The Irish standard., 1905-07-01
Tells OF DUTIES
OF Great college
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
AT HARVARD COMMENCE
MENT EXERCISES.
HEARTILY ADVOCATES
PURE SPORT. HE SAYS
Professionalism Among Collegians
Executive Declares Is Curse-His
Second Day at Cambridge-sends
Warm Message to Kaiser.

oecono lay at Cambrl0ge-SendS
Warm Message to Kaiser.
Cambridge. Mass. June 29.-The Sec
ond day OF President Roosevelt's visit
to Harvard college. to participate in the
celebration incident to the lwenty-titth
anniversary OF the graduation of his
class, that OF 1880, included varied
programme. "Wednesday was Har-
wards annual commencement, and the
visit of the president to his alma ma
Ter lent additional interest to an event
that is always interesting.
After having breakfast at the home
OF Bishop William Lawrence, the pres
ident was driven to Massachusetts
hall, in front of which ancient struc-
ture the commencement procession
was formed. The commencement exer-
clses included the granting of diplomas
TO the graduates in the various depart
ments Of the university and the be-
stowal OF honorary degrees.
Grects Colored Woman.
The day was beautiful. After the
long and active day Tuesday he pres
ldent mad restful night 1T The homo
OF Bishop Lawrence. lie did not arse
unit! about eight o'clock. Even at that
hour visitor was waiting to see him,
in the person of Mary a. Taylor, the
colored woman who did the presidents
washing while he was At college. Be-
fore going to breakfast President
Roosevelt. appeared on the veranda,
where the caller was sitting, and shook
hands with her and gave her a cordial
greeting.
Presidents Speech.
The president spoke 1T the exercises
in part, as follows:
"A great university like this has two
especial functions. The first is to pro-
duce small number of scholars of the
| highest rank small number OF men
who, in science and literature, or in
! art, will do productive work of the
| first class. The second is TO send cut
| into the world a very large number of
men who never could achieve, and
| who ought not to try to achieve, such
a position in the field of scholarship,
every other form of activity.
| las a people think we are waking
up to the fact that there must be bet
ter pay for the average man and aver
age woman engaged in the work Of
| education.
Believer in Sport.
| II believe in outdoor games, and /
| do not mind in the least that they are
rough games, or that those who take
part in them are occasionally injured.
l have no sympathy whatever with the
overweight sentimentality.
| ut is bad thing for any college man
to grow to regard sport as the serious
business OF life. And finally it is a
much worse thing to permit college
sport to become in any shape or way
tainted by professionalism. Profess
sional sport is all right in it's way. |
am glad to say that among my friends
number professional boxers and
wrestlers, oarsmen and baseball men,
whose regard | value, and whom in
turn l regard as thoroughly good cit
liens. But the college undergraduate
who, in furtive fashion, becomes a
! semi-professional is an unmitigated
curse.
Slap at Rich Lawbreakers.
"a great many people in the ranks of
life from which most college men are
drawn seem to forget that they should
condemn with equal severity those men
who break the law by committing
crimes of mob violence, and those who
evade the law, or who actually break
it, but so cunningly that they cannot
be discovered, the crimes they commit
being not those of physical outrage,
but those Of greed and craft on the
largest scale. The very rich man who
! conducts his business as If he believed
that he were law unto himself is a
menace to all"
Message to Kaiser.
President Roosevelt Wednesday sent
the following cablegram to Emperor
William:
| II take this occasion to thank you
and through you the German people
for the many acts Of courtesy and
kindness which in recent years have
steadily brought closer together the
German and American peoples. This
growing friendship between the two
nations means much for the future
welfare of mankind, and 1 wish to
thank you personally for the efforts
you have made to foster it.
| (SigneO
| Theodore Roosevelt"
Yale Gives Degrees.
! New Haven, Conn.,, June 29.-De-
| grees were awarded to G69 candidates