Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-22
PRES. ROOSEVELT
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years ago, induced me to promise to
come here on this occasion to greet
President Wright as the bead of this
college. Coming from snch a man and
for such another man, l could not re-
fuse the request
Turning to Mr.. Mabie, the President
continued:
with Senator Hoar was realized, Mr..
Mabie. your picture of the public ser
want. His words literally were beyond
any price. A service like his could not
be paid for in money
Addressing President Wright, Presi-
dent Roosevelt said:
Il cannot speak Of you as I should
like to speak today, and as hope you
may live long time yet. it may be
long time before l shall be able to say
what 1 would like to say. He gave to
the country" the President resumed,
turning again to the audience and re-
ferring to President Wright. the kind
of service no money could possibly buy.
1t was not merely what he did at the
head of his department.. but 1t was the
way in which he did it and the 1nfiu-
ence which he eXerted, which made MIN
SO valuable to the country.
"The greatest problem before our
people, AS before every rlodern people,
is the problem of getting justice as be-
tween man and man, and yet sympathy
as between man and man. and this es-
pecially in industrial matters, SO that
the man who works with his hands and
the man who has the capital accumu-
lated by work with head and hands.
shall get on better together. each Civ
ing justice to the other and each having
sympathy and regard for the other, for
even Justice can be admire d in a man.
ner which leaves you with the hearth
est dislike for the person who admires
it.
Il do not want to be .nisunderstOOd:
I do not mean for i moment that you
should never think of any pecuniiry
reward. If you do not think of it, some
one else will have to think of 1t for
you, and you will thereby become first
Il burden and then j curse to those
around you. The first duty of each one
of you here is to carry your own weight
to carry yourselves; you are not going
to be able to do anything for anyone
else until you can support yourselves
and those dependent upon you. do not
want to see you develop that kind of
idealism which makes you filled with
vague thoughts of beneficcnce for
mankind and an awful drawback to
your immediate families.
Il want to say that rs 4 preliminary
and TO have it understood, that
never would have you lose sight of your
fundamental duty ut the outset, but
while remembering that, remember al
So that it is not tigurativcly, but lit
orally, true that the really first class
work cannot be paid for and cannot
be done by the men who expect pay for
It. Literary work does not in the least
depend upon reward. While it is in
cuinbent upon every citizen of this
country to do the best that is in him,
not only for bis own sake and the sake
of those connected with him. but for
| the sake of the people as Il whole, it is
| especially incumbent upon the gradu-
ates of such an institution of learning
rs this. Every man that graduates here
| mas received something. and some
thing big for which he has made no
| return. and for which he can never
| make any return to the men giving il.
ut is given in part by these who arc
dead and in part by those who are liv-
| ing, but who cannot ever receive any
| reward for what they have themselves
DONE There is just one way and only
| one way i'm which you can give back
| to the college to the university, what
you have received from the college,
| from the university, and that is by so
leading your lives in point of purpos"
| and in point of efficiency as to reflect
| honor upon those who did so much for
| YOU to show that they were right ir
| doing what they did, and that their
effort was not wasted when they gave
you this great choice. Every college
| man owes 4 debt of gratitude to his
| college, which he can pay i'm but one
| way and that is by the way in which
through bis life he makes that college
| stand in the estimation Of the public.
| At the conclusion of President ROose
| veIt's address the degrees of the college
"rere conferred by President Wright
and those of tho university by Presi-
dent Hall. President Roosevelt receive
the degree of doctor of laws from the
university. The Presidential party then
retired and soon afterwards left for
| Holy Cross College.
| Comparatively few people observed
the Presidents passage from Clark Col
lcSe to Holy Cross. The Presidents car
| riagc reached Holy Cross shortly before
| / O'Clock. He entered the college lean
| ing upon the arm Of President Joseph
+. HaDsclman. head of the institution.
| The college grounds were filled with
students and invited guests who began
| cheering the President as soon as he
appeared. Lieut.. Col. Curtis Guild and
Former Congressman Walker, who al
so were in the party, were given hearty
| cheers. The distinguished visitors pro-
| Ceeded to Il platform which had been
| erected on the athletic field and upon
which already were seated the alumni
| the faculty Of the college and Il num-