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s fortunate and urged his students to enter public service. Forty years later Roosevelt said of Peabody, "It was a blessing in my life to have the privilege of [his] guiding hand."[11] Roosevelt was a "B" student, and while he participated minimally in athletics, he set a record of seven feet in an event called the "high kick".[12]

Roosevelt went to Harvard College and lived in the Adams House, part of the "Gold Coast" area, reserved for wealthy students. Though he was a "C" student, he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and also editor-in-chief of The Harvard Crimson daily newspaper.[13] Roosevelt later declared, "I took economics courses in college for four years, and everything I was taught was wrong."[14] While he was at Harvard, his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became President, and the president's vigorous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklin's role model and hero.[15] In 1902, he met his future wife Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore's niece, at a White House reception (they had previously met as children). Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed.[16] At the time of their engagement Roosevelt was age twenty-two and Eleanor nineteen.[17]

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