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ADDRESSES ON THE SECOND DAY

ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY

By President Alderman

Governor Davis has welcomed you to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
I shall not seek or hope to add to the graciousness of that welcome, but I
may venture to focus its friendliness upon this particular spot in the Commonwealth—this

University which here to-day inaugurates this celebration
of remembrance and hope in commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary
of its birth, and which I take leave to describe as the highest intellectual
achievement of an old and distinguished American state. It was
founded by a lover of human freedom whose political philosophy was based
upon absolute faith in the ultimate wisdom and integrity of trained men.
Guided by sincere scholars who held that faith in their thinking and lived it
in their lives, stamped with opulent beauty of form and girt about with fair
landscapes and encircling hills, it has been at work during one century, distinguished
above all other centuries, perhaps, for its fruitful pursuit of
justice in society and truth in science. In peace and in war, amid all the
vicissitudes that beset free men threading their way to higher destinies, here
it has stood a steadfast thing of force and dignity striving to augment the
forces of nature and to ally them to the uses of mankind, to mix beauty with
strength in the framework of democracy, and to establish in the life of the
great republican experiment enduring standards of personal integrity and
public virtue. What contributions it has precisely made to American civilization
belong to the educational history of the nation, and these have been
recently set forth with sympathetic skill and faithful accuracy by a distinguished
son of this University. We have yielded to this very human
impulse, characteristic of institutions as well as of men, to mark a milestone
in an endless career, not primarily to recite the glories of the past but to
envisage the responsibilities of the future. We recognize in this air the
ethical binding force of that reverence for the past without which there can
be no true continuity in human institutions. We believe indeed that all
healthy growth somehow proceeds out of the tissues of ancient strength,
but our enthusiasm is for the future and our vision is a vision of potential
youth of this and other ages pressing forward to carry on the work of an ever
better world.

In behalf of the Governing Bodies and Faculties of the University of
Virginia, I, therefore, welcome you to this birthday festival: Delegates of Universities
and Colleges, representatives of Learned Societies and Foundations
in this and other lands, guests of the University, and in a way of peculiar
affection, sons of this mature and vigorous mother, those whom the years
have whitened, those who bear the work of the world in the middle period,
and these young scions who climb about the knees of Alma Mater in love
and gaiety. I am aware that thousands of miles and centuries separate
you in space and time. Institutions are represented here to-day which were
venerable when our continent lay unknown in these western seas, while
others have sprung into life in answer to the cry of democratic need in the
last decade; but, nevertheless, it is as a homogeneous family that I welcome
you—a brotherhood of cultural force and endeavor, a fellowship of scholars,

blood kin in intellect and purpose, holding the promise of the future as they
have yielded the fruit of the past. Whatever we have to offer of personal
affection and esteem, of historic significance, of memories of old eager
teachers who showed to by-gone generations "the high, white star of truth,"
of present hope and intent, is yours, my colleagues.

We who now serve these Virginia altars are heartened by your presence
and sympathy, enlightened by your counsel and stimulated by your example.
Standing upon the lintels of a new age, the University of Virginia is as of
old still glad to learn and glad to teach. Like Ajax praying for light to see
his foeman's face on the darkness of the Trojan plain, we humbly ask
Almighty God for strength and opportunity to face whatever is before us
with enlightened minds, organized wills, and uplifted hearts.

RESPONSE BY PRESIDENT CHANDLER OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY

We are deeply grateful to His Excellency, the Governor of Virginia, and
to the President of this University for their eloquent words of welcome. We
thank them sincerely for giving us the opportunity to be present at this
renowned institution as participants in this history-making celebration. On
this centennial occasion it is a privilege to speak for the colleges of Virginia.
We rejoice that our University, through a hundred years of activity, has
contributed so much to the educational development of the State, and has
furnished so many leaders to Virginia and the United States. We are deeply
grateful that its centenary does not mark old age and a decline, but a ripening
into vigorous youth, giving promise of a period of more useful activity
and of wise promotion of education in many fields. No words of mine can
depict the deep sense of pride that we have in this institution.

On such an occasion one can but think of educational conditions before
the founding of the University. At the opening of the Revolution there was
but one institution of higher learning in Virginia, the College of William and
Mary, then nearly one hundred years old. But with the Declaration of
Independence, an impetus was given to higher learning, for it was generally
thought that in a Republic all men participating in its affairs should be
trained for the performance of their rights as citizens. The further desire to
prepare men for service to the church and to society in general, resulted in
the beginnings of Hampden-Sidney in Prince Edward County, and Liberty
Hall at Lexington, later Washington College, and still later Washington
and Lee University. These three institutions, William and Mary, Hampden-Sidney,
and Washington and Lee are the only Virginia institutions of college
grade antedating the University of Virginia.

