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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.