Theodore's fourth cousin, James Roosevelt I, who was also a businessman, was the father of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mittie was the younger daughter of Major James Stephens Bulloch and Martha P. 'Patsy' Stewart. His father's sudden death on February 9, 1878, devastated Roosevelt, but he eventually recovered and doubled his activities.He did well in science, philosophy, and rhetoric courses but continued to struggle in Latin and Greek. He studied biology intently and was already an accomplished naturalist and a published ornithologist. He read prodigiously with an almost photographic memory. Biographer Henry Pringle states: Roosevelt, attempting to analyze his college career and weigh the benefits he had received, felt that he had obtained little from Harvard. He had been depressed by the formalistic treatment of many subjects, by the rigidity, the attention to minutiae that were important in themselves, but which somehow were never linked up with the whole.
science, philosophy,|rhetoric|Latin|Greek.|biology science, philosophy,|rhetoric
science, philosophy,|rhetoric|Latin|Greek.|biology science, philosophy,|rhetoric