George Washington had dreams of a national university, and in his will

he bequeathed fifty shares of stock in the Potomac Company for the endowment
of a university to be established within the District of Columbia. To
Washington College, he likewise made a gift of stock with the hope that at
Lexington would be maintained an institution which would prepare young
men for the national university. Washington's idea of a university was a
national school of politics and administration. According to Herbert B.
Adams, "It was an idea born of the old College of William and Mary, where
capitol and college faced each other, and where the statesmen of Virginia had
been trained for their great work of liberating the colonies and of framing the
Federal Constitution. The idea of a national university grew in Washington's
mind with his own official connection as Chancellor of William and
Mary."

Before Washington became an advocate of a national university,
another great Virginian was urging the establishment of a university for his
own State, "although there was nothing provincial in his advocacy." He
conceived of a university separated from politics and located in a small town
where young men would not be subjected to many temptations—an institution
around which there would cling something of a monastic spirit—a
university bearing marks of an educational system found at Geneva and at
Oxford and Cambridge. This great Virginian was Thomas Jefferson, who is
justly entitled to be called the "father of the University of Virginia."

This University, to quote again Herbert B. Adams, "is clearly the
lengthened shadow of one man. But William and Mary College was the
Alma Mater of Thomas Jefferson. There at Williamsburg, in intimate
association with a Scotch professor of mathematics and philosophy, with a
scholarly lawyer (George Wythe) and with the Governor of the Colony,
Thomas Jefferson received his first bent towards science and higher education,
towards law and politics—the fields in which he afterwards excelled.
Jefferson's first idea of a university for Virginia is inseparably connected
with his proposed transformation of William and Mary College, of which, as
Governor of the State, he became ex officio a visitor in 1779."

I wish it were possible at this time to review the full significance of the
year 1779 in the educational history of America. Speaking briefly, in this
year, the College of William and Mary took the name of university, established
the honor and elective systems, introduced the teaching of modern
languages, and established a school of law and a school of medicine. These
steps in American education, introduced through the influence of Jefferson
and the two Madisons, have revolutionized higher education in America.
However, Jefferson's bill of 1779, in favor of transforming William and
Mary into the University of Virginia, failed of passage because William and
Mary had been the college of the established church and the various denominations
represented in the Virginia Legislature would not vote public

money for such an "establishment, however noble and worthy. Non-sectarianism
was one of the deepest foundations in the political establishment of
higher education in Virginia." It was much easier, therefore, for Mr. Jefferson
and his friends to establish a new institution.

In a letter of 1814 to Peter Carr, President of the Board of Trustees of
Albemarle Academy, Jefferson wrote: "I have long entertained the hope
that this, our native State, would take up the subject of education, and
make an establishment, either with or without incorporation, into that of
William and Mary, where every branch of science deemed useful at this date
should be taught in its highest degree." In this letter Mr. Jefferson outlines
a plan for the elementary schools preparatory to the "general" schools,
which in turn should prepare for the professional schools, incorporated in
the university.

In 1817 a bill barely failed in the General Assembly to establish a complete
system of primary schools, academies, colleges, and a university. This
bill proposed that the trustees or visitors of the then existing colleges of
William and Mary, Hampden-Sidney, and Washington should be invited
to become a part of this system.

Jefferson's conception of a University of Virginia was a place where all
branches of useful sciences could be taught and where men could be trained
for the professions. He said: "To these professional schools will come the
lawyer to the school of law; the ecclesiastic to that of theology and ecclesiastical
history; the physician to those of the practice of medicine, materia
medica, pharmacy, and surgery; the military man to that of military and
naval architecture and projectiles; the agricultor to that of rural economy;
the gentleman, the architect, the pleasure gardener, the painter, and the
musician to the school of fine arts." He also favored a school of technical
philosophy and said: "To such a school will come the mariner, carpenter,
shipwright, pump-maker, clock-maker, mechanist, optician, metallurgist,
founder, cutler, druggist, brewer, vintner, distiller, dyer, painter, bleacher,
soap-maker, tanner, powder-maker, salt-maker, glass-maker, to learn as
much as shall be necessary to pursue their art understandingly, of the
sciences of geometry, mechanics, statics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, hydrodynamics,
navigation, astronomy, geography, optics, pneumatics, acoustics,
physics, chemistry, natural history, botany, mineralogy, and
pharmacy."

