Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-11
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come to the President. In reply President
Roosevelt, standing on a chair, spoke as
follows:
Il doubt if any member of the Hamilton
Club has longer and pleasanter associations
with 1t than l have. | have been your
guest again and again, / have spoken be-
fore you again and again, and long before
l had risen to what we will call position
of notoriety. 1t was before the Hamilton
Club that l made speech with a title
which had no idea would attract any att
tention. but which did, The Strenuous
Life. daughter) And l mention it now
because from that day TO this l have never
dared to use the phrase, the strenuous
life, at all.
1T was delegation from this club that
came down to meet me at Montauk Point
when L came back from Santiago l re-
member that that delegation then, with an
enthusiasm which no human being outside
OF the club could have foreSeen to be war
ranted by after events, nominated me for
President in 1904; which, as it was six wears
in advance, 1 did not at that time look
upon very seriously. daughter and ap-
plause.) And delegation from your club
came on to be present at nv inaueIlra ton
as governor q have shaken hands with GER
tam members of that delegation today) and
Tue, Tue members or that delegation will doubt
TESS remember that they gave me a bronze
ihkstand with Abraham Lincoln's head on
H. ana II Is In my library, and is the ink
Seaiiu use now (ApplauSe)
Il feel that this club NOT only oonroer,
crates the name and the great service of
alexander Hamilton, but in all that it has
t uone ana is striving to do is applying prac-
tlcaliy and efficiently the nrincinles of
Abraham Lincoln So, gentlemen for many
inherent reasons, for reasons of old asso-
CATIONS, OF appreciation of what your atti-
tuue mas Deen toward me, and of apprecia-
tlon or what you are doing in the life of
TINS great city, of this great state and
therefore, or the nation, 1 am doubly and
trepiy pleased to be today once more the
guest of the Hamilton Club"
AT the conclusion of the sueech the Presi-
dent retired under the CANOPY before which
ne had been receiving, and while seated
Kept up a general rapid-fre convers ton
with few around him, while the parlors
were cleared and turned over to the Har-
ward Club of Chicago.
Address to the Harvard Club.
The Harvard Clubs president, Kellogg
Fairbanks, stood at President Roosevelt's
ie1t and made the introductions. More
than 800 graduates of Harvard filed by, the
earlier class men leading. When the last
graduate had retired to the rear of the par
lor. President Fairbanks introduced Samuel
8. greeley, who read a short address to the
President.
In reply President Roosevelt said:
MT; Greeley and Fellow-Harvard Men:
AAoA Wy ody Wlidl d very real pleas
ure II mas been to greet you this afternoon,
put Mr.. Greeley spoke of Harvard as win
ming the west. My pet theory has been
that the very best thing that can happen to
Harvard is to have the west win it, and 1
hail every Harvard club west of the Ale
gheny, even more than l do those east Of
there, for l feel that Harvard's mission in
the country can be intellectually furthered
II 1t has sufficient amount of the west
ern blood that does things in it, and for
that reason 1 am particularly pleased to
greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again
under as pleasant circumstances as have
ever had the pleasure of greeting them be-
fore. Goodbye and good luck to YOU"