The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-11
ROOSEVELT AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT ELIOT AS THE HEAD OF HARVARD
UNIVERSITY IS RECEIVED, AS INDICATED BY THE
TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECT IN NEWSPAPERS.


succeed the venerable head of Harvard Dr. Eliot President Roosevelt
supposed profound any department.
backed by plenty OF degrees and that he something OF thinker is
shown by his brilliant ideas suicide But President Roose
welt proposes till has finished his the
novation.
The President stamp assuming
academic function after ALL would
have been formerly The president of modern college the
awng personality that he formerly His office bust
ake OF the college securities and properties and preside null
ttude of concerns that formerly had no existence
may think President Roosevelt little
much addicted hunting and other undgnhed sports but adve
that typical scholar would dignity the presidents Har
ward and there are lots OF old oges that probably think ooBo
How longer DR. Eliot OF Harvard sepuagenarian
lege president hold his position head the Crimson university
This the question called forth by editorial The Springfield
Republican the effect that President Roosevelt apes succeed
President Eliot in Cambridge when his national politics
to an end
Up the present time few people with Harvard have
thought President Eliot retiring So hale and hearty the grand old
president that the idea has seemed to prevail that he would live IN
definitely like those who in oden times drank the fountain OF
nal youth Now however has suddenly awakened the
fact that President Eliot far beyond the when college presidents
usually expected retire Three the corporation in
strict accordance could have asked him But they
did do and today have considered single candidate
to succeed himself in his important place.
Harvard president He strong athletics "He
speak the fellows (Which Dr. Eliot doesn't do He would ge
great hustler These only few the which his
suggests Crimson Students each and all of whom hope that there
truth in the that day he will be them President Eliot
men of Mr. Green his secretary yesterday there foundation for
the that President Roosevelt has been thought succeed
him.-Boston Post.
hardly pretended
head of Harvard regarded merely as an educational institution On
the other hand certain that his ncumbency would draw many
students university that would keep constantly the pub
lie eye that athletics would be likely show usty development and
encourage manly hearty spirit among He
would have and wholesome influence But the
university learning gain things
such Mr. Roosevelt could not give 1t is not question of greater
but of difference in kind and both kinds required for the
good Of the place-Hartford Times
Why should Mr. Roosevelt become actual president OF Harvard
Why indeed? 1t is impossible imagine any position whatever
which the president could be placed which the prefix ex would
not be absud inappropriate 1t equally impossible to imagine
position which he very much large He would
once get busy at the head OF that or any other institution and he
would promote business Others When the existing undergraduate
body thinks OF his presidency lament that itself born too
early Under the grinding tyranny the faculty committee athletics
its victims groan helpless How would they rejoice they could
that body place if he had lick every member OF it. And how
happy would those undergraduates be who feel themselves capable OF
filling every item Of the Cecil Rhodes bill except the disgusting first
which the name scholarship implies they were sure that this rvo
ous and irrelevant objection would longer be brought against
them.
1t would anybody imagine President letting
good left tackle because he could decline musa msae
ward would be first in the field and the river whatever became
the Homer examinations and the prize debates president would
know the why His aspiration for his undergraduates would be
that Of the poet around his "dusky brood
Iron onted supple snewed they shall dive and they shall
Catch the wild goat the hair and hurl their the
Whistle back the parrots call and leap the ranbows of the brooks
Not with blinded eesght porting over miserable books
Theodore Roosevelt conduced considerably the enven
Harvard when there undergraduate though
cramped by the tramm of eete discipline and false
pre dent ample
his free and elbow what transformation he would
work. All over our broad land youths more distinguished for n
osiy than for udousness would be begging the Old
them Harvard the first opened for their peculiar gifts
guse an institution learning The presidency OF Harvard
would be while it lasted There doubt about tatNew
York Times.
1t is little early for speculation as to Mr. Rooseves employment
after he leaves the White House Two his remain
and full term OF four years be added But this much may be
said with safety The presidency OF Harvard university would fit him
like glove The duties Office would appeal him strongly
and while they would take up good deal of his time they would
take all OF it, There would still be time for writing and Mr. Roo
welt could address himself the preparation of those histories and bio
gphes relating American subjects and statesmen which said
be now on ms book AT So and even at co. years OF age
Mr. Roosevelt likely to be aboer whatever vine