The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-06
AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT


UNIVERSITY IS RECEIVED AS INDICATED BY THE
TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECT IN NEWSPAPERS.
The most startling or to be launched Just now is that put forth by
The Springfield Republican that President Roosevelt ambitious
the venerable Harvard Dr. Eliot
supposed profound any department but
backed by plenty degrees that he something thinker
shown by his brilliant ideas race suicide But President Roose
welt proposes wait till after he has finished his
White House. there for immediate alarm this in
novation
The idea of man of President Rooves stamp assuming to cover
academic function after ALL strange would
have been formerly The president Of modern college the
awing personality that he formerly His office is now bus
than strictly academic He is supposed be rewd
taker Of the college securities and properties preside null
Some may President strenuous
ch addicted to hunting and other udgmhed sports but as an adv
that typical scholar would dignity the presidents chair Ha
ton Globe
How longer Eliot OF Harvard sepuagenarian
lege president hold his position head OF the Crimson university
ms IS the question called forth by recent editorial in The Springfield
Republican the effect President Roosevelt aspres
to end
Up present people with Harvard have even
thought of Eliot retiring grand
president that the idea has seemed prevail that he would live
definitely like those who in olden times drank at the fountain of
na youth Now every has suddenly
fact that President Eliot far beyond the when college presidents
usually expected retire Three years ago the corporation in
strict accordance could him resign they
did not do and today have considered single candidate
Every Harvard undergraduate thinks Roosevelt would make great
Harvard president He would be for athletics HE would
great hustler These only few OF the which his
suggests Crimson hope
truth in the that day he will be them President Eliot
himself is at the present time ont OF town According the
ment Of Mr. Green his yesterday there foundation
the that President Roosevelt has been thought OF succeed
hm.-BoSon Post.
hardly pretended that Mr. Roosevelt is the ideal man for the
head Of Harvard regarded merely educational institution On
the other hand certain that his ncunbenc would draw many
students the university that he would keep constantly the
lie eye that athletics would be likely show u development and
that ne would encourage manly hearty spirit among the students He
university as seat OF learning would gain things from another man
such Mr. Roosevelt could give question greater
less but Of difference kind and both kinds required
good of the pace.-Harord Times
Why actual president OF Harvard?
in which the president could be placed to which the prefix would
not be absurdy inappropriate is equally impossible imagine any
get busy the head of that any other institution and he
would business in others When the existing undergraduate
body thinks of his presidency lament
early Under the grinding tyranny the faculty committee athletics
that body in its place he had lick every member OF it. And how
filling every item of the Cecil Rhodes bill except disgusting
which the scholarship implies they this
ous and irrelevant objection would longer be brought up gas
anybody imagine President Roosevelt letting
good left tackle go musa m1sae
for that matter because he could spell cat Aured Har-
ward would be first the field and the river
the Homer examinations and the prize debates or its president would
know the why His aspiration his undergraduates would be
that OF the poet around his "dusky BROOD:
shall dive shall
Catch the wild goat by the hair and rl their sun;
Whistle back the parrots call and leap the ranbow OF the brooks
Not with blinded eyeght porting miserable books
Theodore Roosevelt have condued considerably the enven-
OF Harvard when he there undergraduate though
craned by the rane OF an eete system OF discipline and false
standard OF instruction But installed there president ample
his free and elbow what
work. All over our broad land youths distinguished for
o than for udousness would be begging the 0d man
in the guise of institution learning The presidency
would be great while lasted There is doubt about hatNew
York Times.
i 1t little early for speculation Roosevets employment
after he leaves the White House Two years his
WITH me Peq f 81 Harvard UNIVERSITY would mt mnl
IKE glove he duties the oGe would appeal to him strongly