It is this education, this joy which we would bring to you with your new house. We hope that in years to come, you on returning to Cambridge, will experience the same feelings that we have in Memorial Hall, when you think of your comrades here, who in due course will have done nobly their part in life.

Already on these walls stand tablets to great sons of Harvard, whose memories will ever be green, and much space remains for others who deserve well of their fellows. It may be that you will wish to record in this house the names of our young brothers, who went to the Cuban war and never came back. Perhaps you may establish here, as at Oxford, an arena, where you can thresh out the questions of the day, and learn to state on your feet, your opinions and the reasons for them.

One point pray note. The house will fail of its full purpose unless there is always a warm corner for that body of men who devote themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and to your instruction-the whole staff of Harvard University, from our distinguished and honored President, the professors, librarians and instructors to the youngest proctor. And if you see an older graduate enter the hall, go and sit beside him, tell him the College news and make him a welcome guest, for this is the house of friendship. He wants your news and he likes boys, else he would not have come. Old men are more shy of boys, than boys of old men. I have been one and am the other and ought to know. Like the Arabs, nail wide open your doors and offer freely to all comers the sait of hospitality, for it is a great and a charming virtue.

Harvard students, we ask for you every joy and every blessing which has fallen to our lot, and we ask of you higher aims and hopes than ours, together with better work and greater achievements, for your problems will be harder and your tasks greater than ours have been.

Remember that our University was founded for the public good and that it has a great history-that steady progress is essential to its moral and intellectual health and that the health and true welfare of our University and our country go hand in hand. Thus have they been made and only thus shall they endure.

Henceforth the government of this house is in your hands. May it be used only for the general good, and may private ends never be sought here.

In these halls may you, young men, see visions and dream dreams, and may you keep steadily burning the fire of high ideals, enthusiasm and hope, otherwise you can not share in the great work and glory of our new century. Already this century is bringing to you younger men, questions and decisions to the full as interesting as the last century brought to us. Every honor is open to you, and every victory, if only you will dare, will strive strongly and will persist.

Ours is the past and to you the future, and I am sure that the welfare and the honor of Harvard is as safe in your hands as it has been in those of your forbears.

Let Memorial Hall stand a temple consecrated to the spirit of large patriotism and of true democracy.

Let this house stand a temple consecrated to the same spirit and to friendship.

One word more to you future citizens of the United States.

We as a nation have suffered a terrible blow, aimed at our national life, which while resulting in the death of our chief magistrate, leaves our country absolutely unhurt, because we have a government of laws and not of men, and because our people are sound and true.

No one in his senses will for a moment offer any palliation of the cowardly, treacherous crime.

We reply by a renewal of our confession of faith, and by a stern resolve to square our daily thoughts and acts with our national faith and polity.

While we recognize that normal social conditions must constantly change, we meet such false and fatal insanity of thought and deed by a noble sanity of thought and conduct,-for ours is a government of healthy progress and not of anarchy.

May God keep safe and guide aright our fellow-graduate, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States