seven different birds are listed.

When he was fifteen and had returned a second time from Europe, he
began to study to enter Harvard. He was ahead of most boys of his
age in science, history and geography and knew something of German
and French. But he was weak in Latin, Greek and mathematics. He
loved the out-of-doors side of natural history, and hoped he might
be a scientist like Audubon.





CHAPTER II

IN COLLEGE


Roosevelt entered the Freshman class of Harvard University in
1876. It is worth while to remember that this man who became as
much of a Westerner as an Easterner, who was understood and
trusted by the people of the Western States, was born on the
Atlantic coast and educated at a New England college.

The real American, if he was born in the East, does not talk with
contempt about the West; if he is a Westerner he does not pretend
that all the good in the world is on his side of the Mississippi.
Nor, wherever he came from, does he try to keep up old quarrels
between North and South. Theodore Roosevelt was an American, and
admired by Americans everywhere. Foolish folk who talk about the