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Installation of the lM"rst President 
 
 OF THE 
 
 University of Virginia 
 
 Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman 
 
 April 13, 1905 
 
 Prepared by 
 SALLIE J. DOSWELL 
 JOHN S. PATTON 
 
Edwin Anderson Alderman. 
 
 l-Ldwin Anderson Akk-rnian was born in Wilmington. X. C, May 
 15, 1861. He was prepared for college at Bethel Military Academy, 
 Virginia, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina, 
 at Chapel Hill, in 1882. On leaving college he immediately entered 
 upon his chosen work of teaching. His career in that ])rofession has 
 been one of constant and rajjid advancement. In iSSj be was made 
 Superintendent of Cilv Schools. ( ioldsboro. X. C. ; in iSSO. President 
 
EDWIN ANDKRSON Al.DKKM A X. 3 
 
 of the North C'nroHna Teachers' Asscnilily ; in i<SX(). State Institute 
 Conductor of North C'arohna; in 1S9J, I'rofcssor of llistdry in the 
 State Normal and huhislrial College, at tireensl)oro, N. C. ; in 1H93, 
 I'rofcssor of the llistor\ and Philosophy of Education in his (iliiui 
 iiuitcr, the Cnixersity of Xorth Carolina. In i8(/). fourteen years 
 after his graduation, he was unanimously chosen President of the 
 University of Xorth C'arolina. and administered its affairs with signal 
 success for four years. There was a steady and remarkable increase 
 in the numher of stmlents, in the amount of income, in the inimber of 
 new huildings. and in jjopular a])preciation of the work and worth of 
 the University. His adnunistration was marked also hy unity of pur- 
 pose among l-'acully and students, and hy an unllinching faith in his 
 ability to lead to higher things. 
 
 In April. 1900, he was called to the presidency of Tulane Univer- 
 sity, of Louisiana, made vacant by the death of Colonel William 
 Preston Johnston. His administration of this office was in the highest 
 degree successful. The curriculum was revised and liberalized; the 
 scattered life of the institution was unified: the b'aeulty w-as notably 
 strengthened: the resources of the University were augmented; a 
 beautiful library building was erected; there was an awakening along 
 all lines of college life; and the cause of higher education was, as 
 never before, brought to the minds and hearts of the people. 
 
 In 1896, the University of the South, at Sewanec, Tenn., con- 
 ferred upon President Alderman the degree of D. C. L. In 1899, 
 Tulane University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D.. this honor 
 being repeated by Johns Hopkins University in 1902. 
 
 President Alderman is an Imnorarv member of manv learned 
 societies, and is especially i)rominent in the National Educational 
 Association, having been a \'ice-President of the Association for 
 1903-04. He is the author of "A Brief History of North Carolina,'" 
 and many educational pamphlets and addresses. He is a member of 
 the Southern Education P.oard and director of its affairs for the 
 Southwest. His reputation as an orator before cultured assemblages 
 is national, and his felicitous addresses in New York, Chicago, Balti- 
 more, and Boston have been notable features of notable occasions. 
 
 He carries to his work (at the University of Virginia) a personal 
 magnetism, an innate leadership, a dedication to cultured service, an 
 adaptability to new conditions, a hospitality to large ideas, an under- 
 standing of educational needs and processes, a sympathy with all high 
 enthusiasms, a disdain of sordidness and inefficiency, a passion for 
 democratic ideals, a swiftness and sureness in interpreting popular 
 movements, and withal a vividness and distinction of speech not sur- 
 passed by any college ])resi(lent in America.* 
 
 *Ur. C. A. Smitli. 
 
Election ot President Alderman, And His 
 Reception at the University 
 
 Dr. lulwin Aiuk-rson Aldcnnan was (.■Ircled President of the 
 I'nivcrsity of X'irginia by the Board of Visitors on June 14, 1904, 
 and his acceptance of this office was convex cd in the following letter: 
 
 HuTEI. X'UTORIA, XeW \'oKK. julv 7. 1 904 
 
 Hon. CInirlcs P. Jones. Charlottesville. I'a. 
 
 My De\r Mr. Jones:— On Ttiesday. June i4ih, I had the honor 
 to receive your lele,!.;rani announcinc: niy election as President of the 
 University of \'ir<4ini;i. ( )u \ester(hiy I sent you by telegram my 
 formal acceptance of that j^reat honor and trust. It seems to me proper 
 that I should more formally, and hy letter, acqtiaint you of my de- 
 cision. 
 
 I have spent the three weeks intervening between the action of 
 the Board of \'isitors and my decision in an earnest elTorl to discover 
 the right thing to do in this great matter. 
 
 .\s you well know. I did not seek this high office and this great 
 responsibility, for my mind and my heart were full of the prol)lenis of 
 the Tulane University of Louisiana. — an iu-^titution de:ir to me and 
 full of power for the future in our national life. It has cost me much 
 suffering to sever my relations with that University and with the 
 broad-minded and generous-hearted people who sustain it. but I have 
 come to you because the call seemed to me a clear call <if duiv and 
 responsibility, which I could not put aside. 
 
 This is no moment of mere protestation. T shall give to the 
 University of \'irginia whatever strength 1 h;ive of mind or body 
 or si)irit. I shall study its past with reverence, and 1 shall seek to 
 build about it for the future in the spirit of a man who has something 
 very precious entrusted to his keeping. 
 
 Of my own self I can do very little, and th;it little ill. but if the 
 strength of every man and woman who loves the University and 
 understands its meaning to American life may be relied upon, then, 
 indeed, a great work may be done. 
 
INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 I shall niako many mistakes, without douht. The only college 
 president who avoids mistakes is the one who cunningly does nothing. 
 
 1 shall, however, believe that the Board of \'isitors and the people of 
 A'irginia. to whom the University belongs, will have patience with me 
 if my purpose be clear to do what I can. Faithfully yours, 
 
 Edwin A. Alderman. 
 
 On the evening of September 15, 1904, the President was wel- 
 comed to his office by a large gathering in the Public Hall of the 
 University. The Hon. Charles Pinckney Jones, of Monterey, Rector 
 of the Board of Visitors, presided, and made an address of notification, 
 in the course of which he told of the sentiment which had resulted in 
 the enactment by the Legislature of a law providing for a president, 
 and referred to the satisfaction of the public in the Board's choice of 
 an executive. The Rector pledged to the President the support and 
 co-operation of the \'isitors, the alumni and the student bodv. 
 
 Address of Welcome to the First President. 
 
 Dr. James Morris Page, the last of the Chairmen of the Faculty, 
 on laying down the office which he had administered with consi)icuous 
 ability, said : 
 
 " The simple ceremonies in which we are participating tonight are 
 intended to contribute towards marking an event in the life of the 
 University of Virginia second in importance onlv to the conception 
 and birth of the institution ; I refer, of course, to the inccpti(~in of a 
 new form of government. 
 
 " I need hardly remind you that, in the beginning, the executive, 
 and a part of the legislative, authority and responsibility were vested 
 in the Faculty and the Chairman of the Faculty. This form of gov- 
 ernment, introduced by the Father of the institution, was at first a 
 l)ure democracy, for the Chairman, the chief executive officer, was a 
 member of the b'aculty, and was elected annually by his colleagues. 
 P)Ut the chairmanship soon ])roved to be an ofiice to be sedulously 
 avoided bv any professor, on account of onerous duties and responsi- 
 bilities which became more burdensome \-c'ar bv vear, so that in |S_>8, 
 wlien the Universil\- was three vein's old. the X'isitors had to take the 
 matter in hand and ;i])point a Chairman in order to ensure the office 
 being filled. This was the first departure from Jefferson's purely 
 democratic form of government: and from |8_'S u]) to the ])resent the 
 \'isitors have continued to a|)])oint the executive. I nia\- mention, .as 
 a matter of interest, that there have ])een seventeen incuml)ents of the 
 chairmanshi]). several of whom served more than one term, while the 
 average length of the term (jf service was .about \'\\v years. 
 
'■ On several occa^iuiis the Xisiiors (.-onNidcrril tla- ail\ i>aliiliiy (if 
 electing a i)resi(leiil : ..nee dnrin- Mr. jel'terson's liletinu': aj^ain 
 immediately after the ('i\il War; a.^ain jnst after onr threat lire: and, 
 finally, ahont twn years ai^o. ( )n the three former oeeasion-, the 
 weight and authority of Mr. Jefferson's expressed wishes upon the 
 suhjcct seem to have prevented the Visitors from taking a step which, 
 to many of the warnie>t and wisest friends of the institution, appeared 
 desiral)le. Hut recently, .after renewed careful consider.ation of the 
 matter, the \'isitors decide<l that the time had come to create .and lill 
 the oHice. 
 
 ■■ In m.any (juarters the mistaken oi)inion has prevailed that this 
 stej) was t.iken hy the \isitors contrary to the desire of the Faculty. 
 I'.ut it is a historical fact, vouched for hy the records on the Faculty 
 minute hook, that in ( )ctoher, 1902, when the recent discussion with 
 regard to the creation of the office of President h.ad just he.mm. the 
 Faculty adopted hy ;in overwhelming- m.-ijority a resolution recom- 
 mending to the \isitors the creation of that ottice. I mention this 
 fact in order to correct the erroneous opinion that the Faculty opposed 
 the appointment of a president. The Faculty had long groaned under 
 the difficulties and vexations which necessarily followed from referring 
 to their whole hody little business details, which elsewhere were expe- 
 ditiously and .satisfactorily disposed of l)y one man. 
 
 I'hat also is a mistaken opinion, which seems to have been held 
 by some, that the Faculty were moved to reconnuend to the X'isitors 
 the creation of the office of President on account of some alarming 
 decadent or atrophied condition which had declared itself in the I'ni- 
 versity of late years. On the contrary, the opinion of the Faculty.— 
 and, I suppose, to some extent, that of the Visitors,— that this Univer- 
 sity needs a president, was based in large measure upon the fact that 
 the adnn'm'strativc affairs of the institution have so grown, both in 
 scope and in complexity, within the last decade and a h.alf. th.at a l"orm 
 of government practicable when the institution was younger, had 
 proved too cumbersome to meet the altered conditions. .\s I have 
 said, we do not consi.ler th.at this University has been ;i victim of 
 •arrested development ': for. a> .a matter of I'act. the number of .stu- 
 dents matriculated has more than doubled within the last fifteen years. 
 — a record which compares favorably. I f;inc\. with that of any 
 institution of about the .same age and doing the same grade of work ; 
 moreover, the financial condition of the I'niversity has been steadily 
 improving, and is better today than ever before: and. finally, with all 
 reverence for our predecessors and their achievements. T do not hesi- 
 tate to say that just as good work h.as been done here of late by 
 professors and students as in the • de.ar old days.' while the number 
 of courses offered has been constantlv increasiu"-. 
 
8 IXSTALLATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 " I am not willing for you to imagine that our President comes to 
 a university, the Faculty of which opposed the creation of his oftice, 
 or to one in a moribund or retrogressive condition. 
 
 " The hour has now arrived when the office of Chairman of the 
 Faculty ceases to exist. Even tonight it is not as Chairman that I 
 appear before you. I consider myself highly honored that my col- 
 leagues of the Faculty have requested me to act on this occasion as 
 their spokesman, and to voice to the best of my poor ability their 
 sentiments of warm and hearty welcome to our President. 
 
 " It is not too much to say, sir, that our lives — the lives of the 
 members of this Faculty — are bound up in the life of this University ; 
 that we are glad and proud to give to her. ' as it is also our bounden 
 duty to do,' the utmost that we possess of strength or skill. Although 
 the University, regarded as a piece of property, belongs to the whole 
 State ; and although the alumni, almost to a man, feel that, in a sense, 
 the University belongs to them, — after all her interests are idcntiftcd 
 with our interests, and to safeguard her welfare and cherish her pres- 
 tige must ever be the object of our most concentrated and consecrated 
 endeavor. 
 
 " And now, sir, it only remains for me to deliver formally into 
 your hands the administrative duties heretofore entrusted to the 
 Faculty and Chairman, and to add the most earnest assurance, on the 
 part of each member of the Faculty, that we receive you here as our 
 President with every feeling of satisfaction and welcome. \\'e beg 
 also, individually and collectively, to assure you of our heartiest 
 co-operation in all that you may undertake for the good of our beloved 
 University, confident that under your wise and sympathetic leadership 
 each future year will contribute to her glorious past, ever more and 
 more, of influence and usefulness and renown." 
 
 ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE. 
 
 BY THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Mr. Rector, (iriil/riiicii of fhc Board of J'isitor.s- and the !-acitltics, 
 Students of the University: 
 I have heard with interest and with profound encouragement the 
 words of welcome, of co-operation, and of counsel which ha\c been 
 
 spoken to me today. 
 
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 you after patient thouj^lit. with an lionest ijnrjxise and a lar.i;e desiiX' 
 for usefulness, nnnioved, 1 heliexe, l)y small anihitions. nnfretted Iiy 
 ill-will to any soul, and uninilueneed by any sort of fear or favor. 
 
 My eyes behold the difficulties, my self-knowledge informs me of 
 a thousand shortcnniint,'s, my heart teaches me all the solemn meaning 
 of this htnir, and yet 1 undertake the task with something of that pride 
 of tiiil and hope of achievement that warms the heart of the healthy 
 man who i^oes forth imder the clear sun to do the day's work honestly. 
 I feel about me the strength of the faculties of this University, whose 
 message delivered by their .able rei)resentative I profoundly appreciate 
 — a group of able, large-minded, unselfish men. who have lived the 
 life of devotion to a cause. The mo.st impressive thing to me aboiU 
 this University, or any university, is not its physical setting or its 
 bodv of traditions, or its so-called spirit, but the unbroken stream of 
 human devotion and love and service which generations of men have 
 poured into it — from the great founder whose fading life it glorified 
 and strengthened, to our colleagues and friends of today, wdiose hair 
 has whitened in its service, but whose hearts have the deathless youth 
 that comes to those who serve the young. Our virile democracy, with 
 its peril of vulgar strength, has' been refined and ennobled by the 
 example of such men and by the spectacle of such institutions living 
 on forever and never lacking such service. I come to you as the 
 executive head of this University. 
 
 This office in America, and peculiarly here, is a new creation of 
 modern needs and almost insuperably difficult to fill. There is a five- 
 fold relation which a president must l)ear to boards and faculties, to 
 students an.d society and scholarshij). that makes demand upon his 
 sympathy and his wisdom so widely variant as to render it imi)Ossible 
 for him to act without error and without frecpient criticism and charge 
 of duplicitv. It is commonly alleged against college presidents, for 
 instance, that they are liars. I hope it is not wholly immodest in me 
 to say this is a tolerably hasty generalization, like the famous one oi 
 the Psalmist's. A president can only avoid mistakes by cunningly 
 doing nothing. If an institution would escape the stagnation, there- 
 fore, of a do-nothing president (iin pr'csidcnt faineant) it must be 
 willing to have patience with his errors. His chair, commonly thought 
 of as the most staple piece of academic furniture, has been somewhere 
 described as the " rocking-chair " and at times the '" joggling board." 
 
 The conception of a president as an autocrat on the bridge is an 
 error. He needs power and trust and confidence and liberty to carry 
 out well-conceived plans. There is no place, however, for an autocrat 
 in American education. Between the president and faculty a loyal, 
 hearty, helpful relation should exist. If he depends on himself alone 
 
10 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 he will do but little, and that little not verv well. His o])ini()ns must 
 gain their weight from their wisdom rather than from their source. 
 His truest strength lies in the power to divine the value of others 
 rather than in any power of his own of action or of speech. For him 
 there must be the open mind, the sympathetic spirit, the patient temi)er, 
 the sleepless eye; and his power should be commensurate with his 
 responsibility. 
 
 I am conscious of the support and counsel of the Board of Visitors 
 — eminent men of civic virtue and public spirit, who administer a 
 noble trust without hope of gain to themselves save such large gain 
 as comes to men who serve society in upbuilding ways. 
 
 I see before me the bright and ever-widening circle of alumni 
 who have been made strong by alma mater. The alumni of this 
 institution are the fruits of the tree. If it has any strength they are 
 that strength. If it hopes for any power, these hopes centre in that 
 circle. I see them grown strong and rich in city and country. I see 
 them endowed with the wisdom of age and experience and strong with 
 the strength of youth and hope. They shall be given a chance and 
 put to the test for the sake of their spiritual mother. 
 
 Young gentlemen of the University, I thank you for your winning 
 courtesy to me, and I believe that we shall be friends. I praise your 
 admirable self-discipline and the spirit of manliness and candor that 
 I am informed animates your life here. The most interesting thing 
 in our national life to me is the American college bov. I have known 
 him among the foothills of Carolina, by the banks of the Mississippi, 
 and now shall know him among the Virginia hills. I have dealt with 
 him from all the States. I think of him as a member of a race rather 
 than of an institution. I shall wish to be a jjart of your lives — from 
 your ideals to your sjjorts, from your scholarly enthusiasms to your 
 victorious shoutings. I shall wish to deal with you. as I mav ha\e 
 wisdom, with sincerity and courtesy. The University exists for you. 
 in the belief that here you may gain the jjower and the desire to 
 strengthen yourself and to serve society, ^'our contribution to Uni- 
 versity ])ower and reputation in undergraduate days is in abstinence 
 from shiftlessness. self-indulgence, and disorder. Your gratitude lo 
 it and h)\v for it when youth has cf)oled will come through a knowledge 
 that such abstinence enabled you to gain the scholarly eniciency neces- 
 sary lo power in a deniocralic life. 'I'lie .South has something, believe 
 me, ])recious and (listincti\e in manhood and character lo contrihule 
 to American life. It siiall be a suhtle blend of the old spirit which 
 did not know how to com])roniis(,' and did know how to die for a faith, 
 and llu- new s])irit which looks ;it life with wide, clear, ^leads' eves, 
 and which has been beaten 1)\- freer civic I'orces into liner and more 
 
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 efficient form. In ihc surot jnsticc of ( iod, yon, and tliosc like _\i)U, 
 in onr >i>UT collei^o, ^liall lieconie of this nionlil. and it is for you to 
 help n> to make of this nohle foundation tlie place of central importance 
 in the historic out-\vorkin<; of this new tyi)e of pergonal culture and 
 social et'ticiency. 
 
 A thousand schemes for social amelioration are afoot in the South, 
 raui^in^ from suffrage questions to the estahlishment of libraries. Let 
 us make no i).itch\vork job of it. .\ new kind of social spirit and social 
 knowledi^e are needed to i^nidc these movements. The South has 
 become self -con>cious and tolerant of criticism. It perceives society 
 as an organism to be understood and lanj^ht the laws of growth. 
 
 .\nd lastly. I feel about us the strength and sustenance of the 
 Connnonwealth of \ irginia. and the co-ojjeration and resi)cct of insti- 
 tutions which, like us. are working to m.ake men. I have come to 
 make my home in X'irginia and to sjiend my life here. One may do 
 that with calm pride and contidence, for the past of X'irginia stan.ds 
 clear and steadfast, and the present is an earnest and hojiefnl time. 
 The day of large things has come into our national and state life. It 
 was a stunting inheritance from days of trial and poverty that made 
 us try in former days to achieve large ends with small means. This 
 L'niversity is the supreme intellectual achievement of this Connnon- 
 wealth. It has contributed to its ])rogress. unity, patriotism, right- 
 eousness, and culture. It should be. and it will be. the highest 
 satisfaction of the State to understand it, to sym])athize with and to 
 strengthen it, not as if it doled out charity, but as one increases his 
 noblest iuNesiuKnt. This is not the State that once lay beaten with 
 the stripes of war and misrule. Wealth and power are here, and our 
 great need as a people is to invest in education, not to scrimp and save. 
 
 This is not the time or place to outline any policy as the executive 
 of this institution. My first duty is to study reverently and to know 
 in my nerves and in my heart, as well as in my mind, the life of this 
 organism which began its life here so grandly when the last century 
 was young, wdiich has had for leaders and ser\ ants the best blood and 
 brains of the land, and which has received into its body and given 
 out so splendid a line of American citizenship. rbi> 1 shall do with 
 the helj) of my colleagues, and then 1 shall count myself hap])y if I 
 may become one of the splendid com]iany of tho>e who have served 
 the L'ni\ersity of \'irginia faithfully in the continuity of its useful life. 
 
 This world will surely be commanded by those races and com- 
 munities which l)ring to their work the resources of education i)lus 
 native energy and capacity. Iniversities. therefore, are at the heart 
 of the movment for control in the leadership of the world. This 
 Southern land, for the rei)ublic's sake, needs a great, majestic, powerful 
 
12 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 university — above all want and littleness — out of which should come 
 the industrial power and patriotic scholarly-mindedness which our life 
 demands. Democracy unsteadied by such forces is a generous fantasy. 
 The great region south of the Potomac has not its share of such power. 
 and its lack of it is impairing the homogeneity of the nation. The 
 great movement of individual beneficence has all but passed us by. 
 This is the spot for such a University and the building of such a great 
 institution here would mean more to our social structure than any 
 event since the passing of slavery. 
 
