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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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CONVOCATION IN AUDITORIUM, MAY 9. ABSTRACT OF ADDRESS BY Dr. Edmund J. James, aident of the University of Illinois. Guests and members of the University: We are gathered here today to mark the setting of another milestone in the progress of the University of Illinois. This progress has been almost unbroken from the very foundation of the University forty-five years ago until the present time. Nobody oould have foreseen, when this seed was planted more than a generation ago, what a great tree it was destined to become. Or rather, when some men did foresee it, though as it were with the vision of a prophet and a seer, other men Jeered at the large ideas based upon small evidence of accomplishment which had been the outcome of an agitation of fifty years in the state of Illinois for the foundation of a state university. Dr. John M. Gregory of blessed memory, the first president of this university, not only dreamed of the future greatness of the institution; but he saw as clearly as anyone can see into tho future, that however discouraging the circumstances of this early foundation; however difficult and numerous and perplexing the problems which were faoing it for solution; however annoying and troublesome and dangerous the opposition foroeo
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