The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29
ROOSEVELT PLAIN Speaks PointedIy to Harvard Alumni on Education,
 Sport and Need of
 Men of High
 Ideals. DDITTkIITV IN A c0NTEeT
BRUTALITY IN A CONTEST
SHOULD AWAKEN HEARTIEST
 CONTEMPT FOR PLAYER.

Coupled With Low Cunning It Should
 be Regarded All the More Dispicable
 Conduct of Great B usiness Men
 Alumni of All InstitutiOns Should Aid
 in Creating n Public Sentiment Which
 Shall Demand Of Men of Means and
 vast Fortune That They Pay scrupu-
 Ious Heed Not Only to the Letter but
 the Spirit of the Laws---Better to
 Conduct Their Business Decently
 Than to spend Surplus of Fortunes in
 PhiIanthropy-Eyil of Employing
 Great Lawyers to Evade the Laws.
 Before the Harvard alumni at Cam bridge yesterday President Roosevelt delivered the following address:
 A great university. like this has two especial functions. The first is to pro- duce d small number of scholars of the highest rank, a small number of men who, in science and literature, or in art. will do productive work of the first class. The second is to send out into the world a very large number of msn who never could achieve, and who ought not to try to achieve, such po- sition in the field of scholarship, but whose energies are to be felt in every other form of activity: and who should go out from our doors with the bal anced development of body, of mind, and above all, of character, which shall fit them to do work both honorable and efficient
 Much of the effort to accomplish the first function, that of developing men capable of productive scholarship, as distinguished from merely initiative, annotative, or pedagogic scholarship, must come through the graduate school The law school and medical school do admirable work in fitting men for special professions, but they in no shape or way supply any short comings in the graduate school any more than does the college proper, the college of the undergraduates. The ideal for the graduate school and for those undergraduates who are to go into it must be the idealfof high schol- arly production, which is to be distin- guished in the sharpest fashion from the mere transmittal of ready-made knowledge without adding to it. If America is to contribute it's full share, to the progress not alone of knoWl- edge, but of wisdom. then we must put ever-increasing emphasis on university work done along the lines of the gradu- ate school. We can best help the growth of American scholarship by seeing that as a career it is put more on a level with the other careers open to our young nsn. The general opin- ion of the. community is bound to have a very great effect even upon its most vigorous and independent minds. If in the public mind the career of the schol- ar is regarded as of insignificant value when compared with that of a glorifed pawnbroker-and some of the most conspicuous of our financial magnates come fairly within the latter category then it will with difficulty be made at tractive to the most vigorous and gift ed of our American young men. Good teachers, excellent institutions, and li- braries are all demanded in a graduate school worthy of the name. But there is an even more. urgent demand for the, right sort of student. No first-class science, no first-class literature or art, can ever be built up with second-class men. The scholarly career, the career of the man of letters, the man of arts, the man of science, must be made such as to attract those strong and virule youths who now feel that they can only turn to business, law or politics. There is no one thing which will bring about this desired change, but there is one thing which will materially help in bringing it about, and that is to secure to scholars the chance of getting one of a few brilliant positions as prizes if they rise to the first rank in their chosen career. Every such brilliant position should have as an accompani- anaent an added salary, which shall help indicate how high the position really is; and it must be the efforts of the alumni which can alone secure such salaries for such positions.
 BETTER PAY FOR EDUCATORS. i
 As a people think we are waking up to the fact that there must be better pay for the average man and average woman engaged in the work of educa- tion. But I am not speaking of this now; am not speaking of the desira- bility, great though that is, of giving better payment to the average educa- tor, I am speaking of the desirability of giving to the exceptional man the chance of winning an exceptional prize, just as he has the chance to do in law and business. Tn business at the pres ent day nothing could be more healthy han an immense reduction in the mon- ey value of the exceptional prizes thus YS-t.. As rrJ.. ~