Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
President Makes a Visit to
Evanston, I'll.
SCORES A GREAT HIT
ADVOCATES STRENUOUS EFFORT
IN ALL THINGS.
The Program Arranged for Him Will
Require Some Hustling on
His Part.
SCORES A GREAT HIT

earnest here today, when he stepped from
the Pennsylvania special at S:45 o'clock
and was received by Mayor Harrison and
special reception committee, not to men,
ton a huge crowd which made it's unoffi-
cial presence known by cheers which could
be heard across the river.
The program arranged for the President S
fifteen-hour stay in this city was presented
to him by Charles S. Deneen, chairman of
the reception committee and served to re-
mind the President of the strenuous ma
ture of the life he will be called upon to
lead during the next two months. The
program, to which the President gave his
hearty approval. provided for an imme-
diate run to Evanston, seventeen miles to
the northward, and a brief address there
to the students Of the Northwestern Univer-
sity; luncheon at 1890 pm. at the Audi
torium Annex; a trip In the afternoon to
the University Of Chicago, where the
President was to receive the degree of
LID. banquet at $50 pm. at the Audi
torium. the guest of hundred and
ten citizens, and a meeting in the evening
at which the President will deliver one of
the most significant addresses of his tour,
on THE Monroe Doctrine"
Demand for Seats in Auditorium.
President Roosevelt smiled his apprecia
ton when informed by Mr.. Deneen that
torium Theater had been assigned, and that
hundreds Of people were clamoring for seats
who could not be accommodated.
While greetings were being exchanged
and members of the reception committee
were presented by Mayor Harrison the
Presidents special train was switched to
the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road for the run to the north
shore suburb. AS the guest Of President
James and R. d. Sheppard Of Northwestern
University, F. P. Crandon. G. r. Jenkins
and j. c. Shaffer Of Evanston, the presi-
Dental party, within half hour after ar
rival, again entered the cars. and amid the
cheers of the assembled crowds and the
waving of hats the train pulled out of the
station.
At Evanston the President was greeted
by Mayor j. A. Patten, and then, headed by
q detachment Of cavalry from Fort Shert-
dan and military band, the party made its
way through lanes Of school children on the
streets and of capped and gowned students
on the campus to the steps of Lunt Library.
As the university grounds were entered a
salute of twenty-one guns was fired.
Welcomed by President James.
President James of the university well
coined the President, saying. in part:
You. sir. are the first President of the
twentieth century. not merely in time, but
in temper. Your predecessors for more
than fifty years looked forward to- Crap
pied with or looked back upon problems of
the nineteenth century-problems which
seem to us now more than a century old.
They belong to history. You are the first
to face resolutely and fully the problems of
new generation and a new age. May God
Srant you wisdom and strength to inaugu-
rate this new era, and as unparalleled op-
portuntties have come to you, so may un-
paralleled success attend you.
I'VE thank you, sir. not only in the name
OF this institution, not only in the name of
ny,1 90 Ifr
other colleges and all other universities
for the grand Illustration which you have
given to us, and our faculty, and our stu
dents of the fact that college life and col
lege pportunity. properly lived and prop
erly utilized, are a most valuable element
in the preparation for the manifold activ-
tiles of the great world outside. Welcome,
thrice welcome. to our midst
The Presidents Reply.
Addressing the students the President re-
ferred to the value of a college educa-
tion.
''The better your training" he said, "the
better the work you can do We have no
room for the idler-the man who wishes
to live a comfortable life. and If man
has not the right spirit in him, If he
goes from this or any other university feel
ing that that fact puts him in a special
class. he Will fail. But II he feels that
he has received special advantage to sue
with that special advantage in reserve he
will succeed"
He spoke of athletic sports and stamped
his approval upon their value in success
Intellectual supremacy, he said was good
Physical prowess was desirable but better
than all, and without which none could
succeed. was an upright character.
The President continued:
IF you go from this university-from any
university-feeling that your course here
has given you special privileged. II
you feel that 1t has put you In q class
apart. you will fail in life. II you feel
on the other hand that the very fact of
your having had special advantage i'm
posed upon you, special responsibilities
make it specially incumbent upon you to
show that you can do your duty with Pc
culiar excellence-if you approach life in
that spirit the university training will
have done much more for you.
I'VE need sll the training for mind that
can be given. We need all the training
for body that can be given. welcome
every form of rough. vigorous, athletic
sports" (Aprlause).
At the conclusion of the Presidents ad-
dress the party re-entered the train and
was hurried back to the city without a
stop. although along the entire route
crowds gathered at the stations and sought
TO catch a glimpse of the nations chief
Arriving again at the union station car
riages were taken to the Auditorium
EXPECTS AMICABLE SETTLEMENT