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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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RAILWAY CONFERENCE, MAY 9. The Railway Conference was held in Lecture room "A", PhyaiOB Building, Friday Morning, May 9th, Mr. Edward C. Schmidt, Professor of Railway Engineering, presiding. The meeting was called to order at 9:50 A. M . THE CHAIRMAN: Before beginning the exercises, I wish, on behalf of the University, to thank our guests from outside for their presence here today. We are glad to have you here, not only for our own sake, but we appreciate your presence as an evidence, a renewed evidence of the interest that railway men have always shown in the work of the University. We wish to thank also the members of the student body of the University community who have availed themselves of this opportunity to hear so distinguished a company of railway speakers. It may be worth while to present in a few words something of the history which preceded the event which we are celebrating here in the exercises of yesterday and today. It is about seven years ago since the University first offered its forces for training for railway servioe. Since then these forces have grown and established themselves. In the College of Engineering during the first
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