Gilpin observer., 1902-07-03
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HIGHLY
PRAISES WOOD, TAFT AND ROOT

Cambridge, Mass, June 26-Com-
mencement Mt 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. DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
Of Boston. AS a precaution for the
safety of President Roosevelt, the col
lege yard, usually open to all, was in
closed by fence and only holders Of
degrees, officers, students and guests
were admitted, and these by ticket
only. No ladies' were 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 were held. After the ad-
dresses by the commencement speakers
the honorary degrees were conferred
by President Eliot as follows:
Doctor of Laws-Thomas Jefferson
4, 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;
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the
United States, ''from his youth men,
ber of this society of scholars, now, in
his prime, a true type of the sturdy
gentleman and the high minded public
servant in n democracy"
Among those receiving the degree of
master Of art were Francis Blake, In
ventor 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, eulogizing Senators Hoar and
Lodge and Secretary Hay, Mr.. Ro0se-
welt, said:
''No man has n right to abrogate to
himself one particle of superiority be-
cause. he has had college education.
but he is bound. IL he is in truth a
man, to feel that the fact of his having
had n college education imposes upon
him heavy burden Of responsibility;
that it,makes 1t doubly incumbent on
him to do well and nobly In his life.
private and public. want to speak
.of three men who during the past three
or four years have met that require
Iment-ofia graduate of Hamilton col
ilege, Elihu Root: n graduate OF Yale.
Governor Taft, and of a fellow Har-
ward man. Leonard Wood. Men who
did things. did not say how they should
do them, hut 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 Offorego the material ad-
vantages. fsriitl 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 kfud Nv hich. perfo. med
1900 years ago. would have made him
a hero, mixed up with the sun god in
various ways;,n man>who devoted his
whole life to theseffSur, years and who
Thought OF nothing >else, did nothing
else save to try ito bring up the stand
ard of political and social life In that
island; no clean ut physically and NOR
ALLY, to make Justice even and fair in
,it; to found school system that
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