The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
HOCH ROOSEVELT.
Germans Cheer the President,
Led by the Emperor
At Inauguration of the Ameri-
can PrOfessOrshIp at Berlin.
HIS LETTER is READ
By Prof. Burgess, Dean Of CO.
Iumbia University
Before Assuming the Duties Of
His Position.


Roosevelt, professorship of American
history and institutions at the Univer-
sity Of Berlin. began his lectures today.
Emperor William, the empress, Prince
August Wilhelm, United States Anlbas-
sador Tower and -Irs. Tower, DR.. Studt,
the minister of education and about so
professors and some resident Americans
occupied chairs near the reading desk
in the lecture hall, while behind them
were 400 students. who energetically
cheer ed Prof. Burgess when he entered
and applauded every reference to Pres
dent Roosevelt. At the opening of the
from President Roosevelt, of which the
following is a translation:
White House, Oct. u.
My Dear Prof. Burgess:-Allow me
through you, to greet the University of
Berlin with the heartiest good will. The
historical friendship between Prussia
and the Urited States and then after
Prussia had founded the German en-
pire, between this mighty empire and
the United States has never been bro
ken nor even shaken in the least. This
friendship began in the mutual esteem
and mutual good will that existed be-
tween Washington and Frederick the
Great and was confirmed by the fact
that Prussia alone among all the Euro
pean powers showed herself willing TO
have trade relations with the United
states curing the p6flOQ Oh OuI ltCC9-
sity and weakness in those times be
tween 1873 and 1879 and to make trade
treaty with us. Already during the col
onial period of our history there was a
large German element among our peo-
pie. Men of German birth and German
blood gave US great and successful ser
vice during the revolutionary period. as
leaders both in war and in peace. Gen.
Stueben trained the Continental army
and Puhlenberg was the first speaker of
the house of representatives.
Since the revolution a continuous
German emigration has taken place
that has proved most important for the
population of the northwestern ter
ritories. The men of German birth and
race were nearly all devoted in body
and soul to the union and were ex-
tremeIy hostile to slavery. Through
their powerful help the. northwest ter
ritories were made into the free states
that form the heart of the republic. We
have to thank men of German birth or
origin that at the outbreak of the civil
war, Maryland, Missouri and even
Kentucky held firmly to the union, and
during that fearful period they render
ed US services by word and deed which
will never be forgotten. Since the civ
Il war, the large emigration of stu
dents from the United States to Ger
man universities IS one of the most re-
markab BILE and independent features OF
our intellectual life and it Is one of the
most significant facts in our American
education that those sons of our re-
public who have been educated in Ger
man universities guide and control our
higher education.
All this had powerful influence in
bringing about an exchange of Gull
ture which in a certain sense culrni-
mates in the founding of the professor
ship that you, my dear professor, are
charged with inaugurating.
Again expressing my heartiest greet
ing for the TTniUaTSjfU and
wishes for your success and that of
your students, I remain, etc.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Prof. Burgess, in a short address in
German, alluded to his own studies at
Berlin university, to its great teachers
Of the past. to Incidents in the history
Of modern Germany, to the founding
of the corresponding professorship at
Columbia university and to the presi-
dents and emperor's interest in the
exchange of professors. The rector of
the university, Prof. Rattan, thanked
Prof. Burgess and referred appro-
priately to President Roosevelts mes
sage to the university and the en-
perOr's presence and proposed three
cheers for the emperor.
While the cheering was still in pro-
gress the emperor rose and said:
Fellow students let us express our
thanks for what has been expressed SO
eloquently by accepting the offered
hand which has been extended to US
from America and by giving a cheer
for the man who Is the incarnation of
good qualities of his people, President
Roosevelt Hurrah! Hurrah! Hur-
rah."
The members of the emperor's suit,
the professors and the students re-
sponded vigorously. The emperor then
cOnversed with Prof. Burgess. con-
graduating him on the successful be-
ginning Of his work, and also had a
talk with Am AMBASSADOR and Mrs. Tower
dor to cable to President Roosevelt his
thanks for the presidents co-opera-
ton Prof. Burgess will begin the de-
veIopment of his subject, THE Consti-
tuition and Constitutional History of
the United States on another day.