Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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&s has been done by more than a soore of those who are present here today, the world will commend you, and you will have great reason for self-congratulation• Yours is the opportunity, yours is the future, the foundations have "been laid for you, the opportunity is open to you. You are to be judged in your life and all your future work by the measure in which you rise to those opportunities. You have facilities unknown to those who havo gone before you, the question for you to decide is whether or not you will make proper use of them. I want to say just another word in closing. I notice that President Markham was to speak a word of congratulation. I do congratulate the faculty of this great institution, its chairman of the Board of Trustees, the State of Illinois, I congratulate all of you and all of us together on this great achievement. I heartily sympathize with all the kindly words of appreciation which were expressed this morning for Dean Goss, his character and his work, I should like to add a word for the breadth of view and the commanding character and the power of the President of the University, and a further word of appreciation for Professor Schmidt, the head of the Department of Railway Engineering, and all those associated in the work. They heartily deserve recognition; it is a wonderful achievement and we feftl that the institution so happily established, with so great possibilities for the future, in good hands. I know that you will all heartily agree I congratulate you. rith that •xpreasion.
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