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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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31 l ' M \ I KM ! 01 II I ! the guidon of Illicit > with innumeral>l< i ti ,,: oran and navy blue we expect to show aun< h and |)le a \essel as sails th ncational But now let us put iau I t us eli at nv possible elements of uncertainty. L t us $ e wh< • ar and whither we are goi L us take our ! It us inspect the en ines. Let u o dov. into the cabin an look up our charts. PURl'i ! AND P A i An institution set up by the auth< of the people and supported by their means is bound to *ard the influences which produced it, the limitations whi h surroi the spirit which gives it life, and the purpose fc which ives. A university is to live, and feel, and act. It not i mere collection of grounds and buildings ami museum It i a living organism with an emotional nature to i a. it 1 an intellectual life to direct it. It is to act under ers which have been conferred upon it, it is to take the pla authorizea to take, it is to be guided by the w o r l d s e x p e . ice, and it.is to be governed by the circumstances and a n n r breath o f " I " ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^ * - b r e a t h e d into the T H E UNIVERSITV THE OUTGROWTH OK ., C R I S I S . e This University was the outerowth ^f •• •nenaced the affairs of the „ £ * * £ ^ X ^ reared upon the foundation of the great Na n l L A c , The civil war did not p r o d - ^ ; : : H 7 ^ l enactment. It had failed at the hands of a ° " ' tration. It needed the hard, extreme c i r c l i n g ? ' ^ f"* ' S bl l war to make clear the necessity of surh . ' ° ° Ut measure. It has peculiar interest to us. for it V ° 1 lU ; of the presidents, the towering son of aIl l l i n n ; * ^ & l 'I)01S, \vli(K,, r Ulu footsteps were wont to hallow the ground un «bai meet t o d a y , whose approval gave it force and effe ?***** " '
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