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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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t was an extrorao pleasure this morning to moot for the irat time three men whom T have known for, T might say, omewhat longer than a quarter of a century, your Dean, r. Goes, Professor Schmidt, and Mr. G. R. Henderson, ho, I understand, is also a guest here. In passing I ant to say, Gentlemen, -- T ought not to say it in hie resence -- but there is no man in the United States toay who has a higher standing on technical railroad problems nan your Dean, Dr. Goss. (Applause). In celebrating the inauguration of these splendid ducational edifices it is well to remember that a thing eed not be rrreat even in appearance to be worthily celerated. It was the birth of a babe in a Jewish manger It is by such hloh opened the era of Christianity. pparently inconsidered instrumentalities that that babe, ow the sovereign Lord of Life, is carrying forward his hining banners to the ends of the world, and we should elebrate such, not for their splendor, but for the immense onsequences which have ever since flowed from them, and or the future promise which they present to posterity. n that light I think your buildings should be considered. No one can appreciate more than the man who has lad to struggle to get a technioal knowledge, as I have, ;he advantages which you young gentlemen have in being Lble, right at the start, to have unfolded to your minds lany problems that wo had to spend months and years to get i knowledge of. While I have not seen very much of vour o
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