Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-29

COMMENDED IN LATIN
President Speaks on Function of .
 Great Univesity.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 29.-The second day of President Roosevelt's visit to Harvard college to participate in the celebration incident to the twen- ty-hfth anniversary of the graduation of his class, that of 80, from the col lege included a varied programme.
 President Roosevelt at an early hour gave a cordial greeting to Mary A. Taylor, the colored woman who did the presidents washing while he was at college.
 During the commencement exercises the Latin orator in the course of his speech addressed the president, a translation of his words being as fol lows:
 And thou also honor of our repub- lie and splendid example of honesty and justice in government that now as an alumnus of twenty-five years stand ing revisits your alma mater receive your sincere welcome With firm hand, like pilot holding the helm of the ship of state. as in the past SO in the future may you strenuously continue an ob- ject of terror to evildoers and to the wild beasts that haunt the mountain"
 There was loud applause and laugh ter as the audience caught the senti- ment of the concluding words.
 The federal government was well represented at the exercises. for, in ad- dition to the president. Secretary Of War Taft and Justice White, Charles ]. Bonaparte of Baltimore, who on Saturday next will become secretary of the navy. was an interested spec tator. Kermit Roosevelt. the presi- dents son, was also an interested par ticipant.
 After the close of the commencement exercises the presidential party, in cluding the aged mother of Secretary Taft. who had witnessed the confer ring of the degree of IL. D. upon her son. left tbe college.
 The president went to the home Of President Eliot. stopping on the way at the Germanic museum, where the president inspected the gifts of the German emperor. after which he sent the following cablegram to the Ger man emperor
 "I have just been visiting at liar yard university and the Germanic mu- scum, the foundation of which we so largely owe to your interest I take this occasion to thank you and through you the German people for the many acts of courtesy and kIndlness which in recent years have steadily brought closer together the German and Amer ican peoples. This growing friendship between the two nations means much for the future welfare of mankind, and wish to thank you personally for the efforts you have made to foster It,
 At the alumni dinner in the evening the president spoke at length on the special functions of great university laying particular stress on the made ouate compensation of eminent schol- ars and advocating system of re, wards for original research. such as prevail in Germany. England and France. Continuing, Mir. Roosevelt said:
 There are. however. two points in the undergraduate life of Harvard about which I think we have right to feel some little concern. One is the growth of luxury in the university I do not know whether anything we can say will have much effect on this point, but just so far >as the alumni have weight hope to see that weight felt in serious and sustained effort against the growing tendency to lux ury and in favor of all that makes foI democratic conditions.
 "The second point upon which I wish to speak Is the matter of sport. Now I shall not be suspected of tendency unduly to minimize the importance of sport. I believe heartily in sport. believe in outdoor games. and do moi mind in the least that they are rougf games or that those who take part ir them are occasionally injured.
 "I have no sympathy whatever witf the overwrought sentimentality which would keep young man in cottor wool. and have hearty contempt for him if he counts broken arm ol collar bone as of serious consequence when balanced against the chance o' showing that he possesses hardihood physical address and courage. Blu when these injuries are inflicted by others. either wantonly or of set de sign. we are confronted by the aues ton. not of damage 10 one mans body but of damage to the other mani character.
 Tt is a bad thing for any colleg' man to grow 10 regard sport as the SC rious business of life. IL is bao thing to permit sensatIonalism an' hysteris to shape the development O our sports. And. finally. it is A mucl worse thing to permit college sport t' become in any shape or way tainted b. professionalism or by so much as th ali4htest suenicton of money making" I"