As an undergraduate, Roosevelt also had complaints about the University which sounds like those of today. He could not stomach the food at the Commons: “It is gradually getting uneatable; almost all the fellows I know are leaving.”
T.R. was very glad he did not go to Yale; the freshman hazing there was too rough for him. He thought the Elis were “a much more scrubby set than ours.” He also mentioned that they played “very foul” football to beat a Crimson eleven.
—April 18, 1951
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