UNIVERSITY MAY ERECT ROOSEVELT BUILDING

The possibility that Harvard men may honor the memory of the late Theodore Roosevelt '80 by constructing and maintaining a building at the University to be known as "Roosevelt House" is disclosed in a report to the Associated Harvard Clubs of a committee of alumni, published today in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The report recommends that the Roosevelt memorial building shall contain a working floor for the use of some of the departments of the University, and particularly for the tutorial work of the college, as well as a memorial reading room where shall be kept Roosevelt memorabilia of all kinds.

It is suggested by the committee that all the books and state papers written by Roosevelt and books written about him, together with hunting trophies and other material relating to him, should be kept in the reading room, with the hope that this room "would be resorted to by all who wished to know or write about him", and would impress the student body "with the full significance of a life with which they might otherwise have only it casual acquaintance."

Committee Appointed Recently

The committee which presented the report was appointed recently by John W. Prentiss '98, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, to consider the question of a possible memorial at the University to Colonel Roosevelt, one of the three alumni who subsequently became Presidents of the United States. Its chairman is Hon. Charles G. Washburn '80 of Worcester, Mass., classmate and biographer of Colonel Roosevelt.

No plans are discussed by the committee for raising the funds for the construction of the memorial, this matter being left for future consideration by the Associated Harvard Clubs. The committee reports that the precise type of building and its exact site at the University are yet to be determined.