The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
His Train Arrived at 8: AS a. m. and
He Was Greeted by Mayor
Harrison.
Mr.. Roosevelt Runs Up to Evanston
and Tells the Students
What's What.
He Was Handed Out an LID. at
the Chicago "U'- Talk on Mon
roe Doctrine Tonight.

velt's sixty-six day tour Of the west began
in earnest here to-day when he stepped
from the Pennsylvania special at 8:45
o'clock and was received by Mayor Har-
ison and special reception COMMITTEES,
not to mention a huge crowd which made
its unofficial presence known by cheers
which could be heard across the river.
The program prepared for the presi-
dents 15-hour stay in this city was re-
peated to him by Charles S. Deneen,
chairman Of the reception committee, and
served to remind the president of the
strenuous nature 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, pro-
vided for an immediate run to Evanston,
seventeen miles to the northward, and a
brief address there to the students of the
Northwestern university; luncheon at
1890 at the Auditorium annex; a trip in
the afternoon to the University of Chi
cago, where the president was to receive
the degree of LII. D.; banquet at 6:3O
at the Auditorium, he being the guest Of
10 citizens, and a meeting in the even
one Of the most significant addresses Of
his tour, on 1.-The Monroe Doctrine
President Roosevelt smiled his apprecia-
ton when informed by Mr.. Deneen that
every available foot Of space in the Audi
torium theater had been assigned and that
seats who could not be accommodated.
While the greetings were being ex-
changed, and members of the reception
committee and the Evanston hosts were
presented by Mayor Harrison, the presi-
dents special train was switched to the
tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road for the run to the north shore
suburb. AS the guest of President James
and R. D. Shepard of Northwestern uni
versity F. p. Crandon &c. R. Jenkins and
IL. G. Shaffer of Evanston, the presiden-
tial party, within a 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. ..s.-. --.. ~
Here They Are at Evanston.
At Evanston the president was greeted
by Mayor j. A. Patten and then, headed
by a detachment af cavalry from Fort
Sheridan and q military band, the. party
made its way through lanes yof schocAe ill
| dren. on the streets and of carssed and
gowned students on the campus to the
steps Of Luntg library As the university
| grounds were entered salute Of twenty
| one guns was fired. 5.r-Ss
The president was received with deaf
| ening cheers. = =. *5tl< ~
President James Welcome.
| President James of the university wel-
| coined the president saying in part:
| ~ You, SIT, are l1lG 1IoL plCo1uCllt " eAto
twentieth century not merely in time but
| in temper. Your predecessors for more
| than fifty years looked forward to, grap-
| 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. Your are the first
! to face resolutely and fully the problems
| of a new generation and new age. May
! God grant you wisdom and strength to
inaugurate this new era, and as unparal-
| leled opportunities have come to you, so
may unparalleled success attend you.
1--WE thank you, sir, not only in the
name of this institution, not only in the
| name of this college and of this university,
but all other colleges and all other uni
| versities, for the grand illustrations which
I you have given to us and our faculty and
| our students of the fact that college life
and college opportunity property lived and
| properly utilized, are a most valuable ele-
! ment in the preparation for the manifold
activities of the great world outside. Well
come, thrice welcome, to our midst.
:. - Value Of an Education.
/ Addressing the students the president
| referred to the value of a college educa-
tion. 1.-The better your training" said he,
1.-The better the work you can do. He
spoke of athletic sports and stamped his
approval upon them and dwelt upon their
value in success. Intellectual supre-
macy, he said, was good. Physical
prowess was desirable, but better than all
and without which none could succeed
was an upright character. Why then sure
ly it Is the merest truism to say that the
better your training the better will be
the kind Of work that you can do This
above all, to the young men going out,
each to do mans work in the world
and if he has not that purpose he is Of no
use whatsoever in our American life. We
have no room for the idler here, we have
} no room for the man who merely wishes
to lead a pleasant life, If that is all he
, desires he can never count in American
work II the man has not got in him the
desire to count, the desire to do good
J, work In whichever line he adopts then
! scant Is our use for him. But If he has got
It in him, then all that I ask him to re-
member is this, all that 1 ask each one
!, Of you here to remember is this, that It
. you go from this university, from any
university, feeling merely that your
course here has given you special prfvi-
leges, If you feel that it has put you in
! class apart, you will fail in life. II
you feel on the other hand that the very
fact Of your having had special advan-
tages imposes upon you special respon-
: sibilities, makes it specially incumbent
, upon you to show thai you can do your
= duty with peculiar excellence, if you ap-
r proach life in that spirit, the university
9 training will have done much for you.
: Eve need all 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" (Applause.)
: Back to the City Again.
I At the conclusion Of the president'i
$ address the party re-entered the train ant
9 was hurried back to the city without
e STOP although along the entire route
s crowds gathered at the stations and
t sought to catch a glimpse OF the nation.
g chief. Arriving again at the union sta
q tion, carriages were taken to the Audi
9 torium.
q Given an IL. D.
- After luncheon the president was ea
= corted to the University of Chicago wher
- he received the degree Of LIZ D. in tn
20 presence Of the professors and 5000. stu
:. dents Of the university and Morgan Par
Academy. Later he assisted in laying tn
corner stone of the new law school build
:. ing, and made a brief address.
= THE PRESIDENTS WEDNESDAY
q Harrisburg. Pa. April The prss,
dents train was cheered by = srest crow