The Delta independent., 1902-07-04
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HIGHLY
PRAISES WOOD, TAFT AND ROOT

Cambridge, Mass, June 26.-Com-
mencement at Harvard University was
of unusual interest Wednesday because
of the presence of President Roosevelt,
u 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 We're 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:
Theodore Roosevelt President of the
United States, from his youth mem
Der of this society of scholars. now. in
his prime, a true type of the sturdy
gentleman and the high minded public
servant in a 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 GRANGE 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 l 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.. Roose-
welt said:
No man has 4 right to abrogate to
| himself one particle of superiority be-
cause he has had college education.
but he is bound. if he is in truth n
man. TO feel that the fact of his having
had a college education imposes upon
him heavy burden OF responsibility
that ii makes it 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 metz that require
ment-of graduate of Hamilton col
! lege. Elihu Root; graduate of Yale.
| Governor Taft, and of Il fellow Har-
| ward man. Leonard Wood. Men who
did things. did not say how they should
| do them. but 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 willing TO fore2o the material ad
| vantaces, for it has got to be given at
| the mans own material cost.
Leonard Wood four years ago wer-
! TO Cuba He has served there ever
| since. has rendered services 10 that
country of the kind which. perfo med
| 3.erS years ago. would have made him
| 4 hero, mixed up with the sun god i'll
various ways; man who devoted his
whole life 10 these four years and who
thought of nothing else. did nothing
! else save to try TO bring up the stand
ard OF political and social life in thar
island TO clean il physically and NOR
ally. to make justice even and fair in
it: TO found school system that