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BERLIN, May 12.-'The University
of Berlin, where Mr.. Roosevelt gave
his lecture today, has been compelled
| to hoist the public distress signal. For
the $50 available places over $500 ap,
pllcatfons were made, and the public
was asked through newspaper notices
to desist from further appeals for ad-
mittance.
Mr.. Roosevelt's lecture, which the
Kaiser heard, was a historic review
Of the world movement without par
ticular reference to any one country
or any one idea. The university au-
thorlties arranged to admit the largest
possible number of undergraduates to
hear the ex.President's address, as he
expressed desire to speak before
both professors and students.
The aula in which the Colonel talk
ed Is the same place in which the
Kaiser, on the occasion of the address
delivered by Prof. John w. Burgess Of
Columbia University on October 10,
1906, rose dramatically from his place
and proposed three ringing cheers
for Theodore Roosevelt
The comic papers are filled with
Roosevelt cartoons, and the Nordwest,
a popular local weekly has published
a special Roosevelt edition. which in
cludes an illustrated write-up Of Ber.
Inns American colony.
The Introduction 10 the colcners
address follows:
very highly appreciate the chance
to address the University Of Berlin in
the year that closes its first centenary
OF existence 1t is difficult. for you in
the Old World fully to appreciate the
feelings of a man who comes from a
nation still in the making, to a coun-
try with an lmmemorial historic past;
and especially is this the case when
that country, with It's ancient past be-
hind it, yet looks with proud conf.
dence into the future, and in the pres.
ent shows all the abounding ylgor Of
lusty youth. Such is the case with
Germany. More than thousand years
have passed since the Roman Empire
of the West became in fact a German
Empire. Throughout mediaeval times
the Empire and the Papacy were the
two central features in the history Of
the Occident. With the ottos and the
Henrys began the slow rise Of that
Western life which has shaped mod
ern Europe, and therefore ultimately
the whole modern world. Their task
was to organize society and to keep it
from crumbling to pieces. They were
castle.builders, city.iounders, road
makers; they battled to bring order
out Of the seething turbulence around
them; and at the same time they first
beat back heathendom and then slow.
ly wrested from it Its possessions.
After the downfall Of Rome and the
breaking in sunder Of the Roman En-;
plre, the first real Capitalization Of
the forces that were working for q
new uplitt OF civilization in western
Europe was round the Karling House,
and, above all. round the great Empe-
ror, Karl the Great, the seat Of whose
Empire was at Aachen. Under the
Karllngs the Arab and the Moor were
driven back beyond the,Yyrenees; the
last Of the old heather Germans were
forced into Christianity, and the Ay-
ars, wild horsemen from the Asian
steppes, who had long held tented do
inlnlon in Middle Europe, were utter.
Inv destroyed. With the breakup Of
the Karling Empire came chaos once
more, and a fresh thrush of sayagery;
Vikings from the frozen North, and
new hordes OF outlandish riders from
Asia. 1t was the early Empetors Of
Germany proper who quelled thess
barbarians; in their time Dane and
Norseman and Magyar became Chris
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