Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
COMMENCEMENT AT HARVARD
Notable Guests Are Present and on Them
Honorary Degrees Are Conferred,
ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Pays owing Tribute to
wood, TAFT and EIihu Root as
Wen as Referring TO Other
Notable Graduates.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 25.-Com-
mencement at Harvard university was Of
unusual interest today because OF the pres
ence Of President Roosevelt, a guest Of
Harvard, Of the class Of 1880. who re-
ceived the honorary degree Of LID.
There were other notable guests who also
received the degree Of LID, including Rev.
dwa Everett Hale, d. D., Of Boston, and
many graduates who have brought honor to
their university. As a precaution for the
safety of President Roosevelt the college
yard. usually open to all, was enclosed by
a fence and only holders Of degrees, ON
GERS, students and guests were admitted,
and these by ticket only. No women were
admitted inside the yard and even students
residing in the yard needed tickets for ad-
mission.
For today's events the weather was de-
lightful.
The president and Governor Crane
reached Harvard just before 10 o'clock.
Their coming was s~ignaled by the sounding
of the bugle as the cavalry formed at at
%tention, while the president alighted. The
candidates for degrees. in black gowns
with simple distinguishing banners for the
various departments, we're assembled in the
gaAu ohu Tx OliNtib VI uNNlOu- anu
government were waiting in Massachusetts,
hall.
The visitors were, escorted to Massachu-
sets hall. where they were presented to
President Eliot. 1-'
Confer Honorary Degrees.
At 10 O'Clock, preceded by the senior
class, President Eliot led the procession Of
fellows, overseers. state dignitaries, fac
ulty, invited guests and alumni to San
ders' theater, where the graduating exer-
cises were held. After the addresses by
the commencement speakers the honorary
degrees were conferred by President Eliot
as follows: Doctor of Laws-Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge. lately minister to the
French republic; Addison Brown, United
States Judge, New York; John Hay, "by
force of Just and liberal thinking, the most
successful diplomatist now living" Theo-
dore Roosevelt, president OF the United
States, from his youth a member of this
society of s~colars, now in his prime, a
true type Of the sturdy gentleman and the
high-minded public servant in a democ-
raey."
Among those receiving the degree of the
masters Of art we're Francis Blake, in
ventor of the telephone transmitter, and
Walter Reed, the army surgeon who planned
and directed in Cuba the experiments which
have enabled man to control yellow fever.
After the degrees President Roosevelt
and Rev. Crane were driven to the home OF
President Eliot, and after a short rest the
president visited two of the spreads, that
Of the Porcelain club and that Of the
Alumni club, at University hall.
At 2 o'clock President Roosevelt and
President Eliot and the other guests re-
Il A. H.
column was formed, this time OF the alumni
Headed by the band the procession passed
through the grounds, where cheers were
given by the student body and the alumni.
classes. The march ended at Memorial hall
At the speakers, table were Hon. Johr
Long, presiding, with President Roosevelt
on his left and President Eliot on his right
Rev. DR.. Gordon offered blessing and aftei
a space of timeSthe dinner was served. -,
President Eliot then spoke for the uni.
versity and was followed. by Governor
Crane, who welcomed to the state Presi.
dent Roosevelt. President Roosevelt spoke
after a fattering introduction by Mr.. Long
President RoOseveIt's Address.
Mr.. President, President Eliot and You
My Fellow Harvard Men: Before l say
what l had intended to speak Of let ms
| speak for all Americans today, when l say
that we watch with the deepest concern
and sympathy the sickbed of the English
king, and that all Americans In rendering
their hearty sympathy to the people oil
Great Britain now remember keenly the
outburst of genuine grief with which all
England last fall greeted the calamity that
befell US in the death of President McKln.
ley.
Mr.. President, I see here today a gentle
man at the taking OF whose LII. d, I as
sisted last year-the German ambassador
and now he in his capacity of sophomore
doctor observation-disclosures come to sec
me initiated. President Eliot spoke of the
services due and performed by the college
graduate to the state. 1t was my great
fortune five years ago to serve under your
president, the then secretary of the navy,
former Governor Long, and by a strange
turn of the wheel OF fate he served in my
cabinet as long as he would consent ia
serve. and then l had TO replace him by
another Harvard man. daughter and APP
plause.)
/ am fortunate IN being associated with
Senator Hoar-Qoud and continued ap-
plause)-and 1 should, indeed, him Ill OF
myself IL l had not learned something by
association with a man who possesses that
fine and noble belief in mankind. the lack
Of which forbids healthy effort TO do good
In a democracy like ours. shall not speak
OF his associate, the junior senator, an
other Harvard man, Cabot Lodge, because
1t would be difficult for me to speak of one