Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-25
AT FAIR HARVARD'
President Roosevelt at Cam-
 bridge on Visit to Son.
SPEAKS ON TRUSTS AND ATHLETICS
Great Assembly of Students at the College Club Are Warned That They Must Not Be Mol-
 lycoddIes.

They Must Not Be Mol-
 lycoddIes.
 BOSTON, Feb, %. Railway cor porations," said President Roosevelt in his address at Harvard union, twill gain and not lose by adequate federal control. Most emphatically it is both the duty and the interest of our people to deal fairly with such corporations and to see that premium is put upon the honest management of them and that those who invest in them are amply protected. But those who in yoke the doctrine of state rights to protect state corporate creations in pre- datory activities extended through oth- CT states are as shortsighted as those who once invoked the same doctrine to protect the special slayeholding inter est.
 "The states have shown they have not the ability to curb the power of syndicated wealth, and therefore in the interest of the people it must be done by national action"
 The visit of Theodore Roosevelt, who came not as president of the Unit ed States, but as grad returning to meet his fellow Harvard men, includ- ing his own son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., developed into one of the busiest days of his notable career. President Roosevelt was constantly moving to and fro Both in Boston and in Cam bridge there were few if any moments for real rest. Harvard hospitality was showered upon him during his two dis tinct visits to the university city dur ing the day. and in Boston his personal friends claimed all his spare time and did all things to make his trip to Mas sachusetts most enjoyable.
 The principal event of the day, how ever, was President Rooseyelt's ad- dress to the Harvard students at the union founded by Major Henry l.. Hlgginson. the Boston banker, as an institution which all Harvard men could join and as one which would serve in a measure to destroy the so- cial barriers which ordinarily divide students in college life. Two thousand Harvard men, mostly undergraduates, gathered in the great living room of the union, and they gave the president . magnificent reception. genuine and forceful Harvard welcome. so sincere and so hearty that President Roose- welt frequently bespoke his apprecia- ton. Only to the extent that the pres ident's speech at the union had been given out for publication was Presi- dent Roosevelt's visit here in any way of public character. MT. Roosevelt, speaking of athletics. said:
 "As emphatically disbelievc in see ing Harvard or any other college turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men. I may add that I do not in the least object to sport because it is rough. Rowing. baseball, lacrosse, track and field games. hockey, foot ball. gre all of them good. Moreover, 1t is to my mind simple nonsense. a mere confession of weakness. to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves or practices grow up which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for in- stance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to de- velop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the ! question of abolishing 1t. There Is no excuse whatever for colleges failing to show the same capacity.
 We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain l In any republic courage is prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be good citizen. and he needs physical courage no less than moral courage. the courage that dares as we'll as the courage that endures. the cour. age that will fight valiantly alike against the foes of the soul and the foes of the body. Athletics are good especially in their rougher forms. he. cause they tend to develop such cour. Age. They are good also because they encourage a true democratic spirit. for in the athletic field the man must bs judged not with reference to outside and accidental attributes. but to that combination of bodily vigor and moral quality which go to make up prowess.'
 Yesterday Mir. Roosevelt devoted ts a trip to Groton. forty miles from Bos ton. where his son. Kermit. is at tn. Groton Preparatory school. He spen the time informally with his hoy ana also with Mrs. Roosevelt and Nils, Ethel Roosevelt. who had proceeded tc Groton from Boston. and with hi, daughter. the wife of Congressman Nicholas Jongworth. who went to Gro