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What degree did Theodore Roosevelt get in college? Please help?

Only serious answers please. I have a million and one things to do before 10 tonight, and I cant find the answer to this question ANYWHERE. If you can give me the answer, you get 10 points, and my appreciation. THNK YOU in advance

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  • pj
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Partly because of a severe asthmatic condition, Theodore was educated by private tutors until 1876, when he entered Harvard College. Abandoning plans to become a naturalist, he developed political and historical interests, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and finished twenty-first in a class of 158. He also began writing The Naval War of 1812 (1882), a work of limited range but high technical competence. Four months after his graduation in 1880, he married Alice Hathaway Lee, by whom he had a daughter.

    Bored by the study of law in the office of an uncle and at Columbia University, Roosevelt willingly gave it up in 1882 to serve the first of three terms in the New York State Assembly. He quickly distinguished himself for integrity, courage, and independence, and upon his retirement in 1884 he had become the leader of the Republican party's reform wing

    "Theodore Roosevelt." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.

    Like many members of his social and economic class at that time, Roosevelt received his early education at home from private tutors. He displayed a lively intellectual curiosity and was an excellent student. Later, he continued his studies at Harvard University, where he again demonstrated his academic prowess and dreamed of becoming a natural scientist in the tradition of John James Audubon. But the school's emphasis was on laboratory work, not field study, which soured the young man on a scientific career. This realization, along with his father's sudden death in 1878, prompted Roosevelt to reassess his plans and consider a life of public service instead. Graduating with honors in 1880, he then entered Columbia University Law School. But the lure of historical writing and politics soon proved to be too strong for him to resist, and he abandoned the idea of becoming a lawyer.

    "Theodore Roosevelt." Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, Book III. Edited by Terrie M. Rooney. Gale Research, 1998

    Both articles were reproduced in the database: Biography Resource Center. You may have access to this via your local library Web site.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Theodore Roosevelt College

  • 1 decade ago

    He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna *** laude (22nd of 177) from Harvard in 1880, and entered Columbia Law School. When offered a chance to run for New York Assemblyman in 1881, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal of entering public life.[16]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Ch...

  • 5 years ago

    Judging by using diverse you questions--you by no potential went to college. i'm happy that labored for you. in spite of the undeniable fact that, the present direction to midsection classification life is a school diploma, be it an AA, BA, and so on. there is not any ought to have an inferority complicated.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He was solid in geography (thanks to his careful observations on all his travels) and very well read in history, strong in biology, French and German, but deficient in mathematics, Latin and Greek.[13] He matriculated at Harvard College in 1876, graduating magna *** laude.

    This was in Wikipedea but there was no specific degree that I saw.

    Source(s): Wikipedea
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