 This University does not belong to the Board or to the Faculty 
 or to the President. It belongs to the people of this State and nation, 
 high and low, rich and poor. It is not a caste, a fraternity, or a 
 brotherhood, but an agent of society as completely public as the State 
 Capitol. The gifts of founders and donors pass from them to the 
 people as completely as a thrown stone leaves the thrower's hand. 
 Its glory is service to society. Its strength is sustenance by society. 
 We who administer, govern, and teach are the servants of the people. 
 The University, therefore, can not be a dreamer or a seer, but must 
 use common sense as men do in business, and be a social, regenerative 
 force, reaching out into every hamlet and touching hopefully every 
 citizen, so that the home, the village, the field, the shop, may see the 
 University for what it is — an intellectual lighthouse, not alone for 
 the few who trim its wicks and fill its lamps, but for all the unchartered 
 craft adrift upon the sea. 
 
 Those who build universities must Iniild them through the e.xercise 
 of patience and energy and enthusiasm and industry and faith, and 
 that large idealism which, through any murk, can still dream dreams 
 and see visions. There is much acquaintance with hope deferred that 
 maketh the heart sick. There are many grim and haggard davs. and 
 many nights of starless skies, but there is also the joy of constant 
 association with vital and picturesque youth. There is the uplift of 
 thought tliat comes of alliance with a large truth and a just cause. 
 There is the knowledge that though we fail or fall, the cause will go 
 marching <m. and our souls will go marching on with it. having 
 l)elieve(l in it and given it service. There is the faith in the final 
 rectitude of public impulse and the splendid ultimate victory. 
 
 You have summoned me, not to mark time, but to go t'orward. 1 
 shall do what I can. Let all who love the University, or the republic 
 which it serves, work for the fulfilment of its high mission. 
 
The Installation 
 
 Tlie acadiMiiic ])n)ccs>i()n fnniud on The l.awn in the following 
 order : 
 
 STUDENTS, 
 
 under Chief Marshal Ira Branch Johnson, grouped in classes under 
 class marshals: Academic, W. W. Coxe; Medical, O. B. Patton ; Law, 
 W. O. Spates ; Engineering. F. O. Richey. 
 
 Tile liody thus formed moved down the centre of The Lawn, in 
 twos, dividing into right and left columns at the Monroe statue, fol- 
 lowed by the remainder of the procession in nine divisions in the order 
 following, headed by the Herald. Mr. John .\shby Williams: — 
 
 /•7A'.V7- DIl-JSJOX. 
 
 XA'i'lOXAL AND STAT!-. Ol'I'ICI ALS. 
 
 Marshals — Mk. IU-kriki), Mr. Xki.sox. 
 
 James Keith— President Supreme F. B. ]\utvm--Jitd.tic Circuit Court. 
 
 Court of Appeals of Virginia. Abingdon. 
 
 George M. Harrison— /Ht/g^' Su- John W. Fr\ci:— Judge Cort^oration 
 
 prenie Court of Appeals of Vir- Court, Bristol. 
 
 gii'ia. Jnlm W. W'nnch— Judge Corporation 
 
 William A. Anderson — Attorney Court, h'oanoke. 
 
 General of Virginia. T. R. P., Wright— /j((/.!,'r Circuit 
 
 L. O. Murray — Assistant .S'ccretary Court. Tappahannock. 
 
 U. S. Department of Commerce William A. Y^o\\\ci^— Virginia State 
 
 and Labor. Board of Education. 
 
 Herbert PuUvdm—Librarian of Con- K. C. Glass— r;Vj?n(/(, State Board 
 
 gress. of Education. 
 
 John P. Kcnnecl\ — Librarian Vir- Jnhn T. \Ve?.t— Virginia Stale Board 
 
 ginia State Library. of Education. 
 
 Joseph W. Southall— /'n7,'/;//o State ¥. P. Timm— Secretary Virginia 
 
 Superintendent of Public Schools. State Board of Education. 
 
 J. C. Boyd— Medical Director U. S. R. K. Campbell— C/. .S". Department 
 
 Xary. of Cojiimerce and Labor. 
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14 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 John C. Wise — Medical Director James B. Doherty — Coiiiiiiissioiicr 
 
 U. S. Xcwy. J'iri^iiiia State Bureau of Labor 
 
 Jefferson Randolph Kean — Surgeon and Industry. 
 
 U. S. Army. G. W. Koiner — J'irginia State Coin- 
 
 C. H. Sinclair — U. S. Coast Survey. missioner of Agriculture. 
 
 A. M. Aiken — Judge Corporation William B. Alwood — U. S. Depart- 
 
 Court of Danville. )nent of Agriculture. 
 
 Thomas W. Harrison — Judge Cir- G. W^ Olivier — Mayor of Cliarlottcs- 
 
 cuit Court. JJ'inchcster. I'ille. 
 
 SECOXD Dill SI OX. 
 
 NATIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATORS. 
 
 Marshals — Mr. Grant, Mr. Vixev. 
 
 James Hay — U. S. House of Repre- George S. Shackelford — State Sen- 
 
 sentativcs. ator. 
 
 Claude A. Swanson — U. S. House of Ernest A. Gray — House of Dele- 
 
 Representatives. gates. 
 
 John F. Ryan — Speaker of the J'ir- William E. Howie — House of Dele- 
 
 ginia House of Delegates. gates. 
 
 J. Lawrence Camphell — State Sena- Eugene Ould — House of Delegates. 
 
 tor. James B. Pannill — House of Dele- 
 
 John S. Chapman — State .Senator. gates. 
 
 E. F. Cromwell — .S"/(7/t' Senator. D. A. Slaughter — House of Dele- 
 
 M. J. Fulton — State Senator. gates. 
 
 Lewis H. Machen — State Senator. E. B. Thomasson — House of Dele- 
 
 William Hodges ]\L-inn — .State Sen- gates. 
 
 ator. W. A. WUleroy—JIouse of Dele- 
 John F. Rixey — U. S. House of gates. 
 
 Rcprcscntatizrs. Robert W. \\"nhcv<^— House of Dele- 
 gates. 
 
 THIRD DiriSIOX. 
 
 CITY AND COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS 
 IN VIRGINIA. 
 
 Marshals — Mr. Rorerts, ]Mr. Tjmueklake. 
 
 Jamca yi.BL'cklvdm.Culpcpcr County. George H. Hulvey, Rockingliain 
 
 N. B. Campbell, Goocliland County. County. 
 
 R. A. Dobie, Norfolk City. George 1!. JtMinings. (ireene County. 
 
 William F. Fox, Richmond City. .M. M, Lynch, Winchester. 
 
 Henry Maclin, Mecklenburg County. 1). L. Pulliam, Manchester. 
 
 W. C. Marshall, Fauquier County. V. II. Smith. Staunton. 
 
 O. B. Mears, Northampton County. L. M. Smith. Jr.. Spottsylrania 
 
 E. O. Peale, Augusta County. County. 
 
OF Tilt; 1'.NI\KKS1TV oi' \' I U( ;i N I A. I5 
 
 i-ovRi II nir IS/OX. 
 
 TEAClll-.KS l.\ rLl'.lJC AXl) rUIVATl-: SCHOOLS. 
 Marshals — Mk. T.wuik, .Mk. Wavland. 
 
 W. \<. Ahhn. I^clh-viu- Hii^h School. [■'. P. llnl.on,,<l, Oxford Srniinary. 
 
 Ju-Ucriu: Oxfonl. \. C. 
 
 Miss L. A. I'.an.us. Xalional Lathe- William .M. Kniipi-r, /)'.■//;>•/ .1////- 
 
 dral School, irashiiii^ton, I). C. lory .hadciiiy. lU-thcl. 
 
 L. M. lllackford. l-.piscotal Hiiih Jdlm P. McCuirc, Jr., McCuirc's 
 
 School. Alexandria. Vnivcrsity School. Richmond. 
 
 W. W. I'rii-gs. Locust Pale .lead- Roliert L. PrcstDii. University 
 
 any. Locust Dale. School. Washington, D. C. 
 
 Rev. James Cannon, Jr., Blackstonc Charles S. Roller, Augusta Military 
 
 Female Institute, Blackstone. Academy, Fort Defiance. 
 
 M. Estes Cocke. Hollins Institute. E. Sumter Smith, Randol[<h-Macon 
 
 Hollins. Academy, Bedford City. 
 
 William H. Davis. Randolf^h-Macon Rev. H. W. Tribble. Rawlings Insti- 
 
 Institute, Danville. tute. Charlottesville. 
 
 Miss M. P. Duval, I'irginia Female R. S. W^alker. U'oodherry Forest 
 
 Institute, Staunton. School. Orange. 
 
 Berkeley M. iM.ntaine. F:piscol^a! C. B. Wallace, University School, 
 
 High School, Alexandria. Xashvillc, Tenn. 
 
 Miss Mattie P. Harris, I'irginia .Miss E. C Weimar, .l/(7;_v Baldwin 
 
 College, Roanoke. Seminary. Staunton. 
 
 J. W. Lane, Charlottesville High Hampden Wilson, Cluster Sf^rings 
 
 School. Academy, Black Walnut. 
 Edmund Harrison, Hopkinsville 
 
 Female Institute, Hopkinsvillc, 
 
 Ky. 
 
 FIFTH DIUISIOX. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES OF EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTHHC 
 SOCIETIES AND OF THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS. 
 
 Marshals — Mk. Kei-.nek. Mk. Slmi-sox, Mr. Sto.nk. Mu. Watteks. 
 
 Dr. Lyman Abbott, Mr, .Mbert Shaw. 
 
 Mr. Shepard Barclay, Mr. Edward M. SlK])ard, 
 
 Dr. R. A. Brock, Mr. Samuel Spencer, 
 
 Mr. Roscoe C. E. Brown, Mr. Melville E. Stone, 
 
 Mr. Wallace Buttrick, Mr. John S. Wise, 
 
 Mr. Julian S. Carr, Rev. George E. Booker, 
 
 Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, Rev. Timothy Crowe, 
 
 Dr. W. M. Clark, Rev. W. M. Forrest. 
 
i6 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 Air. .Aldiicure D. Conway, Rev 
 Air. Jefferson Randolph Coolidge, Rev 
 
 ,AIr. L. A. Coulter, Rev 
 
 Air. J. Taylor Elly.son. Rev 
 
 Dr. E. R. L. Gould, Rev 
 
 Dr. William R. Huntington, Rev 
 
 Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, Rev 
 
 Mr. James H. Lindsay, Rev 
 
 Mr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, Rev, 
 
 Dr. Randolph H. McKim, Rev. 
 
 ]\Ir. V. Everit Macy, Rev 
 
 .Air. William H. Maxwell, Rev, 
 
 l\Ir. Edgar Gardner Murphy, Rev. 
 
 Mr. Henry S. Pancoast, Rev. 
 
 Mr. George Foster Peabody, Rev, 
 
 Air. Paul J. Pelz, Rev. 
 
 Air. John B. Pine, Rev, 
 
 Air. L. S. Rowe, Rev. 
 
 Air. William Jay Schieffelin, Rev, 
 
 Otis W. Glazel)rook, 
 Edward Valentine Jones, 
 John William Jones, 
 Arthur B. Kinsolving, 
 W. W. Lear, 
 Harry B. Lee, 
 Frederick W. Neve, 
 James D. Paxton, 
 G. L. Petrie, 
 E. H. Rowe, 
 William N. Scott, 
 John W. Stagg, 
 George Braxton Taylor, 
 Charles R. Sine, 
 John B. Turpin, 
 William C. White, 
 R. J. Willing-ham. 
 A. B. Woodfin, 
 Charles A. Young. 
 
 SIXTH DHISJON. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 
 Marshals — AIr. Walker. Dr, Pollard. AIr. Webb. Dr. Rogers. 
 
 Harvard University — 
 
 Prof. Archibald C. Coolidge, 
 
 Prof. Francis G. Peal)ody. 
 College of William and Mary — 
 
 President Lyon G. Tyler, 
 
 Prof. Charles E. Bishop, 
 
 Prof. Bruce R. Payne. 
 Yale University — 
 
 Prof. H. W. Farnam (Faculty), 
 
 Rev. J. \V, Cooper, D. D. (Cor- 
 l^oration). 
 i'rincvton University — 
 
 Prof, I-:. O. Lovett. 
 Washington and Lee University — 
 
 President George 1 1 , Denny. 
 
 Prof. James W. Kern. 
 University of Pennsylvania — 
 
 Dean J. H. Pcnniman. 
 Columbia University — 
 
 Prcs. Nicholas Murr:iy P.utler, 
 
 Dean James E. l^ussell. 
 
 University of Vermont — 
 
 Hon. George G. Benedict. 
 University of Georgia — 
 
 Chancellor Walter B. Hill. 
 L^ S. Military Academy — 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Chas. P. Echols. 
 South Carolina College — 
 
 Prof. Edward S. Joynes. 
 Columbian University — 
 
 President Charles W. Needham. 
 Theological Seminary of Virginia — 
 
 Prof Samuel A. Wallace, D. D.. 
 
 Prof R. K, Alassie, 
 Trinity College — 
 
 C'ol, R. W. Huntington. 
 Jefferson Aiedical College - 
 
 Dean James W. Ilollan.l. M. D 
 rni\ersity of Toronto — 
 
 R(,\. George Cooper. 
 Weskyan I'niversity — 
 
 I'rof, Robert II. JMfe. 
 
IK IXnEUSITV OK NIUCINIA. 
 
 17 
 
 Brown L"nivi.'r>ity — 
 
 Mr. Henry K. Porter, 
 
 Prof. William Mac Donald. 
 
 Mr. George P. Winsliip. 
 Dartmouth College — 
 
 President \Vm. J. Tucker. 
 Hampdcn-Sidney College — 
 
 Prof. Ilcnry C. P>rock. 
 Georgetown I'nivcrsiiy — 
 
 Rev. Jerome n<>ugherty. 
 
 Rev. Henry .A. Jud.ne. 
 Williams College — 
 
 President Henry Hopkins. 
 University of Tennessee — 
 
 Prof. C. D. Schmitt. 
 University of North Carolina — 
 
 Pres. Francis P. Venable, 
 
 Prof. C. Alphonzo Smith. 
 Union Theological Seminary — 
 
 Prof. William A. Brown. 
 Emory and Henry College — 
 
 Prof. James S. Miller, 
 
 Prof. John P. IMcConnell. 
 Virginia Military Institute — 
 
 Prof. Hunter Pendleton. 
 University of Indiana — 
 
 President Wm. L. Bryan. 
 Queen's Urffsxrsity — 
 
 Prof. A. Melville Bell. 
 University of Missouri — 
 
 President R. H. Jesse. 
 College of the City of New York- 
 Prof. Charles Baskerville. 
 University of Mississippi — 
 
 Chancellor Robert B. Fnlton. 
 University of Wisconsin^ 
 
 J. C. Bloodgood, M. D., 
 
 Prof. Wm. H. Hobbs. 
 Medical College of Virginia — 
 
 Dr. George Ben Johnston. 
 Roanoke College — 
 
 Prof. F. V. N. Painter. 
 Northwestern University — 
 
 President Thomas F. Holgate. 
 St. John's College — 
 
 President Thomas Fell. 
 Long Island College Hospital — 
 
 Dr. Joseph H. Raymond. 
 
 Randolph-. Macon College- 
 President R. E. Black well. 
 Richmond College — 
 
 President 1-. W. Boatwright, 
 
 Prof. Samuel C. Mitchell, 
 
 Pn.t. Chas. 11. Winston. 
 Tuhme rni\ersity — 
 
 I'n.f. John K. 1-icklen, 
 
 Ju.lKe I'dgar 11. I-arr;ir. 
 Davids, in College- 
 President Henry L. Smith. 
 University of Michigan — 
 
 President James B. Angell. 
 Mount Holyoke College — 
 
 Miss Frances Berkeley. 
 Delaware College — 
 
 Prof. Edgar Dawson. 
 West Virginia University — 
 
 President D. B. Pnrinton. 
 Cornell University — 
 
 Dr. L. O. Howard. 
 University of Minnesota — 
 
 Dean John F. Downey. 
 University of the South — 
 
 Vice-Chancellor B. Lawton Wig- 
 gins. 
 Ohio State University — 
 
 Prof. R. D. Bohannon. 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute — 
 
 Prof. George Petrie. 
 Hampton Institute — 
 
 President H. B. Frissell. 
 Syracuse University — 
 
 Prof. Morris P. Tilley. 
 X'irginia Polytechnic Institute — 
 
 Prof. T. P. Campljell. 
 
 Prof. J. E. Williams. 
 Smith College — 
 
 President L. Clark Seelye. 
 L'niversity of Cincinnati — 
 
 Prof. Harris Hancock. 
 Vanderhilt University — 
 
 Chancellor J. H. Kirkland. 
 Johns Hopkins University — 
 
 President Ira Remsen, 
 
 Prof. J. C. Ballagh, 
 
 Dr. Howard A. Kelly. 
 
 Dr. Hugh H. Voun.g. 
 
i8 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 University of Kentucky — 
 
 Judge Lyman Chalkley. 
 
 Prof. Thomas B. McCartney, Jr. 
 Washington University — 
 
 President \V. S. Chaplin. 
 Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology — 
 
 President Henry S. Pritchett, 
 
 Prof. Gaetano Lanza. 
 Vassar College — 
 
 President James M. Taylor. 
 University of Texas — 
 
 President Wm. L. Prather. 
 University of North Dakota — 
 
 President Webster Merrifield. 
 Barnard College — 
 
 Dean Laura D. Gill. 
 Randolph-Macon College for 
 Women — 
 
 President W. W. Smith. 
 
 State Female Normal School- 
 President J. L. Jarman. 
 State Normal College of North Caro- 
 lina — 
 
 President Charles D. Mclver. 
 Bridgewater College — 
 
 President Walter B. Yount. 
 Agricultural College of North Caro- 
 lina— 
 
 Prof. W. F. Massey. 
 University of Chicago — 
 
 Dean Albion W. Small, 
 
 Prof. Blewitt Lee. 
 Baltimore L^niversity School of ]\Iedi- 
 cine — 
 
 Dean H. H. Biedler. 
 
 SEVENTH DIJ'ISION. 
 
 THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Marshals — Adjunct Professor Faulkner, Adjunct Professor Flipimn. 
 
 Francis Henry Smith, 
 William Elisha Peters, 
 Noah Knowles Davis, 
 William Morris Fontaine, 
 Ormond Stone, 
 William Mynn I'lidrnton, 
 Francis Perry Dunningtni 
 Jolm William Mallet, 
 Milton Wylic Humphreys, 
 Albert Henry Tuttle, 
 Paul Brandon P)arringcr, 
 Charles William Kent, 
 William Minor Lile, 
 William Gay Christian, 
 Augustus Harper Bucknia.- 
 James Albert Harrison, 
 William ll.)I<ling bxliols, 
 Richard ilealh Dal.ncy, 
 Charles Allrr.l Graves, 
 
 John Staige Davis, 
 Raleigh Colston Minor, 
 Richard Henry Wilson, 
 James Morris Page, 
 Thomas Fitzhugh, 
 William Alexander L;in 
 William Harrison l-anlK 
 James Carroll h'lippin. 
 Lewis Littlepagc llollad 
 William Jackson Hump 
 Edward .May .M;igruiKr 
 W'illiam .Mann K.mdoli) 
 James Hamilton i'.rouni 
 Charles Scott Wn.ible. 
 Ilalstead Shipnian I ledi 
 William Douglas .Maon 
 Robert llenning Webb, 
 James Thomas Walker. 
 
OF THE UXIVEKSITY OK VIKtilNIA. 
 
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 \-isrruKS Axi) ()ii-i(,-i:ks oi" iiii-. r.\i\'i:Ksi r\'. i':x-\'isri'()RS, 
 
 11 1 1". MIM.I-.R HOARD Ol'' IRLSI'. 
 
 ]Iarsliiils—VKin-E» 
 )()\viiinK, 
 
 liciiry 11 
 Carter Glass, 
 Alexander W. Wallace, 
 William II, White. 
 
 'riionias H. Carter, 
 
 Jij^eph Bryan, 
 Armistead C. Gordon, 
 Henry C. Stuart, 
 R. W. Martin, 
 Micajah Woods, 
 
 J.)hn M. White, 
 John B. Moon, 
 Joseph Wilnier. 
 Channing M. Bolton, 
 
 R SniNK. I'uol'KSSdk (iUAVKS. 
 
 Benjamin 1-". Buchanan, 
 Daniel llarnmn, 
 I'.piia I i union. Jr., 
 R. Walton M.M.i-c. 
 
 John S. I'alton, 
 Howard Win^-ton. 
 
