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80:” took place. Upwards of five players were hospitalized with injuries during the match. Following Yale's 12–4 victory, rival fans took the pattern of violence into the streets. Afterwards the Harvard-Yale football game was suspended indefinitely. A number of Cutler graduates were involved in Harvard football at the time, and Theodore Roosevelt was advocating for the suspension to be lifted. In 1895 Arthur Cutler was named the President of the Schoolmaster's Association of New York and he lobbied to restore the game, and invited Walter Camp to speak to the Schoolmaster's Association of New York about the importance of athletics to the development of young men. 63:
Within two years, by 1878, the school moved from the second floor of the restaurant to 20 West 43rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues). The size of the school doubled and the students were divided into a Senior Division and a Junior Division. By 1884 the school was large enough to put forward a football team of eleven players. In 1885 it changed its name to Arthur Cutler's School for Boys and by 1893 it was considered to be one of the leading secondary schools in the eastern United States, along with the
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She ran from the house and rolled in a snowdrift in an attempt to extinguish the flames. Her husband was asleep on the second floor of the house and didn't become aware of the incident until a policeman awoke him and advised him that his wife had been taken to Flower Hospital. She died in the hospital two days later.
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On December 31, 1917, Arthur Cutler's wife, Elizabeth Cutler (67), was badly burned in her home at 49 East 61st Street in Manhattan. She arose early in the morning and used a match to light the gas logs in the fireplace on the first floor of her home. She was wearing only a bathrobe, which ignited.
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The majority of Cutler graduates entered Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton, the numbers being in the order named. The school to 49 and 51 East 61st Street to Madison Avenue after 1913. Although the school advertised for students in October 1923, the school property at 755 Madison Avenue was sold
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Advertising for the school began in the New York Times on September 20, 1876, which said that “the design of this class is to thoroughly prepare boys for our best colleges.” The initial enrollment was limited to just twelve pupils, boys aged eight to eighteen. Classes began on September 26, 1876.
91:. It now had over 200 pupils and 23 instructors. Tuition was $ 250 per term or $ 400 for the full year. It 1898 it was renamed as "The Cutler School." In 1900 Arthur Cutler was the temporary chairman who presided over the founding of the New York Interscholastic Athletic Association. 59:. According to the New York Times, Theodore Roosevelt was the first graduate of the school, although Roosevelt's autobiography merely refers to Cutler as his "tutor" for three years, from 1873 until he entered Harvard in 1876. 67:
in Garden City and the Berkeley School for Boys located a block away at 20 West 44th Street. Because of their close proximity the Cutler and Berkeley Schools would become rivals both on and off the athletic field.
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to speak at The Cutler School. Roosevelt declined citing the "literally thousands of similar requests" that he has received. At the time he is considering running again for the Presidency against Taft.
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was a primary through college preparatory boys' school initially located at 713 6th Ave., between 23rd and 24th Street, only a few blocks from the Roosevelt home in
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The school was established in October 1876 by Arthur Hamilton Cutler. (A.B., Harvard 1870; Ph.D., Princeton 1885). The school's founder tutored
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Grover Loening, interview by E.W. Robischon, 18 December 1968, transcript, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
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On June 21, 1918, the last day of the 1917–1918 school year, Dr. Arthur Hamilton Cutler died at his home from a
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The school moved to 755 Madison Avenue following the death of Dr. Cutler, in 1918.
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New York Times (June 22, 1918). "Dr. Arthur H. Cutler, School Founder, Dies".
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In November 1894 a Harvard-Yale football game called the “
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Manhattan
New York City
New York
Burns Oyster and Chop House
Theodore Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt
Corinne Roosevelt
Edith Carow
St. Paul's School
Bloodbath at Hampden Park
20 East 50th Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Theodore Roosevelt
cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
James C. Auchincloss
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Charles A. Dana
Francis Burton Harrison
governor general of the Philippines
James William Husted
Hallett Johnson
Grover Loening
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
Howard Alexander Smith



"The Education of a Young New York City Gentleman"
"TR Center - Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur H. Cutler"

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