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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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ADDRESS: UNIVERSITY IDEALS, BY CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL.D., P R ] 5IDENT OF T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF W I S C O N S I N . Mr. President, Gove Dior Alt geld, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, at ' Ladies, and Gentlemen: Before entering upon the discussion of the subject I have chosen for this hour, I must congratulate you on the completion of the noble structure erected for the departments of Engincerii . It is worthy of a great university, and a great state. As I c o n t e m p l a t e what you are doing here, and what is doing in adjacent states, it seems to me that we are entering u p o n a new era in the history of advanced education. To be convinced of this fact we have only to look around us. F o r t h e future s u p p o r t of its University the great state of Ohio has recently provided for an additional tax upon all the p r o p e r t y of the state of about ninety thousand dollars a year. T h e last legislature that met in Michigan passed a s t a t u t e which will yield an addition of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year to the University at Ann Arbor. Wisconsin gave to its University for many years the benefit of a tax yielding an annual income of eighty thousand liars, and the legislature four years ago supplemented that with an addition of nearly as much more. Minnesota is giving bountiful supplies to her University from a generous hand; ai I the University of Missouri, after receiving for years a
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