 A. B. Chandler, 
 Mason Gordon, 
 Marshall McCorniick, 
 L. R. W\atts. 
 
 George Perkins, 
 Charles E. Vawter, 
 George W. Morris, 
 R. T. W. Duke, Jr. 
 
 xiXTH nnisiON. 
 
 SPEAKERS Ol- THE DAY AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS. THE 
 
 GOVERXOR Ol- \'IR(;iXIA. T1H-: RECTOR OI-' Till-: 
 
 rXlX'KRSlTV. THE PRESIDENT OE THE 
 
 uxivERsrrv. 
 
 Marshals — Deax Christian. Deax I)AiiN?:v. 
 
 Rev. Richard I). Smart. 
 
 Epworth Church, Xorfolk. 
 Archibald Cary Coolidge, 
 
 Professor Harvard University. 
 Walter Barnard Hill, 
 
 Chancellor University of Georgi: 
 Erancis Henry Smith. 
 
 Xicholas Murray Butler, 
 
 President Columbia University. 
 
 Richard Henry Jesse. 
 
 President University of Missouri. 
 
 Robert Curtis Ogden, 
 
 President Snnthern Educational 
 Board. 
 
 Professor University of Virginia. James Pinckney Harri-ou. 
 
 Robert Glenn, 
 
 Governor of North Carolina. 
 John Warwick Daniel. 
 
 United States Senator. 
 Andrew Jackson Montague, 
 
 Governor of Virginia. 
 Rev. Samuel C. Mitchell, 
 
 Professor Richmond College. 
 
 Vice-President ( ieueral 
 .Association. 
 Thomas Staples Martin. 
 
 United States Senator. 
 Charles Pinckney Jinies. 
 
 Rector of the University. 
 Edwin Anderson Alderman, 
 
 President of the Universitv. 
 
 \luu 
 
Exercises in the Public Hall, Acadcinic 
 Building. 
 
 LWOrATloX. 
 
 BY THE KEV. KUllAKI) 1). S.MAKT, D. D.^ 
 NOUKOLK, VA. 
 
 Alniii^htv (;o(l, (lur heavenly leather, from everlasting to everlast- 
 ing Thou art God. high over all. Iilessed for evermore. We acknowl- 
 edge Thee as the source of all life and light and truth, so that it is in 
 Thee that we live and move and have our being. \Vc pray that Thou 
 wilt graciously smile upon us as we are here assembled in the interest 
 of higher education and of the highest development of the best that is 
 in us. \\c thank ihcc for this institution of learning. Wc thank 
 Thee for the wise men of old who laid its foundations broad and deep 
 and well. We thank Thee for the work it has accomplished, for the 
 high ideals it has ever held up before the people, and for the many 
 illustrious sons who, having gone forth from its walls into all the 
 walks of life, have rendered high and helpful service to mankind. 
 And now. O Lord, as this day marks a new departure in the history 
 of this institution, we invoke Thy special blessings upon it. .May its 
 friends far and near rally to its su])port as never before. May its 
 equipment for the work retjuired of it in the century upon which we 
 are now entering be large and ample. P.less the great Commonwealth 
 that fosters it; the Board of \isitors that controls it; the officers and 
 teachers who serve it : and the students who from time to time may 
 seek instruction within its walls. .May they not only have their intel- 
 lects disciplined and their minds well stored with useful information, 
 but may they also imbibe those nobler lessons of virtue and of truth 
 that shall make them wise unto salvation. Ksi)ecially do we invoke 
 Thy blessings, O Lord, upon Thy servant who has been called to 
 preside over the destinies of this University. In the discharge of the 
 responsible and delicate duties of this newly created office vouchsafe 
 unto him that wi>(loni which cometh down from above and is profitable 
 
22 IXSTALLATIOX OF THE FIRST I'RESIUEXT 
 
 to direct. Alul so niav this institution, in a larger sense than ever 
 before, be a fountain the streams of which shall roll on broad and 
 deep and pure down through many generations, blessing children yet 
 unborn. These things we ask in His name, who hath taught us when 
 we pray to say. Our Father, etc. 
 
 IXDUCTIOX OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 BY THE RECTOR, CHARLES PINCKNEY JONES^ 
 MONTEREY, VA. 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — A growing public 
 sentiment in favor of a change in the government of this University 
 caused the General Assembly of the Commonwealth to impose upon 
 the Rector and Visitors, as the governing body, the duty of electing a 
 president. This sentiment was based on the loyalty and devotion to 
 the best interests of the University of all her friends; and the Board 
 of Visitors, after patient and anxious thought on the subject, finally 
 concluded the duty assigned it by the election of Dr. Edwin Anderson 
 Alderman to the high and responsible trust. We are therefore met, 
 on this anniversary of the birth of our great founder, to formally 
 inaugurate this change in our government, and induct Dr. Alderman 
 into office as our first President. 
 
 To the alumni and friends of the institution who know the mode 
 in which the government has been administered in the past through a 
 Chairman of the Faculty, the change possesses much significance. 
 After following the plan of Mr. Jefferson for three-quarters of a 
 century, we have come to depart from that feature of our educational 
 government inaugurated by him. and to fall in line witli our sister 
 universities in this respect, so that in tlie future we will have a siui^le 
 head devoted to the service of educaticm and with more time to gi\'e 
 to special interests than could possibly have been given h\- the Chair- 
 man of the I'aculty. And while we are carrying into effect \\u> 
 change, we are doing so with the hope that the office will be so 
 administered as to (le])art as little as may be from the constitution of 
 Mr, Jefferson, and with the confident assurance that il will be so 
 administered as to change in no respect the unwritten law of lionesl\- 
 and truthfulness, which are leading, and, it may he said, fundamental 
 features of our government And mav we not l)elieve that the changi 
 now made would have been sanctioned li\- Mr. jel'ferson under condi- 
 tions as thev now exist? 
 
 It only remains for me, sir, acting for the I'luard of X'isitors, to 
 declare you llu' l're>i(leiU of the CniNHM-sity of \irginia, .-lud to (leli\-er 
 you its chai-ter, and to pledge to you the heartiest sui)port thai the 
 I')oard of X'isitors can "ive vou. 
 
OK THE INlVKUSnV Ol" \IUi.lMA 23 
 
 ^"l)U Will now roccivo ymir oalh of office: "Do you soiciniily 
 swear tlial you will faithfully discharge and jjerforni all the (huies 
 incumbent upon \ on as ['resident of the L'niversity of X'irginia. 
 according' to the hest of yoiu- ahility. so help you (jod? " 
 
 The^l 'resident: •■ I do." 
 
 1 ;u-cepl the presidene\- of this I'niNersily, Mr. Ri-ctor, with 
 huniilit\- and yet with i)ride. Snstaine(l and streni.;theneil hy the 
 counsel and co-operation of the IJoard of Visitors, of my coIlea}.(Ucs 
 of llie faculty, of the sons of this I'inversity, and of good citizens 
 everywhere. I undertake this task with hojje and courai;e. To obey 
 its statutes; to respect its ancient spirit; to maintain its lofty iileals; 
 to seek with patience the laws of its growth; to <;ive to its service, 
 with gla(hiess. whatever strength 1 liave. All this 1 shall seek to do. 
 By God's help. 1 will. 
 
 .\DDRESSES. 
 
 For \'ik(;i.\i.\. a.\u Hek Other Institutions. 
 
 i5y c.overxor .\.\drew j.\tks0n m0nt.\(;ue. 
 
 Mr. President, Rector of the i'iii7'ersity. and J'isitors: 
 
 In the stir of expectancy which greets this occasion, and the 
 exulting confidence with which we look in the future, we can not 
 forget the deeds and traditions of this institution and the purposes 
 for which it was founded. The Father of this University contributed 
 more fully than any statesman of his day and generation to the 
 educational needs of a republic. He devised this school, not for sub- 
 jects of a king, but for citizens of a republic, lie believed a govern- 
 ment resting upon the people is a house built n])on s;ind unless freedom 
 is vitalized by intelligence, and exercised with a sober sense of res])on- 
 sibilily. 'I'his institution, as Jefferson wrought it out in his wisdom 
 and affection, was the culmination of .a system of public education 
 and intended to be an iusjiiration of democratic ideals and a constant 
 stimulus to the loftiest aspirations for culture and science. 
 
 Accordingly Mr. Jeffer.son appealed to the people for this Univer- 
 sity, and by their authority and resource were form and substance 
 given to this undertaking. This school lives off the State, but it also 
 lives for the State ; and while we must be careful of what we get from 
 the people, we nnust be more eager about that which we give back to 
 the people. W'e nnist demand that this agency of the ])enple. as it 
 grows in new jjower and strength, shall also grow in service to the 
 people of the land. \\'e must i)lace her hand in luaternal touch with 
 the common schools of our lan<l. thcrebv ener"izim/ all the forces that 
 
24 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 make for popular enlightenment. These primary schools should know- 
 that in the halls of this University are lights of guidance for them, and 
 in her chairs are fathers and friends of all forms of education. We 
 must ask her to set herself anew to the democratization of education 
 in order that an equality of opportunity shall come to every child who 
 would know and serve his day and generation. 
 
 Assuming as of right the leadership in our Connnonwealth. she 
 should do so in affectionate co-operation with all other educational 
 institutions, public and private, thus strengthening and ennoliling the 
 spirit of culture, and unifying the forces of education. For only in 
 so far as this University renders itself necessary to the people, and 
 complemental to all other educational interests of the State, will it 
 fulfil the ampler purposes of its founder; for the attachment of the 
 people and the affections of sister institutions are among the chief 
 assets in the endowment of any great university. 
 
 So today we would recall her traditions that we may thereby 
 consecrate ourselves anew to the purposes of her foundation, and as 
 her devoted children in the hour of her buoyant strength we come to 
 bring whatsoever we have of energy and wisdom for the promotion 
 of her growth and the extension of her influence in the republic of 
 culture and in the democracy of love and law. 
 
 For the Faculty, 
 by professor francis henry smith. 
 
 It has perhaps been observed that Virginians from this section, 
 when speaking in public — whatever their theme may be — rarely close 
 without swerving toward Monticello and circulating about Thomas 
 Jefferson. That eminent man reminds us of a giant planet that cap- 
 tures every comet and meteor which dashes into its sphere. 
 
 Surely, however, on this day and at this place, it is natural tliat 
 our thoughts should turn to him of whom our countrymen everywhere 
 are thinking. A few years since, one of my colleagues at a Faculty 
 meeting said that, in all but the name, Mr. Jefferson was President of 
 the University of N'irginia. Indeed, it looks so. From his aerie on 
 yonder mountain he watched the progress of these buildings. In a 
 room near by is the telescope he is said to have usid. If he saw 
 anything wrong, tradition says, a gallop of twenty minutes brought 
 him to the spot. He searched this and other lands for his Faculty, 
 inviting Ticknor from Bo.ston, Cooper from Charleston, and, I l)elie\e, 
 Priestley from Pennsylvania. He maintained close personal and social 
 relations with the ])rofcssors and leading students. He conducted the 
 Universitv"s eorresi)on(lence witli learned men Hke |)iii)ont, of Oela- 
 
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 ware, ami I'.arlow. of \\ nolw icli. lie was iiR-dialor l)<.l\virii llic 
 L'nivcrsity and tin.' LcgislaluiX' ami people of Xirs^nnia. 
 
 After an interval of eighty years, it seemed wise to llie ( ieneral 
 Asseml)l\ and to the almnni. to the I'.oard of \isitors and to the 
 I'acnltw that the I'niversity should as^ain ha\e a K'adi'r, with nothing;- 
 to do Imt to lead, \irginia could otfer no hi,i;her honor to any man 
 than to invite him to succeed her i:!;vvd{ son. The office of President 
 was created, and the Board, after two years of patient search, selected 
 for its first occupant a son of the South, devoted to the South, and at 
 the same time an American w ilh sympathies as broad as our great land. 
 After a pleasant association with him for six months, filled with new 
 inspiration and hope, the l'"aonlty heartily and unanimously ratifies the 
 selection of the Hoard. 
 
 On this impressive occasion the I'aculty might offer many subjects 
 of congratulation. Time allows us only to mention two. 
 
 In the first place, the Faculty congratulates the University and 
 you, Mr. President, that you do not come to us to take charge of a 
 sickly or dying institution. They rejoice, as you rejoice, that Virginia 
 has not called you here to raise the dead. If the testimony of one 
 who has been here for many years, and has known the University in 
 the old days and now in the new days, may be received, the institution 
 had never been in a more vigorous condition than on that bright day 
 when you came to us. Her Faculty and students were more than 
 doubled in number. Her halls were filled with a company of young 
 men who, in manliness, loyalty to truth and honor, devotion to and 
 success in study, were not unworthy successors of those fine fellows, 
 often their fathers and grandfathers, who brightened these arcades 
 fifty years ago. Our equipment in libraries, apparatus, laboratories, 
 and buildings generally was better than ever; more than .all this the 
 University had a larger number of devoted alumni and was nearer to 
 the people of Virginia than ever before. In the ])romising future 
 and the enlarged possibilities which your coming. Mr. President, has 
 opened to us, may w-e not rejoice with you that you head a cohunn 
 whose faces are already turned toward the morning? 
 
 In the second place, the Faculty would congratul.ite the Univer- 
 sity, and yourself, that you come from North Carolina. ( )ur hearts 
 grow a little w.irmer at the mention of a name with which \'irginia 
 has been bound in many tender memories. These two States have, 
 side by side, passed through bright days and dark days. X'irginia 
 sacredly keeps the dust of many of Carolina's brave boys, and her 
 Hving sons fill places of honor and trust among us to our great advan- 
 tage. W'e are proud of her grand mountains, her noble forests, her 
 sparkling rivers, and broad savannahs, possessed by a i)eoi)le worthy 
 
26 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 of SO beautiful a home — a gallant race, and one which has ever been 
 among the foremost in peace and in war. We remember that within 
 her borders was born the first white child of this great land, and. as 
 was fitting in what was to be a Southern State, that child was a girl, 
 and her name was Virginia. North Carolina, like Massachusetts, was 
 then a part of \'irginia. May they always be united in feeling and in 
 friendship, if not in name. In 1728 Colonel William Byrd drew what 
 he called " the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina." 
 If that dividing line exists today except as a geographical fiction, may 
 your coming to us help to obliterate it finally and forever. 
 
 It only remains to say. Mr. President, that with regard to the 
 future the Facultv, I am sure, will promise you two things, both of 
 which they believe to be dear to your heart. 
 
 In the first place, they promise to maintain at its old level and 
 standard the faithful work done in these lecture rooms. I'hey know 
 that this quiet, unostentatious labor does not arrest the public eye, but 
 Ihey believe that it is their chief business here. Not more surely do 
 the architectural glories of a great building rest upon and owe their 
 permanency to the courses of masonry hidden out of sight below the 
 .soil, than do the rank and fame of this University depend at last upon 
 the good work done day by day in her classrooms. How dreary is 
 this daily grind to a teacher who is only a hireling ; but to him who 
 values aright the privilege and responsibility of molding these young 
 lives, the dull routine loses its tedium and becomes divine. The Faculty 
 promise you that this prime part of their duty, including interest in all 
 that goes to make tip our internal life, shall be loyally performed. 
 
 They recognize, however, that a new day has arisen upon our 
 land, and that an American universitv is no longer a local institution, 
 but an important factor in our national life. Universities were once 
 cloisters, beautiful within, but frowning without, training their mem- 
 bers away from and not into society. Now their quadrangles are open 
 to the light and air; and the ])ulses of the national life imade and 
 thrill all their recesses. The universities of our cdunlry bclnni;- to a 
 real imion, though with an unwritten constitution. What happens to 
 •one concerns all. When a fire swee])s away all that lire can destrov, 
 messages of sympathy and offers of hel]) burden e\ery mail. Fiflv 
 years ago such a scene as this around us now was unknown. The 
 Faculty feels that in this modern extension of a nni\ersit\"s external 
 relations and duties yon will have a burden n]»on \on almost too great 
 for any man. They rt'S])ect fully ol'fer yon such co-operation within 
 their ability as you may honor them by requesting. 
 
 In conclusion, the faculty express to you. Mr. I 'i-esii|ent, the 
 hope, rising to a prayer, that your future leadership nia\- be as 
 .successful as the beginning of it has been ansnicions. 
 
OF TIIK IN 1\ KKSri V 111- \IKl.lMA. 27 
 
 I'OK Tllh; Al.l MM. 
 
 IIY SEXATOK THOMAS SIAI'I.KS MAKTIX. 
 SCOTTSVILLE^ VA. 
 
 Luilics ciiiil Cii-utli-iiu-ii : 
 
 ( )n hcliall' (if llu' aluinni, coniniissioiK'd so tn do li\- tlir l",xccutivc 
 (."oniniittcc of the ( 'h--ikt;i1 Association of Alumni, the honor has 
 (k'\olvc(l upon nic to say a few words on this interesting occasion, 
 .since the formal ojieniut;- of this L'niversity on the 7th day of March. 
 iS_'5. no e\ent has occurred in its history of equal importance with 
 that event which hrinj^s this assembly here on tliis occasion. Ancient 
 systems and usages ha\e my .greatest respect, especially systems and 
 usages which liave wrought such great good as has been wrought l)y 
 those systems and by the usages prevailing in this institution. I 
 believe, however, in government and in progress. Speaking for myself 
 and for the alumni of this institution, I welcome the important and 
 radical innovation which has been made: welcome the office of presi- 
 deiU. We welcome to that office the able, scholarly and distinguish.ed 
 educator who has been chosen by the Rector and the Hoard of Visitors 
 of this institution to preside over the destinies of an institution, the 
 founding of which constituted the third greatest achievement of the 
 greatest of all Americans 
 
 Thomas Jeft'erson, it is true, did not give to this University a 
 president: jjcrhaps his hostility to the idea of the centralization of too 
 nuich power in one in<H\idual influenced him against that idea. h"ro- 
 quently we hear it said that Thomas Jefferson was oi)posed to a 
 president of the University of Virginia. I have been unable to find 
 anything in the utterances of Thomas Jefferson justifying the belief 
 that he had reached a deliberate conclusion that there should be no 
 presi(K-nt for this institution. 
 
 In Aprd, \Xj(k the Hoard of X'isitors elecleil William Wirt to be 
 the President of the I'niversity, ])r()vi(ling in the resolution that if 
 William Wirt did not accept the office that the action of the Hoard 
 establishing the office should be null rni<l void. Mr. Jeff'erson entered 
 u])on the minute book on that occasion his objection to a jjresident 
 of this University at that time. He based his objection on four distinct 
 grounds : 
 
 First — He stated that he did not believe, under existing law. that 
 the Board of X'isitors had the power to elect a president : 
 
 Second — Tie stated that the financial condition of the I'niversity 
 was such that it was not financially able to jiay the salary of a 
 president : 
 
 Third — He stated that the duties of a iiresideiit. such duties as 
 
28 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 were assigned to tlie president ])y the then made enactment, were at 
 that time l)eing satisfactorily performed without a president ; 
 
 (I have a verbatim copy of what Mr. JctYerson wrote on that 
 occasion on the minute book of the Board. ) 
 
 Fourth — He objected on the ground tliat there was not a full 
 Board in attendance, only seven of the nine members being present. 
 
 Now. I respectfully submit that there is not to be found in this 
 paper of Mr. Jefferson's anything justifying this statement that he 
 was opposed, per sc. to a president for this institution. What he 
 stated will be well expressed by the last paragraph in what he himself 
 at the time wrote, after having assigned the four reasons I have 
 mentioned. 
 
 Certainly it might have been inexpedient at that time, under 
 existing conditions, to elect a president, and yet the man who con- 
 sidered it inexpedient at that time under those conditions need not 
 have come to a deliberate conclusion that a man should not at any 
 time become the president to preside over the destinies of this great 
 institution. 
 
 I revert to this memorandum made by Mr. Jeft'erson, not that I 
 would feel that the governing body of this institution at that time 
 should be restrained from doing what was good for this institution 
 because Mr. Jeft'erson in 1826 thought otherwise, for my reverence 
 for this man is such that it is a pleasing duty to me to do all I can 
 to demonstrate that the action taken would have had his approval. 
 
