Jacob A. Riis (18491914). Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen. 1904.
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That fellow, said he, ought to have been knocked in the head. I would rather take my chances with a blackmailing policeman than with such as he.
That was what Theodore Roosevelt got out of his years at Harvard. And I think, upon the whole, that he could have got nothing better, for himself, for us, or for the college.