The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
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THE GRADUATES
VIII Have Busy Time During
the First Week of
June.
PRESIDENTS son ROBERT
WILL BE ORATOR AT YALE
Chief Executive to Make Open
ing Speech Before National
Republican League.
BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE.

By Leased Wire to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON. May 2S.-When
President Taft leaves for New York to-
morrow night he starts upon a series
Of journeys which will set new mark
in presidential oratory. He goes not
forth panoplicd to smito the insurgent
and the tariff knocker in mis- lair;
neither does he go to round up votes
and chide the delinquent voter His
missions are TO be those of knowledge
giving. He will impart to the gradu-
ating classes the truths which may or
may not help them when they are
lined up in the greater gridiron of life.
Brief respites Will mark the erudite
Junket. AS the president sits amid the
splendor of graduating halls and learns
that beyond the Alps lies Italy, and
that Caesar was really and truly a
greater fighter than Napoleon, he will
have established new epoch in the
lives of our presidents but first of all,
he will 90 to New York TO review the
memorial day parade on Monday. Late
Monday he will be back in the national
which starts on June Q.
Talk to Young Women.
Tho first commencement oration de-
livered by President Taft will be at the
young women s school at Bryn Mawr,
where Miss Helen Taft is a student.
On the following day he will deliver
monday speech at the graduating ex-
ercises of the Ohio National university
at Ada, o. With remembrances of the
day still ringing in his ears, the presi-
dent Will be hurried to Detroit to speak
the same night. The speech in Michi-
gan may embody some politics, for
Senator Burrows is said to be meeting
with some opposition up that way. On
June President Taft viii be shown the
beauties of Jackson and Monroe, Mich,
from the quarterback of an auto, and
the evening of June 5 will again find
him back in the District of Columbia
On June 6, two orations will be made
by the president to graduating classes.
One will be at Villa Nova college in
Pennsylvania and the other at Lincoln
college, an institution for negroes, not
far from Villa Nova. An auto will
convey the president from one school to
another.
Will Be Given Degree.
At Villa Nova an honorary degree
of doctor Of Jurisprudence will be con
ferred upon President Taft. Four davs
later the president will Journey to his
Alma Mater, Yale, and will witness the
commencement exercises, in which his
son, Robert, will participate as an ora
tor The Yale commencement exer.
cises will be the most interesting Of all.
President Taft always speaks with
great feeling there, for his love for the
school is very warm. Doubtless he will
listen with keen interest TO the speech
of his son and the Judgment of the
president upon his son s forensic ability
will be sought. for, as an arbiter Of
the qualities of oratory. the president
stands without a peer. Even the Demo
Gratis admit this,
A dinner will be given at New Haven
for the president, after which he will
go to New York. So far as the sched-
ule is made out, these are all the com
mencement exercises the president will
attend. However, a few more dates
may be added early in June. With the
broad sympathies which are one of his
chief characteristics, President Taft
delights 10 speak upon such occasions.
He even excels former President Roose-
welt upon such events. President Taft
will make the opening address at the
biennial conference Of the National Re-
publican league in New York on June
81 at Carnegie hall. This speech will
be of the sterner stuff
Instead OF telling Of the dangers that
confront the young man and woman
who is Just starting in the race for
livelihood, he will again be expounding
those old-time principles on Republican
victory and the tariff, which may. if
the truth be known, give the president
as much pleasure as in giving advice to
the graduating youth.