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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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manager's mind is diverted instantly, to the instant nee£ of things. The work of study and investigation must be laid aside, for this emergency or for that particular engagement, and it oannot be proseouted by them as it can be done only in institutions devoted to research, investigation and instruction. Born in the State of Wisconsin, nurtured in the State of Illinois, where I spent most of the years of my life, I feel great pride today in recognizing the advanced work of the state universities of the sister states of the west. Transportation is of just as much importance to civilization from every possible standpoint, not merely from that of material advancement, the accumulation of wealth, but from that of the advancement of religion and morals, and all those finer things, as agriculture. It comes just as near the home, the heart and the thought of every American citizen as does agriculture. What an important step, therefore, has been taken by these universities, and especially by the University of Illinois, by the State of Illinois, in recognizing this fact and in establishing, I will not say for the first time, but almost the first time, a school of transportation in which the study of economics is closely correlated with that of engineering The State of Illinois has started out to perform ite duty towards transportation. The advancement of trans- toertatiori^denendB upon three things, every feature of which
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