The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
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III Praises Graduates II Iiafyars
COLLEGE Commencement
WOOD Al GREAT MAA
he Is Especially Complementary ;
Secretary Rect and Judge Taft
Resents Criticism Of Cuhaa
and Philippine Wars.


mencement at Harvard university va.
OF unusual interest wednesday bscaus.
Of the presence Of President Roose
welt. a guest of Harvard. class of 1880
who received the honorary degree o
LII. D. There were other notabls
guests who also received the degret
OF Ill. d. The Rev Edward Everett
Hale. D. D.. OF Boston. and many grad
uate brought honor to their univer
gity.
Hon. John D. Long. president o
Alumni association. presided at tn,
banquet The list OF toasts included
responses by President Eliot. Govern
tary Hay. Prof Alexander Agassix ane
Malcolm Donald
President Roosevelt spoke as fol
lows:
Mr. President. President Eliot ane
you. my fellow Harvard men: Before
say what had intended to speak OF
let me speak for all OF you. am sure;
let me speak for all Americans today
when ! say when we watch with great
est concern aud sympathy the sickbec
OF the English king and that all Amer
leans In rendering their hearty sympa
shy 70 the people OF Great Britain now
remember seeniy the outburst OF gen
uine grief which all England last fall
| greeted the calamity that hefell as IL
tae death of President Mckinley"
The president then referred to his
association with large number Of
| Harvard graduates who had rendered
great service to the country. mention.
Ing among them former Secretary OF
the Navy Long. whom he had been OBJ
liged to replace by another Harvard
man: Senator Hoar, Cabot Lodge
Who be called his closest, staunchesi
and most personal friend" and Score.
tary OF the State John Hay. to sit a.
| the same council table with whom hs
Regarded as d liberal education in higk
minded craftsmanship. Continuing. b.
said:
Il want to speak OF three other col.
iege graduates because Of the service
they have done the public want he
speak OF graduate OF Hamilton col
iege. Elihu Root graduate OF Yale
Governor Taft. and o, fellow Harvard
man. Leonard Wood (applause). mer
who did things. aid not say how the,
should do them. but did them them.
selves, men who have met the greatest
OF our national deeds, the need for tbs
+, service that cannot be bought. the need
Tor the service that can only be render.
ed by the man willing To foreso the
material advantages for Ii and has got
10 be given at the mans own material
| cost
When In England they get a mar
20 90 what Lord Crumer did in Egvpt.
when man returns as Lord Rltchene,
viii return from South Africa. the,
| give him a peerage and a great suu
OF money. He receives large and tan
| gihle reward and our Cromers an,
men OF thar stamp come back to urf
vafe life with the privilege OF takina
mp what they can find OF the sfrinss
| left loose when they surrendered their
old connections and II they are Insort
unafe they are accused Of naIad-yer.
| sioa IN office tlaughterl not an &C
| cusation thar hurts them, but ar
| accusation that brands with infamt
| ever mar who makes IL and thai
| rejects but III on the country In
which II is made, cloud applausel.
| Leonard Wood. four years ago
| went 10 Cuba: he served there ever
| since, has rendered services. 10 that
| country OF the kind If performed
| 5000 years ago that would have made
| him hero mixed up with the sun
| gssi in various ways. Credit TO him :
| Yes. in way. In another. no par.
| ticnlAr credit because he was built
| 80 that he could do nothing else
! cloud applause He came out hav,
| ing done that and having devoted
| himself as disinterestedly TO the good
| OF the Cuban people in all their rela.
| lions as a man could He has come
| back here and has been attacked for.
| sooth by people who are not merely
| unworthy of having their names
| coupled with his. but who are incapa.
BILE OF understanding the motives that
have snurred him on to bring honor
20 this Republic" (Applausel.
| The president then paid a high
compliment to the ability OF Judge
/ Taft and spoke of the personal sac.
rifce he made when he began Cover.
nor of the Philippines. In that posi-.
| ton. he declared Governor Taft had
TO face a difficult problem which he
had done his beat To solve
The president then spoke of Score
tary of War Root who he declared
had given up the respect OF the lead
| eFship of the New York bar to be
come secretary OF war under Presi.
| dent Mckinley. He referred to
Roots arduous duties and spoke of
| the "arduons abilities" with which
he handled the problem entrusted
without reward save in the knowl.
edge that he had done something
which hardly any other man In the
union could have done as well.
President Roosevelt attended ban
auet given In hsa honor at the Aigon,
anan club house by the Massachusetts,
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