The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-29
Roosevelt the Big Figure at
Harvard Today
HE OVERSHADOWED ALL
It Was the First Time That an Ex-
President Had Honored the Cam
bridge University Commence
ment Exercises.

Boston, June % Tx. President Roose-
welt was the biggest figure in the Har-
ward commencement to-day and was
greeted with cheers from The moment be
entered Massachusetts, hall lie met
Governor Hughes and they conversed an
imatedly for fifteen minutes, but Hughes
never cracked smile IN Sanders the-
ntre, great crowd was present when
President Lowell awarded honorary de.
grees as follows:
Doctors Of laws Governor G. +.
Hughes, j. Perpont Morgan, General
Horace Porter, President McLaurin Of
the institute Of technology, and Samuel
Wiliston. professor of law at Harvard.
Masters 81 arts Robert Arehey Woods,
engaged IN settlement work in Boston,
Joan Eliot Thayer, an ornithologist and
Thomas liverm0re. a Boston fnaneier
Doctors Of science. Sir John Murray,
natural scientist, London; Theodore
Richards, chemist Germantown, Pa.i
Theobold Smith, pathologist Albany n.
Y.
Doctor Of letters George prothero,
historian, Of Cambridge, Eng.
Never before had an exspresident Of
the United States honOred o Harvard
commencement procession with his pres
enee. until the alumni body was headed
III the line Of march to-day by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt The strenuous fig
ure OF the colonel dominated the whole
scene from the moment Of his arrival,
and "Bwana Tumbo' almost showed com
neneement OF the map. When Mr..
Roosevelt arrived at Massachusetts hall
at 9s45 a. a.. he was almost taken oil
his feet BY his former classmates en-
thusiastic rush to greet him. but man
aged to push his way through the crowd
20 grasp The hand Of another ex-presi-
dent Dr. Charles NJ Eliot, Harvard s
president emeritus
When Colonel Roosevelt took his place
IN line as president of the Harvard Alum
nj association, the procession began to
assume the appearance of a politeal pa
rade. for Senators Henry Cabot Lodge
and William Murray Crane of Massaehu.
setts, Governor Draper, Lieutenant Gov.
ernnr Frothingham many Massachusetts
congressmen, Mayor John F Fitzgerald
of Boston and many of tie state poll.
tieinns occupied prominent positions III
the sine
Headed hy President A Lawrence Low
ell. at precisely 10 o'clock he procession
filed into Sanders theatre, where the ex
ereises Of the day and the award ol
over 800 degrees began, larger assem-.
bly, than ever before received titles from
Harvard.
Five scholars Of the first group, CHOSEN
by the faculty solely for their intel
lectual achievements, delivered short adj
dresses. One speaker halls from Van
conTer, B. G., and another from Panama
pnd their subjects were almost as far
apart as their homes; Farnham Bishop
of Ancon, canal zone, spoke tersely on
"0nr Socialist State at Panama w. r.
9Iuff Of Sellersville, Pa, presented an
Urgent plea for yiviseetion; E. G. Schau-
gotb Of Buffalo N. Y, gave q learned
Latin address; II. A. Bellows Of Boston
talked n cultured style on medieval
literature, while J 81 Gates Of Van
rouver cnose Henry VIII, as the subject
of his grafton
AS The governor and fiis escort Of Ma
fional Laneers clattered out Of the yard
after the award Of the degrees and diplo.
mas, the alumni gathered for lunch in
Massachusetts, hall AT 2sl5 the process
sion OF alumni assembled for the march
to their annual exercises ii Memorial
hall, with Colonel Roosevelt again head
ing the line. As president Of The alumni
association, Mr. Roosevelt introduced Dr.
Eliot as the speaker Of the day and was
greeted with thunderous appiause as he
mounted the platform.