ELIOT FORMS WORDING OF ROOSEVELT TABLET

For the purpose of keeping alive the memory of him whom Professor A. B. Hart '80 termed "Harvard's Greatest Alumnus", in the place where he spent "four formative and fruitful years", a tablet will be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt on the house at 38 Winthrop Street. The time is scheduled for 12 o'clock on October 27, Roosevelt's birthday. The tablet will bear the following inscription, composed by President Eliot:

HERE LIVED

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

DURING

FOUR FORMATIVE AND FRUITFUL

YEARS AS A MEMBER OF

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

1876-1880

Mr. Charles G. Washburn '80, of Worcester, will make the principal address and present the tablet. Since the house at 38 Winthrop is now owned by the college, President Lowell will accept the gift on behalf of the college. The tablet is a gift of the Massachusetts Committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association of which Professor A. B. Hart, a former classmate, is Chairman. The latter is to preside at the ceremonies on October 27.

To Perpetuate Roosevelt's Name

"There are so many great men among the graduates of Harvard", said Prof. Hart in commenting on the purpose of the tablet "that we are apt to lose sight momentarily of the fact that the greatest of them all spent his entire college course in a dwelling which many of us pass by every day."

He pointed out how interested Roosevelt the young man was in every feature of his environment, and drew from his store of college reminiscences incident after incident to show Roosevelt's popularity, his keen enjoyment of companionship, and above all the formative influence which the college of 800 undergraduates had on his life.

The primary purpose of the tablet, according to Prof. Hart, is to keep Roosevelt in the minds of the young. "No one," he said, "can pass by now without recalling the man that once lived there."