612 COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN GERMANY. 



" The things of the spirit are even more important than the 

 things of the body." 



" It would be a bad thing, indeed to accept Tolstoi as a guide in 

 social and moral affairs, but it also would be a bad thing not to have 

 Tolstoi." 



" We must remember that it is only by working along the lines 

 laid down by the philanthropists — by the lovers of mankind — that 

 we can be sure of lifting our civilization to a higher and more per- 

 manent plane of well-being." 



" Unjust war is to be abhorred, but woe to the nation that does 

 not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who 

 would harm it ; and woe thrice over to the nation in which the aver- 

 age man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a 

 soldier." 



" In the Grecian and Roman military history the change was 

 steadily from a citizen army to an army of mercenaries. The exact 

 reverse has been the case with us in modern times." 



RECEIVES DIPLOMA AS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY. 



" The single fact that the old civilization was based upon 

 slavery shows the chasm that separates the two." 



" Forces for good and forces for evil are everywhere evident, 

 each acting with a hunderd or a thousand fold the intensity with 

 which it acted in former ages." 



" Frowning or hopeful, every man of leadership in any line of 

 thought or effort must now look beyond the limits of his own 

 countrv." 



Dr. Roethe, dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, followed the 

 Colonel, and closed a discourse in German by addressing the former 

 President in Latin. The dean caused a laugh among the Senators 

 when in his Latin effort he used a feminine ending for a masculine 

 noun, and so furnished the only pleasantry of two hours and a half 

 of oratory. 



As Dr. Roethe handed the new doctor his diploma the choir 

 sang the German national hymn and the audince gave three cheers. 

 The exercises ended with the singing of " The Star Spangled Ban- 



