Show FROM ot E Exhibited the Same Traits Then as asHe asHe He Does Docs Now How Josiah Quincy of ot Boston in inthe inthe inthe the New N W York World I knew Theodore Roosevelt as a classmate at Harvard in the class of 1880 and I think thin he exhibited in his college days most of the traits of char character character character acter which he has shown in after years and on the larger stage of po political political I life Ute In appearance and manner i he has changed remarkably little In twenty years and I should say that his leading lea ing characteristic In college was the very v ry quality of ot strenuousness which is nor not associated with his public char chal character character acter In whatever he be did he showed un I I urual energy and the same aggressive earnestness which has carried him so far In later life UC He exhibited a ma maturity maturity maturity of ot character if not of intellectual Intellectual intellectual development greater than that of most of ot his classmates and was looked upon as one of the most notable mem members members members bers of the class as one who possessed certain qualities which might carry him far in later life if not counterbalanced counterbalanced by Impulsiveness In action or obstinacy In adherence to his own Ideas He was certainly regarded as a man manof manof manof of unusually good fighting qualities of ot determination pluck and tenacity If It his classmates had been asked in their t senior s nor year to o pick out the one mem niem member member ber bee of cit the tile class who would be best adapted ad ted for such a service as that which he rendered with the rough rid riders ridera era ers In Cuba I think that almost with one voice olce they would have designated Rc R sevelt One of ot the best known and Jn generally popular members of ot the class his popularity was based upon respect for his character and appreciation tion of his strong and manly qualities I cannot ray ay that his classmates had the slightest expectation that lIe he would ever be president of the United States and indeed the office has now come cometo cometo cometo to him through such an chain of ot circumstances that no one could possibly have foreseen fores en It But I r think that we all felt and I know that I did personally that if he entered the field of public life Ufe as it seemed to be his to do he lie 11 woul would l at least make mate himself a factor to be reckoned with a man of mark that he would bring Into a breezy energy a strong personality a disregard for small expediency and conventionality a real courage which would win for him recognition influence and support If not high office |