Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America...should found this great university in the city of Washington.

Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon.

I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building.

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist; and that the American consul and his family have perished.