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Alice s Parents
Theodore Roosevelt was bound for Harvard. There was never a qucs-
tion that the intellectually precocious boy， older of two sons， would go
to the school that had become an expected stopping place for boys of
his social station.
His younger brother would not be following Tccdie， as the future
president was called in his family， to Cambridge. The problcms，
physical and emotional， that would lead Elliott to severe alcoholism
and death at age thirty-four， practically in the arms of his mistress，
were already evident. It went without saying in the mid-1870s that
Teedie s two sisters， Anna (always called Bamie or Bye)， the eldest of
the four children， and Corinne， the youngest， would not be college
educated.
Classmates noted that the sickly looking freshman seemed un-
usually nervous--not surprising， given his determination to please his
seemingly perfect father. Theodore Senior was a rare combination of
a man of good works and good times. Hc helped establish the Chil-
dren s Aid Society， the New York Orthopedic Hospital， the Metro-
politan Museum of Art， and the American Museum of Natural
History. He also loved to dance and tended to be the last to leave
parties. He seemed to have limitless energy--he had none of the
health problems that plagued all four of his children--and drove his
four-in-hand home in the early morning hours at such a fast clip that
his grooms \"fell out at the corners.\" During a stay in Civil War
Washington， where he worked in a civilian capacity for the Llnion
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