The age-herald., 1901-09-22

Special Correspondence to the North
 American.
 Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. is the third graduate of Harvard University to hold the highest honor in the gift of the American people
 John Adams and John Quincy Adams were graduated from Harvard. It was in 1925 when J. O. Adams became Presi- dent. Now comes Roosevelt.
 Roosevelt entered Harvard in 1876, when he was IS years. old. His work in college was characterized by the enthusiasm and earnestness which have become known to all the people as dominant traits of his character in public life.
 When he came to the Cambridge col lege he was a slight lad and not in robust health, but he at once took a judicious and regular interest in athletics and .n a little while the effects were apparent in his stalwart figure and redoubled energy. He wrestled and spared and ran a great deal, but never indulging in athletic work to the point of injury.
 During his four years at the college he lived in a private house on Winthrop street
 A Mature Student.
 In his studies young Roosevelt was looked upon "as peculiarly earnest and mature in the way he took hold of things" as one of his class mates put It. Ex-Mayor Josiah Quincy of Boston, who was in college with Roosevelt, says of him:
 lie exhibited in his college days most of the traits of character which he has shown in after years and on the larger stage of political life. In appearance and manner he has changed remarkably little in twenty years, and I should say that his leading characteristic in college was the very quality of strenuousness which Is now so associated with his public charac- tel.
 "In whatever he did he showed unusual energy, and the same aggressive earnest ness which has carried so far in later life.
 "He exhibited a maturity of character, if not of intellectual development, greater than that of most of his classmates, and was looked upon as one of the notable members of the class-as one who possed certain qualities of leadership and of pop ularity which might carry him far in the days to come, if not counterbalanced by impulsiveness in action or obstinacy In adhering to his own ideas.
 ''He was certainly regarded as man of unusual good fighting qualities, of deter imitation, pluck and tenacity.
 "If his classmates had been asked in their senior year to pick out the one member of the class who would be best adapted for such a service which he rem dered with the Rough Riders in Cuba, think that. almost with one voice, they would have named Roosevelt.
 'STheodore Roosevelt is in many re- spects as broad and typical an American as the country has produced"
 Both his fellows and his teachers say that he was much above the average as a student. He was just as original, lust as reliant on his own judgment as he is now.
 Tn a mere matter of opinion or of dog ma he had no respect for an instructor say-so above his own convictions. and some of his contemporaries in college re- call with smiles some very strenuous dis customs with teachers in which he was involved by his habit of defending his own convictions.
 At graduation he was one of the com paratively few who took honors, his sub ject being natural history
 Liked Natural History.
 When young Roosevelt entered college