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Show TEDDY GREETING COLLEGEGHUMS Former President Joins Members Mem-bers of Harvard '80 in Social Reunion. WILL HEAD PARADE OF THE ALUMNI TODAY Guest of President Lowell, Head of the Famous University. Uni-versity. BOSTON. June 28. Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard, 'SO, was unable to como to Boston Bos-ton in time to participate in tho outing of his class today, but Joined his old college friends tnlght. when the cluss held its reunion at the Algonquin club In Although thc time of. his arrival had not been widely heralded a small crowd was at tho back bay station when Colonel Roosevelt stepped off his train from Now York and gavo him a hearty cheer. The former president was driven In an automobile to tho home of President Lowell of Harvard university in Cambridge. Cam-bridge. He soon crossed, thc street to sneaT; to the Harvard Law School alumni, who were holding tholr annual meeting In the Harvard Union, and was greeted with applause as ho entered. en-tered. He expressed his gratification at being at Harvard again and rcforrcd to the memorial tablets to the Harvard soldiers sol-diers who fell In thc Spanish-American war. It was pleasant to know, ho said, that Harvard always was ready when the country called for men for civic or military mili-tary service. Visits Collego Clubs. After a short walk about tho "yard," Rooaovclt visited tho Prccllllan and other ClRooKovclt will head thc alumni parade in lumnl hall tomorrow afternoon and will speak briefly at tho commencement dinner. He will not have any part in thc commencement exorcises, although he probably will attend. When Colonel Roosovelt was Informed or thc rosult of tho Harvard-Yale ganio his face foil, but a moment later ho laughed and said: "Why did you tell mo anything like thai?" ..... , Shortly borore ? o'clock tho ox-prcsl-clent returned to President LowgU'h Iioubo and soon aMcrward ho was brought back to Boston in a motor car and Joined his classmates at thc Algonquin club- Tho rlass dinner was private. At Its conclusion. con-clusion. Colonel Roosevelt roturiuid to Cambridge, where ho spent thc night as the guest of President ixiwcll. Asked regarding a reported conference with political leaders on a train en route to Boston today, ex-President Roosevolt said there was none. "J only talked casually with some twenty twen-ty people," ho said. Among those mentioned worn Congressman Congress-man A. P. Gardner and David Goodrich, tlu former Harvard oarsman. Thc colonel's colo-nel's delight at being able to be just a Harvard alumnus, without the crush of cheering crowds about him, was unmistakable. |