"Bound together in a common cause, quickened by a common aim, faithful to a noble trust, our universities and colleges are constantly calling with their bells throughout this broad land--calling to one another to serve the needs of the present time, and to prepare the way for generations yet to come," said President Lowell in speaking yesterday at the first formal assemblage of delegates at the University of Virginia centennial.

President Lowell replied to an address by Professor Alderman of the University of Virginia, in which the latter welcomed the guests, among whom were Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, Westmoreland Davis, governor of Virginia, and Dr. Julian A. C. Chandler, president of the College of William and Mary.

President Lowell's speech, which dealt chiefly with the relations between the colleges and the scholars of the land, began with a tribute to Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University of Virginia, saying of him that "in his later years of well-earned repose, he lit here a beacon to diffuse the light of learning he held needful for the people he had served so long."

President Lowell went on to say "until today a host of lights are shining over our whole country from shore to shore. The oceans that guard our land are the only things upon the planet that man does not, and cannot, change."

"Your bells have called," he said in conclusion, "and we representatives of the great brotherhood of scholars, have come to pay our tribute of respect to this university, venerable in years, but ever young--more vigorous and more youthful as the years roll on."