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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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INAUGURATION OF P R E S I D E N T DRAPER. 37 educational effort need to be emphasized also. If the same minds which made the act of '62 were to make one now, it would not appear in just the same words. T h e progress of the generation would of course be recognized. T h e r e is a law higher than the naked words of a written statute. Moreover, the state has now become an important factor, indeed the all i m p o r t a n t factor in the problem. It has put its authority behind the work; it has p u t the money of its people into the undertaking. It has great purposes of its own to subserve; it is bound to accomplish what it undertakes. In a word, the University is not only bound to keep faith with the congressional enactment, but it is to do infinitely more. Education is the equable evolution of the h u m a n powers. T h e man who knows much about corn, but little about books, is poorly educated. T h e woman who knows much about the fine arts of music and painting, and nothing about the fine arts of cutting gowns and making bread, is poorly educated. T h e man who knows much about the world's early history, or is entirely familiar with Greek roots, but does not know on which side of a motor car it is best to get off, when cars run on parallel lines and in opposite directions, or the man who takes no part in the affairs of the town in which he lives, is but poorly educated. Sound education is what enables people to be useful to themselves, stimulating to others, helpful to the circumstances surrounding them. Specialization is the order of the age, and it is well; but the harmonies are to be preserved. So it is in the lives of individuals. So it is in the lives of states. T h e sound education of the people of commonwealth lies in their h a r m o n i o u s development u p to the highest, broadest possibilities. T h e i r minds, their hearts, their bodies, their homes, their vocations, their interests, their tendencies, their institutions, their children and their children's childr 1, are all involved.
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