 While Mr. Jefferson did not give to this University a president, 
 he breathed into its organism and life principles that have lived 
 and grown with the life and growth of the institution : — The principle 
 of individual liberty, of individual responsibility, the principle of free- 
 dom, the principle of equality, of right, and of opportunity. These 
 principles all entered into the organization of this University from 
 the very hour of its birth. As the power invested in a president of 
 the United States is no menace to the sovereignty of the several States 
 composing this I'nion, so the existence of a president to preside over 
 this institution is no menace to the independence of the several schools 
 constituting this great University. As the power of a president exer- 
 cised under a written constitution is no menace to the rights of the 
 individual American citizen, so, 1 may sa\-. tlie powers of a president 
 at this University need not infringe, and will not infringe, ujjon the 
 free exercise of individuality, of responsibility by every student wlio 
 mav enter the walls of this I'niversity. I'.ut Mr. Jefferson ga\-e to 
 this institution one great eharacteristie to which I nuist briefly allude. 
 It is perhaps the most distinguished eharacteristie of all others con- 
 nected w'illi the I'niversilv : - that is, the honor systtMU. Honor in 
 
(i|- riiK IN i\ Kusirv (ii- \iK(,iM\. 29 
 
 the classi\)om, IiniKir in tlu' (.•xiiininatiun ronni. hniior in llu- daily 
 associations of life has Iiolu tho foundation in-inciplo which has guided 
 and directed the students from the very day this institution was 
 founded. This has ,L;rt>wn, and nut of it an rsf^rit dc corps as high and 
 as grand as can well he conceived of; and in turning over this Uni- 
 versity to the control of the newly elected President, and in extending 
 to that President the cordiaf co-operation and support of the alumni 
 from one end of this land to another, I can not refrain from saying in 
 the name of the alumni everywhere, to our distinguished President, 
 that these principles which were l)reatlied into this institution hy its 
 illustrious founder we confide to him witli the earnest hojjc that they 
 may he accentuated and never diminished. 
 
 In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, as the Board of X'isitors 
 have pledged to the President support and co-operation, and as the 
 Faculty have in like manner set themselves to what they have done in 
 the i)ast — for de\-e]oi)ment. growtli and prosperity of our alma mater, 
 so I say to the almnni, as one man. may they rallv round the President 
 and sustain liim in all his et'forls to make tiiis great I'niversitv even 
 greater than it is now. 
 
 For Si.ster Universities of the East. 
 
 by professor .\rch ii',.\ld c.\ry cooliutie, of h.\k\-.\ri). 
 
 Ladies and Gciillcincii : 
 
 Von have heen listening to the words of your nearer hrethren, to 
 the Governor of the State, the representatives of the Faculty and of 
 the alumni of your own University. They iiave dwelt in eloquent 
 tones on the loftiness of her iileals. on llie nohilily of her achievement, 
 and on the manifold service which she has rendered to this State, to 
 the South, to the whole country. I'.ui the voice> that shoidd testify 
 in her praise are not merely those of her own children. Her name is 
 known far and wide, and her influence has affected many who have 
 had no claim to direct connection with her. It is meet, therefore, that 
 on an occasion like the prc.'^ent, the sister universities from near and 
 far should send their message of good-will and rejoicing; and to me 
 has fallen the high honor of heing the first to speak in a greeting in 
 the name of the universities of the Fast, many of which are among 
 the oldest in the land. It is true that I am hut the insufficient suhsti- 
 tute of the man who more fittingly than any other couhl convey to vou 
 this greeting. 1 woidd that it might reach you from the lijjs of Presi- 
 dent Eliot, of Harvard, whose own character and position would give 
 additional weight tfi the words. I'or more than thirty years he has 
 guided and directed the institution committed to his care ; he has met 
 
30 IXSTAI.LA'nOX OF THE FIRST I'RESIDEXT 
 
 wilh l;itter opposition as well as unsparing criticism ; he has changed 
 methods whose value time appeared to have consecrated: he lias risked 
 experiments that were pronounced the height of rashness. And now 
 that he has won the day, that his place is assured among the foremost 
 names in the history of American education, it is he that should be 
 here to declare what not only Harvard, but all our Eastern universities 
 feel about their sister of Virginia. Unavoidable absence in Europe 
 has prevented him from appearing in your midst ; still much as this is 
 to be regretted, at least it has the advantage that I can bear witness 
 with a freedom that would be impossible for him as to what can be 
 accomplishd by the right college president, what a power for good 
 he may be in the community, and how much he can add to the strength 
 of his institution, be it ever so much attached to the methods under 
 which it has long prospered, be it ever so justly proud of its traditions. 
 
 Even to the University of Virginia time brings its necessary 
 revolutions. The truth is eternal, but the ways in which it should be 
 taught may vary from age to age, and no system is so sanctified by its 
 triumphs in the past as to be beyond the need of change to meet 
 changed conditions in the future. You have recognized that the 
 moment has come when without sacrificing any of that spirit which 
 has made your University what she is. it has been deemed best to 
 modify her organization, to centralize her control, and to add to her 
 executive efficiency, so that she may still better play her part in 
 molding the thought of this rapidly growing nation. At this crucial 
 point in her destinies it befits her sister universities to wish her God- 
 speed. Speaking in the name of those of the East, I can assure you 
 that we have not failed to appreciate what she has achieved an<l what 
 she represents today. 
 
 More than a generation before the University of A'irginia was 
 founded, ^'alc and Harvard had already shown tlieir estimation of the 
 man that was to lie her founder by conferring upon him their degrees 
 of Doctor of Laws, the highest honor which it was in their jxiwer to 
 l)estow. Many years aflerwarcls. in iSk;, Mr. George Ticknor, the 
 well-known liistorian of S])anis]i literature, then teaching in Cam- 
 bridge, wrote to Mr. Jefferson about his favorite project, as t'ollows: 
 " I rejoice in it, not only disintert'stedh-, as a means of ])roinoting 
 knowledge and ha])|)iness, ])Ut selfishh-, as the means of I'xciting bv 
 powerful and dangerous rivalshi]) tlie enud.ation of our college ;it the 
 Xorth." * * * And in our colleges we can echo these words to 
 this hour. 
 
 All our univt'rsities are striving with limited resources to do great 
 things. ICach in her own way is following out her ideals .'ind trving 
 to the best of her al>ilities to tr;iin her children and to inspire them to 
 
()i- Till-: ixnKusirv oi' \iki.ini.\. 31 
 
 live for sumclhin^- Iu-^Ikt tluiii ^lK•m^^<.■l\ t.--. In this community ol" 
 ctYorl each has taken her -liare and lias deserved our gratitude. In 
 the minds of her sisler>. the L'ni\er>it\ of \'ir!j;inia has i)articularly 
 stood for two inincii.les, one of them academic, thou-h hased partly 
 on moral _t;round>. the oilier moral alone. 
 
 .\t the present day what i> termed the elective syMeni of studies 
 has found it> way in one form or another into nii>st of our higher 
 institutions of learning; it has hegun to penetrate into the sclnKtls. and 
 it has almost threatened the kindergartens. This liherty of choice, 
 which at times can degenerate into license, has now hecome an educa- 
 tional commonplace. We argue ahout the cpiestion of more or less, 
 of the applicability of the system under a given set of circumstances, 
 of the measures that shall ensure its more judicious use. But the 
 idea has lost all no\elty for us. People no longer even .stop to ask 
 where it came from. And yet. when eighty years ago the University 
 of \'irginia was founded on a basis broader than that of any other 
 college in the country, the elective system, which you alone at that 
 earlv dav dared to introduce, was. indeed, a startling innovation, one 
 that long could find hut few imitators. N'erily. it must have caused 
 much shaking of the head among the wiseacres, who believed that for 
 a path to be straight it must he narrow, and that the way of learning 
 which they had followed themselves was the only proper one along 
 which to guide the footsteps of others. Time has vindicated your 
 wisdom and the foresight of your founder. The princii)le for which 
 you contended has become a common heritage, ^'ou have shown that 
 a broad road to knowledge need not be an easy one. for you have kept 
 your standards .so high that you have discouraged many an applicant 
 who would gladly have won your degree if it could have been obtained 
 at any other cost than that of long and i)alient toil. All this wc of 
 the sister universities ajipreciate — perha])s not without jealousy. 
 
 There is. moreover, another ])rinci])le which we who li\e at a 
 distance associate with the I'niversity of \'irginia. High as she has 
 l)Ut knowledge as her ideal, she has put something else higher still. 
 She has recognized from the beginning that her institution which has 
 charge of youth, to mold them for after life, fulfils but a part of its 
 rluty if it niini.sters merely to their intellects. The distinguishing 
 mark oi its graduates should be not only learning, but character. 
 That they should be gentlemen before the scholars. This truth, which 
 in our modern striving for efficiency sometimes apjicars to be dropjiing 
 into the background, has never been forgotten here. 
 
 Who is there in the United States who knows of the I'niversity 
 of \'irginia and does not think of her as the home of the honor system, 
 the priceless possession of which others may well be envious? To 
 
32 
 
 ALLATIOX OF THE FIK.'- 
 
 vou it seems as natural as the air you l)reathe. To those less fortiuiate 
 in this respect it remains, even if dit¥erent conditions make it difficult 
 of attainment, an ideal, an encouragement towards a better state of 
 things in the future. This is well, for never in our history has there 
 been a greater need of a steadfast maintenance of the principles of 
 character for which you have stood with such noble results. In this 
 day of triumphant materialism, when faiths are rambling and nothing 
 goes unquestioned, when success at any price is the one achievement 
 that seems to appeal to a large portion of the community, when con- 
 sciences are weakened by casuistry, when simplicity is looked upon 
 as foolishness, and when the almighty dollar tends openly or insidiously 
 to enslave us all, may the University of Virginia with an ever-enlarged 
 sphere of influence stand as she always has stood for the principle of 
 the Scotch poet, " The man's the gold for all that." 
 
 For Sister Universities of the North. 
 
 BY president NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 Lodics and Gentlemen: 
 
 One of the most charming of the shorter dialogues of Plato has for 
 its subject friendship. After subtle and amusing discussions, you will 
 remember, Socrates and his two young friends profess themselves un- 
 able to discover what is a friend ! If fools may rush in where angels 
 fear to tread, shall we not say that intimate association, complete confi- 
 dence, and intellectual sympathy are the sure basis of friendship l)ctween 
 men ? Then are we met today — some of us, I know, many of us. no 
 doubt — to hail a friend, to bid him (iod-speed, and to stand at his side 
 while he publicly consecrates himself to the service of an ideal. And 
 than that ideal there is none loftier or more noble. It is the service 
 of truth and of mankind, surrounded by all the ui)lifl. all the vigor, 
 and all the opportunity of our American democracy. 
 
 The human brain has conceived no finer career than that offered 
 bv a universitv in a democracy. Xo longer do universities, however 
 beautiful their fabric, content themselves with " whispering from tlieir 
 towers the last enchantments of the Middle .\ge." for they must busily 
 _' manifold eiichanlments of its own makinj;-. 
 s, liowever ancient iheir traditions, carefully 
 ey must ceaselessly te;ich lli;U the truly pr:ic- 
 iil of those everlasting i)riiiciples which h,-i\e 
 began. The shackles, to(T, are gone — the 
 shackles i)hilosophic. the shackles scientitic. 
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 .^iilc. 'riu' saiiK' i)r(imi)liiii^s of the spirit tlial l)r()iii;lu to pass the one 
 gave Us alM) tlic ullur. It is worth miiuliiii;-. too, that it was not bhnd 
 passion, iioi untaiiK'd and reckless force, hut rellectivc thought that 
 sowed tlie seeds of hotli. .\h)reover, political liherly and university 
 freedom have this in connnon — the niakinsj; of men. iyrauny and 
 censored lliiid<in>; may conceivahly make a man or two now and then, 
 Imt they could ne\ er make men. .\nd men, real men, with disciplined 
 minds, with fmely formed ;ind lemiiered ch;iraclers, with tile jjower to 
 i^row li\ serxins.^, are the best ])roduct of the ages; for with our jjolit- 
 ical liherty ;;iid our universities does freedom exist. 
 
 Consider for a moment what it is that our democracy demands of 
 its universities. It demands a detachment which judges fairly without 
 an aloofness that fails to sympathize. It demands a progressiveness 
 which presses forward without a pace tliat leaves appreciation breath- 
 less. It demands a scholarship which is solid and sure without a 
 pedantry that is sterile and suffocating. It demands a historic sense 
 which interprets the present by the past, without an ancestor-worship 
 that hows tlie head in contemplative awe. It dem.ands a catholicity of 
 s])irii which bars no excellence without a su])erricial sentimentality 
 that stops short of having convictions. Out of these elements is the 
 atmosphere of a university compounded — detachment. ])rogressive- 
 ness. scholarshij). historic sense, catholicity. Is it possible for a 
 democracy to ])ay loo much honor to its universities? What life is 
 better than a life which helps a university on its way? 
 
 It is trite to say that universities are among the oldest of human 
 institutions, yet it is worth repeating now and then. Universities are 
 older than parliamentary government, older even than our familiar 
 spoken tongues; they are but a little younger than the Roman law and 
 the Roman Church. Stately, then, they are, and wise with watching 
 maiiv men and manv moods, as well as useful and skilful, too, both 
 to in(|uire and to teacli. In the l)eginniiig the universities never 
 doubted the validity of their method; it was an all-con(|uering syllo- 
 gistic logic. Today the uni\ersities are little given to doubt the 
 validity of that scientific method which has dis])laced the syllogistic. 
 It may be well for the confident modern to remember the errors of 
 the equally confident scholar of the Middle Age and to profit by his 
 exami)le. if possible. If. as Socrates said, an unexamined life is not 
 worth living, then surely an uncriticised method abounds in danger. 
 The university that does not persistently examine the validity of its 
 method; that does not question its assumptions; that docs not. in other 
 words, pay to philosophy its ju.st and necessary due, will not remain 
 a university long. 
 
 To a universitv in a democracv vou come, old friend, as counselor 
 
34 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 and guide. The task is not a new one to your hea<l and hand. Yonder 
 in the old North State, and across the mountains in the Crescent City, 
 where the mighty father of waters halts for a moment before ending 
 his winding course, you have taken the reins and driven skilfully the 
 chariot of scholarship and of service. Today the scene is new. Here 
 are fine traditions, noble ideals, brilliant achievement. :\Iay the pass- 
 ing years bring only glory to the nation's University that is set in the 
 Old Dominion's crown, and which bears her splendid name, and only 
 happiness and honor to the President to whom today with high hope 
 and sincere ati'ection we bid God-speed ! 
 
 For Sister Universities of the South. 
 
 BY chancellor WALTER BARNARD HILL, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GE0R(;TA. 
 
 Mr. President: 
 
 Assuming that the geographical idea has had some influence in 
 the making of the program for this auspicious occasion, I shall take 
 the liberty of differentiating my congratulations from those of others 
 upon the installation of your new President by claiming the privilege 
 of speaking as the representative of the South. Undeterred, though, 
 I confess, not unabashed, by this great fanfare and this august pres- 
 ence, I shall speak without reserve of hinr and in a sense to hiuL of 
 the affection of his brothers in the work of Southern education — an 
 affection called forth by his inimitable personal charuL his great gifts 
 of intellect, scholarship and eloquence, his pure and lofty character. 
 Speaking in this intimate way, I am but one among the thousands tliat 
 love him. and whose prayers will "Rise like a fountain for him day 
 and night," that he may here work out in conspicuous realizati(Mi the 
 high ideal of a great university — an ideal which he. when taking up 
 elsewhere years ago the duties of a university i)resi(lent, pictured in 
 these glowing words : 
 
 " Mv d'.'sire would have it a i)lace where there is always a lirciih 
 of freedom in the air; where a sound and various learning is taugr.t 
 heartilv wilbnut sham or i)retense; where the life and teachings oi 
 Jesus Christ furnish forth the ideal of right living and true manhood; 
 where manners are gentle, and coin^tesies daily nudti|)ly between 
 teacher and taught; where all classes and conditions ;nid beliefs are 
 w^elcome, and men nia\- rise in earnt'st striving b\- the right of nier't ; 
 where wealth is no ijrejudice and poverty no shame: where honorable 
 labor, vwn rough la]>or of the bands, is gloritieil b\- high ])uri)ose and 
 streinious dt'sire for tlie clearer air and the larger \iew ; wliere there 
 is a will to ^er\e all high ends of a great State struggling u\) out of 
 ignorance into general ]io\ver: where ukmi 'aw train(.'d to obserx'c 
 
(IK TIIK INIVKKSITY OK VIKCINIA. 35 
 
 closely, to imagine vividly, lo reason aoouratvly. and In have alionl 
 them some humility and some toleration; where, finally, truth shininj; 
 patiently like a star bids us advance, and we will not turn aside." 
 
 When I said, Mr. President, tlial 1 l<>nk the lilierty of assuming 
 that I represented the Soulli, 1 used the i)lira>e in its widest and most 
 cosmopolitan meaning. In 1717, wlun Sir Roliert Montgoniery :i])plied 
 to the King of England lOr a grant ni' Kinds hetween the rivers 
 .savann;di and Altaniali;i. to he named .\zali;i. he issurd ;i prospectus 
 to attract colonists — ;i dociinieiit which might give jxiints even to 
 Wall Street promoters — in which lie called attention to the fact that 
 the new territory was " in the s.ame parallel as Palestine, and jjointed 
 out by God's own choice." This prospectus is a warrant res])ectable 
 in its anti(piily. it' not in its modesty, for claiming credit for Southern- 
 ers for all that is achieved within our parallels of latitude around the 
 globe. The belt of earth corresponding to the South makes Moses, 
 as Bishop Candler, of Georgia, loves to say, "one of the first Southern 
 gentlemen." It takes in Greece, and gives us for Southerners. Homer, 
 Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great. It takes in the southern 
 end of Italy, and a slight curve of the line permissible to one who is 
 constructing a theory, as it is to the maker of a railroad map, brings 
 in all of that wondrous land, adding to our glories Csesar, Virgil, and 
 l)aiue. It includes the birthplace of Napoleon, though we do not 
 claim Xapoleon as a typical Southern gentleman. It comprises Japan, 
 and while some people have been mystified at the marvelous develop- 
 ment of the Flowery Kingdom, we have had the key to the fact in the 
 advantage of its southern climate. Great Britain is a])parently alien 
 to this clime, but the exception is only apparent, for what is it that 
 has made possible the climate and thereby made possible the civilization 
 of England? It is that southern gulf stream, that "river of the 
 ocean," as your own Maury has called it — " that wandering summer 
 of the seas " : so that ICnglishmen are only Southerners at long distance 
 — a theory which gives its Shakesi)eare. Milton, and 'remiyson, 
 Chatham, liurke. and Gladstone." 
 
 In the ."^onlh. then, have dwelt, if you have followed me in this 
 excursion around the globe, the Hebrew people, whose gift to the 
 world was the idea of holiness; the Greek, whose gift to the world 
 has been the idea of art ; the Romans, whose gift to the world was 
 the idea of law, and the Anglo-Saxons (by courtesy of their hypothe- 
 sis), whose gift to the world is liberty. These are large inclusions. 
 I admit. 1)ut I avoid insistence on these " Alabama claims," and hasten 
 on to one conclusion which 1 know will pass unchallenged, and that is, 
 in Dr. .Mderman's noble vision of the University, and 1 trust he will 
 forgive me for saying in the heart and sold of the seer, there have 
 
36 INSTALLATION OF T}IE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 entered the highest and best of all the inspirations of the Hebrew 
 ethical ideal, of Greek culture and beauty, of Roman administration, 
 and Anglo-Saxon freedom. 
 
 Speaking on behalf of the other institutions of learning in the 
 South. I wish to say that we recognize the strategic position of the 
 University of \'irginia. its unique situation, its peculiar national rela- 
 tion, and its leadership. Endeavoring to make plain the spirit of this 
 recognition, I have recourse to one of the noblest orations of American 
 eloquence, an address delivered by Hon. James C. Carter, of New 
 York, on the occasion of the dedication of the new buildings of the 
 University. June, 1898. I may say here, in parenthesis, that the Uni- 
 versitv of X'irginia has, in my judgment, received no more splendid 
 tribute in all its history than its recognitii:)n in the last will and 
 testament of that great man. who stood, in the esteem of his brethren, 
 at the head of the American bar. In concluding his great address, 
 Mr. Carter said : 
 
 "And the ancient Commonwealth of X'irginia — to what nobler 
 object can she extend her favor and support than the building up upon 
 this historic spot of a great university wdiich shall be at once the home 
 of the sciences and the arts, and the nursery of political freedom? 
 Outshining all her sister colonies in the splendor of her contribution 
 to the galaxy of great names which adorns our Revolutionary history, 
 how can she better perpetuate that glory than by sending forth from 
 her own soil a new line of patriot statesmen? Xo jealousies will 
 attend her efforts to this great end. and her sister States would greet 
 with delight her reascending star once more blazing in the zenith of 
 its own proper firmament." 
 
