Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-02-28
CALLS FOR A STURDY AMERICAN
MANHOOD.
URGtS POLITICAL DUTIES
Weakting and Coward Out of Place in
Strong and Free Community-Col-
lese Training Confers no Privilege
Save as Tested by Use Made of
1t.

Harvard Union yesterday President
Roosevelt gave AN 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
reference to the fact that he him.
self was Howard man. He said:
i emphatically disbelieve in seeing
Harvard or any other college turn ont
lmollycoddles instead of vigorous men,
!, | may add that | do not in the least
object to a sport because it is rough
Rowing, baseball lacrosse. track and
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 a nation,
no amount of brillancy of mind or
of strength of body win atone. "Har-
ward must do more than produce stu
dents; yet, after all, she will fall i'm.
measurably short of her duty and her
opportunity unless she produces
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 be rem
dered upon the quantity of first.
class work produced in the way Of
/ productive scholarship, and that no
amount of second-class work can
| atone for failure in the college to pro.
duce this first-class work. A course
of study is of little worth il il tends
{, to deaden individual initiative and
,cramp scholars so that they only work
F, in the ruts worn deep by many pre-
| decessors. American scholarship will
be judged, not by the quantity OF
lroutine work produced by routine
workers, but by the small amount OF
| first-class output of those who, in
whatever branch, stand in the first
frank"
! Addressing himself then TO college
\ men throughout the world the presi
ldent sought TO impress the duty
(which the college man owes to so
ciety and to government. He de
clared that each man should feel tina
he has no excuse, as a citizen in {
democratic republic like ours II h,
fails to do his part in the govern
lment 1t is not only his right so t.
do, but his duty: his duty both to tn,
nation and to himself Each should
feel tBat. If he fails in this, he Is no
lon'y falling in his duty but Is show
ing himself in contemplate ligh
a man may neglect his political duties
lshcrtsighted. or too timid; but what
lever the reason may be 1t Is certainly
an unworthy reason, and IL shows
lesther Weakness or worse than o
weakness IN the mans character
| Above all. college men, remember
that Ii your education, the pleasant
Hives Sou lead; make you too fastidi
Ious. too sensitive 10 take part In the
trough hnrlyburly OF the actual work
of the world II you become so over
mot no the hard work of practical
olit.cs, then you had better never
have been educated at all. The weak
ling and the coward are out OF place
In strong and free community. IL
La republic like ours the governing
class ie composed of the strong mer
who take the trouble TO do the WORK
lof government; and If You are toe
tlnij or too fastidious or too careless
no 60 your part in this work. then
you forfeit your right to be con
lsidered one Of the governing and you
become one Of the governed instead
one OF the driven cattle Of the politl
lc1l arena. ] want you 10 feel thai
u is not merely yoar right to take
part In politics, not merely your duty
to the state, but that 1t Is demanded
by your own self-respect. unless you
are content to acknowledge that YOU
are unfit to govern yourself and have
TO submit to the rule OF somebod,
bis, as a master-and this Is whai
II means If you do not do your own
,ptll IN government.
4 The president declared that he had
small use for thoge educated men who
In after life meet no one but them
selves, and gather In parlors to dis
tuss wrong conditions which they Dr.
not understand and TO advocate
remedies which have the prime de
tfect Of being unavoidable. The judg
ment on practical affairs, political ant
gocial. Of educated men who keeT
aSoof from the conditions OF practical
life. is apt to be valueless TO those
other men who do really wage effect
I've war against the forces OF base
: ness and Of evil From the political
! standpoint education Is harm and
not benefit TO the men whom II
serves AZ an excuse for refusing tc
mingle with their fellows and for
standing aloof from the broad sweep oil
our national life in a curiously i'm
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