Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 46]

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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT DRAPER.

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action in that direction. Intending students will naturally press into the professions as rapidly as they are allowed, but exj irience shows that they will also cheerfully m< t any re sonable exactions that are Imposed. W h a t greater servic can be rendered to the skillful practice of medicine in this day of marvelous advancement of medical science, what greater service to the healthful administration oi the law, than by closing up the avenues to those noble professions against all who have not had at least an elementary foundation broad enough and strong enough to bear the superstructure of professional training and meet the exigencies of professional life? W h a t is true of entrance to the professions is equally true of entrance to the civil service of the state or its sub-divisions. T h e time has surely come when minor positions in the civil service should be put upon the merit basis, or when aspirants to the service should at least show a minimum of intellectual qualifications equal to the intelligent administration of the duties they wish to assume. T h e State University may effectualh support the intei sts of education in the public penal and charitable institutions of the state. Their life may be made more tolerable, their results more beneficent, by work which occupies the time and improves the minds of the unfortunate inmates. The State Universitv may easilv, if the facilit JS and ire provided, render an invaluable, a much grea md tcceptable public, service, by scientific examinations of nnu le matters closely related to the life of the people. V. ihould 1 [uipped to analyze the waters f the state; v hould sustain and help the movement against idull ted U )d supplie . our 1 boratori< should tell us how to put our

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