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which he had ridden, the Colonel said : " Oh, bully, by George ! Ai ! 

 And what a corking five hours in the saddle, too." 



That night the Roosevelts dined with the Hills. The guests 

 included in addition to the ladies and gentlemen of the Embassy, 

 Chancellor Von Bethmann-HoUweg, Foreign Secretary and Bar- 

 oness Von Schoen, Seth Low and wife, Henry White and wife, 

 American Consul General Thackara, of Berlin, and the rector of 

 Berlin University. 



President Taft, on May ii, appointed Theodore Roosevelt spe- 

 cial administrator of the United States to attend the funeral of 

 King Edward. Colonel Roosevelt accepted the commission in a 

 cable message to the President. 



"THE WORLD MOVEMENT." 



Colonel Roosevelt delivered a lecture on May 12, on " The 

 World Movement," at the University of Berlin, and received from 

 the University the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 



Emperor William honored the occasion with his presence. It 

 was the first time that His Majesty had graced a conferment, and 

 the courtesy was significant in view of the fact that the German 

 court was in mourning for the monarch's uncle. 



The ceremony of conferring the degree was staged and con- 

 ducted with impressive simplicity. There were no flags or emblems 

 of royalty and the government. The walls of the Aula were bare 

 except for the rows of busts of Germany's scholars and scientists. 



By a curious coincidence. Colonel Roosevelt spoke in the Aula, 

 or hall, where the Kaiser, on October 19, 1906, rose dramatically, 

 after an address by Professor John W. Burgess, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, and cried for three cheers for Theodore Roosevelt. 



The only touch of color was furnished by the Senators of the 

 University with their robes of scarlet and blue and the five heads of 

 the student corps, who wore blue jackets, white breeches, jack boots 

 and parti-colored sashes. 



Four hundred guests of the University, who held cards of ad- 

 mission, were seated when Emperor William, accompanying the 

 Colonel, entered from a side door of the hall. As they appeared 



