OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
The Ohio State University felicitates and congratulates the University
of Virginia upon the happy and honorable completion of One Hundred
Years in the service of Higher Education and expresses the hope that the
Centennial Exercises may deepen the interest in the Old Dominion and to
the Country rendered in the Century now past by the distinguished men
who have constituted the Faculty.
The Alumni have taken a high place in the history of the Country
representing in many instances the most distinguished citizenship of the
Nation. The spirit of the scholar has never departed since the illustrious
founder, Thomas Jefferson, laid the foundations of American Scholarship
devoted to the public service.
The University of Virginia in a very real sense a monument to his genius
is at the same time a testimonial of the men whose untiring energies have
sustained the ideals of Jefferson.
The President, Trustees and Faculty of Ohio State University greet
with enthusiasm their colleagues in the University of Virginia and have
commissioned Professor Rosser Daniel Bohannan, Class of 1876, University
of Virginia, and for thirty-four years Professor of Mathematics at Ohio
State University, to bear these greetings and to represent the University
in the Centennial exercises.
By the authority and direction of the Trustees of The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio.
(Signed) William Oxley Thompson,
President of the University.
April 28, 1921.
