The Holly chieftain., 1902-07-04

SamDtluGe, Mas6., June 26.-COm-
.mencement at Harvard University was
scf unusual interest Wednesday because
az the presence Of President Roosevelt,
guest Of Harvard. class of 1880, who
received the honorary degree Of LID,
There we're other notable guests who
also received the degree of LID, in
Guiding Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
Of Boston. As a brecaution for the
safety Of President Roosevelt, the col
iege yard. usually open to all. was in
closed by a fence and only holders Of
degrees, officers, students and guests
were admitted, and these by dcket
only. 10 ladies' wert admitted, inside
the yards and even tstudents residing
IN the yard needed tickets for admis-l
President Eliot led the procession of
Fellows, overseers, state dignitaries..
faculty, inyited guests and alumni to
sanders theater, where the graduating
exercises were held. After the ad-
dresses BY the commencement speakers
the honorary degrees were conferred
by President Eliot as follows:
DOCTOR of LawstThomas Jefferson
Coolidge, lately ministerste the French
republic; Addison Brown, United states
JWa6Cf ANCN 4Okh, JONhS my, 7Uy IOECSs
of just and liberal thinking, the most
successful diplomatist now living;
Theodore Roosevelt. President of the
United States. from his youth men,
ber OF this society of scholars, now. in
his prime, true type of the sturdy
gentleman and the high minded public
servant in democracy"
Among those receiving the degree of
& nf a, ,.t LII to-,
ventor OF the Blake telephone trans
mitter, and Walter Reed. the army sur
geon, who planned and directed. in
Cuba the experiments which have ell
abled man to control yellow fever.
At the commencement dinner John D.
Long, president of the alumni pre-
slider at the speakers table. with Pres
ident Roosevelt on his left hand and
President Eliot at his right. President
Eliot spoke for the university, and
Governor Crance welcomed to the stat.
the President of the United States.
In opening his address President
Roosevelt said in paris
. Let me speak for all Americans to-
day when say that we watch with the
deepest concern Ind sympathy the sick
bed of the English king and. that all
AhiNAituhS, III tehutEIuS lutlE upuEIN
sympathy to the people of Great Brit
ain now. remember keenly the out
burst of genuine grief with which all
England last fall greeted the calamity
that befeil us in the death Of President
Mckinley
After eulogizing Senators Hoar and
Lodge and Secretary Hay, Mr.. Roose-
Welt said:
I'm hoe a al tn oh IN IN
himself one particle Of superiority be
cause he has had college education,
but he is bound, IL he is In truth q
man, to feel that the fact of his having
had college education imposes upon
him a heavy burden of responsibiiIty
that 1t makes IL doubly Incumbent on
him to do well and nobly In his life,
private and public. I want to speak
of three men who during the past three
or four years have met that require
ment-Of a graduate of Hamilton col
lege, Elihu Root; q graduate of Yale,
Governor Taft, and Of fellow Har-
ward man, Leonard Wood. Men who
did things, did not say how they should
do them, but did them themselves, men
who have met that greatest of our
needk-the need for the service that
cannot be bought, the need for the serv.
Ice that can only be rendered by the
man willing to forego the material ad.
vantages. for 1t has got to be given at
the mans own material cost
Leonard Wood four years ago wen,
to Cuba. He has served there ever
since, has rendered services to that
country of the kind which, performed
5000 years ago, would have made him
q hero, mixed up with the sun god in
various ways; a man who devoted his
whole life to theAe four years and who
thought Of nothing else. did nothing
else save to try to bring up the stand
ard of political and social life in thai
island; to clean It physically and NOR
ally. to make justice even and fair in
1t; to found q school system that
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