The Strenuous Life Of T.r.

In all his sports, whether he was having the time of his life hitting a ball or winging a grouse, Roosevelt always reached out to relate them to natural history, to the state of nations and to his own philosophy. And so when he hunted thieves he brought along Tolstoy, and when he wrote his son about the second squad at Groton, at just about the time he and President Eliot were engaged in their altercation over the state of Harvard football, his mind naturally ran on to the Emperor Trajan, British officers, and government service. At other times a concern for our diplomatic relations with Venezuela would just as naturally make him think of the Olympic games or his excellent friend Robert Fitzsimmons. They were all parts of life and he loved them all.