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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT DRAPER. By the resignation of Dr. Selim H . Per ody, t! p r iency of the University of Illinois became vacant Septen r i, 1891. Professor T h o m a s J. Purrill was chosen act ig president. At the meeting of the board of trustees held March tne 13, 1894, committee that had been appointed to recommend a suitable man to fill the vacancy was advis 1 to s id some of its members to confer with Andrew Sloan Draj r, L L . D., at Cleveland, Ohio. At a special meeting of the board of trustees held at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, April 15, 1894, this committee, of which Professor Burrill, Nelson W . Graham, and James E. Armstrong were the meml ;rs, report J that it had visited Dr. Draper and recommended that he be elected president of the University. After consultation with Dr. Draper, who was present by invitation, the report of the committee was unanimously adopted, and the committas nstructed to notify him of his election. This duty was formall} performed by the committee, accompanied by th otl r members of the board, at the Auditorium Hotel at 10 o'ciocl m tl following morning. By a letter addressed to Nelson W . Graham, chairman of th board of trustees, and dat< Ma; 10, 189 Dr. Dra] er accepted the presidency of the University. At the meeting of the board of trust' held Sept em i 1 25, it 4, ov( r 15th was set as the day for the ina uration of President Draper, and a committee of arrangemi I was appointed consisting of M .srs. J. . Armstrong and F, M. MeKay of the board of trust. , together wit! 3 65364
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