8o Presidential Addresses 



is in truth a man, to feel that the fact of his having 

 had a college education imposes upon him a heavier 

 burden of responsibility, that it makes it doubly in 

 cumbent upon him to do well and nobly in his life, 

 private and public. I wish to speak of three men, 

 who, during the past three or four years have met 

 these requirements of a graduate of Hamilton Col 

 lege, Elihu Root, of a graduate of Yale, Governor 

 Taft, and of a fellow Harvard man, Leonard Wood 

 men who did things; did not merely say how 

 they ought to be done, but did them themselves; 

 men who have miet that greatest of our national 

 needs, the need for service that can not be bought, 

 the need for service that can only be rendered by 

 the man willing to forego material advantages be 

 cause it has to be given at the man's own material 

 cost. 



When in England they get a man to do what 

 Lord Cromer did in Egypt, when a man returns as 

 Lord Kitchener will return from South Africa, they 

 give him a peerage, and he receives large and tangi 

 ble reward. But our Cromers, our men of that 

 stamp, come back to this country, and if they are 

 fortunate, they go back to private life with the 

 privilege of taking up as best they can the strings 

 left loose when they severed their old connections; 

 and if fortune does not favor them they are accused 

 of maladversion in office not' an accusation that 

 hurts them, but an accusation that brands with in 

 famy every man who makes it, and that reflects but 

 ill on the country in which it is made. 



