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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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UNIYI-.UNITV OK ILL1 quitedlabor The p< pie of the State of Illino houldhold in in« ement all who hav< id 1 in ti, ere( l( ul i ol lothei buildin i hi her education, and si na be a in their determinati n u< maki th< ir o\ Unj. tl ,;t, | at the h id < iim.il r in I itutions. x The right >ther peakei do not p rmit any extended ren irks concei in th< work ol the Coll Kngin ring, but I may \ that the University rejoices at its suco . The Univei of Illinois was the fust ii ititution in this country to give edu< >i 1 shop practice a m ms of instructs i, a < custom now followed by all engine ring school f any prominence, and was also the first to introdin e the so-called Russian system of s h o p pra tice, a system now universally emploved in shop schools. T h i s institution v s one of the first three in the Unite 1 S t a t e s to gi\ physical laboratory practice, a method now a p p r o v e d by all e d u c a t o r s as the only proper one for teaching this ver impor mt subject. In the number of engineering s t u d e n t s our University is excelled b\ only three institutions in the U n i t e d S t a t e s . O u r raduatcs, by their ability as architects and en hirers, have given substantial evidence of the quality of the instruction. W e are all justified in being joyous to-night, as we c Qgratulate the University and the state upon the Larger opportunities which are opening before us, and 1 know you will all join me in saying God speed to the College of Kngiiu rin as it enters its new and magnificent home and pi sses on to wider usefulness and still higher successes. B u t I must not detain you a moment longer trom th< great pleasure of the evening. W c have enjoyed the i mpanj of many college and university presidents to-day, md we ai now to hear one of the most experienced and distinguished of them all. I have the honor to present to you Pi udent Charles Kendall Adams, of the University of W i s c o n s i n rh< n subject of his address is < University Idea] u <
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