Greetings:
"We avail ourselves of a mission made with an educational object by one of our professors and a group of our students to send to you and to the students of your University fraternal expressions of affection and comradeship from the University of Georgetown.
"The University of Georgetown has developed at the same time that this nation has advanced into its proper life. She has witnessed its struggles for liberty, its efforts to acquire constitutional life, the bloody conflict which was necessary to preserve the union and the last tremendous war into which it entered in order to preserve inviolate the sacred heritage of liberty which our ancestors have handed down to us.
"To each one of these conflicts the University of Georgetown has given liberally of its blood, and she preserves sacred the names of those who carried the banner of the Blue and Gray whithersoever the banner of the Stars and Stripes led them.
"Identified with the country of Washington since the days of Washington, this University believes itself worthy to regard itself as a sister of the University of the country of Bolívar, and in extending its hand to clasp the hand of its sister, the University of Georgetown presents to the University of Caracas her sincere wishes that the friendship of the two institutions may endure and be as profound as was the friendship of the two liberators for the whole American continent, and as sincere as is the friendship which exists between the United States of North America and the United States of Venezuela. Assuredly there is no stronger bond among men than the pure love of liberty and truth. In this common devotion, racial differences are forgotten and party strife ceases. When Truth and Liberty speak, all else is silent.
Farewell.
John B. Creeden, S. J., Ph. D., Rector of the University.
William Coleman Nevils, S. J., Ph. D., Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas I. Gasson, S. J., Ph. D., Dean, Graduate School.
Bruce L. Taylor, D. D. S., Dean, Faculty of Dentistry.