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Caption: Dedication - Harker Hall
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ExcerptfromProvost Kendric C. Babcocks eulogy for N. C. Ricke at services held in Smith Memorial Hall on March 22, 1924. ... As a good son, a graduate of its first class, by the alphabet listed as number thirteen among the alumni, Nathan Clifford Ricker, as an active pro1843-1924. fessorfor forty-three constructive years, as Dean of the College of Engineeringfrom 1878 to 1905 and as friend and adviser of an uncounted company of students and professional men... we give him reverence and admiration. He was both architect and builder, in the best spiritual sense of both words. His dreams of a great school of architecture came down out of the air and took firm, abiding, and beautiful shape. His plans and specifications were not mere paper things but were wrought out in stately structure on the campus, in widely separated communities and in the hearts and conceptions of his students. His monument will not be limited to what a man may see in this community; many monuments to his scholarship, inspiration and generous counsel have already risen nobly under the hands of his disciples to do him silent and permanent honor, and others will come in the Years ahead. «w
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