 As the orator was speaking for \'irginia's sister States, so under- 
 taking to speak for the educational institutions in the South. I would 
 say, " no jealousies. Mr. President, will attend your ettorts '" to realize 
 the great ideal of your life here. Without envy, we see that yours is 
 the first Southern institution in whose very birth national inlluences 
 were at work in that unpretending tavern in Kock i-'ish Cap. where 
 three presidents of the Cnited States, with other distinguished men, 
 met to prei)are a report iqion a rounded scheme of state education. 
 We recognize, too, that N'irginia occu])ies a i)ec\diar relation to the 
 South in the fact that it was on her territory th:it the tremendous 
 issues of the war between the States were fought out and settled, 
 thus linkini-- the verv names of her battlefields with the traditions of 
 
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OK IIIK r.NIXKKSirV OK \II<(ilNI.\. 37 
 
 ^'()u ixmik'hiIkt with |anu> ( '. (arur. ulioni I ai^aiii ijUoti.-, that 
 ■■ tlK- youth wlio art.- hroui^ht lui\- should study not ,,u\y iIk- prini-ipk-s 
 of lihcrly and free i^ox (.ruunui as taii},dn hy the founder. I)ut the new 
 prohlenis arising- from the piixhi^ious growth of tlie nation and its 
 rajtid material consohdation ; the true |irinei|»les of Ie,i^islati(»u. and 
 hy uliat methods liherty is hest reconciled witli order and witli hr.v; 
 teaching thuu to i>refer for tlieir enuntry that nnown among the 
 nations wliicli comes from the con-taut (hsjday of tlie love of peace 
 and justice."' ^■ou will look to the future, for. in the language of the 
 poet who should have heeu heir to the laurel of Tenny.son 
 
 " He loves man's uohle memories too well 
 Who does not love man's uohler ho])es yet more." 
 
 For the fulfilment of this great ideal the man and the hour have 
 met. Providence has given you a leader : 
 
 " One who counts no jjuhlic toil so hard 
 
 As idly glittering pleasures ; one controlled 
 By no moh's haste, nor swayed hy gods of gold ; 
 
 ['rizin,<i'. not courting, all just men's regard; 
 With none hut Manhood's ancient Order starred. 
 
 Xor crowned with titles less august and old 
 Thau human greatness: larg-e-brained, limpid-souled ; 
 
 Whom dreams can hurry not. nor doubts retard; 
 I'.nrn. nurtured of the Penpk'. living still 
 
 The l'eoi)le's life; and though their uohlesl llower. 
 In nought renii)\ed above them, save alone 
 
 In loftier virtue wisdom, courage. ])ower." 
 
 FoK SiSTEK L'XIVEKSITIES OF THE W'e.ST. 
 I'.Y I'KE.-sIUE.NT U. II. JESSE. OK THE rNIXEKSITY OK MISSOl UI. 
 
 I bring. Mr. President, greetings from the I'niversity of Missouri 
 to my aliiiii inalcr. the L'ni\ersity of X'irginia — greetings from the 
 Louisiana Purchase acipiired by Thomas Jefferson, to this Mother of 
 State Universities founded by him. 
 
 Jefferson was the greatest prophet of public education that our 
 country has yet producefl. I'or fifty years he was dominated by a 
 passion for civil and religious freedom through rejiublican institutions, 
 and by a passion for public education in common schools. an<l in l^tate 
 universities. 
 
 For a season, at least, Mr. TetYerson's ideas in behalf of education 
 
38 INSTALLATTOX OF THE FIRST PKESIDENT 
 
 (lid not l)car imuii fruit in the Old Dominion, hut the yield from them 
 was magnihcent in the daughters of Airginia heyond the Alleghany 
 ^Mountains. As every student of history knows, N'irginia ceded to the 
 Federal Government most of the land embraced in the " Northwest 
 Territory" — the vast region lying north of the Ohio River, east of 
 the Alississippi. south of Canada, and west of the Alleghany AIoiui- 
 tains. 
 
 In 1803, Ohio, \'irginia"s latest daughter from the West, knocked 
 for admission into this sisterhood of States. Jefferson was at that 
 time President of the United States. Congress imposed upon (;)hio 
 certain conditions which she must faithfully observe before being 
 admitted into the Union ; and with these two conditions were two 
 large grants of land, one for the endowment of what ultimately becajiie 
 a State imiversity. This magnificent policy in regard to public 
 education, established under the presidency of JefTerson. has been 
 pursued by our country in the admission of Western States for over 
 one hundred years. If we except West Virginia and Texas, no State 
 from the crest of the Alleghany Mountains to the shores of the Pacific 
 Ocean for 102 years has been admitted into the Union without pledging 
 the support of its people to common schools and State universities. 
 
 And in these later days this policy, so to speak, this policy first 
 established by Jefferson, has stretched its wings beyond the confines 
 of our continent, and touched with pinion tii)s our island possessions 
 in the eastern and western seas, ^^'e therefore, who believe in public 
 schools and State universities, and esi)ecially the ])eoi)le of the West, 
 may well cry unto him as the lesser proj)hets of old cried ever unto 
 the greater. " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the 
 horsemen thereof. "" P'or verily unto our Israel of j)ul)lic education, 
 from kindergarten to State university, Jefferson has been as a squad- 
 ron of armed chariots and as a legion of mailed horsemen. He has 
 been father also of ]:)ublic schools and Slate uni\-ersities beginning 
 
 with Ohio and stretching out to the shores of 
 
 the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 Compelled, rninlly. against his will, to ab: 
 
 mdon the iilea of public 
 
 schools in Virginia, Jefferson still struggled 
 
 for the Last twenty-ti\e 
 
 years of his life with longue and with ])en ai 
 
 id with zeal for a great 
 
 State university. Time fails me to tell you i 
 
 .■\eii brielly of his ideal 
 
 of higher education. 
 
 
 Let me call yoiu" attention to the fact thai 
 
 the best seats of leani- 
 
 ings on earth in JelTerson's day consisted ( 
 
 )f deparliiienls of Law. 
 
 Me<licine. Theology, an.l Philosophy, lie had 
 
 no ])in'cedenl in l'Airo;)o 
 
 or in .Xnu'rica for going beyond this concent 
 
 r.-ited (|u;i(lri\iuiii. lint 
 
 these de])arlmenls, important as they are. rej 
 
 ireseiited but a lithe of 
 
OF THE rNl\i:US|TY Ol' \Il«;iNI.\. 39 
 
 the inslruotion which Mr. UlTiTson iilaminl hew. \'nr i-x;mii)K-, 
 without the pixoctk-iu tlurcfor amuii}^ institiilious tlu-ii (.•xisiins^ in 
 Anu'rioa and luiropc. In- advocated instriiolitm in the "" use of tools." 
 and in 'reclniical I'hilosophy, — or. as wc sliould say now, in Manual 
 Training; and in l-ln.ifinccring. To liie (hsniay of c(hicators. he hiid 
 out here courses in Aijricuhure. HorticuUure, X'eterinary Surgery. 
 and in Mihtary Science. .XHl until 1S62 did our country finally realize 
 that a Cdlleye of .\gricidtine. enihracing also the Science of Warfare, 
 might he added to a great university without utterly tlcstroying its 
 dignity. It was liere among these Ragged mountains he ])leaded for 
 courses in I'ine Art. and in Tools, in Architecture. " ( ivil. Military, 
 and Xaval." .\nd schools of Commerce. Manufacture, schools of 
 Statesmanship, and Diplom.'icy he would iiave estahlished here when 
 the nineteenth century was yet in its teens had \'irginia only heart- 
 ened unto his advice. Xor did he forget to plead for the "Theory 
 of Music." Indeed, there is scarcely a large division of learning that 
 has been added within the past one hundred years to any considerable 
 college or university in this country that Jefferson did not clearly 
 outline as a part of his ideal State University of Virginia : and I can 
 not find a department for which he pleaded, saving only a School of 
 Manufacture, that has not subsequently been adopted in more than 
 one American institution of unquestionable renown. 
 
 Indeed. Engineering, for example, has been develoi)ed in the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, far beyond that " Technical 
 Philosophy " which Jefferson had in mind, and so with everything else. 
 But of what other man in the hi.story of the human race can it be said 
 that, standing on the threshold of a period of rapid change, he forecast 
 the development of higher education for a century of time? 
 
 The University which he finally founded here in the twilight of 
 his days was but a i)art of that institution which he had fancied: never- 
 theless, in spite of all its shortcomings, for the sjjace of fifty years it 
 was perhaps the foremost seat of learning on this continent. Rut 
 when, in 1876. the Johns Hopkins opened its doors, then for a season, 
 at least. " the sceptre departed from Judah and a law-giver from 
 between his feet." Then arose among our .American imiversities that 
 fierce struggle for i)re-eminence which for thirty years has raged 
 Xorth and South, and East and West. 
 
 It may well be, Mr. President, that beginning from today there 
 shall yet come an era of rapid growth anrl expansion to this Mother 
 of State Universities, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. It may he 
 that ere long his vision shall yet be fulfilled here in a full-orbed uni- 
 versity, the embodiment of all that he hoj)ed for and of all that has 
 been achieved in higher education in our country in a century of time. 
 
40 INSTALI.ATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 The All-Gracious God grant that this come to pass quickly for the 
 repose of his soul who was father unto the University of \'irginia. 
 
 Long ago the Prophet went up from among his disciples. His 
 mantle, in mid-air long suspended, as it were, seems to have fallen 
 upon your shoulders. ]\Ir. President. ]\Iay a double portion of his 
 spirit be upon you ! 
 
 INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDEXT ALDERAIAX. 
 
 Eighty-seven years ago, the Commonwealth of A'irginia, inspired 
 by the genius of Thomas Jefferson, guided by the patient good sense 
 of Joseph Cabell, and heartened by the encouragement of James Madi- 
 son and James Monroe, laid the foundation of this University, and 
 dedicated it consciously to freedom for mind and soul, to desire for 
 knowledge and truth, and to solemn faith in the justice and slow 
 progressiveness of a democratic society. ]Men of English and Scotch- 
 Irish breeding long settled on the soil of the State, had evolved a free 
 and forceful society of gracious charm and distinction, and leadership 
 in the republic then belonged to Mrginia through the rare greatness 
 of her sons. 
 
 Out of her social conditions had come the spirit that called for 
 revolution ]n voices singularly clear and sweet. Erom her indepen- 
 dent life had arisen the forces that clothed in noble phrase the reasons 
 for revolution ; that guided victoriously the legions of war ; that bore 
 just part in the shaping of the Constitution, so compact of high sense 
 and tragic compromise : that interpreted its spirit ; that widened 
 colonial vision from ])rovincialism to eni])ire ; that fixed faith in 
 average humanity as the philosophy of a new civilization 
 set the framework of the great poptilar experiment in 
 imperishable stren-gth and beauty. 
 
 The illustrious man who inspired this foundation h 
 honor here. Here he lived, here they laid his mortal Ixxly 
 dwells in ceaseless energy his innnortal spirit. Put Thomas 
 like ( ieorge Washington, is a world name and a world 1 
 phrases, on the li])S of aspiration, stand everywhere as a r 
 a stmiibling-block to tyranny and op]M-ession. I lis ideals, f 
 ing in all lands, have given energy and reality to the i 
 movement of ilu' modern age in l"'uro])e and America. '!"( 
 versity Thomas JelTerxin is something more than a philoso|)hy. or a 
 figure in a pan.lheon. lie is a friend, a founder, a father. Xo 
 university in the world — not Rologna, or El Ashar. or ()xford. or 
 Prague — is so inlimalely associated with so innnortal a name. 'I'o 
 us he inhabits his hiiih hill forexer, an unwearied, versatile, mvriad- 
 
 and that 
 
 forms of 
 
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 and here 
 
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 i-ce. His 
 
 ■buke and 
 
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 emocratic 
 
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()|- TlllC INlVKKSirV Ol \IKlilNl.\. 4I 
 
 luiiuk'd old man. aciiiiaiiiti'd wiih i^lory and W\\i\\ station, a smile- of 
 taitli forever on his lips, a passion for fri-t-dom forever al his lu-arl. 
 knowing; men deei)ly. and yet hclieving in them and havinj; patience 
 with them; suhjecting everythin<j, with thontfhtful radicalism, to the 
 test of their advancement; watching with patient eyes the slow rising 
 walls of this University for their training, and connting that fonn<lation 
 the greatest in the snm of liis \ asi iiunian achievement. 
 
 Horn thus of the iniion of human enthusiasm and civic imi)ulse. 
 the Tniversiiv of \irginia seems to me llie first deliheratc gift of 
 democratic iilealism to the nation an<l century, lliough three-score and 
 seven institutions had preceded it in the national life, owing their 
 origin to the great historic causes of religious zeal, jjrivate heneficence 
 and high community impulses for wisdom and guidance. 
 
 In our satisfaction that we stand so impressively as an ex])ression 
 of the national mind toward political self-direction let us not forget 
 the debt that we owe to the great forces that had already huilded the 
 pioneer American institutions, out of which had come the inspiration 
 for Lexington and Vorktown, the C ontinental Congress, and the Con- 
 stitutional Convention. In particular, let us not forget the religious 
 motive that gave sacredness and moral direction to our ideals, that 
 held us to the faith ihril man's relation to God is the supreme essence 
 of human culture, and that admonishes us, day by day, that "through 
 wisdom is an house builded, and by understanding it is established, 
 and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all i)recious and 
 ])leasant riches." 
 
 Universities stand both as servants and as symbols of the spiritual 
 insight and the social needs of their epochs. The Greek peoples 
 studied philoso])hy because the need of their time was ethical. The 
 Englishman is nilent upon the getting of gener.d culture, because his 
 need is for the man of breadth and cultured will. In the second decade 
 of llie rei)ui)lic. jxipular thought centered upon the rights of man and 
 the bounds of political freedom. The statement of the purpose in the 
 founding of the University, therefore, drawn up by the same hand 
 that had drawn up the Declaration of .\nierican Indci)endence. while 
 reflecting this mood of the age. passed beyond it with a daring com- 
 prehensiveness that marks our founder as a master of foresight and 
 interpretation. " This University shall exist," said Jefferson. 
 
 "(i) To form the statesmen, legislators, and judges, on whom 
 public prosperity and individual hai)])i-ness are .so much to depend : 
 
 '•(2) To expounfl the principles and structure of government, the 
 laws which regulate the intercourse of nations, those formed numici- 
 pally for our own government, and a sound s])irit of legislation which, 
 banishing all unnecessarv restraint on individual action, sh.nll leave 
 
42 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 US free to do whatever does not violate the e(|ual rights of another ; 
 
 "(3) To liarmonize and promote the interests of agriculture, man- 
 ufactures, and commerce, and by well informed views of political 
 economy, to give a free scope to the public industry ; 
 
 "(4) To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their 
 minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of 
 virtue and order ; 
 
 "(5) To enlighten them with mathematical and physical sciences, 
 which advance the arts and administer to the health, the subsistence 
 and comforts of human life; 
 
 "(6) And, generally, to form them to habits of reflection and 
 correct action, rendering them examples of virtue to others and of 
 happiness within themselves." 
 
 Not since John ^lilton had declared that to be " a compleat and 
 generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and 
 magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and 
 war," had there been put forth such a classic statement of educational 
 purpose, and as only he who could draw the bow of Ulysses, could 
 realize the Aliltonic ideal, so all the constructive thinking and piled-up 
 wealth of succeeding generations have left unattained the Jeffersonian 
 programme. In its academic structure and in the scope and grouping 
 of its work. Jefferson had spiritual sight of the modern American 
 university, even now but dimly taking shajjc out of the needs of a 
 new society, the efforts of countless men and unmeasured power, as 
 our greatest intellectual achievement. His revolutionary mind put 
 aside the English college model as the i)roper force for training the 
 American democrat, with its exclusive tradition of humanistic culture, 
 and the formalism of the English country gentleman, though he was 
 broad enough to recognize the wisdom of hrdls of residence and the 
 connnunal life therein, which the bjiglish had evoKed. and which they 
 believe has contributed to produce the ty])e of man who has wideneil 
 the arch of the l)ritish l^mpire. 
 
 I'residiMil l'"Jiot a great modern master and interpreter of educa- 
 tional method and purpose, has recentl\- declared th;it there are three 
 indispensable .'iltributes of a true university: JM-eedom in the choice 
 of studies; o])])ortunitv to win distinction in s|)eci;d liui's ot study: a 
 discipline which im])oses on each in(li\i(lu;il the i-esi)onsil)ility for 
 forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. 
 
 Our great dreamer seized just these three' essentials, and ujion 
 tlu'in sha])ed the life of the University of X'irginia. ;is necessar\- con- 
 ditions. ;il a lime when they were not only unreali/ed. bul miini;igint. d 
 in Ann-ricaii educal ion.al pr;ictice. To this .absolulely right foumlation 
 are duv the just claims that here began the lirsl real Americ;in uni\er- 
 
(11- TlIK rNUKKSIlY Ol- \IK(,INI\. 43 
 
 sily. ami the t'ir>t \vli(>U'-lKan(.'tl cxix-riiiKiu with iIk- elective principle, 
 and the interesting resnlt, that there lias always been a real nniversity 
 at Charlottesville. In spite of meagre e(|uii)inent. though at its hirth 
 it was ])rol)al)ly tlie nio^l liherally planned institution of the country. 
 in spite of in^ulticicnl preparatory training at times for its students; 
 in .si)ite of restricted scope and inaliility lo welcome into the circle 
 of lil)eral arts the growing mass of new studio, the imiversity spirit 
 has always informed our life — a spirit that heheld the scholar's life 
 as a fair and fruitful thing, hegot in xoulh a desire, not only to acquire. 
 but to add somewh.it to tlie sum of knowledge, and evolved a method 
 of intensive tliorouglnu's> that yieltled knowledge of how truth may 
 he won. 
 
 Tile character of an institution i.s the resultant of its ideals and 
 of the social forces that cry out to it for direction. The tirst three 
 decades in the life of this university, like the lirst three in the life of 
 man. forever tixed its character. The revolutionary dynasty had 
 ])assed away, their battle for equality and human sympathy securely 
 won. A young repulilic. its concept of democracy suddenly shifted 
 from sovereignty to onmijiotence. stood iq) before the world, lacking 
 the instinct of unity, virile and wayward in its confident strength. 
 
 Steam and in\enti\e genius touched its heart with desire and 
 pointed the way for material advancement. A vast untouched emjiire 
 beckoned adventurous spirits from all lands to enterprise and con(|uesl. 
 There was brewing the storm of a great argument as to the nature of 
 this I'nion. made necessary by the silence and indecision of the Con- 
 stitution, and made inuninent by the ])resence of a vast human ])rohlem 
 in economics beijueathed to us by tlie industrial need and moral 
 callousness of ages past. Men in .\merica have never been so much 
 in earnest about vital things as they were in those days. Their hearts 
 were touched with fire and their very lives did not appear to thcni so 
 indispensable as their ideas. The passion of the time was a passion 
 for principle and loyalty. The ajititude of the time was for the build- 
 ing of States. There was no ro(jm in high places for the cynic, the 
 idler, the self-seeker. Cleared of human weakness and hot tempt r. 
 one sees in these sad. earnest years a time of single-mindedness and 
 sincerity of the ujjlifted heart, and of steadfast gazing upon the heights 
 of honor and duty, and tlK\ must iver remain the e])ic j)erio(l of the 
 struggle of deir.ocracy. under crushing difficulties, after self-conscious- 
 ness and unity of f)urpose. 
 
 True wisdom guided the selection of the formative men who came 
 here to teach, whether from Europe or .\merica, for they were high- 
 statured men and great teachers, as well as scholars, evoking enthu- 
 siasm for letters in their disci])les. setting high .and necessary standards 
 
44 IXSTALLATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 of scholarship in tlic laiui. and leaving liehiiul them an enduring educa- 
 tion of sweet and vital memories. Dunglison, Emmet, Tucker, Cabell. 
 Rogers, Ciessner Harrison, Davis, McGuffey, Courtenay. \'enable. 
 Minor, to mention only some of the dead. The mere intonation of 
 their names, each a unit of power, of sacrifice, and of service, is the 
 best celebration of their fame my tongue can fashion. The old grad- 
 uate here recalls men, not buildings. When he accounts for his 
 measure of virtue, he calls the roll of his old teachers, as Marcus 
 Aurelius did, long ages ago. on the l)anks of the Danube. Indeed, 
 the distinction of this life has been the contact of the individual with 
 the great teacher. 
 
 The youth who came here to learn were such youth as such times 
 breed. Thev were heedless of much that is heeded now. But they 
 were afire with the impulses of their generation. There dwelt in them 
 the root of a deep seriousness, an earnest ambition for service to the 
 State, and a calm faith in the power of the cultured will and the 
 honorable life. It was the golden age of education in the Southern 
 States — the high water mark of individual effort in behalf of the 
 training of ])icked youth. " Studies were blooming and minds awaken- 
 ing." More than eight thousand young scholars, from a varied terri- 
 tory, passed through these walls between 1830-60 to the larger life of 
 leadership in church and state, as cabinet ministers, jurists, physicians, 
 senators, governors, scholars, preachers and great cultured gentle- 
 men. The sjjirit of the time sent most of them into the public service, 
 where they made of politics a lofty profession, the tradition of which 
 informs and ennobles American political life today. But they may be 
 found all along the wide lines of life, finding eternal beauty in form, 
 like Poe ; searching the Arctic seas, like Kane; joining Xew England's 
 scholars in the great movement which In-ought ( iermanic scholarshi]) 
 to our shores; seeking and serving God, like ]')r(Xidus and Dudley; or 
 vielding up their lives in righteous consecration on the b.attle's edge. 
 
