Excerpt from A Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt He especially excelled as a boxer when at Harvard, and was the champion light-weight boxer in that college, and was always ready to put on the gloves with any other fellow student. After his graduation from Harvard, Mr. Roosevelt made a trip to Europe This was in 1880. There, not content with doing the continent in the orthodox way, he roughed it, ascending the Jungfrau and Matter horn, tramped through the country districts of Germany and became tolerably familiar with peasant life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.