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President Addresses Harvard Alumni on Duty and Reform
The Harvard commencement featured President Roosevelt addressing alumni after a large gathering in Memorial Hall. He urged stronger scholarship, higher pay for exceptional scholars, and the need for alumni to lead in public life, business, and law with lofty ideals, practical effort, and moral standards.
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Harvard
Memorial Hall
Eliot
Bishop Lawrence
Alumni Association
Lawrence
Justice White
United States Supreme Court
Taft
Yale
Ambassador Choate
Choate
President Angell
University of Michigan
Alexander Aggasiz
Roosevelt
Law School
Medical School
America
Colog Fe
Randolph
Colonel Higginson
Harvard Union
Hardihood
Law
Macaulay
Scotland
Albert Bushnell Hart
College Yard
the Treasury
Charles S. Hamlin
Boston
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Paul Morton
Navy