 ( )ut of the inter-ijlav of such forces, in a time of such intensity 
 and i)ersonality, was won the intimate character of the L'niversity of 
 Virginia. ( )ne does not have to search for this institutional character 
 as for something elusive and sul)tle. It shines out before the face of 
 the stranger in five clear jjoints of light : 
 
 A sympathetic imderstanding of deniocracv as a working hypothe- 
 sis of life, guaranteeing to every man a chance to realize the best that 
 is in him. 
 
 .\n absolute religious freedom, combined with wide and \it.d 
 religious op]>ortunities. 
 
 An a])peal lo the best in young men, rc-sulting in the crration of 
 a student public o])inion and a student system of honor, which en<lo\\ed 
 
<)!• rilK IMX KUSl I'V (ll- \IUi,INIA. 45 
 
 ihc luiivcrsiiy oi ihc pasl, and «,ii(lnu> ihc iiniv(.-r>ity of lo.laN with its 
 richest asset of reputation ami tame. 
 
 A high standard of scliDlarship rigidly maintained, in an air of 
 freedom of learning and freedom of teaching, hcgetting an austere 
 itleal of intellectual thoroughness and honesty. 
 
 A conception of culture as a compound of sound karning and 
 gracious conduct, a^ an inluTitancr of manhood and moral will won 
 through discipline and concpiesi. and as a capacity to deal wilii m<'n 
 in the rough work of the world, with gentleness and simplicity. 
 
 When the tempest of war finally fell, it was this spirit that ])os- 
 sessed the twenty-five hundred ardent young souls who went forth 
 from these doors, and "on war's red touchstone rang true metal." 
 When the tempest ceased, it was this same spirit that hred in the men 
 of today strength and patience, and a genius of common sense that 
 enahled them to endure, to rehuild. and to preserve for the world 
 things the world should not lose. 1 pledge myself, under ( lod. to do 
 what 1 can to cherish and to magnify, come good days or ill. this 
 inspiring university character. I do not mean that there should not 
 he readjustment here — change, if you will — the growth that is con- 
 servative of life and comes out of the tissues of ancient strength. A 
 changing society means a changing curriculum, and a university is 
 society shaping itself to future needs. But there are things that are 
 eternal, and the suhstance of this ancient s])irit of the University of 
 \'irginia is one of them. 
 
 The Americans of the Southern States are the only .\mericans 
 who have known in direct form the discijjline of war and the education 
 of defeat. They alone of this unheaten land have had intimate experi- 
 ence of revolution and despair. The University of \'irginia as their 
 chiefest servant, has shared with them this .stern self-revealing tute- 
 lage. One can never know what fair visions of its destiny filled the 
 eye of Thomas Jefferson. He heheld it guiding wisely the local life 
 of \'irginia. He heheld it as a training jjlace for d-.-mocratic leadershii) 
 in the State and nation : as an inspirer to the great Northwest and 
 Southwest, as those States swept into ordered life; hut his optimism, 
 as well as human limitations, shut it out from his sight, in its sacred- 
 cst relation, as the source of light to a land left in darkness and silence 
 hy the storm of war. Is there in academic annals such a story of 
 precious privilege and fulfilment? As each stricken .State found henrt 
 to relight its ancient torches, its sons came here for the sacred fire, 
 where patient hands had kept it hurning, or to our sister university in 
 the valley, where the great soldier sat at the teacher's desk, revealing 
 a moral splendor more touching and glorious than his martial fame. 
 To the Southern man of middle life, the universitv meant this Univer- 
 
46 INSTALLATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 sity. The world has deemed this a genlle and loval)le provinciahsni, 
 Init in a deep sense it was true, for here, indeed, was the home of his 
 ideals, and henee had come the men. the methods, the reawakened 
 educational desire, the nohle consolation of unweakened spirit, and 
 even amid the ravages of war, the unravaged vision of arts and 
 philosophy. 
 
 Secure, therefore, in the dignity of an intellectual authority which 
 it has earned, and a national service which it has rendered, enriclied 
 by the currents of a gentle civilization flowing about it for generations. 
 protected by the love and veneration of thousands, seated among hills 
 of quiet strength and beauty, and stamped upon its outward form with 
 '' the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome," if I 
 may use the very words of its most gifted child of genius and song, 
 this University faces the future, which summons you and me to pre- 
 serve and strengthen, as it summoned the founders to conceive and 
 create. 
 
 The glory of Jefferson was his enthusiasm for the future. It was 
 the prophecy in democracy that charmed his spirit. A noble past 
 might be a dangerous thing, he thought, if it brought contentment with 
 a com])lacent ])resent or an uncertain future, and there was no splendor 
 in it for him. if it did not urge men onward. It has been given to this 
 University to render wide and definite service for political freedom 
 and human culture and character in an age of national development 
 and trial. Is there not equal work for it to do in behalf of spiritual 
 freedom and economic independence and justice in an age of social 
 expansion and experiment? Is it not just as much a pioneer in the 
 latter struggle for a larger life, as it was when it came from the h;nid 
 of its founder in the generous fervor of a new hoi)e ? There is still a 
 democracy to be ser\-ed. with its dreams unrealized, its ideals changed, 
 its jjoint of \-iew advanced The democracy of the young century was 
 a theory of politics and philosoi)hy. The democracy of toda\- is society 
 fused bv the divine energv of the ^Master, seeking nnitv and develop- 
 ment, a connnon heart and conscience. If some of its earl\- dreams 
 have faded in the light of common day. it is because economic and 
 social questions strike deeper than issues formal and ])olilical. and for 
 their solution make demand les^ uimn emotions and impulst's. and more 
 U])on sound knowledge, ordered thinking. ;ind constrncli\-e ini;iginalion 
 The craving of its ])resent mood is for op])ortunily to share in the 
 fullness of life, to break u]) its masses into units, to sift its units for 
 hidden treasures, and to niter into the liner inheritances of the civiliza- 
 tion which it has hel|)ed to build. The gre.'it-grandsons of the men 
 who fancied the sulTrage wiuild bring I'topi.'i now set their hearts 
 more upon the wages of labor, the nature of ca])ilal. good country 
 
OK THE LNIVEKSl IV Ol \1K(.IM.\. 47 
 
 roads, the oiiricliiiit.'iit dI" rural Iil\-, tlu- villas^e- lilirary, the roim-ly 
 schoolhousc, the iiniinpcdcd patli to some such spot as tlii>. 
 
 Tlicro is still the repuhlie to he served, veiierahle nuw . fur all its 
 hrillianev, and literally made over in outward t'orm. in spiritual pur- 
 l)<)se. and in industrial cajjacity since 1X30. Who >hall leaven this 
 tunudl (if peoples with soherncss and simplicity and Americanism? 
 What is Americanism coming to signify spiritually to the world? 
 Shall it he alone ])ride of power, ])assion for achievenu'nt genius ''or 
 self-indulgence, mad waste ni energy, as in the ant hill, or shall it 
 mean steadfast justice, respect for law, sol)er discijiline. resjionsilile 
 citizenship, and moral sturdincss ? 
 
 This University is just one of the circle of American institutions, 
 seeking to guarantee the right answer to these large questions of 
 human welfare. A sectional, like a sectarian university, is unthink- 
 able, and we are spiritual neighbor to Harvard and Columbia, to 
 Michigan and Texas, to Oxford and Cambridge. As a brief answer 
 to the vital question. What sort of men have you made? 1 may reply, 
 forty-seven ])er cent, of our students have come to us from thirty-nine 
 States other than X'irginia; five hundred of our alumni have preached 
 the gospel ihroughout the world; four hundred and eleven have occu- 
 pied chairs in one hundred and fifty-one universities and colleges in 
 thirty-three States and four foreigTi countries, — fifty-seven of these 
 being elected in seventeen .Xorthern and W^estern States. Our .sons 
 have governed twelve States, and administered supreme justice in 
 seventeen States; one hundred and twelve of them have enacted laws 
 in the Federal Congress; and in law. medicine, business, and engineer- 
 ing a host of them are serving men about the world. 
 
 Tt is too clear to call for proof, however, that the chief allegiance 
 of this University is to X'irginia and to its natur.il contributing terri- 
 tory. Its elementary duties are to furnish a liberal education sub- 
 stantialh- free to the vouth of X'irginia. and to care for \irginia and 
 the South in their growing life, in educational, cultural, economic 
 directions. If there be a question touching life on the farm, or in the 
 factory, in institutional development, in the public schools, in manu- 
 facturing or nuinicipal ])rol)lems, .some intelligent answer should issue 
 from the University. If this Union .symbolizes the effort of freemen 
 to combine freedom and justice with wealth and power, the most 
 impressive phase of this effort is the proud, self-reliant re-entrance of 
 the South, after i.solation and submersion, into the work of the niotlern 
 world, without loss of ancient lovablencss. anrl with access of modern 
 vigor and mobility. This is still a land of romanticism and |)er.sonality. 
 of conservatism and reverence, of loyalty and cai)acity for devotion, 
 but it is as well a land of comnnmity. jirogress. and social sympathy. 
 
4^ IXSTAI.LATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 perceiving- the necessity and dignity of indnstrial efficiency, and realiz- 
 ing and mastering the economic forces of society. It has. indeed, 
 liegnn an economic movement, destined to revolntionize its life. Dis- 
 ciplined and homogeneous, our educable youth are reaching up into 
 life, through sacrifice. They are no better than other American youth, 
 but God has been good to them, because He has let their young eyes 
 see life as duty and opportunity and not as pleasure, and the republic 
 needs their tempered strength and their (piality of soul and their scorn 
 of dishonor. Nowhere in the world are there more difficult and dan- 
 gerous domestic problems. Nowhere in the world do both nature and 
 man ask so plainly for the trained hand, the trained mind and the 
 trained will. Everywhere there is wealth to be won and institutions 
 to be molded and ideals to be maintained, and a giant task accomplished 
 of relating in democratic life a master race and freed race on the basis 
 of justice, but conformable to the solemn obligations of racial growth 
 and of an unimpaired civilization. 
 
 Humanism produced the man of culture, and his peril was self- 
 sufficiency and a conception of culture as ornament. Applied science 
 and the imperious demands of commerce have produced the man of 
 efficiency, and his peril is personal barrenness and instinctive greed. 
 Our country needs the idealism of the one and the lordship over things 
 of the other, and such a blend will be the great citizen whose advent 
 an industrial democracy has so long foreshadowed. The kind of work 
 he shall do in the world is immaterial. He shall l)e an upward-striving 
 man who wants the truth and dares to utter it, who knows his own 
 need and the need of his age, who counts adaptability and toleration 
 among his virtues; who insists on a little leisure for his soul's sake, 
 and who has a care whether amid the warfare of trade, or in the quiet 
 and still air of study, for the building of things ever better and better 
 al)Out him. Fashioned by the sweep of genius tin-ough exjierience, 
 great citizens may come who have never seen a university, but univer- 
 sities are the organized efforts of monarchies and democracies to jiro- 
 duce such types, and our duty is to perfect the organism and to work 
 and ho])e. 
 
 The last (juarter of the ceiUury has witnessed the organization of 
 the American university, and the jjartial realization of its tinal form. 
 The next quarter of a centurv will set' some universities with the 
 income of enq)ires. and a i)ower u])()u wliieh cities and .''itates will lean 
 heavily for guidance. This new education.al form will conqirise : 
 
 (i) The College of Liberal Arts— the :u-adeniic heart -which has 
 assimulated scientific studies and thereb\- put itself in touch with the 
 meaning of the age. Its function will be to receive iinniatnrt' youth 
 in an atmo.sphere of i)roa(l and varied associations, in contact with 
 
OK rut: LMVEKSITY UK VIkClMA. 49 
 
 wise and nolilc lives, and to oiler iIkiu siu-li exp.-rii'nce in i-Mikinj,' 
 manhood and capacity, and sucli knowlcdf^c of man. nature and spirit. 
 lliat tliey shall gain power to enter into life with character, enthusiasm 
 and conviction. The colle.^e is a social institution, enlightenin;.,' and 
 guidingf youth, that it ina\ make men of them. 
 
 (J) The ("iraduate School — the academic hrain — chargetl with the 
 function of training mature and liberally educated men to investigation 
 and scientitic i)roductivoness. Here shall he gained that patience aiul 
 energy, that o])en-mindedness and sure thinking, that intellectual sin- 
 cerity, that have l)elonged to all the i):ilhlin(lers from .\ristotle to 
 Pasteur, ;uul must lielong to him wlio would hro.idrn the wavs .-md en- 
 large the boundaries of thought. ihe advance of civilization will 
 rest on the strength of this school and through its work alone can a 
 university hope to become a school of power, binding other colleges to 
 it in loyalty, and not only responsive to tradition, but to new truth 
 daily apjiearing in the life of man. Here the (piiet scholar may search 
 out tile irulli and hold it aloft for men to see. 
 
 (3) The I'rofessional Schools — the heart and brain at work on 
 life — as varied in number and scope as society is complex, seeking to 
 provide the world with the best skill needful for its growth, and so 
 justly related to the whole that we shall escape the peril of the illiberal 
 and uneducated specialist. 
 
 AH this shall be placed in a setting of a little world of libr.aries, 
 laboratories, loan funds, fellowships, mechanism and beauty, and the 
 whole vitalized and spiritualized by men in such force that their spirits 
 shall not break and their hopes shall not die. We do not need many 
 such universities but we need them strong and in the right ])laces. The 
 multiplication of weakness by weakness yields weakness still. The 
 South needs them to ])rotect its real reconstructive era from the 
 dangers of empiricism industrial dependence, and the perils that beset 
 character in all democracies. \'irginia needs such an university to 
 guarantee that educational leadership to which it has owed its great- 
 ness for two generations, and to light its ]);itli to that ])oint of useful- 
 ness and power which General Lee .saw in the dark days, when he said 
 simi)ly: " Let us work to make \'irginia great again." 
 
 The building of such a national university of modern type in the 
 South is the great opportunity to benefit the republic, now offered to 
 the wisdom of States and the imagination of far-seeing men. There 
 is a pre-supposition of vast power in such institutions, .\merica spends 
 thirty millions a year in maintaining them. Many millions a year are 
 given for their expansion. The States of the Xorlhwest Territory, 
 much of which was formerly \'irginia, exi)end six millions yearly, and 
 upon less than four or five hundred thousand a year one can not be 
 
50 INSTALLATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 maintained. ^loney alone can not make such an university, but vast 
 power is necessary, and though it bear the image and superscription 
 of Caesar, there is an alchemy of consecration in our laboratories 
 which can transmute money into moral force. Mere individual genius, 
 even of Plato, or x\belard,or Arnold, or Hopkins, can not make such an 
 university, though God pity it if it have not such quality of soul some- 
 where in its life. Prestige will not suffice, for prestige may be another 
 term for epitaph, if isolated from continuing power to serve a widen- 
 ing field. 
 
 Holding fast to all of good that we have, let us discern four new 
 paths of service for the University of \'irginia. First, of English speak- 
 ing statesmen, ]\Ir. Jefferson perceived the meaning of education as an 
 influence upon national as distinct from individual development, and for 
 forty years his mind played constantly around three lines of institu- 
 tional reform in \'irginia — elementary instruction for every child, in 
 order to guarantee citizenship, to elevate economic desire, and to in- 
 crease industrial capacity ; secondary education, or more education for 
 those fit for it ; university education, or training for leadership. 
 
 The largest social task of this university, co-operating with all 
 educational forces, is to strive for the accomplishment of these unreal- 
 ized ideals. Not only in Virginia, but throughout the South there is 
 enthusiasm, growth under difficulties, splendid determination and prog- 
 ress, and individual excellence ; but our educational systems are unor- 
 ganized and bear somewhat the relation to what they will finally 
 become that the old volunteer fire companies bear to the organized fire 
 department. Their proper co-ordination will come as a result of com- 
 munity effort and a conception of educational unity. Education is one 
 compact interest of society, and no one part can be profitably studied 
 alone, as no individual can be studied isolated from his fellows. His 
 cadaver may be valuable for such purposes, but not his personality. 
 I know of no more fruitful field of inquiry than that which has to do 
 with the relation of part to part in our systems of education, and of the 
 intrinsic relation of the whole to state and church. The I'niversity of 
 Virginia is essentiallv not this i)articular Citv of Light but a composite 
 institution, including everv scIk^oI house, academy, dennminational 
 college, State school — tied together in a union of sympathy and lu'I|)l"nl- 
 ness, and it somehow must become this or confess faihn-i\ 
 
 The adoption of the mill tax idea as a method of raising revemie 
 to insure unified and sta])le educational growth is the contribution of 
 the Mississi])pi \'alley. It is the result of the teachings oi JetTerson 
 and the commf)n sense of ])ioneers and ."^lale ])uilders. I conunend it 
 to our law-makers for their thoughtful investigation, for nowhere have 
 tlie dreams of Washington and the hopes of Jefferson a|i])roached so 
 nearl\- to realization as in tliis alert and unhindered territor\-. 
 
OK THE INIVKUSITY UK \IK(iI N I A. 5I 
 
 \\ c >lii>ultl cluiisli llu- linpi.- that tlu- linu- will (.•(Hiic wlicii the 
 liighcr iiistiiiuit)ii> i>i the Stale will hi- uiiili-d in uri^aiiic union, since 
 local pride and cntluisiasni lia\ c iknicd u^ iihysical unity. Nor sliouid 
 the reciprocal obligations he lorgoiien llial exist between the Stale antl 
 the private and denominational colleges, chartered by the State, pro- 
 tected by its laws, educating one-third of its youth. We should wel- 
 come the establishment here of halls and dormitories controlled by 
 them, availing themselves of the oiiporiunities of the University, and 
 if this he inii)raclicahle. we slmuld at least strive without ceasing to 
 banish from our life any semblance of intercollegiate hostility. I,et 
 co-operation supplant rivalry in the service of nien. This jirobleni of 
 unification is as difficult as it is inviting. The university that solves 
 the problem holds the fiUiire. The fu-st forward stej) would be the 
 establishment here of a school of Education of such power that its 
 teachers could approach this and other problems of educational states- 
 manship with insight and authority. This school should coni])rise not 
 only tlie philosopher. Init the sociologist, the organizer and the sym- 
 pathetic publicist. 
 
 Our distinctive contribution to American life has been political 
 leadership. A necessary condition for the holding of this position 
 would he the development here of a great school complementary to 
 law. embracing the studies classified under political economy, political 
 science, sociology and history. These are no longer subordinate 
 studies. They are the studies that enable the mind to reach results, 
 not so much through obstructive criticism as through ])rogressive 
 understanding of the soul of the time in which it lives, and through 
 insight into conditions unfamiliar to daily experience. Men tr.iined 
 in such studies get the enlightenment upon which wise .social action 
 must be based, and in them lies the hope of advance in .society. 
 
 For some decades the intensest expression of our power is to be 
 along industrial and scientific directions. The application of the 
 sciences to the enrichment of lite in engineering, in agriculture, in 
 business, in manufacturing, is not only a movement inevitable to the 
 national development, but is also a vitalization and emanci])ation of the 
 liberal studies. In the jjast five years the growth of engineering 
 students over those enrolled in the courses in letters and languages 
 has been one hundred per cent. This does not mean materialism, but 
 is simply an expression of economic need. Modern comi)etitive living 
 needs the trained man. not alone in law anrl medicine, but in engi- 
 neering and in the great arts of production and exchange. It is the 
 duty of society to master the means for the production of wealth as a 
 form of independence of the world's forces, and after that to oppose 
 moral purpose and enlightened conscience to the suggestions oi greed 
 and the seeking of fortune for fortune's sake. 
 
52 INSTAIJ.ATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 Universities that have a clear tradition are rare and fortunate. 
 Our clearest tradition is the tradition of culture and fellowship with 
 beauty and poetic understanding. It is not a tradition to lose in a 
 world where business is king. It is a morning spirit nf)t yet nuniljed 
 bv sordid or cynical impulses — still lit with spiritual charm and lifted 
 above enervation and self seeking — a stubborn negation of Words- 
 worth's fear : 
 
 '■ The world is too much with us, soon and late, 
 Getting and spending, we lay waste our power." 
 
 I would give this tradition added richness by putting it to work 
 through the establishment here of a nobly planned school of luiglish 
 Writing. In such an air as this, rich in life and hope and ample 
 manhood, there is room for a school which w(<uld l)ring men together 
 more in the spirit of practical artists than of critics or analysts ; a 
 school of scholars and masters, working together like good craftsmen, 
 learning from each other ; competing with each other, producing, offer- 
 ing their products to the thought of the world, and giving the training 
 which men of creative instinct get by working together under the 
 sharp spur of life and the just pride of accomplishment. The power 
 to use one's language clearly and persuasively is a practical gain, 
 alone worth the time spent in college. The power to use it as an expres- 
 sion of life and emotion is the power to enter through understanding 
 into that realm of feeling and faith where dwell love and liberty and 
 the unseen ideals that move the race more than law or logic. Why 
 should not a university provide for productive work in literature on 
 the same ample jjlan and scope with which it ]M-ovides for scientific 
 investigation and publication? Will not citizenship in the realm of 
 letters come soonest to him who seeks to make than to him who seeks 
 to dissect the body of literature; to him who emphasizes the movement 
 of spirit a])ove the phenomena of language? 
 
