The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-21
ROOSEVELT TO STUDENTS
ADDRESSES LARGE GATHERING 1T
 COLLEGE STREET HAZEL.

| Introduced by President HadIey-Pou. ular Governor Cheered Again an1 Agnin-shook Hands With Members of Yale Eleveu-Tendored Reception at Graduates' Club.
 Few speakers have ever been favored with more enthusiastic audience than that which greeted Governor Roosevelt
 of New York in College street hall last
 evening. The assemblage was compos-
 ed entirely of students of the university, who were present in such large num-
 bers that the capacity of the hall was
 taxed to it's utmost. Every point made by the speaker was cheered and ap- plauded, and at the close of his remarks
 the Yale cheer with the name Roosevelt
 appended as a clincher was given with
 volume of sound that shook the raft-
 CTS. That Governor Roosevelt was
 pleased with the cordiality of his re-
 ception was evident in his every action.
 and at the close of the meeting he
 pleasantly shook hands with the stu
 dents.
 It was after 8:30 when Governor
 Roosevelt entered the hall and mount
 ed tho platofrnl. He was accompanied
 by President Hadley and Lewis Welch.
 editor of the Yale Alumni Weekly. His
 entrance was the signal for loud ap-
 plause and hand-cIapptng, and with one
 accord the members of the faculty, who
 were seated on the platform in large
 numbers, and the entire undergradute
 body roae to their feet. The student
 band located ill the gallery played a
 lively air, and then at the invitation of
 President Hadley all again arose for
 the singing of Fair Harvard" at
 which Governor Roosevelt gave ges-
 ture of pleasure.
 President Hadley introduced the dis-
 tinguished visitor to his youthfud au-2 dience in few happy words. He said
 he was going through the form of in-
 troducing one who needed little intro.
 duction anywhere, and least of all to Yale men. That Governor Roosevelt is Harvard man." he said, is, we be-
 lfeve an accident of birth but we also
 believe that he is too good an American to give undue consideration to such an accident. We congratulate Harvard on the fact that she can claim so large man, and we congratulate her fur ther upon the fact that he is so large a man that no one university can claim the whole of him. Gentlemen, Cover nor Roosevelt is before you.''
 Governor Roosevelt rose to his feet amid storm of applause and it was some minutes before he could make himself heard. He said, in opening. that he listened to the cheering in q happier frame of mind than he did on last Saturday. He said he spoke to them with more pleasure than he could htt1ngly express, and the more so as he was present somewhat in the char acter of self-invited guest He said he received the inspiration which led to his presence here over year ago in the trenches before Santiago. He was talk ing with Jack" Greenway, his first lieutenant, and a Yale man, at the close of hard days fighting, when the lat- ter referring to the pluck shown by the men during the day said: '"Colonel, this regiment has got the true Yale spirit, And right there,' said. the speaker II told him that when we got back to the states again he would have to take me to Yale"
 The speaker then said that he was going to talk to them on what the pub lie has right to expect of them on coming out of college. He again re- ferred to the Harvard Yale game on Saturday last, and said that the quali- ties shown by the Yale team in that contest are the qualities that all college men would have. to show in after life if they wished to assume the lead ins any of the affairs for which their edu- cation may have fitted them. He said he spoke thus from conviction, for he had seen many men who had made their mark in college athletics attain great prominence in after life and all through the possession of these quali- ties. He said that the whole life of man is often framed from the life he eads in college. If in public affairs, he said a man is picked for his strength of character, his decency and for other good qualities, glance back through he pages of his college life, if he be l college man, will nine times out of .en show that he was noted for the same qualities insflis student days The speaker then said that he was always .pt in speaking on this subject to think ,f it in connection with what for many years had been his special work in life politics. He said that the man in ac- i've political life Is always walking, as t were, upon a ridge crest, with an ,verpresent danger of slipping in beset- ing him. On one side, he said, there S the danger of ill-doing; on the other side. ineff1ciency; and if man slipped tt all he found himself struggling in he mire of one or the other. Failure Il any event, he said, means loss of bower to do good.
 Continuing, the speaker said that here was never anything worth doing hat was easy to do. That college nen understand this. he said, he was proud to say. had been demonstrated to Jim very plainly. The way in which ollege men came forward and volun- eered their services, he said, is a thing o be proud of; the way in which those vino served unuer him mad done their uty at all times, faithfully and care- ully. was a remembrance that he would always cherish with pride. Col, ege training, he said, does not give nan any privilege to escape work. It merely gives him better weapon with which to wage lifes battle. And the ublic he said. has the right to expect hat the weapon will be used to the best dvantage.