It was not intended that this university should be a school of aristocracy
but a seminary of learning to which men preparing for all professions or
vocations would come. The marvel is the vision of the great master mind.
Founded on so broad a conception, the University may be expanded as the
needs of the people demand and as our civilization changes.

Speaking for my own college and the other Virginia institutions of

higher learning—state, private, and denominational—we exult in the
original conception of the founder of this University, a conception looking to
instruction in all fields of useful knowledge, and we pledge to the University
our assistance in the promotion of education for the State.

The raison d'être of a State university was well expressed by President
Burton in his inaugural address when he said, "The function of the State
university is to serve the State and through the State to serve the nation and
the world." Through the hundred years of its life the University of Virginia
has clearly demonstrated that this ideal is the goal of its ambition.
Its usefulness is being expanded daily by its recognition that much of
college work in the State should be done by institutions already chartered
and giving standard degrees. This does not mean that the University should
discontinue its college work but should insist, as it does, upon higher standards
both for entrance and graduation. The sister institutions are further
gratified that the University is holding firmly to Jefferson's desire to establish
a correlation between the University and colleges of such a character
that the colleges will become "feeders" to the University. This ideal is
vital to all, but it calls for strenuous efforts to develop extensively the graduate
departments of the University. The growth of the University is of
paramount importance to the State and such plans as look to the expansion
of the schools of engineering, education, business administration,
law, and medicine; to the establishment of a bureau or bureaus of investigation
and research, and to extension courses within reach of the people in
various parts of the State, are gratifying evidences of the broadening influence
of this institution of which we are so justly proud. We know that
all these movements demand large expenditures for equipment and for personnel,
but we believe that the people of Virginia are ready to be taxed for
all progressive proposals on the part of its University.

Mr. President, coming from an institution that is the Alma Mater of
the founder of the University, and speaking for it, speaking for Washington
and Lee University which owes, to a certain extent, its development to the
gift from the great Washington, speaking for the ancient college of Hampden-Sidney
and for the State institutions and the other institutions of higher
learning, which have been established since the University of Virginia, I
bring on this joyful anniversary greetings and expressions of grateful appreciation
of the wonderful influence upon learning that this institution has
exerted in the State and nation. We realize that this University has in
many ways ministered faithfully to the educational needs of our State and
country. We appreciate the high ideals that you and the Board of Visitors
have for this institution. We delight in its growth and expansion. We
rejoice in the prospects for an increase in its endowment and facilities. On
this Centennial anniversary we declare to you our readiness to coöperate

(From left to right) President Chandler, of the College of William and Mary; Ambassador Jusserand; President Lowell, of Harvard
University; President Hill, of the University of Missouri; Rector Bryan, of the University of Virginia

with you in your ambitions and in the superb efforts that are being made to
promote culture and to prepare men and women for leadership in the State,
the nation, and the world. We are yours to command for the accomplishment
of the cherished purposes for which this University was established,
for in those purposes we have an abiding faith.

RESPONSE BY PRESIDENT LOWELL OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

It is a privilege to speak for the endowed universities of this country
at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the University of
Virginia, founded by the philosopher-statesman, and architect as well.
Here he lived during the struggle for independence, whereof he wrote the
charter; and here he returned after his labors for the new-born nation, in
France, as Secretary of State and as President. In his later years of well-earned
repose he lit here a beacon to diffuse the light of learning he held
needful for the people he had served so long.

The examples of such far-sighted men as he, have been followed, until
to-day, a host of lights are shining over our whole country from shore to
shore. The oceans that guard our land are the only things upon the planet
that man does not, and cannot, change—symbols of eternity, eternally in
movement and eternally at rest. In this they typify the human spirit, unchangeable
yet ever changing; and the universities, which embody that
spirit in its most refined and keenest form, should ever be centers both of
continual movement and of rest.

Bound together in a common cause, quickened by a common aim,
faithful to a noble trust, our universities and colleges are constantly calling
with their bells throughout this broad land—calling to one another to serve
the needs of the present time, and to prepare the way for generations yet to
come.

