George Martin Kober, M. D., LL. D., Dean, Faculty of Medicine.
George E. Hamilton, LL. D., Dean, Faculty of Law.
Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., Ph. D., Regent, School of Foreign Service.
Given at Washington, on the Ides of June, in the year of our Salvation One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty."
Salutation—Georgetown to University of Caracas
After delivering in Spanish the formal message from the University of Georgetown to the Universidad Central de Caracas your representative added the following words:
"The students of the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University are very sensible of the honor conferred upon them by this reception in the Assembly Hall of the Central University of Caracas, and especially appreciative of the courtesy shown by this distinguished assembly of selected social and educational elements of this capital.
"The students of the School of Foreign Service have been sent to this wonderful country of yours to practise the beautiful Spanish language, to study the economic and financial life of Venezuela, and to live among you your own life and observe your own customs. They come to you with minds set to their work and with hearts open to all impressions which may come from the outside world. Most of them have passed through the harrowing experiences of the World War. They crossed the seas to the European battle fields to defend the cause of liberty for which America stands, and now, upon returning to the activities of civil life, they are preparing themselves for a better service to their country by improving their minds, with the ultimate purpose of promoting the foreign trade of the United States. They have much to learn, and you have much to teach them. They are in your hands, and I am sure that the University of Georgetown could never hope to provide better instructors for students of Latin American affairs.