Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-27
Roosevelt Takes |. |. D.
Degree at Cambridge.
Students Swing TEDDY Bear
| Al the Ceremony.
Or. Mason DwelIs Upon RooseyeIt's
Efforts for Peace.

Roosevelt today received from the Uni
yersity of Cambridge the honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws The ceremony
was brief and Shorn of much of the
usual splendor, but was marked by
much enthusiasm upon the part of the
faculty and students who gave their
guest splendid reception.
The conferment took place in the
Senate House. Ordinarily upon such
occasions the hall is bright with the
scarlet robes of the doctors and the
gala costumes OF women, but this af-
ternoon only the recipient of the degree
and the public orator, Vice Chancellor
Mason, wore the pink lined scarlet
robes while the women of the audience
were in mourning gowns.
AS Mr.. Roosevelt accepted his diplo-
ma the students who crowded the gall
leries shouted TEDDY! Teddy" and
the whole audience cheered
The old Senate building was packed
with 1000 persons. During the cere-
mony the students swung a Teddy
Bear above the center of the hall.
where it dangled to the entertainment
Of everybody. Mr.. Roosevelt joined in
| the pleasantly and as he was leaving
the building reached up and patted the
Teddy Bear" with his hand.
Several hundred persons who were
unable to secure entrance waited out
side the Senate House and cheered the
former President upon his arrival and
departure. The procession was short
but picturesque. 1t started from Penn
broke College where Mr.. Roosevelt had
lunch and moved slowly to the Senate
House. First marched two liveried
mace bearers. Next came Mr.. Roose-
Welt in his robe and wearing flat vel
vet cap upon his head. Beside him
was Vice Chancellor Mason. Following
the two were several professors, while
two more mace bearers brought up the
rear.
The proceedings of conferment were
in Latin. The vice chancellor delivered
Mandatory address. He said: 1.-THE
universal gloom of the mourning for
King Edward is broken by a ray of
sunshine on the anniversary of the
birthday of Queen Mary. whichi is made
douhly memorable by this reception to
Mr.. Roosevelt
The orator spoke of the former Pres
ident as "a most welcome guest, a
man of singular vigor and versatility,
who for seven years presided over the
great republic which is united with
Great Britain by many ties and dwelt
upon the part that Mr. Roosevelt has
played in the government of the Unit
ed States and upon his efforts for the
promotion of peace of the world. He
spoke of his almost royal progress
rough Europe" and his literary dis
tinction and concluded by introducing
Mr. Roosevelt as 1.-The faithful friend
of the British empire and all good men
throughout the world. who will contin..
ue in the future to do good service for
his country
Following the exercises Mr.. Roose-
welt visited Kings College and the ia
nous chapel after which he went TO
Trinity College where he had tea with
Rev. and Mrs. Butler. Later he visited
the headquarters of the, Cambridge
Union Society. of which he had been
elected an honorary member. There he
met some 700 undergraduates.
The former President was accompa-
MED from London by Mrs. Roosevelt
and his daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth AS they made their way through
the narrow winding streets to the home
of the great educational institutions,
the Americans were greeted by enthu-
siastic crowds.
Mr.. Roosevelt was formally welcomed
by Dr. A. j. Mason, vice chancellor OF
Cambridge University, with whom ne
had a brief chat. Then an hour was
devoted to a visit to Emmanuel Col
lege. founded in 1913, and where John
Harvard, the butchers son, who was
to become a clergyman in the Massa-
chusetts colony, and the first benefac-
tor of Harvard College, was graduated
in 1881.
He met some 700 graduates and spoke
for Is minutes in his best vein He COW
cred a wide range of topics from football
and lions to good citizenship and the
strenuous life. He wished that Ameri-
cans could learn from Cambridge now
to make football less homcidal.
The ex-President went on to say that
he wouldn't have the game dropped for
ANYTHING but would want 1t changed to
draw the teeth of the mollycoddles who
were always camoring for the abolition
of any manly game.