FDR’s Harvard Course of Study by Year
Compiled by research associate Justin Roshak from FDR: His Personal Letters, Vol I, 1947; Edited by Elliott Roosevelt.
Note: Linked ½ year courses are indicated by a letter (A, B, C, etc.) and a number indicating either first half (1) or second half (2).
1900-1901
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Course
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Instructor
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Summary
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Meeting time
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French 2-C |
Prof. P.B. Marcou; |
French literature and Prose |
Mon, Wed, Fri – 10:00 AM |
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Latin B |
Prof. Morris H. Morgan; |
Latin Literature |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 12 AM |
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English 28 |
Dean Briggs; B. Wendell, Kittredge; George Baker |
English Literature |
Tues, Thurs- 10 AM, (Sat “at pleasure of instructor”) |
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History I |
Prof. Coolidge |
Medieval and Modern European History |
Mon, Wed, and Fri- 9:00 AM |
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Government I |
Prof. Silas MacVane, Abbot Lawrence Lowell assisting |
Constitutional Government |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 9 AM |
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Geology 4 |
Dean Shaler |
Elementary Geology |
Wed, Fri, some Mon-12 AM |
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Geology 5 |
Dean Shaler? |
Elem. Field and Laboratory Geology |
“afternoon classes” |
1901-1902
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Course
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Instructor
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Summary
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Meeting time
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English 22 |
Various |
English Composition |
Tues, Thurs- 1:30 |
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English 10 |
Messrs. Winter and Hall |
Public Speaking |
“various hours” |
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Economics I |
Assistant Prof. Abram Piatt Andrew; Gilbert Holland Montague (instr) |
Outlines of Economics |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 9:00 AM |
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Geology 14 |
Dean Shaler |
General Paleontology |
Wed, Fri, most Mon- 10 AM |
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History 10 |
Mr. Hiram Bingham, Jr. |
American History to 1783 |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 11 AM |
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History 24 |
Mr. William Garret Brown |
U.S. Constitutional and Political History 1783-1865 |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 10 AM |
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History 12 |
Silas Marcus MacVane |
Eng. History 1688 to the Reform of Parliament |
Tues, Thurs- 2:30 PM |
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History 12 |
Silas Marcus MacVane |
Eng. History from the Reform of Parliament |
Tues, Thurs- 2:30 PM |
1902-1903
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Course
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Instructor
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Summary
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Meeting time
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English 18 |
George Pierce Baker |
Public Address |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 12 AM |
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English 34 |
Charles Townsend Copeland |
English Letter Writers |
Mon- 11 AM |
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History 13 |
Prof. Edward Channing |
Constitutional and Political History of U.S, 1783-1865 |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 12 AM |
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Government 4 (1/2 year A2) |
Mr. Albin L. Richards |
International Law |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 1:30 PM |
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Governmant 16-A (1/2 year B1) |
Charles Sumner Hamlin |
Administration of the Government of the U.S. |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 9 AM |
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Government 16-B (1/2 year B2) |
Frederic Jesup Stimson |
Tendencies of American Legislation |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 9 AM |
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Philosophy 1-A (1/2 year- 2nd year uncompleted) |
Josiah Royce |
General. Intro to Psychology |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 2:30 PM |
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Fine Arts 4 |
Prof. Charles H. Moore |
Fine Arts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 9 AM |
1903-1904
Thanks to advanced studies completed at Groton, FDR entered Harvard with sufficient credit to complete his undergraduate degree in 3 years. (Commonplace in FDR’s era under President Elliot, this practice of 3 year undergraduate studies was later discouraged by President Lowell.) FDR stayed on for a fourth year enrolled as a graduate student in history, principally to complete his tenure as president of the Harvard Crimson. He never obtained an advanced degree, and maintained his affiliation with the class of 1904.
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Course
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Instructor
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Summary
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Meeting time
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English 11-A (1/2 year) |
Assistant Prof. Fred Norris Robertson |
Bacon |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 11 AM |
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History 11 |
Dr. Roger Bigelow Merriman |
English History, Tudor and Stuart periods |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 12 AM |
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History 10-B (1/2 year A1) |
Prof. Frederick Jackson Turner |
Development of the American West |
??? |
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History 27 (1/2 year A2) |
Dr. R. B. Merriman |
History of Germany from the Reformation to the Thirty Years War |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 10 AM |
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History 16-A (1/2 year B1) |
Prof. MacVane |
History of Continental Europe, from Peace of Utrecht to Fall of Napoleon I |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 9 AM |
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History 16-B (1/2 year B2) |
Prof. MacVane |
History of Cont. Europe since the Fall of Napoleon I |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 9 AM |
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Economics 5 (1/2 year C1) |
Prof. William Zebina Ripley |
Economics of Transportation |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- 10 AM |
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Economics 9-B (1/2 year C2) |
Prof. W. Z. Ripley |
Economics of Corporations |
Tues, Thurs, Sat- ??? |
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Economics 8-B (1/2 year D1) |
Dr. Oliver M. W. Sprague |
Banking and History of Banking Systems |
Mon, Wed, Fri- 10 AM |
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Economics 8-A (1/2 year D2) |
Abram Piatt Andrew |
Currency Legislation, Experience and Theory |
??? |
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