Your bells have called, and we, representatives of the great brotherhood
of scholars, have come to pay our tribute of respect to this university, venerable
in years, but ever young;—more vigorous and more youthful as the
years roll on. We come to tell you of our faith that, large as have been her
services in the century that is past, the University of Virginia, in the century
that lies before us, will be greater in works, in influence and in renown.

RESPONSE ON BEHALF OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES BY HIS EXCELLENCY JULES
JUSSERAND, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

I am most happy that it is my privilege to answer on this auspicious day
and to offer congratulations, on behalf of foreign institutions, among which
are those of France.

The French feeling for the founder of the University of Virginia was of
the warmest. Jefferson had studied our philosophers, spoke our language
and spent five years among us as the diplomatic representative of the newborn
American Republic. The sympathy was reciprocal. "I do love this
people with all my heart," he wrote from Paris to Mrs. John Adams in 1785.
The early prospects of our own Revolution filled him with joy, and he took
pleasure later in recalling those feelings, when the first guest from abroad,
Lafayette, was received by your University, and dined in your hall, with
Jefferson and Madison in 1824. In the letter pressing him to visit what he
calls "our academical village," Jefferson reminded this early friend of
America of the far-off time, when, one evening they, with some "other
patriots, settled in my house in Paris the outlines of the constitution you
wished."

Secretary of State, he saluted the birth of our first Republic in the
warmest terms, assuring us that the citizens of the United States considered
"the union of principles and pursuits between our two countries as a link
which binds still closer their interests and affection." This union of principles
and affections, after half a century of republican institutions in
France, is closer now than ever before, as was evidenced, not by words, but
by momentous deeds in the recent glorious past.

When the longing for independence had been fulfilled in this country,
the longing for the spread of knowledge became preponderant among the
leaders of the nation. I wish, Jefferson said, our people would "possess information
enough to perceive the important truth that knowledge is power,
that knowledge is safety, that knowledge is happiness." An immense country
with untold possibilities was to be developed; and two conditions for
success were indispensable: on the one hand, the pluck, energy, clever understanding
of fearless pioneers; on the other, knowledge. The nation had the
first, not the second; it realized, however, its lack and its chiefs resolved
that the gap should be filled.

Peace was not yet signed, and Independence, just won, had not been
consecrated, when, as early as 1782, "the President and Professors of the
University of William and Mary," that famous institution where both
Washington and Jefferson had studied, the honored mother of the most
famous of the literary societies, the Phi Beta Kappa, sent to Rochambeau,
still in America, an address couched, they said, "not in the prostituted
language of fashionable flattery, but with the voice of truth and republican
sincerity," saying: "Among the many substantial advantages which this
country hath already derived and which must ever continue to flow from its
connection with France, we are persuaded that the improvement of useful
knowledge will not be the least. A number of distinguished characters in
your army afford us the happiest presage that science as well as liberty will

The French Ambassador, Dr. Henry van Dyke, and Other Notables

acquire vigor from the fostering hand of your nation. . . . You have
reaped the noblest laurel that victory can bestow, and it is perhaps not an
inferior triumph to have obtained the sincere affection of a grateful people."
It was a fact that in Rochambeau's army one general was a member of the
French Academy, Chastellux, chief of staff, a great friend of Jefferson, and
that Rochambeau himself was able to use Latin in order to talk with learned
men in America ignorant of French. This Virginian suggestion was the
beginning of an intercourse which has expanded considerably since, to the
advantage of America, of France and of other countries.

For the solution of the problem and the spread of knowledge in the
United States, the two leaders, happened to be the chiefs of the two political
parties, federalists and antifederalists, unanimous however on this question,
both twice presidents of the United States; both sons of Virginia, George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The two had dreamt a dream that
was not to be fulfilled in the way they had imagined. They wanted a National
University, ranking above all others, and giving only instruction of
the highest order. Washington bequeathed to the institution that was, he
thought, to reach one day that rank, the shares of the Potomac and the
James River companies which he had received as a gift from his native State
and which he never intended to apply to his own uses. Jefferson, when
President, proposed to Congress in his sixth annual message the resumption
of the same plan, and as subsidies would be expected from every State he
recommended the vote of an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.

