Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Lincoln Hall [PAGE 7]

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ten in the evening. Here are to be found at all hours of the day, and until ten o'clock at night, students and professors working at the same tables, using the same materials, drawing guidance, inspiration and interest from one another. In adjacent rooms are to be found the materials for the laboratory Study of the English language and literature: texts, commentaries, original manuscripts and prints, busts, portraits, and the other auxiliary aids to inStrudtion such as maps, slides, lantern projections, phonographs for the accurate Study of sounds, etc. In the two museums located in the same building, that for classical archaeology and that for the Study of European civilization, are additional materials valuable for the understanding and the elucidation of our life and times, such as Statues, paintings, models, caSts, and vases. Similar facilities are provided for the Study of other languages, modern as well as ancient: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Greek; for the social sciences, political economy, political science, and sociology; and for logic, psychology and philosophy. The eredtion and equipment of this building opens a new era in the history of higher education in the State of Illinois. It has a meaning for every grade of education from the university to the elementary school. Here will be educated and trained to an increasing extent, the teachers in the high schools of the State. These schools now number over five hundred. In a few years they will number a thousand; and in them the boys and girls of the State will get all the school training which most of them will ever be able to obtain. In these high schools also will be largely trained the teachers for the elementary schools. And they in turn will derive inspiration and help from all these sources which the university offers through the superior equipment and training of the teachers who have enjoyed these facilities. No teacher trained in these surroundings can fail to get a touch of real inspiration which will in turn readt upon his pupils, and thus in ever widening circles, reach the rank and file of the people of the State and lift them to ever higher levels of thought and feeling and adtion. Those young people also who Study here but who do not afterwards go into teaching, themselves, but enter law, medicine, farming, the ministry, and housekeeping, will bless and help the communities in which they will live and work because of the uplift which they will have gained in these places.

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