Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
ROOSEVELT NOW
CAMBRIDGE Ii. D.
Receives Honorary Degree at
English University.
STUDENTS HAD TEDDY BEARS
Former President Was Given Rous-
ing WeIcome-Hang Teddy Bear
From Center of Senate Hall.

Former President Was Given Rous-
ing Welcome-Hang Teddy Bear
From Center of Senate Hall.
Cambridge, Eng, May 27.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt received from the
University of Cambridge the honorary
degree of doctor of laws. The cere-
mony 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 a splendid reception.
The conferment took place in the
senate house Ordinarily upon such oc-
casions the hall is bright with the
scarlet robes of the doctors and the
gala costumes of the women, but on
this occasion 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
Students Shout Teddy"
AS Colonel Roosevelt accepted his
diploma the students who crowded the
galleries shouted Teddy, Teddy" and
the whole audience cheered
The old senate building was packed
with thousand persons, including the
faculty and doctors of the university
in their gowns and many women, who
filed the body of the building, while
the galleries were occupied by stu.
dents.
During the ceremony the students
swung a Teddy Bear above the center
of the hall, where it dangled to the
entertainment of everybody. Colonel
Roosevelt joined in the pleasantly,
and as he was leaving the building
reached up and patted the toy beast
with his hand.
Several hundred persons who were
unable to enter waited outside the SEN
ate house and cheered the former
president upon his arrival and depar
ture. The procession was short but
picturesque. 1t started from Pembroke
college, where Colonel Roosevelt had
lunch, and moved slowly to the SEN
ate house.
First marched two liveried mace
bearers. Next came Colonel Roose-
velt in his robe and wearing a fiat
velvet cap upon his head. Beside him
was Vice Chancellor Mason. Follow
ing 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
laudatory address highly praising
Colonel Roosevelt as a statesman, lit
erateur. sportsman and peacemaker.
AS he concluded he handed Colonel
Roosevelt his diploma, while the au
dience gave three cheers.
Audience cheered Him.
The audience was decidedly friend
ly cheering the former president upon
his arrival and departure and at fire.
quent intervals during DR.. Mason's
speech. When the vice chancellor re-
ferred to the university's guest as "a
friend of peace and a friend of the
human race whose fame is attested by
all Europe" there was roar of ap-
proval from the listeners.
The vice chancellor said:
"The universal gloom of the mourn.
ing for King Edward is broken by a
ray of sunshine on the anniversary of
the birthday of Queen Mary, which is
made doubly memorable by this recep-
tion to Colonel Roosevelt"
The orator spoke of the former pres
ident as "a most welcome guest and 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 Colonel
Roosevelt has played in the govern
ment of the United States and upon
his efforts for the promotion of the
peace of the world.
He spoke of his almost royal pro-
sress through Europe" and his liter
Ary distinction, and concluded by in
Producing Colonel Roosevelt as the
faithful friend of the British empire
and of all good men throughout the
world, who will continue in the future
to do good service for his country"
Following the exercises Colonel
Roosevelt visited Kings college and
the famous 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 mem,
Der. There he met some 700 under
graduates.