 Whether the I'niversity of X'irginia shall realize its great destiny 
 rests upon the decision of the connnonweallh of \'irginia, whose civic 
 life it has energized and ennobled; ui)on the will of its alumni whom 
 it has invested with cultured manhood; and ujion American citizen- 
 ship, whose ])ublic s])irit it c-mbodies. 1 ba\e emphasized everywhere 
 the idea of service due from the fnixersity to the State and 1 shall con- 
 tiiuie this emphasis, for 1 should sin against the mighty dead if 1 did 
 
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 States. 1 believe tluit lliis Slate, whieli lia> always known liow to aet 
 broadly, will make it an axiom of its let^isjative life to cherish aii<l 
 strengthen its chiefest institution in i)roiMinion to income and pros- 
 perity. 'Hie I'liiversity calls to her sons with the confidence of a 
 niotlur for their constructive iielp. and they will heed iicr call as they 
 have iieeded every call of tdial love and jiublic diUy. She offers to men 
 of seiuinieiu and foresi<4ln throiiobout the republic the privilege and 
 opportunity of an incomparable service. .\n additional annual incr)me 
 of $100,000 could be wisely used here. We need men here, first and 
 foremost — great scholars and teachers to reinforce our overburdened 
 corps — and books, and instruments, and buildings. an<l then more men. 
 
 It would be a dull and senseless s])irit that did not feel the sacred 
 meaning of this hour, with its unspoken suggestion of human living 
 and human dving. of patient striving and of dauntless hope. There 
 is no despair in such a ta.sk. There is simply gratitude to ( iod for 
 opportunity and prayer to ( ".od for strength. I believe in the essential 
 idealism of the republic, in its dependence upon knowledge and train- 
 ing, in a deep and heroic simplicity which lies at its heart, safe-guard- 
 ing it forever from the tyranny of mob or plutocrat. Set here so 
 faithfullv for everlasting service, this University seeks its share of 
 the nation's growth and its portion of the nation's burden. Like the 
 University of Berlin, it belongs to the short list of institutions whicii 
 have scattered the despair and lightened the sorrows of a great people 
 in a time of national trial. Shall it not, like the University of Leyden. 
 range itself also in the justice of God, among the great schools of 
 national rejoicing, working at the ta.sks and solving the problems of 
 an era welded into unity by common sacrifice and thrilling with the 
 prophecy of boundless growth and triumphant peace? 
 
 To the absent ones whose thoughts turn hitherward to-day, for 
 love of abiHi )iiatcr and belief in her ideals. 1 send the message of her 
 unbroken loyalty to the faith that the scholar shouM be a patriot and 
 the patriot a scholar, and that .scholarly patriotism, exalting country 
 above self, rich in social knowledge and .sym])athy. unafraid of diOi- 
 cultv and unashamed of sentiment, is the noblest offering universities 
 can make tf)ward the integrity and majesty of republican citizenship. 
 
 Benediction. —The Kev. Samuel ( '. Mitchell. I'h D.. Rich- 
 mond, \'a. 
 
 AT .\i<;irr 
 
 The .students assend)led at S:i5 ou West Range, and. receiving 
 torches, moved in procession promptly at 8:25 in the same class «»rder 
 as in the academic procession in the afternoon, and under the same 
 marshals. The scene on the lawn was brilliant, .\fter the evolu- 
 
54 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 tions there, tlie people gathered on the north side of the rotunda 
 where fireworks afforded a dazzling spectacle. 
 
 A 1)anquet in the rotunda concluded the festivities. Nearly six 
 hundred guests were seated at tables, arranged in concentric circles 
 on the floor of the library, and at scores of others placed in the alcoves 
 and galleries. The toastmaster was James Pinckney Harrison of 
 Danville, \'a., \'ice-President of the General Alumni Association. 
 Sentiments were responded to Iw Senator John W. Daniel, of A'ir- 
 ginia; the Hon. Henry T. Kent, of Missouri: President Alderman, of 
 the University of \'irginia ; Dr. Randolph H. ]\lcKim. of Washington, 
 D. C. : President Angell, of the University of [Michigan; Professor 
 Blewett Lee. of Northwestern University; Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, ni 
 the University of North Carolina, and some others. 
 
 [Form cf the invitatiou] 
 
 The Jlsifors and faculty 
 
 of the 
 
 Uiiii'crsity of Jlr<^iiiia 
 
 request the honor of your presence 
 
 at the i list aUat ion of 
 
 Eckein .-Anderson Alderman, D.C.L., LL.D. 
 
 as the President of the rniz'crsity 
 
 in the Public Hall 
 
 at the rni-eersity of J'iri^inia 
 
 on Thursday, the thirteoith of .If^ril. 1905 
 
 at four o'clock 
 
 CO^LMITTEE OF ARRAXGE^IEXTS. 
 
 Board of Visitors. — Daniel Harmon, Eppa Hunion, Jr., R. 
 Walton Moore. 
 
 Factlty. — John .Staige Davis, James ^forris Page, John William 
 Mallet, Richard Henry Wilson. 
 
 Alumni.— John W. I'idil.urne, R. T. W. Duke, Jr.. Murray Af. 
 McGuire. 
 
 Music. — P)y tlie L'niversity Orchestra, isoberl l\(i^>er. Leader. 
 
 c"()MMi'rri':i". ox ixst.m.l.mtox. 
 
 Dr. joii.v Staiiie 1)a\is, Chairman. 
 
 Dr. John W. Mallei, Professor Richard II. WiLon, Or. James 
 Morris Page. 
 
OF TIIK INIVKKSITY OK VIKl.lMA. 
 
 
 Dr. Tohn Staigc Davis, Chairman of the Coniniittce on Installa- 
 tion, was born at the University of Virginia in 1866. His father, for 
 whom he was named, was the distinguished profesor of anatomy in 
 the same institution, and a great-great nephew of Thomas Jefferson. 
 His mother, before her marriage, was Caroline Hill, a descendant of 
 the Garlick family, of England. 
 
 His early education was obtained in private and public .schools. 
 In 1SS2 he entered the Academic Department of the University of Vir- 
 ginia, but the death of his father in 1885 interrupted his course and 
 obliged him to accept the position of Instructor in .\ncient Languages 
 in the Universitv. A year later he resumed his course and in 1889 he 
 had secured the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine. 
 The next three vears were spent in post-graduate work at Tulane Uni- 
 veritv, and in Berlin and \'ienna. In 1892 Dr. Davis settled in \cw 
 Orleans as a practitioner of medicine and was appointed on the visiting 
 staff of the Charity Hosi)ital of that city, as an assistant in nervous 
 diseases and pathology. 
 
 In 1893 he was called back to his ciliiui water as demonstrator of 
 medical biologv and pathology: the next year he was elected adjunct- 
 professor of pathology and hygiene, and in 1900 was made full profes- 
 sor of i)athology and i)ractice of medicine, which jiosition he now 
 
 holds. 
 
 Dr. Davis is a member of the \irginia State Me.hcal .Sociely. the 
 American Medical As.sociation and the American Academy of Med- 
 icine. He is the author of an "Abstract of General Pathology." and 
 of occasiiMial pajjers on other medical subjects. 
 
Robert AIaskell Patterson. 
 
 James Francis Harrison. 
 
 William .M\xn Tiioknton. 
 
 James Mokuls \\\c,\- 
 
chairmen of the Faculty 
 
 S25- 
 
 903 
 
 The lirst session of the new Lnivorsily l)cyan in April, iS_'5. Mr. 
 Jefferson desired the largest possible measure of freedom to the students. 
 All but two of his professors (George Tucker and John P. Knnnet ) being 
 both of foreign birtii and education, and accustomed to the personal lil)erty 
 of the European universities, everything was favorable for a fair lest of 
 the founder's theory. 
 
 The trial led to executive problems that i)erple.\ed the chairmen in, 
 the early years, but today, by an adjustment of conditions which required 
 years for its accomplishment — years often marked with serious disorder — 
 
 IV.. VII.— 1SJ5-26, iSjS. 
 
 TiKORdK Tr( KKR. 
 
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 the government is so satisfactory that there is no chahng under its rule by 
 any student of i)roper mental and moral condition; and if there were any 
 
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58 IXSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 disposition to revive the old manifestations of discord and rebellion tlie 
 public sentiment of the matriculates would afYord a sufficient corrective. 
 
 But other cares came to harass the chairmen, responsibilities which 
 increased with the expanding life of the University. Long before tlie 
 regime of the chairmen ended, that officer had ceased to be a policeman 
 or a judge to charge or condemn, and become a captain, — not strictly of 
 industry, but of sociological forces, responsible for planning and executing 
 the enterprises of a great university as it kept step with the age. Now 
 that that stage of the institution's history is concluded, some notice of the 
 men who guided the afTairs of the University in the way of internal 
 administration from the foundation until this year may be interesting. 
 
 The first man to exercise the authority of Chairman of the University 
 of Virginia was John P. Emmet. " At a meeting of the professors of 
 the University, holden at the house of Professor Key on the evening of 
 the I2th of April [1825], Professor George Tucker was elected Chairman 
 of the Faculty for the present year." At the same meeting of the Faculty 
 — attended by Professors Long, Key, Emmet, Bonnycastle, BU-ettcrmann, 
 and Dunglison — it was resolved that "owing to and during the absence 
 of Professor Tucker, Professor Emmet be Chairman." 
 
 Professor Key's residence, where this first official assemliling of the 
 Faculty took place, was the third pavilion on East Lawn. 
 
 The next meeting was at the home of Professor Dunglison. in what 
 is now the residence of Professor Lile, and occurred on the following 
 evening. Professor Tucker first signs the minutes of April z"/, \^2^. 
 
 Mr. Tucker was born under the English flag, in one of the Bernuula 
 Lslands, in August, 1775. At seventeen he began the study of law with 
 George Bascom, but three years later lie came to Virginia and entered 
 William and Mary College, and pursued his studies under the guidance of 
 his uncle, St. George Tucker. George Tucker became distinguished as 
 a lawyer, was elected to the Virginia Legislature, then to Congress, where 
 lie remained six years, winning a high position as debater and consti- 
 tutional lawyer. From Congress he came to the University of Virginia 
 in 1825 as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy, and 
 served until 1845. He was an industrious literary worker. The list 
 of his books includes more than a di)zen vulumcs, the subjects ranging 
 
 from novels to treatises on government an 
 
 <1 s.iciology. 
 
 He died in 1861. 
 
 While at the University he resided in the 
 
 ])a\ilion at 
 
 the south end of 
 
 West Lawn. 
 
 
 
 Professor Tucker was thrice Chairman • 
 
 — in 1S25 ai 
 
 id 1S2S by aiiiioiiit- 
 
 ment of the l-'acully, and fnun iS,:;.' to iS,^,:; 
 
 by (lesignat 
 
 ioii of the \'isitors. 
 
 .At the first meeting of the b'aculty Dr. 
 
 Dun 
 
 tary. When, on December 10, 1S25, the l'"ac 
 
 ulty c 
 
 for the next session, the young founder of 
 
 it> a: 
 
 nated. Fie was approaching his Iwenty-iigl 
 
 lib bi 
 
 at Keswick, England, January 4, 17()X, and h 
 
 ad re 
 
 1 was chosen Secre- 
 to select a Chairman 
 il School was desig- 
 y, having been born 
 d his medical etluca- 
 
OF riiK iM\ i:k.- 
 
 >l \II<(.I.NI\. 
 
 59 
 
 tioii in London ;in<l ;it Mrlani^on. lie cann.' to tin.- L'nivi-r-iiy of N'irninia 
 in iSj4, crossini; llu' ocean in " Tlu- Coni|><-'tit<)r " will) Honnycasllc and 
 Key. The voyayo. in what rmfcssor Lonj^ afterward descrilicd as "an 
 old log." reqnireil four months, six weeks of which were spent heatint; 
 about the Enj^lish Channel. Dungli.soi, soon took a liiRh rank as teaclu-r 
 and writer, and was Mr. JetTcrson's favorite physician. In \Xx^ he went 
 to the I'niversity of Maryland as I'rofes-or of Therapentics, and later to 
 
 II., v.— iSjO, i8jS-jo. 
 
 ROBLEY DfNC.LISON. 
 
 Jefferson Medical College. I'hiladelphia. to take the Chair of the Institutes 
 of Medicine. He died .\pril i, iHixj. Dr. Dunglison was Chairman of 
 the Faculty for i.Sj6 and from 1828 to 1830. and lived in the pavilion at 
 the foot of East Lawn. Me held his second term through election l>y the 
 Visitor.s, and enjoyed, the distinction of heing the tirst Chairman designated 
 by them. 
 
 III.— 1SJ7-2S. 
 
 IN T.WLOE LoM.W. 
 
 Tile third Chairman appointed by the I"actilty was John Tayloc Lomax, 
 
60 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 who came to tlie L'ni\crsily from I'Vcdcricksljurg, wliere he had established 
 himself for the practice of law, after graduation from St. John's College, 
 Maryland. He soon became a familiar and striking figure in Williamsburg 
 and Richmond, whither he went frequently to attend court, and where 
 he came into contact with Mr. Wirt, who induced Mr. Jefferson to appoint 
 him Professor of Law in the University. He thus became the founder of 
 that department. As a lecturer he was graceful and careful of his style, 
 which inclined to rhetorical elegance. The Faculty minutes bear testi- 
 mony to disagreements between the students and other professors, but 
 give none of lack of harmony with the Professor of Law. Among those 
 who studied under him were R. 'SI. T. Hunter, .\lexander H. H. Stuart, 
 and Robert Toombs. 
 
 In 1830 Professor Lomax, who, while at the University, resided in 
 the second pavilion on West Lawn, resigned his chair to accept the judge- 
 ship of the Fredericksburg circuit. He also conducted a private law school, 
 in which he taught such men as Judge W. S. Barton, Judge Robert ]\Ion- 
 tague, and General Dabney H. Maury. Judge Lomax died October i, 1862. 
 
 A grandson describes him as of full stature, well proportioned, digni- 
 fied, and of imposing presence, but of manners so simple, cordial, and 
 affable, and with a face so benign in its expression, as to attract all with 
 whom he came in contact. 
 
 VI.— 1830-32. 
 Robert ^Lxskell Patterson. 
 
 Dr. Robert 'SI. Patterson had achieved scholarly distinction before his 
 selection as a professor in this University. He had pursued academical 
 and medical studies in the University of Pennsylvania until crowned with 
 the Master's degree and the degree of Doctor of Medicine, after which he 
 went to Europe, and was two years under Haiiy, Thenard, and Gay Lussac 
 in Paris, and in London he heard the last course of lectures delivered by 
 Davy. For a time he was Consul-Ck'neral at Paris, much to Xapoleon's 
 disgust at the name of Patterson, which was that of Jerome's .American 
 wife. On his way home on the Constitution ("Old Ironsides"), as the 
 bearer of important dispatches, he heard for the lirst lime of the declaration 
 of the War of 1812. 
 
 In 1813 he was appointed a professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 
 and fifteen years later he came to the University of Virginia as Professor 
 of Natural Philosophy. During his connection with this institution lie 
 occupied the third pavilion on West Lawn, where he dispensed a lavish 
 and graceful hospitality. 
 
 The office of Chairman was doubtless a great burden to one of his 
 gentle and kindly disposition, and he reliiKiuished it after two years, in 
 1832. In 1X35 Dr. P;itlerson accei)te(l the invitation of President Jackson 
 to become Director of the L'nited States Mint, lie died in Septeml)er, 
 1854- 
 
VIKi.IMA. 
 
 6i 
 
 l'riito>s.)r Cliarlc-^ l!<miiyc;i>tlc was tlu- I'lftli I 
 of llic cliairmaiiship. 
 fstccnied by professors 
 
 Cliarles Hoiiincastl 
 
 rci>i' tlu- aiitliority 
 ■ci'iviiij^ appoinlimiit in iS.^.v Ik- was liinlily 
 ml stiuicnls, l)otli for his moiital and social K^h'^- 
 was horn al Woolwicli, luiyhuul, -in 1792, tlic son 
 
 of Jolni Bonnycastlc. long a mathi'matical master at the Royal Military 
 Academy, lie came over witli t>ther English professors in the " Com|)Oti- 
 
 tor." Anecdotes have heen preserved that sliou that liis liumor and wit 
 
 ClIAKI.KS I'.ONNYl ASM K. 
 
 lightened the heavy moments of that long and «iie,ii> unu.i \...wikv. 
 Giving his honrs to hooks to the exchision of proper exercise, his health, 
 never robnst, declined rapidly, and he died at the age of forty-eight, in 
 the fourth pavilion on East Lawn, and was hnried in the I'niversity ceme- 
 tery. He was Chairman from 18 v^ to iSj?;. 
 
 Within two weeks after the .students had convened to pay a trihute of 
 
62 
 
 IXSTALI.ATIOX OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 respect to Professor Bonnycastle. they were called together to take similar 
 action in regard to his successor in the chairmanship. Professor John A. 
 G. Davis, who was killed by a student in front of his residence, the last 
 pavilion on East Lawn, on the night of November 12, 1840. Professor 
 Davis, at the time of the tragedy, was serving his second term as Chairman 
 
 IX.. XL— 18,^5-37, 18,^9-40. 
 John A. G. D.wis. 
 
 (1839- '40), his first having begun in 1835 and ended two years later. The 
 students resolved to \icw " the author of the outrageous crime only in the 
 light of a base assassin." 
 
 Mr. Davis took up his residence in Charbittesville in 1824. at the age 
 of twenty-two. In association with Nicholas ?>. Trist and Thomas Walker 
 Gilmer he edited The I'irginia Advocate, and upheld the political philosophy 
 of ]\[adison and Jefiferson. At the age of twenty-eight, but looking younger, 
 he succeeded Professor Lomax in the School of Law. His son. Dr. John 
 Staige Davis, and his grandson. Dr. John Staige Davis, Jr., have followed 
 him in the Faculty, and thus from 1830 to the present, witli two brief 
 intervals, this family has shared with conspicuous ability and di>linclion 
 in the achievements of the L"niversitv. 
 
 Dr. Harrison was made Chairman i 
 first incumbency. 
 
 He was born at I larrisonburg in 
 
 1837. 
 
 ng Professor l^avis 
 1 of Dr. Peachv 1 
 
II?; LNIVKkSI IV (IK \IK(.!M.\. 
 
 63 
 
 ll;irri-,m. and u;i> disiimd t.> h\- fjillu-r's prMiVsNimi. I'n-parr.l for college 
 at private sclumls ami l)y tiitiir>, he i-iitiTi-d tlu- L'iiivi-r>ily in lSj3, and 
 k'll inidor tlio spoil of the elegant .■nd scholarly (ieornc Long and " tlic 
 remarkalile liniruist," Dr. Hla-ttennann. in llie course of time, proliiiuK 
 hy the scholarship and aided l>y the judgment and frientlship of Mr. Long, 
 the student became a professor, succeeding in the Chair of Latin and (ireek 
 "that most amiable man of line understanding," Professor Long himself. 
 A few years later the Professor added to his pedagogical labors the admiii- 
 
 x., .\ii., .wii.— iS.^j-.vj. 1X^0-4.'. 1S47-54. 
 Ge.-^snkk 1 I,\kki.so.\. 
 
 istrative details of the Chairman's office. Mis first term (iSi7-'.19) fol- 
 lowed Profes.sor Davis's first occupancy of the chair, and when that ini for- 
 tunate man was assassinated, something in the character oi the young 
 Virginian led the Board of Visitors to call him for the second time to this 
 responsible post ( iS40-'42). lie died in XeNon County on the "th of April, 
 1862. 
 
 Henry St. George Tucker was a xoii <<i St. ( leorge Tucker, a half- 
 brother of John Randolph of Koanoke, and a cousin of George Tucker. 
 
