1<br > Alice s Parents<br >Theodore Roosevelt was bound for Harvard. There was never a qucs-<br >tion that the intellectually precocious boy， older of two sons， would go<br >to the school that had become an expected stopping place for boys of<br >his social station.<br > His younger brother would not be following Tccdie， as the future<br >president was called in his family， to Cambridge. The problcms，<br >physical and emotional， that would lead Elliott to severe alcoholism<br >and death at age thirty-four， practically in the arms of his mistress，<br >were already evident. It went without saying in the mid-1870s that<br >Teedie s two sisters， Anna (always called Bamie or Bye)， the eldest of<br >the four children， and Corinne， the youngest， would not be college<br >educated.<br > Classmates noted that the sickly looking freshman seemed un-<br >usually nervous--not surprising， given his determination to please his<br >seemingly perfect father. Theodore Senior was a rare combination of<br >a man of good works and good times. Hc helped establish the Chil-<br >dren s Aid Society， the New York Orthopedic Hospital， the Metro-<br >politan Museum of Art， and the American Museum of Natural<br >History. He also loved to dance and tended to be the last to leave<br >parties. He seemed to have limitless energy--he had none of the<br >health problems that plagued all four of his children--and drove his<br >four-in-hand home in the early morning hours at such a fast clip that<br >his grooms "fell out at the corners." During a stay in Civil War<br >Washington， where he worked in a civilian capacity for the Llnion<br >