University of Virginia Library

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Providence, R. I.

The Corporation and Faculty of Brown University extend to the University
of Virginia, on its hundredth anniversary, greeting and felicitation.

No institution of the higher learning has affected American education
more vitally and fruitfully than the University of Virginia. Your original
ideals and purposes were distinctly different from those animating the
colleges and universities of the North, and because you were different you
have helped us all.

More than seventy years ago the great president of Brown University,
Francis Wayland, seeking to effect certain changes in New England education,
was drawn to the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. On returning
from his memorable visit he wrote his famous "Report to the Corporation"
of 1850, which was like the sound of a trumpet echoing through
the quiet valleys of New England. From that day Virginia began to make
its notable educational contribution to the Northern States.

We of Brown University greet you at the beginning of your second
century. May increased resources bring only increased devotion to the
early purpose of your distinguished founder, and may the fraternal interchange
of ideals and methods among American colleges grow with the growing
years.