The National University was not to be, but the University of Virginia
was to be and now is, greatly improved, increased and invigorated. With
what love and devotion he fostered it, all know. It was his last great service
to his country, one of the only three he allowed to be mentioned on his tombstone,
where he is described as the "father" of this same University. He
had indeed for her a fatherly love; describing it as "the last of my mortal
cares," paying attention to every matter of importance and also to every
detail; anxious about the selection of professors, the attendance of pupils
and the style of architecture. Abroad, he wrote with pride "they have immensely
larger and more costly masses but nothing handsomer or in chaster
style." Professors were sometimes in those far-off days the cause of
trouble; he complains of some who teach Latin and pronounce it in such a
way that you do not know whether they are not speaking Cherokee or
Iroquois. Students too have their faults, or had in those times, but all told,
the undertaking is a success, and with pride again he could write "A finer
set of youths I never saw assembled for instruction."

We feel confident that if he were to appear suddenly among us to-day,
and have a look at the successors of those he knew, he would use the very
same words.

He conceived, even from the first, that, although for certain branches of
learning, he had to depend on professors from abroad, yet American universities
could even then be of use to European youths. In 1822 he wrote to a
friend of his who was American minister in Lisbon that the young people from
over there might come with profit, and get "familiarized with the habits and
practice of self-government. This lesson is scarcely to be acquired but in this
country, and yet, without it, the political vessel is all sail and no ballast."

This was indeed the lesson that without the need of any university, it is
true, or of any teaching other than those of events and examples, all those
enthusiastic young men who had come from France to fight for American
independence took home with them. At the time of our Revolution they
were foremost in asking for equality and for the abolition of privileges,
Lafayette, first among them and Rochambeau with him, Marquis and
Count though they were.

Now the fight for knowledge is won. While continuing to learn,
America can also teach; she is one of the nations in the vanguard of civilization
as regards learning and discoveries. Her universities, libraries, laboratories,
scientific periodicals are the envy of more than one foreign nation.
She not only receives professors from abroad but sends out some of her own,
who are received with open arms—and open ears. They say things worthy
to be remembered and they increase the respect and sympathy every liberal
nation owes to theirs.

An even more telling proof that the problem is solved and that America
has come to her own in the matter of learning, is the high appreciation in
which are held, in every country, the medals, prizes or other tokens of
appreciation she may choose to bestow. Those tokens sometimes are the
sign not only of her appreciation of merit but of her inborn warm-heartedness
and generosity, as when, the other day, having heard that the discoverer of
radium possessed no radium she presented a gramme of the rare substance
to Madame Curie, the presentation being made at the White House by the
Chief of the State, in a speech that went to the heart not only of the illustrious
lady but of the whole of France.

To all this, foreign institutions render homage: they are glad to think
that their good wishes for you are sure to be fulfilled. What a man like
Jefferson founds is certain to prosper; and it is a good omen for the University
of Virginia that the man who secured her charter was also the one
who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

A FEW REPRESENTATIVE GREETINGS

Out of a large number of greetings only a score, because of space limitations,
are included in this volume. The original copies of all greetings may
be seen in the University Library.

Greetings from the University of Cambridge

L'UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS À L'UNIVERSITÉ DE VIRGINIE

L'Université de Paris vous apporte, en ce jour mémorable du premier
centenaire de votre Université, ses compliments et ses voeux.

Un professeur étranger se sent de suite à l'aise parmi vous et dans l'enceinte
de votre "campus," car il n'oublie pas que vos premiers collaborateurs
furent précisément des étrangers, arrivés comme lui d'Europe. Dès
ses débuts, et, pour ainsi dire, avant la lettre, l'Université de Virginie réalisait
ainsi cette liaison intellectuelle et scientifique entre l'Amérique et l'Europe,
qui ramène aujourd'hui près de vous les délégués des Universités sœurs.

L'Université de Virginie s'est fait, dans le pays américain, une réputation
de charme irrésistible: je ne sais pas une autre Ecole, aux Etats-Unis,
dont ses "alumni" parlent avec autant de tendresse émue. Assurément, la
beauté des bâtiments et la douceur du climat ne suffisent pas à expliquer
cette attraction, car il ne manque pas de constructions magnifiques et de
sites choisis dans la liste des Universités américaines. Il faut, pour expliquer
le charme que vous exercez, admettre qu'il y a quelque chose de plus que des
causes ordinaires, et ce quelque chose semble bien être l'esprit de votre
fondateur qui se transmet, révéré et enrichi, de génération en génération.

