Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-26
PRESIDENT LID. NOW
THE DEGREE CONFERRED BY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
In Response He Comments on Educa-
ton and Eulogizes Members
of Cabinet.

A dispatch from Cambridge, Mass. last
night says: Commencement at Harvard
University was of unusual interest today
because OF the presence of President Roose-
welt. graduate of Harvard. class of 1880,
who received the honorary degree of LII
There were other notable guests at the ex-
crcises, including Secretary of State John
Hay. who also received the degree of
LID; the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
DID. Of Boston. and many graduates who
have brought honor to their university.
As a precautiOn for the safety of Presi-
dent Roosevelt the college yard. usually
open to all, was inclosed by fence. and
only holders Of degrees, officers, students
and guests were admitted, and these by
ticket only No ladies We're admitted in
side the yard, and even students residing
In the yard needed tickets for admission
At 10 o'clock, preceded by the senior class
and the graduate marshal, President Eliot
led the procession of fellows oyerseers
state dignitaTies. faculty. invited guests
and alumni to Sanders Theater where the
graduation exercises were held. After the
addresses by the commencement speakers
the honorary degrees were conferred by
President Eliot, as follows:
Doctors of laws. Thomas Jefferson Cool
luSe, IateIy minister to the French republic:
A. Brown. United States Judge New York
John Hay. by force of just and liberal
thinking, the most successful diplomatist
now living; Theodore Roosevelt ''Presi-
dent of the United States. from his youth a
member Of this society of scholars now in
his prime true type of the sturdy gentle
man and the high-minded pubJfc servant ~,
democracy
Among those receiving the degree of mas
tiers Of art were Francis Blake inventor of
the Blake telephone transmitter. and Wal
ter Reed. the army surgeon who MANNED
and directed in Cuba the experiments which
nave enabled men TO control yellow fever.
after the degree ceremonies. President
roosevelt and Gov. Crane were driven to
tle nome OF President Eliot and after a
snort rest the President visited two of the
spreads. that of the Porcelain Club ard
a Inat OF the alumni marshal, Morris Gray. at
University Hall :"
The alumni banquet was held in Memo
TIdI nan at 80 o clock. Ex-Secretary John
u Long, president of the Alumni Associ,
T Tph' presided and introduced the speakers
ne ilst OF toasts included responses by
3resident Eliot. Gov. Crane, President
roosevelt. Secretary Hay Prof Alexander
Agazzis and Malcolm Donald
Mr.. Roosevelt's Speech.
President Roosevelt said:
MT PRESIDENT, President Eliot and Won
my fellow Harvard men: Before I saw
what i had intended to speak of LET me-
speak for all Of you. Let me sneak for all
Americans today. and when 1 saw that we
watch with the deepest concern and SYM
pathy the sick bed of the Fnqlish IL
and that all Americans in rendering tbair
nearly sympathy to the people of Great
br'aih now remember keenly the outburst
oi genuine grief with which all England
last rail- greeted the calamity that befe1I ne
IN the death of President Mckinley
Mr. President. l see here TODAY a gentle
man at the taking of whose IL ID 7 assist
ca Iast year-the German amba ssador-and
now ne. in his capacity of sophomore doctor
or laws 0aughter) has come to see me- an
itlated President Eliot spoke of the service
due and performed by the college graduate
' ~ ,le state. IL was my great fortune five
years ago to serve under your president
the then Secretary of the Navy ex-Goy
Long. and by strange turn of the wheel
or late he served in my cabinet as long as.
ne would consent to serve. and then l had
to replace him by another Harvard man
daughter and applause)
have been fortunate in being associated
with Senator Hoar loud and continuous ap-
plausel. and l should. indeed, think i'll of
myself II had not learned something from
association with man who possesses that
fine and noble belief in mankind the lack
OF which forbids< healthy effort to do good
in democracy like ours / shall not sneak
of his associate, the junior senator, another
Harvard man, Cabot Lodge, because IL
would be difficult for me to speak of one
who Is my closest, stanehest and most loyaI
personal friend. (Applause)
have another fellow-Harvard man today
to speak Of and it is necessary to para
the bald truth that it is indeed a liberal
education in high-minded craftsmanship to
sit at the same council table with John
Hay. (Cries of good. and continuous ap-
plause.)
Root, Taft and Wood.
Gentlemen, want to speak of three other
college graduates. because of the service
they have done the public. If a college
education means anything it means fitting
man to do better service than he could
do without it; If it does not mean that it
means nothing, and if a man does not get
thar out OF 1t. he gets less than nothing out
OF It, No man has a right to arrogate to
himself one particle of superiority because
he has had a college education but he is
bound. If he IS in truth man, to feel that
the fact of his having had a college educa-
ton imposes upon him heavier burden of
responsibility; that it makes 1t double in
cumbent on him to do we'll and nobIy in his
life. private and public
L want to speak of three men who, during
the past three or four years, have met that
requirement-of graduate of Hamilton
College Eihu Root: of a graduate of Yale
Gov. Taft. and of a fellow Harvard man,
Leonard Wood (applause)-men who did
Things, did not say how they should do
them, but did them themselves: men who
have met that greatest of national
needs, the need for the service that cannot
be bought. the need for the service that can
only be rendered by the man willing to
got to be given at the mans own material
cost When in England they get man to
do what Lord Cromer did in Egypt: when
man returns as Lord Kitchener will return
from South Africa, they give him a peer
age and a great sum of money. He re-
cetves tangible reward. and our Cromers
our men OF that stamp. come back to the
country. and IL they are fortunate they go
back to private life with the privilege of
taking up what they can find of the strings
left loose when they sundered their old
connections, and II they are unfortunate
they are accused of maladversion In office
Naughterb. not an acCuSaSton that hurts
them, but an accusation that brands with
tnfamy every man who makes it, and that
reflects but ill on the country in which it is
made. loud applause.)
Woods Work in Cuba.
Leonard Wood four years ago went to
Cuba. has served there ever since, has rem
dered service to that country of the kind
IL performed 5000 years ago would have
made him q hero mixed up with the sun god