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permanent to letters, in the person of one of your 

 graduates my friend, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page. 



I owe you for other things. When I wished to 

 choose the Surgeon-General of the Navy I had to 

 go to Virginia and to the University of Virginia 

 to find the man whom I esteem, not only because of 

 his ability as a public servant, but because of those 

 qualities which will render him ever one for whom 

 I and mine feel the warmest and liveliest personal 

 affection. Finally, when I had to choose an Ambas- 

 sador to represent us at the court of Russia, I 

 had to take another graduate of your University 

 Mr. McCormick. You will pardon me one per- 

 sonal allusion ; I shall never forget as long as I live 

 certain of your graduates who served in my regi- 

 ment during the Cuban War. 



The University of Virginia has stood for much 

 in our national life. It is something to stand merely 

 for such beauty as your buildings and campus rep- 

 resent here. It is a good thing for any nation to 

 have as beautiful an institution of learning as is 

 this University. It is a good thing for the taste 

 of a nation to have such an example of good taste 

 ever before it. You stand for the production of 

 scholarship; for the production of men who are to 

 do well for the State if ever the need of calling upon 

 them for their services may arise; but above all, 

 as has been so well said in the address to which 

 we have listened to-day, the University of Virginia 

 stands for the production of men ; of men who are 

 to do each a man's duty in the world. A good 