Pour l'exprimer d'un mot, cet esprit de Jefferson, c'est l'esprit moderne
dans son sens le plus généreux et le plus large. L'idée qui a été déposée dans
vos murs avec la première pierre et la première truelle de ciment, c'est l'idee
essentiellement moderne de l'égalité devant l'instruction. Sans doute, une
université ne peut pourvoir à toutes les phases de l'enseignement, puisqu'elle
s'adresse à une élite déjà préparée. Mais l'idée de l'instruction universelle
qui hantait Jefferson dans le bouillonnement de ses jeunes années, était si
féconde, encore qu'irréalisable à son époque, qu'elle a comme déposé un
rayon de grâce et d'attirance dans le berceau de votre Université naissante.
Lorsque les projets, prenant corps lentement, à travers les difficultés administratives
et financières et les compétitions géographiques, se furent
fixés dans l'esprit de Jefferson et des hommes de bien qui furent ses collaborateurs,
on dut sans doute constater qu'une restriction avait été opérée,
et qu'à l'enseignement universitaire était seulement dévolue la tâche d'assurer
la culture "de la science à un haut degré." Mais en même temps,
l'idée primitive reparaissait dans une formule indiquant le but à poursuivre,
à savoir donner à chaque citoyen une instruction "en rapport avec ses ressources."
Ainsi, dans votre pays à peine installè dans sa jeune liberté, une
Université se fondait, tâtonnant à travers mille obstacles, mais guidée par ce
fanal qui jamais ne s'éteint, le souci de former l'âme populaire.

Voilà l'idée clairvoyante et généreuse qui a groupé vos disciples et qui
pénètre de sympathie pour vous vos visiteurs du Vieux-Monde.

Sans doute, la joie que nous éprouvons à nous joindre à vos fêtes ne
nous fait pas oublier à nous autres universitaires français, la terrible épreuve
que nous venons de traverser et l'hécatombe qui a fauché, parmi notre
jeunesse, les rangs les plus lourds d'espoir. Elle ne nous fait pas oublier non
plus le magnifique et généreux élan qui, parti de vos universités, a placé
votre pays à nos cotés dans la lutte suprême. Mais nous savons aussi que
la vie ne s'arrête pas à cause des deuils, et que l'herbe continue à verdir sur
nos tombes même les plus chéries. Le flot des générations nouvelles monte
sans s'arrêter les degrés qui mènent à nos salles, et nous savons que nous
avons la charge de guider sans faiblir l'âme de ceux d'aujourd'hui et de
ceux de demain, exactement comme si notre patrie ne venait pas d'être
bouleversée par l'ouragan. Le passé, nous ne l'oublions pas, c'est notre bien
à nous, c'est notre deuil sacré; mais nous ne voulons pas nous en laisser distraire
dans notre vision de l'avenir.

Laissez-moi donc vous assurer, Monsieur le Président, que l'Université
de Paris est, sans arrière-pensée, profondément heureuse de fêter avec vous
aujourd'hui votre anniversaire de joie et votre grand élan d'espérance. Le
spectacle de la jeunesse et de la vigueur de votre Université est bienfaisant
pour nous, car ces vertus nous garantissent que vous comprenez comme
nous l'aspiration commune qui doit nous unir, celle de préparer, pour nos
pays respectifs et pour le monde, un avenir de lumière où la science règne,
pacifique et large,—et en même temps un avenir de génerosité scientifique
répudiant à la fois l'esprit de domination et l'esprit d'orgueil, qui sont la
négation de la recherche, telle que la conçoivent de libres citoyens.

The President, Fellows and Faculty of Yale University send
their greetings to the University of Virginia, and congratulate its officers
and alumni on the completion of one hundred years of distinguished service
to the cause of the Arts and Sciences. They recognize that no American
University has had higher standards for degrees than the University of
Virginia, and that few institutions have done so much to train men to take
their part as leaders of citizenship in the Nation and its constituent commonwealths.
Intimately identified as it is with the immortal name of Jefferson
and with many men prominent in literature, scholarship, and public life,
such as Poe, Maury, Kane, Wilson, Davis, Gildersleeve, Tucker, Minor and
Venable, the institution has an unchallenged position in the front rank of
that small group of historic universities of national significance and influence.
The University has fully justified its founder's purpose as interpreted by

President Madison "to make it a nursery of republican patriots, as well as
genuine scholars."

The officers of Yale University have rejoiced at the progress made by
this ancient University "born of the union of human enthusiasm and civic
impulse" during the brilliant administration of President Alderman, and
hope and believe that it may serve the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
Nation with equal distinction during the generation to come.

In the necessary absence of President Hadley,

Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, D.D., Secretary of the University,
has been duly appointed Yale University's delegate and will present these
greetings and congratulations.