Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-02-28
THE president
TO COLLEGE MEN
CALLS FOR A STURDY AMERICAN
MANHOOD,
URGES POLITICAL DUTIES
weskhna and Coward Out OF Place in
Strong and Free COMMUNICATED,
lese Training Confers no Privilege
Save as Tested by Use Made Of
H.

Cambridge Mass. Feb, G5,--At me
| Harvard Union yesterday President
Roosevelt gave IN address in which
he urged the student body To stand
for ideals. to be doors OF deeds rather
than critics of the deeds of others.
The president opened his address with
/ q reference TO the fact that he him.
self was Howard man, He said;
u omphadoally disbelieve in seeing
Harvard or any other college turn out
!mollycoddles instead of vigorous mon,
GRy add that do not In the least
object 10 sport because II is rough
Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track ard
field games, hockey, football are all
of them good
Turning then from the physical to
| the intellectual the president declared
that best of all is the development OF
the type of character for the lack Of
which. in an individual as In nation,
no amount of hrilliancy of mind or
of strength OF body viii atone "Har-
ward must do more than produce stu.
dents, yet, after all, she will fall I'm,
Imeasurahly short of her duty and her
opportunity unless she produces a
great number OF true students, OF true
scholars Moreover, let the students
remember that In the long run In the
field OF study Judgment must he rem.
dored upon the quantity OF FIRST,
class work produced In the way OF
productive scholarship, and that no
amount of sccond-class work can
atone for failure in the college 60 pre-.
duce this tnstclass work A course
OF study il OF little worth IL Il tends
to deaden individual initiative and
cramp scholars SO that thoy only work
In the ruts worn deep by many pre-
decessors. American scholarship viii
be Judged, not by the quantity OF
routine work produced by routine
workers, but by the small amount of
hrstcass output of those who, In
whatever branch, stand in the hrsl
rank
| "A
men throughout the world the prosi
dent sought TO impress the duty
which the college man owes to so
ciety and to government He dc
clared that each man should feel that
he has no excuse, as citizen in a
democratic republic like ours If he
fails 10 do his part In the govern
mont II is not only his right so tc
do but his duty, his duty both to the
nation and to himself Each should
feel that, II he falls in this, he Is not
only failing In his duty but Ia show
ing himself in "A contemplate llghi
A man may neglect his political duties
because he is too lazy, too selfish, toe
sEGrtsighted or too umid, but what
ever the reason may be II Is certainly
an unworthy reason and II shows
either a Weakness or worse than
weakness in the mans character
above all, college men, remembo
that II your education, the ploasan
Hives you lead, make you too fastidi
Gus. too sensitive TO take part In th
rough hurlyburly of the actual worl
Of the world. II you become so over
cultivated, so oyerrefined that you cal
mot DO the hard work Of practice
/ politics, then you had better neye
, have been educated at all. The weak
ling and the coward are out OF plac
. in a strong and free community. il
republic like ours the goyerninl
class ia composed of the strong mel
who take the trouble to do the worI
OF government; and II you are to-
tlmil or too fastidious or too careless
TO 60 your part in this work the
you forfeit your right to be cor
ridered one Of the governing and yo
become one Of the governed instead
one OF the driven cattle Of the pollt
cIl arena ! want you 10 feel tina
IiL Is not merely your right 10 talk
part IN politics, not merely your dut
10 the state, but that Il y demando
by your own self.respect. unless yo
are content TO acknowledge that yo
are unfit TO govern yourself and hay
/ 10 submit 10 the rule OF somebod
ols. az q master-and this is wha
e. means If you do not do your owl
part In government"
Tho president declared that he ha
small use for those educated men win
I'm after life meet no one but them
selves, and gather In parlors to DIE
GUS wrong conditions which they d
not understand and to advocat
remedies which have the prime DC
feet Of being unworkahle. The judg
ment on practical affairs political am
social. Of educated men who keel
aloof from the conditions Of practica
life, rs apt 10 be valueless 10 thosl
other men who do really wage effect
live war against the forces Of base
mess and Of evil From the polltica
standpoint education 81 a harm an,
not benefit 10 the men whom !
serves as an excuse for refusing d
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