Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 44]

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INAUGURATION OF PRES1DKNT DRAPER. A L L F O R C E S TO BK U T I L I Z E D .

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My thought has been entirely misapprehended if I have aroused any suspicion that I would have had the slender m e a n s heretofore available to the University used in any other way than they have been. It was a great task to build u p a strong engineering college here. It is a lasting honor to the men who have done it. It never could have been done except through the use of the larger share of the resources. B u t it has been done. Nothing succeeds like success. It will go on to prouder triumphs. My contention is not that we have done too much, or are likely to do more than we ought in any one direction; not that we shall do less in any direction, but that we must increase our facilities and do more in all directions. W e stand to-day u p above all class interests. W e are looking for the forces which will nourish even more industry, which will stimulate even more enterprise, which will make still better houses and still h a p p i e r homes, which will do yet more to vitalize thought, to generate culture, and grow moral fibre among all the four million inhabitants of a commonwealth which is 380 miles north and south and 205 miles east and west, with 56,000 square miles of territory and 36,000,000 of as rich acres as there are on earth, which is among the very first of the great states in wealth and energy and earning power, which has within its borders the city of most wonderful growth and most marvelous energy the vorld ever saw, which is able to do well whatever it is well to do, and is bound to accomplish completely whatever it undertakes. If there is one class of 1 In itional forces which b

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