Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-28
lief EXECUTIVE HAS BUSY DAY
He Attends a Luncheon, Banquet and
Makes a Number of Calls.
TRIP IS ENTIRELY UNOFFICIAL
Students and Citizens Unite in Giving Him
Hearty Greeting.
PLANS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Announcement VIII he Made Today
Regarding Fund of Two and
Half Million Contributed
by Former students.

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| CAMBRIDGE. Mass June N.-Joinins
with his former collegemates in celebrating
the twenty anniversary OF the gradu-
| alton of their class from Harvard today,
| President Roosevelt returned to his alma
mater, not the chief magistrate of tha
nation but as a private citizen and a loyal
Harvard alumnus. Although the ancient
university of Harvard would have been
glad to pay him all the honor due his high
office II was the presidents request that
he be regarded merely a member of the
class of 80 rather than as the president of
the United States. Nevertheless, students,
alumni and the citizens of Cambridge united
in giving him hearty greeting he drove
through the streets OF the university city.
The presidents day was busy one. Ar
riving in Boston at GAS this morning he
was driven to the Cambridge residence Of
Right Rev. William Lawrence. Episcopal
bishop of Massachusetts, where he lie oe-
ing entertained. The bishop Is president of
the Harvard Alumni association. Break
fast was served at the bishops home ami
among those present, in addition to the
president and Private Secretary Loeb were
the presidents son, Kermit, who came
from Groton school; President Charles w.
Eliot of Harvard university, Judge Francis
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and Rev. Samuel Crothers. pastor of the
First Parish Unitarian church of Cam
bridge.
Informal Class Reunion.
During the forenoon President Roosevelt
visited the rooms of the Alpha Delta Phi
society, the Harvard stadium and the
Chestnut Hill residence OF George C. Lee
the father of the presidents first wife The
president was then driven to the Oakley
= Country club in Watertown. where the
class of 80 held an informal reunion and
n luncheon was served. A photograph OF the
class taken and also a photograph of
the members of the class who belonged to
, the same student dining club as did the
president. OF the 1865 members of the class
, of 80. 100 have registered at class head
quarters, representing nearly every state
in the union.
Returning from the Oakley Country club,
the president was driven to the rooms of
. the Porcelain club, organization Of
r Harvard students where he stayed about
4 half an hour. He then returned to Bishop
. Lawrence's house, where he put on evening
f clothes and was driven to the hotel Som
o erset in Boston for the banquet OF the
e class of 80 1t was late in the evening
= when the party returned to Cambridge.
l. President Drives in Rain.
d AS on his visit to Massachusetts last
e week. rain marred the presidents program.
e AS his carriage was driven out OF Bishop
s Lawrence's yard this afternoon on the trip
e to the rooms Of the Alpha Delta Phi So
h ciety. the rain poured in torrents and
several heavy claps of thunder were heard.
g The president, however insisted that the
a hood of the carriage be lowered in order
e that the people who had gathered to see
Is him might not be disappointed, and though
the rain fell heavily, the president rode
g through 1t apparently not in the least a..
y concerted.
D At frequent points along the streets
ID through which the presidential party
passed during the day people gathered and
1T cheered For all their greetings the pres
* ident had a bow and a smile.
" President Roosevelt was accompanied on
I'd his drive by a secret service officer and a
y squad of mounted policemen. After visit
lie ing the stadium the police escort was dis
e. missed temporarily and the presidents car.
o. riage was unattended from the stadium
TO Chestnut Hill and from thence to the
n Oakley Country club. President Roosevelt
n will remain here until a. m. Thursday.
's' feature of this years commencement
g, is to be the announcement Of Bishop VII
ID liam Lawrence as president OF Harvard
Alumni association of the result Of pian
II ward from the alumni. This announcement
is to be made at the commencement Dime
Ie at Memorial hall tomorrow afternoon. whel
the president is to deliver address.
YaIe's Annual Report.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June H.-Presiden
ia Hadley delivered his annual report upo
70 | Yale university at the meeting of tn
nm alumni today. The report reviewed brief
| oF of ba nj Ont I'M
certain rules of university policy. Near
nd 1000 graduates attended the meeting.
Ia President Hadley announced that las
nd years deficit Of $4,000 had been wiped ou
and that at the end OF the present hsca
II year the treasurer's report would shoN
he that the university had been self-support
vi ing.
.u Dartmouth Alumni Meet.
,ur HANOVER, N. H., June 27.-Today wa
led given over chiefly to the alumni in tn
ito commencement proceedings at Dartmout
zen college. The alumni association held
ad public meeting, at which the principal aC
en-. dress was given by President Benjamin Id
he Wheeler of the University of California.
a One of the saddest features Of lives puI
err sued by wealth, President Wheeler salt
snt consists in their isolation from humanitl
People who maintain steam yachts an
dine Frenchfully at night and fit betwee
lM Lennox and Newport and Palm Beach an
v" Homburg are naturally and automaticall
~ driven into the society of the like cond
toned and bound there. Their sons atter
the same expensive academies, their daugl
ters are polished of at the same eli
schools, their sons and daughters meet L
gether and they intermarry and interd
- vorce and the caste OF the great ric
we emerges. Sound judgment and clear pc
80 spective in the motives and aims of huma
life are seldom found among these peop
OF the caste who drag the golden ball ar
~. ehan, we neeu "e o's,ep, nS'oa, va ise
ON ~ t,..,, -, a., - "a -, 49,. -
ON Tor tle Iesula'ioh VI tio p"iiiS VI the sIe'
ON national system OF railways. We are a n
Tor ton and must have laws for national CO.
'"A Germs 1t behooyes us while holding ia
'om to local safeguards for local interests
court the inspiration OF the fuller. TtsA
'oS- national life, and be americana