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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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I 2 UNIVERSITY OK ILLINOIS. There arc many lessons to be drawn for our advancement from this day's impressive ceremonies. T h e building in which we are assembled—the Military Hall—suggests discipline and drill; the Natural History Hall, a little farther on, suggesting the idea of growth and development; the new Engineering Hall, to be dedicated to-night, in an address by the scholar, Dr. Charles Kendall Adams, still more deeply suggestive in its very name, purpose, and plan, in life, and work, and thought. A thousand memories come back to us of the alumni as we meet here to-day. T h e years have been rich in treasures. A great work has been done since we left these familiar scenes to enter the great struggle that begins every morning at sunrise. W e believe a greater work will be done here, Dr. Draper, under your administration of the high office to which you are called to-day. This is inauguration day. It means much. T h e inauguration of a president? Yes, and much more. It means the beginning of a new era in every department of the University. It means new men, new methods, new ideas, larger success, reater growth. It should mean that every child of this institution of learning, every official in any way connected with it, every friend far or near pledges himself anew with greater devotion to the interests and welfare of the University of J Illinois. There is a great opportunity for the citizens of Champaign and Urbana. A short distance west of this hall there is an imaginary line that divides these two beautiful cities. T h a t line should be imaginary indeed. L e t the citizens forget past rivalries and jealousies, and catch the spirit rather of emulation and progress. Make no public improvement on the streets or parks without remembering that a great institu tion located among you. Erect no business house without re nizing that it faces these halls. Build no home unmindful that it is related to a great University, Beautifj and
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