"Venezuelan students have distinguished themselves always by love of liberty, and have sacrificed themselves with Ribas in the holy struggle for our independence. With equal love they venerate Science and Liberty. It is not strange, then, that they are full of joy in receiving envoys of a University which, on the banks of the Potomac and near the tomb of Washington, holds always aloft the ideals which the liberators of the North and of the South loved with passionate devotion.
"The professors and students of the country of Bolívar clasp cordially the hand which the University of Georgetown extends to them, and will deem it a signal honor to cultivate the friendship which tradition has originated and which the visit of your professor and your students will contribute powerfully to cement."
Given in the City of Caracas, the fourth day before the Kalends of July in the year of our Salvation, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty.
Farewell.
President of the Council of National Instruction,
R. González Rincones.
The President of the Commission of Theology,
Nicolás E. Navarro.
The President of the Commission of Political Sciences,
Carlos F. Grisanti.
The President of the Commission of Medicine,
Luis Razetti.
The President of the Commission of Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences,
Germán Jiménez.