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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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18 l ' M \ I KM IV <)!•' I L L I N O I S . Larue necessary addition ive b n ma.! to the teaching force, now numbering eighty profet ore and a Bistants, all of whom we venture to believe are as well qualified I r th< duties of their positions as we know them to be harm nious and enthusiastic in their discharge. Closer affiliation with the schools of all grades support d by the state now has and will continue to have the careful attention of both faculty and trustees, assuring in ood time a reciprocal influence of great value to the entire school system of the state. It is hoped the interest in the University recently shown by the women of the state will not have exhausted itself in their successful attempt to secure a share in its management but that it will continue and increase until they have secured large additions to the number of young women s t u d e n t s , for whose instruction, safety, and comfort a m p l e p r o \ i s i o n has been made, including the appointment of three young women to faculty positions, and twice that n u m b e r to subordinate positions in the teaching force. In the rules for the government of the University some modifications have been allowed, looking mainly to the larger personal liberty of the students, a corresponding personal cr responsibility being insisted upon, in the belief that voun^ men and young women at the age of those in a t t e n d a n t here constantly under the influence of the best examples, may be safely trusted to acquire habits of self control and s If denial, both essential to the formation of the high character a which we must suppose they will, under such circumstances, all aim to a greater degree than can be expected of t h e n when under the pressure of mere authority, no matter how rigidly applied That during an experience of more than three years not a case of disciphne nor a question of government has b, , brought before the trustees, furnishes satisfactory evidence tha^ in this direction at least no serious mistake has been
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