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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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A D D R E S S O F T H O M A S J. B U R R 1 L L , L L . D . , D E L I V E R I N G TO THE P R E S I D E N T CERTIFICATE OF AND KEYS. ELECTION, CHARTER, Mr. President^ Ladies, and Goitlemen: I have been asked to present to Dr. Draper on this occasion some symbols of the authority with which he has been vested as president of the University. I suppose this pleasant duty has been assigned,to me, rather than to some other, because such authority and responsibility has been temporarily, howbeit for a considerable length of time, lodged with me as Acting Regent. I have been supposed to have tasted the sweet morsel of presidential power, and to have rolled it complacently during some years under my appreciative tongue. W h a t e v e r the facts in the case, and whatever the f tive flavor, I assure you good friends,—and I wish to say to Dr. Draper, possibly for his comfort in anticipations of the future,—whatever the aforesaid morsel may have been, whatever its chemical or gustatory properties, there is no bad taste left behind! If there is something more than mere fancy in the choice of ripe cheese and black coffee for the last course at dinner, I declare to you that I have not been obliged to resort to any clearing or obliterating or substituting process to get rid of th partaken, though not forbidden nor forgotten, tweets. *5
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