Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-28
Pres. Roosevelt Enjoys
Himself at Harvard,
Visits Old Scenes, Attends Meet
ings, ReneWs Acquaintance.

liza Lawrence, as president of the Har-
ward Alumni Association, of the result
of plans to raise an endowment of S.
800, 900 for Harvard from the alumni.
This announcement is to ta made at the
Commencement dinner 1T Memorial hall
Wednesday afternoon. when the Presi-
dent is scheduled to deliver an address. ,
In keeping with his desire to return
to his old college merely as an alumnus,
President Roosevelt had refused all
military escorts and all engagements
to engage in civic dedicatory observ-
ances of any kind during mis- visit to,
Massachusetts. Simplicity was to mark
his entire course while in Boston and
Cambridge and receptions Of all kinds
except those in connection with his VS.
it to Harvard were to be omitted. !,
The Presidents train reached tho
Pack Bay station Of Gas A. NJ, Is min
rtcs ahead OF time. He was met by
Bishop Lawrence who will act as thu
Presidents host during his stay in
Cambridge and was driven at once to
the residence of the bishop in the Uni;
versity city. Here breakfast was served
and the special guests Of the occasion
were Pres. Chas. w. Eliot Of Harvard
l.. IL,
Francis &. Lowell of the circuit court,
Rev. Samuel Crothere Of Cambridge.
and Sec. Loeb. Gov. VIM. L. Douglas
had also been invited but q severe cold
contracted a few days ago prevented
him from leaving his home in Brock.
ton. The forenoon hours We're to b
spent quietly by the President In ramb-
ling over the college grounds In COM
pany with other members Of his class
and at noon the class of 1880 with Mr..
Roosevelt as its most distinguished
member was to proceed to the Oakley
Country Club at Watertown for lunch
con. An afternoon with his classmates
at the Country Club and IN the evening
taking part at the class dinner at tho
Hotel Somerset in this city. constitut-
ed the program for the remainder of
the day.
Special police arrange .nents had been
made both by the Boston and Cam
bridge departments. A squad Of detec-
tives from police headIuarter board
ed the Presidential train just before 1t
entered the state of Massachusetts and
will remain with him throughout the
stay in the state as personal body
guard which was augmented by a
squad Of mounted police.
Among those to call OIL the President
at the Lawrence mansion after break
fast was Prof H. II. Morgan Of Har-
ward, who is in charge Of the Com
mencement exercises. George G.. Lee.
brother-in-law of the President, and
DR. John Morgan. a Boston eye spe-
cja,ist, who examined President RoOSe-
velts eyes. The doctors chief'duty was
the adjustment of new glasses. Still an
other arrival was Kermit Roosevelt
son Of the President.
The plan for the President to spend
some time i'll the college yard during
the forenoon was changed and he re-
aimed indoors
Shortly after II o'clock. the Presi-
dent. his son Kermit, and Bishop Law
renee seated themselves IN an open
landau for the drive to the Oakley Club
at WATERFOWL. About that moment a
thunder storm broke and the drive was
Presidential carriage was followed by
another containing the secret service
detectives.
Tic President stopped for a moment
at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
house. Mr.. Roosevelt being member
Of this fraternity. Instead Of going d.
rectly to Watertown, the party first
proceeded to Chestnut Hill, where the
President paid a brief visit to his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Geo. c. Lee. The
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