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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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INAUGURAL BY ADDRESS P R E S I D E N T A N D R E W SLOAN DRAPER, LL.D. ernor Altgcld, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, and Ladies, and Gentlemen: It is said that there is a part of the I s t h m u s of Darien where the neck of land is so narrow that at times the attentive listener can catch the roar of either ocean. At such a point the inclination to hear the one and then the other would be irresistible. W e too are upon narrow ground this afternoon. T h e act of the University trustees which is proclaimed by formal ceremonial at this hour, and which is consummated by the delivery to me of emblems of authority in the midst of so proud an assemblage, is surely a consequential act in the history of the University. W h e t h e r wise or unwise, it is for time to reveal. B u t the important relation it sustains to the good cause of liberal learning in Illinois, and therefore to the great state itself, will not be doubted. Such acts have occurred but twice before in the twenty-seven years' life of the University. T h e y mark epochs in the career of an institution, and fix dates of as much relative prominence in its history as those which have been established in the course of empire by the accession of the kings. On such an occasion the impulse to turn in two directions, to recall the voices of the past and listen for the whispers of the future, is also irresistible. A KNOWLEDGMENTS. G Others, who have been a part of the past and who are to be a part of the future, have alread} spoken. They have expr< ;s< 1 their just pride in what lias been, their pleasure in to
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