The Springfield herald., 1902-07-04

Cambridge. Mass. June Doom
mencement at Harvard University was
OF unusual interest Wednesday because
of the presence of President Roosevelt.
a guest of Harvard. class of 1880. who
received the honorary degree OF LID.
There were other notable guests who
also received the degree of LID. in
Guiding Rev. DIR. Edward Everett Hale.
OF Boston. As n precaution for the
safety of President Roosevelt, the col
lege yard. usually open to adj. was in
closed by fence and only holders of
degrees. officers. students and guests
We're admitted. and these by ticket
only. No ladies' We're admitted inside
the yards and even students residing
in the yard needed tickets for admis-
sion.
President Eliot led the procession of
fellows, overseers. state dignitaries,
faculty. invited guests and alumni TO
Sanders theater. where the graduating
exercises We're held. After the ad-
dresses by the commencement speakers
the honorary degrees We're conferred
by President Eliot as follows:
Doctor of Laws-Thomas jefferson
Coolidge, lately minister 10 the French
republic; Addison Brown. United States
judge New York: John Hay. by force
successful diplomatist now living;
Theodore Roosevelt President of the
United States, from his youth mem
ber of this society of scholars. now. in
his prime, a true type of the sturdy
gentleman and the high minded public
servant in a democracy"
Among those receiving the degree of
master of art We're Francis Blake, in
yentor of the Blake telephone trans
mitter, and Walter Reed. the army sur
geon, who planned and directed in
Cuba the experiments which have en-
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 state
the President of the United States.
In opening his address President
Roosevelt said in part:
Let me speak for all Americans to-
day when say that we watch with the
deepest concern and sympathy the sick
bed of the English king and that all
Americans. in rendering their hearty
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 befell us in the death of President
Mckinley
After eulocizing Senators Hoar and
Lodge and Secretary Hay, Mr.. Roose-
welt said:
NO man has right to abrogate to
himself one particle of superiority be-
cause he has had college education.
but he is bound, if he is in truth
man. TO feel that the fact of his having
had a college education imposes upon
him heavy burden of responsibility;
that it makes it doubly incumbent on
him to do well and nObly in his life,
private and public. l want to speak
of three men who during the past three
or four years have met that require
ment-of graduate of Hamilton col
lege Elihu Root; n graduate of Yale.
Governor Taft. and of Il 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
reeds-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 went
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
n hero, mixed up with the sun god i'll
various ways; n man who devoted his
whole life to these 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 that
island; to clean it physically and NOR
ally. TO make justice even and fair in
it: to found school system that