And State Papers 453 



shall discriminate sharply between what is vicious 

 and what is pleasant. Nothing can add more to 

 our capacity for healthy social enjoyment than, by 

 force of example no less than by precept, to en- 

 courage the formation of societies which by their 

 cultivation of music, vocal and instrumental, give 

 great lift to the artistic side, the aesthetic side of our 

 nature ; and especially is that true when we remem- 

 ber that no man is going to go very far wrong if 

 he belongs to a society where he can take his wife 

 with him to enjoy it. 



AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CKAR- 

 LOTTESVILLE, VA., JUNE 16, 1903 



Mr. Chairman; my Fellow-Americans: 



It is to me to-day a double pleasure to be with 

 you; in the first place, because the University of 

 Virginia is one among that limited number of in- 

 stitutions of learning to which because of its his- 

 toric association every American proud of his 

 country and his country's history must turn; and 

 in the next place, because I have just finished a 

 trip to and fro across this continent, which at al- 

 most every step has reminded me of some great 

 deed done by a Virginian or a descendant of a Vir- 

 ginian, in that wonderful formative period which 

 has occupied more than half of this Republic's life ; 

 going across the Alleghanies in the path over the 

 mountains which men of Virginia first crossed to 

 found the commonwealth of Kentucky; beyond the 



