Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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the yonng men of our engineering colleges have today an opportunity that their predecessors never had# In addition to one1s duty to one's self to provide for the future, to take oare of one's own, the young man of the commonwealth owes a duty to the state in which he lives and to the community in whioh he resides. It is not necessary for him He to enter public service in order to perform that duty. can get not only the personal satisfaction of work well done and of receiving the remuneration for work well done, but there are a great many problems that the business man and the engineer will have to solve in connection with the development of the great businesses and the great industries of this country during the next two or three decades. Many of you young men, I suppose, think that there are no such opportunities in the transportation world as gave the chance for a James J. Hill or for a Harriman, but as the great transportation systems of this country develop there will be just aa great an opportunity for the industrial empire builders as had the grand old empire builder who has done so muoh in connection with the development of the northwest, and the other great builder, now dead, who did so muoh in connection with transcontinental travel and the development of the Pacific Coast. I have about spoken my alloted time. If there is one word more that I would like to say before taking my seat, it Is to again appeal to the young men of this institution*
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