Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-30
ROOSEVELT TO
HARVARD ALUMNI
uore Than Ever Feels That Place
For a Man to be Educated
IS HIS own Home.
apNIRES OTHER NATIONS
:. :. More Important That UNIVERSE
ties Turn out Men Than
Mere scholars.

c,,,hridrc. Mass. June 29.--Guest
-, host IN one. Theodore Roosevelt
...rgbt energy and animation TO COM
'@.n,emept day at Harvard university
todsy
ma cheers that marked his passage
,re the buildings of the ancient
y,,8 Indicated his position as chief
,.. Of the day. while his presence at
-. ,,sd OF the table at the commence
.., luncheon in Memorial hall was
49,. ,oton that he was host by virtue
t ofece of president Of the Harvard
Alumni association. e,.oo,,
y, ,.as Roosevelt Of the class OF 1880
- and he had busy time shaking
ssnds with old college friends,
yybep Gov. Hughes OF New YORK re-
lived his honorary degree in Sanders
Sou The audience burst into great
cbeers and applause. }. Pierpont Nor
~, the New York fnancier, and Gen.
1880 Porter. formerly ambassador to
t,,arce also were awarded honorary
Nearly thousand young men re"
,,,ysd their diplomas today.
roi Roosevelt tonight went TO Ma
h,nt as guest Of Senator Lodge.
RoovEVELT's ADDRESS.
In opening the alumni meeting, Col
Roosevelt said In part:
In the first place, | come home with
an Increased and hearty friendship
and good will for other countries.
nave visited many different nations,
and the more I see OF decent people of
otber natlonalities the more l realize
tho truth OF Abraham Lincoln's state
ment that there rs a deal of human ma
tura In mankind good man Is
eoo5 man anywhere and a scoundrel
ought to be made to pay the penalty OF
his scoundrellsm, whatever his birth
plsre or nationality. And yet, with
that feeling. there has come con-
stsntly increasing understanding on
ms part that the man who wishes to be
good citizen Of the world must first
ana foremost be good citizen of HIS
own nation.
II have been given honorary degrees
In certain foreign universities on the
continent Of Europe and in Egypt |
am deeply grateful therefor. / appre-
clate the honor II was the keenest
pleasure to me to visit those universe
ties ! admire them with all my heart
PLACE TO BE EDUCATED,
And now having said that you viii
not misunderstood me when l say that
/ come back feeling more truly than
ever that the place for a man to be
educltcd Is his own home. Let him be
sent 10 school and university here Ia
The United States. II he has a chance
10 take a post graduate course else
where, according as his tastes and
needs dictate. good but let him have
the foundations laid here, where his
citizenship must be exercised.
let me also point out that you oan-
not be useful abroad unless you have
abroad the respect that only cotres II
yur usefulness has been proved at
home No man ought TO receive or viii
receive respect abroad, unless, as an
american ne has won his spurs In
American ne.
j trust 1 need not say l speak In
DO Spirit NJ mere Chauvanism. on the
contrary. ] peak, as I have said from
he standpoint Of one who sincerely
admlres othernations,w who has sense Of
grateful appreciation Of what they have
done for him, but who Is more than
ever convinced To be useful to the world
al large, IL rs necessary, first, to be
bone Of your bone and blood Of your
hood, with your own oountrymen. able
70 do your duty 10 the fullest extent
IN dealing with the problems your fell
low countrynen have to solve
MEN AND SCHOLARS.
1T is important this university
should turn out scholars. II IL more
important IL should turn out men able
70 do' 10 the fullest extent, what is re-
CURED Of them by the complex needs
o, American citizenship; and remember
Always that your power 70 show re-
sIect TO others win depend largely on
your own self-respect. In the DAYS
Nhen America mistrusted itself, Ameri-
"a iei bound To assert itself rather
"uIy ID the face Of foreign nations.
me greater Americas confidence
grows IN itself, the more America be-
comes strong and able to hold her own
" me face of any nation of the earth,
me more ready America will become
y ueat e1ch and every nation in n
shHt of the fullest cordially and
,nenGship, and the less apt she will be
~ 'aHe oiteuse, not merely needlessly,
Out 70 take offense when there is some