64 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 the first Chairman of the I'^aculty. He was liberally educated under tlie 
 supervision of his father, a professor in William and Alary, and had for 
 fellow-students Joseph C. Cabell and Chapman Johnson. He studied law 
 under his father. Beginning his profession in Winchester, he soon built 
 up a large practice, some of which was in connection with the estate of 
 Lord Fairfax, of Greenway Court. While still under thirty-five, Mr. 
 Tucker was elected to Congress, where he was the colleague of Clay, 
 Webster, Calhoun, Randolph, Barbour, Tyler, Pinckney, and others who 
 filled ■■ those spacious times, '" and upon the reorganization of the Virginia 
 Court of Appeals ( 1S31 ) he was made President of the Court. He vir- 
 
 .xiii. — 1842-45. 
 Henry St. Geokck Titkek. 
 
 tually declined aiipoinluK-nl by I'rcvidrnt Jacks, ,n i,, the .\ttorncy-( icneral- 
 ship of the Tnited .Stales, and continued on the bench until 1S41, wlien he 
 resigned to accept the Professorship of i.aw in the l'niver>ily of \'irginia. 
 In 1842 he was a])i)oinled Chairm.an, succeeding Dr. llarri>on in that office, 
 and signalized his occn])ancy b}' est;d)lisliing the honor system in examina- 
 tions, which has ])revailed here ever since as a great t'orce in the moral life 
 of the institution, i'rofessor Tucker had been a member of the b'aculty 
 but a yvAV wlu'u this a])pointment dt'VoKed upon him the duties of the 
 
OK TllK IMXKKSITV (»l \ IKi.lMA. O5 
 
 exL-cutivf orticc, uliioli Ik- (liNchaiKt-d until Ik- was succeeded l)y I'rcjfcssor 
 Coiirtciiay. 
 
 He retired from liis cliair in 1S45 (ui account ..f ill-lK-alth. wliicli 
 began with a sligiit attack of paralysis soon after iiis arrival at the Uni- 
 versity, aiul died in Winchester in 1S4.S, He was father of the late distin- 
 guisheii lawyer. John Randolph 'l"iK-ker, of Lexington In.k'i- i ii.-ki-r Imd 
 in the pavilion at the >outIi end of l-jist Lawn. 
 
 XIV.— 1S44-45. 
 
 WlI.LIA.M H.\kTo.\ RiM.HK.S. 
 
 William Barton Rogers came to the University in i.S?5, as tlie successor 
 of Dr. Patterson in the Chair of Natural Philosophy, and had lieen liere 
 nine years before lie w.is made Chairman of the L\iculty. lie held the 
 vexatious office but one year. — one of the most turbulent in the history of 
 the institution. Soon after his appointment to the University he was put 
 in charge of the Virginia Geological Survey, for which the Legislature had 
 made provision the preceding March. In this field, it is I)elieved, he won 
 his earliest laurels, if not his greatest distinction in the world of science. 
 Resigning his professorship in 1853. Mr. Rogers went to Boston, and in 
 time founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He died in the 
 public hall of that institution whilst addressing the graduating class of 
 1882. 
 
 Whilst a professor at the University of Virginia he resided in Pavilion 
 VI. tile third house on East Lawn. 
 
 XV.— 1845-46. 
 Edward Henry CofRTENAV. 
 
 Professor Courtenay succeeded Professor Rogers in the chairmansliip. 
 Like him, he served but one year, and was, no doubt, glad to be relieved 
 of the care and toil incident to the office. 
 
 ^Ir. Courtenay was graduated first in his class at West Point at the 
 age of eighteen, when he was appointed to the Engineering Corps, and then 
 made Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the 
 Academy. At the age of twenty-six he was advanced to full professor. 
 Thence he went to the L'niversity of Pennsylvania as Professor of Mathe- 
 matics. Two years later he was a division engineer of the Eric Railroad, 
 in charge of construction of F'ort Independence, Boston harbor, the Brook- 
 lyn Navy Yard drydock, and other important works. 
 
 Mr. Courtenay came to the University in 1842, at the age of thirty-nine, 
 and died here in the fall of 1853 in Pavilion i, the first on West Lawn. 
 
 Dr. Cabell was born in Nelson County, Virginia. .Xugust 26. 1813. He 
 received his academic training at this University, his medical education 
 here and at the University of Maryland, and supi)Ieniented this by special 
 courses in Philadelnhia and Paris. 
 
66 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIR^ 
 
 In 1837 he was called from his studies in the I-'rench capital to the 
 Chair of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Virginia to succeed 
 Dr. Warner. He continued to hold Chairs in the Medical Department 
 here until his resignation from the Faculty in 1889. after fifty-two years of 
 
 XVL — 1846-47. 
 James Lawrence Cabell. 
 
 service. He was Chairman of the h'aculty for one year (1846-47), his 
 residence \\hil>t at the University heing Pavilion t, the first on East Lawn. 
 He died .\ugusi 1.5, 1889. 
 
 The longest continuous service as Chairman wa> that of Dr. Socrates 
 Maupin. who entered upon the duties of the office in 1854 and continued 
 at the post until 1870. 
 
 Dr. Maupin was horn in 1808. ])rohahly in .Mhemarle County. \'irginia, 
 and was educated at the Cnivcrsity (if X'irginia. i\ccei\ing his medical 
 degree in 18,^0, he entered the .Acadennc Department, and was graduated 
 a Ma.ster of .Xrts in i8,:i3. In 18.^8 he was chosen Professor of Chemistrv 
 
■.\i\ i:i;si I V 
 
 67 
 
 in the Mo.lical Cliche ;it Kiclnnciiid. aii.l lifni-n years laii-r caiiu- tu tlic 
 same Chair al iln- Liii\ irMty ..f X'irKiiiia. I lu- full.)\viii)r year tin- orticc 
 of Cliairniaii was imposed iiix.ii liim. and throiiKlumt his h.iiK iiictiiiil)ency 
 ho showed iniuli ^kill in inaiiitaiiiiiiK discipline 
 
 will.— iN;4-7(i. 
 
 Six KATES MaII'IN. 
 
 Dr. Maiipin was killed in Lynchhiirj!:, October 10. 1S71, as a result of 
 leaping from an ambnlance wlu)se horses had become nnmanaKt'ahlc. His 
 
 residence at the I'niversitv was Pavilion S. on r-!ast Lawn. 
 
 Colonel Venable was Cliairman lirst from 1S70 to iS;.?. and then from 
 1886 to 1888, — his lirst service succeeding that of Dr. Manpin. and his 
 second that of Dr. James V. Harrison. None of his predecessors had 
 commanded more respect, and perhaps to none of tiu-m had been awarded 
 so large a measure of the affection of the students. He was born in I'rincc 
 Edward County, Virginia. April ly, iSj". and eilucated at Hampden-Sidney 
 College (which his grandfather had founded), the University of Virginia, 
 and at Berlin: and tilled chairs in Hampdcn-Sidney, the I'niversity of 
 Georgia, and the I'niversity of South Carolina, prior to the war He came 
 
68 
 
 INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 to ihc University of Virginia as a professor from the campaigns of Robert 
 E. Lee. whose aide-de-camp Itc was, and his active service in the Chair of 
 
 XLX. — 1870-73, 1886-88. 
 
 Charles Scott Venable. 
 
 Mathematics extended from 1865 until he was made cjiicritiis in 1896. 
 His residence at the ITniversity was Pavilion S, the fnurth house on East 
 Law'n. He died at his home in Charl(iUes\ille. August ti. igoo. 
 
 XX.— 1873-76. 
 James Francis Harrison. 
 
 Dr. James 1'. llarrison was the fourteenth professor to exercise the 
 office of Chairman, lie was a native of h'airfax County. \'irginia, and 
 of English and Irish ance-try. Ili> fathvr. Rev. Timothy J. Harrison, was 
 a chaplain in the I'niled States Xavy hy api)ointm(.-nt ( )ctol)cr 2. iS_>(). and 
 stationed for some lime at Norfolk. The son was a])poinled apotliecarx. 
 and hy private study prepared himself sufficiently to he made surgeon's 
 mate. Eventually he passed the necessary examination and was commis- 
 sioned an assistant surgeon in the navy, March 3, 1847. The Xav> 
 Department record^ show thai hy ihe direction of the rresidcnl of the 
 
OK lilt: INIVKKMIV ol- VIKi.IMA. 6*) 
 
 I'nilcd Slater, I )r I larri^mrs ii;iiik' was ilmppcd I'nmi tin.- list (if orticcrs 
 of that arm of llu- scrvicf on Juiii- 15. iSt)i, in accordance with liis rcsiK- 
 nation of that date. I-'or tlircc years lie was surgeon in tlie Confederate 
 States Xavy. and served as chief of the Medical I'.urean of that deparlinent 
 and as a menil)er of the Naval Examining Hoard. 
 
 Dr. Harrison was stationc<l at Norfolk. \'a.. dnring the terrihle epi- 
 demic that scourged that city in 1853, and rendered services .so valuahlc 
 and distinguished that they were recognized hy the Ciovernmenl of I-rance 
 in the i)csto\val of a gold medal, and hy the Corporation of {'..rtsinoulh hy 
 a like mark of recognition and esteem. In the so-called " Paraguay War ' 
 he was with Admiral Shuhrick. who was dispatched to South .Xmerica to 
 demand of the government apology and indemnity fr)r tiring on an Amer- 
 ican vessel, hoth of which were rendered. 
 
 Dr. Harrison was elected Professor of Medicine and Medical Juris- 
 prudence in 1867. and hecame Chairman of the University in 1873. In 
 1886 he severed his connection with the University, where his residence 
 had been the second Pavilion on West Lawn, and resided in I'rince l-'dward 
 County, where he died January 17. 1894. He was buried at the United 
 States Naval Hospital cemetery. Norfolk. Va. 
 
 xxii.— 1888-cX). 
 \\'iii.i-\M MvNX Thornton. 
 
 William Mynn Thornton, son of Colonel John T. Thornton, of Cum- 
 berland County. Virginia, was born Octolier j8. 1S51. Graduated from 
 Hampden-Sidney College with the degree of Bachelor of .-\rts at the age 
 of seventeen, he entered the University of Virginia as a student in special 
 engineering courses. I-Vom 1874 to 1875 he was Professor of Greek in 
 Davidson College. North Carolina. In the latter year he was elected 
 Adjunct Professor of .Applied Mathematics and Civil Kngineering in the 
 University of Virginia, and seven years later, Professor of Applied Mathe- 
 matics. For some years he has been Dean of the Department of Engi- 
 neering. 
 
 Professor Thornton has delivered many occasional addresses, all of 
 them strikingly conceived and bearing the stamp of a style at once strong 
 and stately. His brochure on Charles Scott Venable. his predecessor as 
 Chairman, will survive as a classic in its field. In 1900 Professor Thornton 
 was appointed United States Commissioner to the I'aris Expositi<jn. 
 
 Professor Thf)rnton was Vice-Chairman imder Cohmel Venable for 
 two years (1886-8). and succeeded his chief, whom he greatly revered, in 
 1888. continuing in office luitil l8(/). His residence is on Monroe Mill, so 
 named from the fact that President Monn.i's ..Id law olVice is on the 
 premises. 
 
 Dr. Paul B. Barringer was born in Concord. N. C, February 13. 1837. 
 the son of General Rufus and Eugenia ( Morrison) Barringer. He received 
 
70 
 
 ATIOX OF THE FIRST 
 
 his education at tlie ]^)iiig"liam Scliool, in liis native State; at the Kenmore 
 School, in X'lrginia, and at the Universit.v of Virginia, consecutively. He 
 entered as a student in the Medical Department at the University of Vir- 
 ginia, following the early l)ent of his mind in the direction of this science. 
 and was graduated here in 1877. He then entered tlie University of the 
 City of New York, where he was graduated in 1878, heing thus equipped 
 for the practice of medicine as soon as he became of age. After three years 
 of successful practice in Dallas. N. C, Dr. Rarringer went ahroad, antl 
 
 \xiii. — i8y6-roo,^ 
 
 r.\ri. I'>R.\N1K>N r>.\KUIX(;KI<. 
 
 passed a year in the scientific centres of luu-ope, studying with specialists of 
 distinclion. On hi^ return, in 1884, he connected himself with Davidson 
 College, Norlh Carolina, continuing four years with that institution and 
 in general pr.iriice. and in working upon his specialties, among which are 
 diseases of the eye. In 18S8 he was elected to the Chair of Physiology and 
 Materia AU'cJira in the L'niversity of Virginia. 
 
 In 18./. he was called to the oilice of Chairman of the I'acuHy, and 
 during tlu' se\en years of his incuml)ency perlMrmed \a1uahK' service for 
 the institution. 
 
OK THE IM\KI<SITY oK \ ll<(il\l.\. Jl 
 
 111 the nu'ilical and scionlilic or.naiiizatioiis cf ilic State lie liolds a 
 proniinent place, whilst his ahilities and dev(jtii)ii to his profession arc 
 conceded wherever he is known, and his reputation is well and widely 
 estahlished. To tlie literature of his jirofe^sion Dr. P.arrin^Jer ha> coiitrih- 
 nted many valuaMe nionoyraplis. 
 
 wiv. — i<>o.<-04. 
 
 'riiF. Last Cil.\n<.\i.\N ok tiik 1- aiit.tv. 
 
 Dk. Ja.mks Mokkis Pack. 
 
 Dr. James Morris Page, the last Chairniaii of the I'aciilty of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, was horn on the 4lh of March, 1X64. in .Mhemarle 
 County. Virginia. His father was the late Thomas Walker Page, and his 
 mother, before her marriage, was Miss Nancy Watson Morris, of Louisa 
 County, Virginia. On his father's side he is descended from the well- 
 known Page family, of \irginia. the first member of which. Colonel John 
 Page, settled in the colony in 1650. and was a member of Mis ^^^iesty's 
 Council. 
 
 Dr. Page's early education was obtained from his father, who was a 
 graduate of the University of Virginia, and from a day school which he 
 attended for a time in Louisa County. At the age of seventeen he entered 
 the Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, where he was graduated with tlie 
 degree of Master of Arts, and where he carried off all the prizes offered 
 in the Academic Department, and was appointed Assistant to the Chair of 
 Mathematics, which he filled during the last two years of his sojourn there. 
 After his graduation he went to the I'niversity of Leipsic and pursued 
 scientific studies, having the advantage of personal intercourse and friend- 
 ship with such men as Lie, Klein, Engel, and others. While studying 
 under Lie, the great geometer whose discoveries arc well known to scien- 
 tific students, Dr. Page published several articles on the " Theory of Trans- 
 formation Groups," which brought him the commendation of his great 
 teachers. In 1887 he was graduated from tlie L'niversity of Leipsic with 
 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, iiuifiiia cum loudc. He then returned 
 home and established a boys' school at Cobham, Va., known as the Keswick 
 School. Here Dr. Page taught for seven years, and educated a numl)cr of 
 clever young men, many of whom have bad successful collegiate careers 
 since leaving his school. In 1895 Dr. Page returned to Rurope to complete, 
 at Leipsic and Paris, his work on " Differential Kf|uations.'* which has 
 appeared from the press of the Macmillans, London. I'pon his return to 
 .America, in i<S96, he was made a Fellow by courtesy of Johns Hopkins 
 University, and invited to deliver a course of lectures before the professors 
 and graduate students of that institution. While there he was elected 
 .Adjunct Professor of Pure Mathematics in the I'niversity of Virginia, and 
 later promoted to the full professorship. Upon the resignation of Dr. P. 
 B. Barringer he was elected Chairman of the I'aculty. and continued in 
 that office until it was changed to the I'residency. 
 
y2. INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT 
 
 Virginia 
 
 The roses nowhere bloom so white 
 
 As in A'irginia ; 
 The snnshinc nowhere seems so l)right. 
 
 As in \'irginia ; 
 The l)irds sing nowhere quite so sweet. 
 And nowhere hearts so lightly beat. 
 For heaven and earth lioth seem to meet, 
 
 Down in \'irginia. 
 
 The days are never quite so long 
 
 As in A'irginia ; 
 Nor quite so filled with hapin- song. 
 
 As in Virginia ; 
 And when my time has come to die, 
 Just take me Ijack and let me lie. 
 Close where the James goes rolling by, 
 
 Down in A'irginia. 
 
 There is nowhere a land so fair 
 
 As old \'irg-inia : 
 So full of song, so free of care. 
 
 As old Virginia ; 
 And T believe that Happy Land 
 That (iod's ])re])ared for mortal man 
 Is built ('xactly on the plan 
 
 Of old \iro-inia. 
 
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 Booksellers 
 
 BOOKSTORE 
 
 
 Established 1825 
 
 To the University of Virginia 
 
 
 
 Geo. W. Olivier 
 
 At entrance to the Grounds 
 
 
 
 Publisher, Bookseller and Stationer 
 
 University of Virginia 
 
 Uni\ersity Views 
 
 CHARLOTTESVILLE - VA. 
 
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 High class Photographs, 
 
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 University Views, colored and uncolored 
 
 Photographs of the Banquet scene 
 April 13, 1905, 5i.oo each 
 
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 The most approved forms of Life, Endowment and Industrial Policies 
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 Assets over - - Sz, 000,000. 00 
 
 Insurance in force over - - 545,000,000.00 
 
 P.iyments to Policyholders since 
 
 organi/alion over - 56, 000, 000. 00 
 
 H. W. ELL1.RSON, General Agent, 
 
 Ordin.iry Life Dep.irtmrnt 
 
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 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS . $500,000.00 
 
 Interest allowed on deposits in Savings Department. 
 William H. Palmer, Pres. E. B. Addison, \'ice-Pres. J. \V. Sinton, Cashier 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 Wm. H. Palmer S. W. Travers E. B. Addison Geo. W. Anderson 
 
 S. H. Hawes James N. Boyd A. L. Holladay 1. D. Cardozo 
 
 Wm. Josiah Leake E. T. D. Myers B. B. Valentine 
 
 Jefferson J^atioual iSauK 
 
 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. 
 
 Accounts Solicited. Checks Collected without Cost 
 
 C. J. RixEv, Pres. G. B. Sinclair, \'ice-Pres. T. P. Peyton, Cashier 
 
 C. W. Watts, Tel. H. M. Lewis, Solicitor 
 
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 force of thirty thoroughly trained employees, offers its unsurpassed facilities to Banks, 
 Merchants, Manufacturers, Corporations and Individuals ( from the smallest to the 
 largest) needing the services of a strong, conservatively managed bank. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 John B. Pi-rcell, Prts. John JI. Miller, Jr., VicE-Pres and Cashier 
 
 CHA.S. R. Burnett, .-^ss't Cashier J. C. Joi'li.n, Ass't Cashier 
 
 ^^lautcrs Jlattonal Banh 
 
 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
 
 Capital - - .SjOO, 000.00 
 
 Surplus and Profits - 900,000.00 
 
 $1,200,000.00 
 
 Three per cent allowed in Savings Department 
 
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 Three l^cr Cent Siuings Department 
 
 Capital .... - 5200,000.00 
 
 Surplus and Profits (earned) - - 5723,000.00 
 
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 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
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Jefferson Park Hotel Manassas Institute 
 
 Near University of Virginia 
 
 CHARLOTTESVILLE 
 
 Open June ist, 1905. Comfort- 
 able rooms, delightful fare, fine 
 mineral water, cool shady lawns, 
 no malaria, reasonable rates. 
 
 MRS. F. T. BOYKIN, 
 Lessee and Manager 
 
 MANASSAS. VA. 
 
 College Preparatory School. 
 Coeducational. Course prepares 
 for any college or scientific school 
 of college grade. Certificate ad- 
 mits to several leading colleges. 
 Instruction thorough and in 
 accordance with best modern 
 metliods. 
 
 D . . , MRS. METZ 
 
 Principals : ^ 
 
 ^ MISS OSBOURN 
 
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 The Fishburne 
 Military School 
 
 WAYNESBORO, VA. 
 
 Session 1904-05 the most prosperous in 
 the historj' of the school. Buildings re- 
 cently remodelled and enlarged ; addi- 
 tional improvements for the coming 
 session. 
 
 Able instructors, thorough work, best 
 .social and religious advantages. I'ure 
 air, fine campus for athletics, electric 
 lights, steam heat. Cadets from Mass- 
 achusetts to Florida. Only pure, manly 
 boys wanted. Refer to Faculty of Uni- 
 versity. Write for catalogue. 
 
 JAS. A. FI.SHIJURNE, A. R., 
 
 Principal 
 
 McGuire's University 
 School 
 
 opposite Monroe Park 
 
 RICHMOND. VIRGINIA 
 
 Forty-first session — September iS, igos 
 to June i8, 1906. 
 
 Best observed record at University of 
 Virginia during recent years. 1S90-91 — 4 
 Degrees, 14 Diplomas ; i"8g5-6— 4 Degrees, 
 27 Diplomas: two of the five M. .\'s from 
 this school ; 1899-1900—3 Degrees, 44 Di- 
 plomas ; 190001 —6 Degrees, 55 Diplomas ; 
 1901-02— 4 Degrees, 40 Diplomas. 
 
 CORPS OF TEACHER.S 
 
 John P. McGuire (U. Va.) Principal; 
 J. P. McGuire, Jr. (U. Va.) Associate 
 Principal ; E. W. Bosworth ( U. Va), J. J. 
 Gravatt, Jr.,B. A. (U.Va.).H. I,. Roberts, 
 M. A., Ph. D. (U. Va.),and four ladies in 
 Lower School. 
 
 For catalogue apply to J. P. McGuire, 
 Jr., Associate Principal. 
 
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 Cl^e caniucvgity of iDivsnua 
 
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 A brief, but clear and accurate account of the founding of this 
 institution by Jefferson — its growth and expansion; espcciall\' in- 
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