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affairs an! constitute a direot tax upon tho community, falling alike upon the producer and upon the consumer; upon capital and upon labor. What if a tenth of the costs of conducting these great enterprises were found to be preventable wastes (and they doubtless are), and what if through the investigations and teaching of this College of Engineering a tenth of such preventable wastes would be saved (and such an assumption is not unreasonable), that alone would effect an annual saving to the state greater than the largest appropriation the state has ever made for the support and development of the* entire University for any To the state, whose continued liberality has made possible the rreat and permanent growth of its various departments, the University renews its assurance of loyalty and ambition to serve> and its Board of Trustees prays that no indiscreet nor ill-timed course on its part may rorfe'it the confidence which tho state has so many times and so strongly expressed in the conduct of the University. To the Dean of the Engineering Department I tenler my heartiest congratulations for tho high standard to L'hichthe work of his department has been brought and for [he confidence which the transportation and mining interests lanifest in his undertakings. The University gladly aok- »or*»e1gfls Its debt to its great Engineering Dean and hopes ,hut that indebtedness may bo yet many fold lncreaaoa. i
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