{"id":13390,"date":"2022-06-13T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/13\/1905-theodore-roosevelt-delivers-the-first-undergraduate-commencement-address-at-clark\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:31:44","slug":"1905-president-theodore-roosevelt-delivers-the-first-undergraduate-commencement-address-at-clark","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/13\/1905-president-theodore-roosevelt-delivers-the-first-undergraduate-commencement-address-at-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"1905: Theodore Roosevelt delivers the first undergraduate commencement address at Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"intro news-subhead is-style-intro\">U.S. president urges \u2018honesty, courage, and common sense\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-clark\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Above: Clark University\u2019s first Commencement, June 21, 1905 \u2014 Standing on the porch of the Clark President\u2019s home, from left: Mrs. Rockwood Hoar and daughters, University President G. Stanley Hall, College President Carroll D. Wright, Commencement Speaker President Theodore Roosevelt, presidential secretary William Loeb, and U.S. Representative and Clark Trustee Rockwood Hoar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0President Theodore Roosevelt delivered the commencement address at Clark University&#8217;s first-ever public undergraduate commencement ceremonies in 1905. Degrees were conferred on 43 men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in this coverage published in&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Boston Globe<\/em> on June 22, 1905.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/T-Roosevelt-comm-address-Boston-Globe-6-22-05-p1-843x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Roosevelt 1905 Commencement address 1\" class=\"wp-image-20151\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/T-Roosevelt-comm-address-Boston-Globe-6-22-05-p2-887x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Roosevelt 1905 Commencement address 2\" class=\"wp-image-20152\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/T-Roosevelt-comm-address-Boston-Globe-6-22-05-p3-657x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Roosevelt 1905 Commencement address 3\" class=\"wp-image-20153\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. president urges \u2018honesty, courage, and common sense\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13391,"template":"","meta":{"story_color":"var(--clarku-color-deep-red)","story_headerImg":13391,"section_label":"Clarkives","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[223],"displayed_author":[224],"featured":[],"topic":[234],"class_list":["post-13390","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clark-community","displayed_author-clarknow-staff","topic-clarkives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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