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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT DRAPER, 41 of all, and guarantees the fullest liberty and the most help to every individual not inconsistent with the highest good of the entire body. T h e y will not be settled among a self-governing people except in the light of bitter experience and t h r o u g h the superior intelligence and the quickened conscience of th multitude. T h e y will have to be settled by legislation. But that legislation will never be prepared by men who are merely searching for dividends. I t will never be enacted by men who are only talking and looking for votes. T h e y will not be settled until the men and women who are to settle them are educated to the task in the schools, and the schools will be unequal to the u n d e r t a k i n g unless they are ordained by all the people, are independent of obstructing influences, and are at least able to do as effectual engineering in the worlds of t h o u g h t and of ethics as in the world of matter. PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENTS. F r o m the time when the light of the star of B e t h l e h e m p e n e t r a t e d the darkness and superstition of E u r o p e , fired the hearts and liberated the t h o u g h t of t h e people, started the nations in motion, lighted the fires of revolution, and then set up the schools, the universities have been founded on three great bodies of learning, namely: theology, medicine, and law. Down t h r o u g h the ages these three learned and h o n o r a b l e professions have been the bone and sinew, the flesh and blood of the universities, the most p o t e n t agencies in giving freshness and virility to the world's thought. Our nineteenth century life has added other honorable professions to this great triumvirate. T h e end is not yet. B u t no matter what his point of vision, no m a t t e r what has been his training, no matter how much he may be involved in the world's commercial life and industrial undertakings, no man can safely say that these Learnt I and powerful professions which first made, and have always shaped and strengthened the universities, will not continue to be mightypowers in shaping their organi
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