Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT DRAPER. A I M OF THE L A N D G R A N T A< T. 35 T h i s Vet had a distinguishing end in view. Jt was the plain intent of Congress to give aid which would create colic J S and universities in the different states, whose p u r p o s e s h o u l d not be intellectual and literary alone, but distinctively practical and industrial. It was clearly said that scientific and classical studies should not be excluded, but there is no room for d o u b t of the intent to m a k e a s s u r a n c e d o u b l y sure t h a t a g r i c u l t u r e and the m e c h a n i c arts and military science should have full consideration. T h e end in view was to found colleges for the masses whose work should count in developing and dignifying t h e m a n u a l e m p l o y m e n t s of t h e p e o p l e . T h i s was a great patriotic end. B u t a n o t h e r patriotic end was to be attained. G r e a t armies were in the field for the preservation of the union of the states. T h e necessity for m o r e y o u n g men trained in the science of war was o p p r e s s i n g t h e nation. It was here m e a s u r a b l y provided for. So m u c h secured, other t h i n g s were to be e n c o u r a g e d according as circ u m s t a n c e s should develop. T h a t there m i g h t be no uncertainty about it, this all a p p e a r s u p o n t h e face of the congressional e n a c t m e n t . ITS PURPOSES HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT. O r g a n i z i n g u n d e r this act, the U n i v e r s i t y was bound to e n t e r into t h e spirit of it. T a k i n g t h e avails of this grant, it was bound to carry out the main p u r p o s e s of it. It has d o n e both, and it will c o n t i n u e to do both. T h e a b u n d a n t and prolific work of t h e College of A g r i c u l t u r e has uplifted the agricultural work and m e a s u r a b l y directed the agricultural o p e r a t i o n s of what has come to be the foremost agricultural State in the Union. Its scientific researchhave helped on t h e good cause of intelligent and scientific agriculture everywhere. It can d o still more. T h e College of E n g i n e e r i n g has an e q u i p m e n t and record with but three or four rivals in the country, and in some r e s p e c t s without any at all. We
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