on the face. The fellows around the ring all shouted "Foul! Foul!"
and hissed. But Roosevelt turned toward them, calling "Hush! He
didn't hear!"

In the second match he met a man named Charlie Hanks, who was a
little taller, and had a longer reach, and so for all Roosevelt's
pluck and willingness to take punishment, Hanks won the match.

He was a member of three or four clubs,--the Institute, the Hasty
Pudding and the Porcellian. He was one of the editors of the
Harvard Advocate, took part in three or four college activities,
and was fond of target shooting and dancing. It is told that he
never spoke in public, until about his third year in college, that
he was shy and had great difficulty in speaking. It was by effort
that he became one of the best orators of his day.

Roosevelt did not like the way college debates were conducted. He
said that to make one side defend or attack a certain subject,
without regard to whether they thought it right or wrong, had a
bad effect.

"What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men
with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who
can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their
interest bids them."

He did one thing in college which is not a matter of course with
students under twenty-two years old. He began to write a history,
named "The Naval War of 1812." It was finished and published two
years after he graduated, and in it he showed that his idea of