Professor Hamilton's Diary: Feb. 23, 1935

Dr. Kotzen is 'peeved'; FDR travels to Boston and shakes the place up

It was Saturday, so Professor Hamilton’s duties at Albright College were limited to giving exams to both sections of freshmen in the morning. He spent most of the afternoon helping with the baby’s continuing medical care, and smoothing down the feathers of Dr. Kotzen, who was “a bit peeved that I had called in another doctor, and had not told him immediately.” Lord preserve us from egotistical physicians!

Although President Roosevelt had not gone to bed until 2:25 a.m. following a dinner at the White House with staff and some old friends, he left for a train to Boston at 8:25 a.m., accompanied by his private secretary Marguerite LeHand (whose home town it was), her assistant Grace Tully and his principal secretary and political advisor Louis Howe. His purpose was a dinner at the Fly Club, a social club at his alma mater, Harvard University.

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