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of education in general, would say; well T am going to give the University of Illinois a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to endow a ohair in, say English literature, on condition that the University will add five thousand dollars or six thousand dollars per annum. And the Uni- versity shall go out and get the best man it can find in the world for ten or twelve thousand dollars, and as soon as it does that, we will pay half the salary. Friends, I believe if public spirited citizens of this commonwealth, or wealth men who want to see things move along, would say to their fellow citizens, we arefwilling to make this contribution for the purpose of accomplishing this end, I believe in a generation you would have made an enormous contribution to the uplift of <bur society. It would be a great mistake for the University of Illinois not to utilize these adequate facilities in the department of engineering to develop the graduate work in this field. The tern graduate work is used in American colleges and Universities in two entirely different senses. Harvard University, followed by some other institutions, by adopting the practice of calling those schools graduate schools, entrance to which is conditioned upon holding a college diploma, has demoralized, arid in my opinion degraded the use of that term. Graduate work in ahy parti- cular field ought not to mean work carried on by graduates in some other department, but work carried on by baooalaureate graduates in that particular field, A graduate student
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