in his own way. On Harvard’s two-hundredth anniversary, he said, many of the alumni were sorely troubled concerning the state of the Nation. Andrew Jackson was president. On the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College, alumni again were sorely troubled.

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   Was Frank Roosevelt a useful member of society at Harvard?

   • I expect him to be a very useful member of society at Harvard. Roosevelt and Brown were among 18 Grotonians in the entering class of 1904, which initially had 537 members. A slender six-footer with patrician features and an engaging smile, Frank Roosevelt had begun wearing pince-nez glasses like his famous cousin TR’s.

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   Did FDR have a relationship with Harvard?

   • (Editor’s Note. This superb article detailing FDR’s complicated relationship with Harvard, and Harvard’s oft-strained relationship with FDR, was first published in the November-December 1996 issue of Harvard Magazine. It’s reprinted here in updated form with new illustrations, with the kind permission of the author.)

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   Where did FDR go to school?

   • At age 14, Franklin's parents sent him to the Groton School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts. At Groton, FDR grew increasingly fond of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, a rising star in the Republican Party. FDR went on to Harvard College, where he spent more time on the college newspaper than he did on his studies.

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   Did Harvard approve of Theodore Roosevelt?

   • And, Ward added, (He may have taken some small comfort from the fact that Harvard had not always approved of Theodore Roosevelt either: TR had been an Overseer when he dared run for president as a progressive in 1912, splitting the Republican Party and ensuring the election of Woodrow Wilson.

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9. www.harvardmagazine.com › 1996 › 11Roosevelts at Harvard: A Family Matter - Harvard Magazine

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   Nov 1, 1996 · FDR's Harvard progeny included three of his four sons—James '30, Franklin Jr. '37, and John '38—as well as four grandsons and a great-grandson. Eleanor Roosevelt's brother Hall '13 and his two sons also went to Harvard. Several of FDR's Delano uncles and cousins, including his uncle Fred—class of 1885, twice an Overseer, and president of ...