New-York tribune., 1910-06-29
ROOSEVELT At HARVARD
Greeted Quietly Both at Cam
bridge and Boston.
HE ATTENDS CLASS DINNER
Delighted at Being Just a Har-
ward Alumnus, Without the
Crush of Cheering Crowds.

Boston, June 2S-It was a very quiet
greeting which Theodore Roosevelt, class Oh
so, met In Boston and Cambridge following
his arrival here this afternoon to attend to-
morrow the Harvard commencement day
exercises.
Aside from his classmates. with whom he
dined at the Algonquin Club tonight, ana
other Harvard alumni, the ex-President met
very few persons during the nine hours be-
tween his arrival at the Back Bay station
and his retirement for the night at the
home of President A. Lawrence Lowell OF
Harvard University.
At the Back Bay station, his arrival
being unheralded less than one hundred
persons welcomed the former President In
Cambridge, where he went Immediately,
no crowds greeted him.
Mr. Roosevelt had not been there long be-
fore a request came for him to cross the
street and speak to the members OF the
Harvard Law School Alumni Association,
who were holding their annual meeting in
the Harvard Union. He accepted the in
vitation and, escorted by Justice Francis Z.
Lowell of the United States Circuit Court,
and Arthur D. Hill, ex-District Attorney OF
Suffolk County he went over to the Union
His entrance was greeted with applause,
and he spoke briefly.
Mr.. Roosevelt expressed his qualification
at being at Harvard again, and referred TO
the memorial tablets In the Union to the
Harvard soldiers who fell in the Spanish
American War He said II was gratifying
! to know that Harvard was always ready
when the country called for military or
civic service.
The ex-President then took short walk
about the college yard with E. II. Wells
secretary of the class of 80, and Robert
Homans. He visited the Porcelain Club
ard one or two other smaller clubs.
The ex-President shortly before O'Clock
returned to President Lowells house ano
sCon afterward was brought back to Bos-
ton.
Before the Algonquin Club tonight the
few persons In the park in front gave nc
indication that he was expected, ano he
was forced to address group on the Dai-
cony outside the clubhouse and ask, Is
this where the class OF 80 is meeting? In
side the clubhouse, however, his greeting
was enthusiastic enough.
The former President sat at the dining
table with his classmates for three hours
and at 1875 p. m took his departure IRON
Cambridge in President Lowell's auto
I
regarding a reported conference with poiti-
cal leaders on the train en- route to Boston
to-day. Mr.. Roosevelt said there was none
II talked only casually with some twenty
persons" he said.
Among those he mentioned Congressman
A p. Gardner and David Goodrich, a for
mer Harvard oarsman.
One of the first men the former President
spied when he reached Cambridge this
afternoon was William H. Lewis, the ole
Harvard football star. one of the mos
prominent negroes in the city and former
Assistant United States District Attorney
Mr. Lewis was given a typical Rooseveltlar
greeting Other old college friends wert
quickly singled out, and Mr. Roosevelt
delight at being able to act the part o
lust a Harvard alumnus. without the crust
of cheering crowds about him, was unuis
taxable
In connection with the annual meeting o.
the alumni association Of the Harvard Dl
yinity School, there was dedicated a table
TO the memory of the late Rev. John White
Chadwick, who at the time of his death
five and a half years ago. had been TO
forty wears minister of the Second Uni
tartan Church. at Clinton and Congress!
streets Brooklyn. The tablet is the gift o.
friends and parishioners OF Mr. ChadWlck
who was graduated from the Divinity
School IN 1864 II is placed on the wall o
the chapel near the tablet to Ralph WaIdt
Emerson. In connection with the ded1ca
ton a series of sonnets. written for th'
occasion by A Emerson Palmer, secretary
of the Board Of Education of this city, Wn'
was actively connected with MI Chad
wick's Brooklyn society for about twenty
five wears. was read by Professor NliLlali
W u-anr 6aan nj the Divinity School.