The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-26
Roosevelt in His Speech Praises
 His Several Friends,
TALKS OF GREAT AMERICANS
Concludes With a Tribute to General Wood and Says He Only Gets
 Credit for Ills Cuban
 Work "ln a Way"

Harvard, a memDer of the class of 1880 who received the honorary degree of LL D. There were other notable guests who also received the degree of IL. D., the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., of Boston. and many graduates who have brought honor to their university.
 The President and Governor Crane reached Harvard just before 10 o'clock. The visitors were escorted to Massachu- setts Hall where they were presented to President Eliot At Il o'clock, preced- ed by the senior class and the graduate marshal, President Eliot led the process sion of fellows. overseers, State digni- taries, faculty, invited guests and alum nj to Sanders Theatre, where the gradu- ating exercises were held after the ad- dresses by the commencement speakers. Honorary degrees of LL D. were confer red upon John Hay by President Eliot. "by force of the just and -Jeral thinking the most successful diplomat now liv- ing" Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, from his youth a member of this society of scholars, now In his prime and the high minded public gentleman and the high minded public servant in a democracy"
 Some of Those Honored.
 Among those receiving the degree of Masters of Art were Francis Blake, in- ventor of the Blaze telephone transmit ter, and Walter Reed, the army surgeon who planned and directed in oAoa the ex- periments which have enabled men to control yell ow fever. The alumni ban quet was held in Memorial Hall at 2:3O o'clock. Hon. John D. Long president of the Alumni Association, presided and in troduced the speakers. The list of toast included responses by President Eliot Governor Crane, President Roosevelt. Secretary Hay, Professor Alexander Az assiz ant Malcolm Donald.
 President Roosevelt spoke as follows;
 MT. President, President Eliot, and you, my fellow Harvard mem Before say what had intended to speak of let me speak for all of you; let me speak for all Americans today, when I say we watch with the deepest concern and sympathy the sick bed of the English King and that all Americans in tender ing their hearty sympathy to the people of Great Britain now remember keenly the outburst of genuine grief with which all England last fall greeted the calamity
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 The president then referred to his as- sociations with a large number of liar yard graduates who had rendered great service to the country, mentioning among them former Seer etary of the Navy Long. whom he had been obliged to replace by another Harvard man; Senator Hoar, Cabot Lodge, whom he called his 'clos- est, stanchest and most personal friend, ' and Secretary of State John Hay, to sit at the same council table with whom he regarded as liberal education in high minded statesmanship.
 Continuing he said
 Speaks of Root.
 q want to speak of three other college graduates because of the service they have done the public.
 T want to speak of graduate of Ham, ilton College Elihu Root; graduate of Yale Governor Taft. and of fellow Harvard man, Leonard Wood (applause) men who did things-did not say how they should do them, but did them them selves-men who have met that greatest of our national needs, the need of the service that cannot be bought; the need for the service that can only be rendered by the man willing to forego the material advantage, for 1t has got to be given at the mans own material cost.
 " hen III EnBldilu they Bel d Ahoh to oo what Lord Cromer did in Egypt; when a man returns as Lord Kitchener will return from South Africa they give him a peerage and great sum of money. He receives large and tangible reward, and our Cromers, our men of stamp, come back to the country. and If they are for tunate they 80 back to private life with the privilege of taking up what they can find of the strings left loose when they severed their old connections, and If they are unfortunate they are accused of standardization in office Qaughter) not an accusation that hurts them, but an accusation that brands with Infamy every man who makes 1t and that reflects but i'll on the country on which 1t is made. Loud applause)
 Praises General Wood.
 Leonard Wood years ago went to Cuba; he served there ever since; has rendered services to that country If the kind performed 5000 years ago would have made him a hero mixed up with the sun god in various ways.
 Credit to him? Yes, in way. In an other no credit because he was built SC that he could do nothing else. Loud ap' plause). He came out having done that and having devoted himself as disinter- estedly to the good of the Cuban people In
 
 has come back here and has been attack ed forsooth by people who are not merely unworthy of having their names coupled with his, but who are incapable of under standing the motives that have spurred him to bring honor to this republic (Applause).
 The President then paid a high compli- ment to the ability of Judge Taft and spoke of the personal sacrifice he made when he become governor of the Phil ippine. In that proposition he declared Governor Taft had to face difficult problem which he had done his best tc solve. President Roosevelt then said; Answers Criticism at Banquet. Tonight President Roosevelt attended a | banquet given in his honor at the Ala monquin Club house by the Massachu- setts Naval and Military Order of the | Spanish-American War
 The President made an address, during | the course of which he said:
 There has been a good deal of criti- | csm, ard some of 1t of an exceedingly | incorporate kind. about the action of | the army over in the Philippines. Tha, army is composed of exactly such men | as those I see here tonight. It is exactly the army that went to Santiago, thai | went to Porto Rico. that stayed in Chickamauga because 1t was its duty to | stay there; and If praised or blamed il | must stand as our representative, and | we share the praise or the blame for it. within the last fortnight there has | been an appalling outrage committed 1T the Philippines. Four. men were cap