Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 15]

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ESSOR SAMU1 I W. SHATTUCK

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' ( ntlemet T\ it] six y< is ago, th< fa ult\ of this CJniv it) of Illinoi isis I of nine men, four of whom are at pn at coi with it, thou ii only two of these arc in ;i\ servi< . The I ni\ rsitj also had several non-n ident prossors, who ave courses f lectures each 3 r. Thi >rps of 1 ructors had come from nearly 1 man} different st . and ;titutions of 1 trning.

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should do all that was required by the federal grant a; 1 the

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• • The h o p e of t h e t r u s t e e s a n d faculty is that t h e i n s t i t u t i o n will p r o d u c e s c h o l a r s ot JOUnd 1 t r a i n , b u t a l s o f pra tii il sen md skill, m e n a b r e a s t with t h e i r t i m e s , m e n of ( u i s t i n cultur tr.iiiK 1 to allaii "

This hope and those e\pi building,

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ii licated In its m o t t o , cut in s t o n e o v e r t h e p o r t a l of its m a i n l a tRNINq AM) I ,ABOR."

The id« d was .1 rand one, not easily fulfilled,

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