The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

i6o THE PRESIDENT STARTS ON HIS TRIP
of professional and business men upon his return from Evans-
ton. The Chief Executive of the nation and the Chief Magis-
trate of Chicago left the car and, as soon as they reached the
platform, walked arm-in-arm between the two lines of committeemen
to the street, where a carriage awaited them. The
party then drove rapidly to the Auditorium Hotel. After
luncheon President Roosevelt was conveyed to the home of
Dr. William R. Harper, president of the University of Chi-
cago. From Dr. Harper's residence, after being attired in cap
and gown, the President marched to Kent Theater, accom-
panied by representatives of all the colleges and affiliated
schools of the university, where the degree of Doctor of Laws
was conferred upon him; after which the procession moved to
the site of the University of Chicago Law School Building,
where he was to lay the corner stone. During the march, the
line of which lay between two files of three thousand students,
"Dr." Roosevelt was greeted with wild enthusiasm, and when
the procession had reached the site of the law school, Presi-
dent Roosevelt was handed a trowel, and after he had spread
the cement on the foundation stone, and the corner stone had
been lowered into position, he stepped to the center of the
speaker's stand and spoke, substantially, as follows:
ADDRESS AT THE tJNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
It is of vast import;ince to our well-being as a nation that there sliould be a foun-
dation deep and broad of material well-being. No nation can amount to anything
great unless the individuals composing it have so worked with the head or witli the
hand for their own benefit, as well as for the benefit of their fellows, in material
ways, that the sum of the national prosperity is great.
But that alone does not make true greatness or anj^hing approaching true
greatness. It is only the foundation for it, and it is the existence of institutions such
as this, above all the existence of institutions turning out citizens of the type which I
know you turn out, that stands as one of the really great assets of which a nation
can speak when it claims true greatness. From this institution you will send out