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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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p i DI< \ i I ^ < " ' 1NI ' 1IN HAL1 63 natural that the educat m offei 1 should 1 01 of two general 1 irts: Thos< tudies which v* 1 1 as disciplinary; and those which were of such technical character as would fit nen for practice in the law, in medicine, and in theology. This plan of organization continued not only through the Middle Ages but through modern times down until after the I finning of t h e present century. But, in the development of civilization, a radical change took place about one hundred \a rs ago. I refer not so much to that revolutionary spirit Which brought large numbers of people into an intelligent hope of a freer and better life, as to those mechanical inventions which have wrought a similar revolution in the industrial world. These changes required a very essential modification of the education that had previously been given. W h a t has often been called the age of invention created everywhere a demand for education extending to the means of putting the new inventions into practical use. The application of steam to motive power called for complicated and exact knowledge in a wide range of subjects. It called for varied and complicated machines for doing every variety of work T h e demand for the transportation of the various products of the earth included highways, railroads, and steamships H e r e were new industries of surpassing importance. T h e energies of machinery in every mine and on every h i l l . d e called aloud for intelligent guidance; ^ consequently people and called aloud tor B o{ e d u c a t l o n d te everywhere saw he ^ ^ u ^ " n ^ h s n ^ t y that technical schools sprung up in res Germany, in France, in England, and m other parts of the in old world. iTthe United States the same impulse was felt, because +u „ m P causes, but conditions here were somet h e w : X e * a X r q u U t h e problem had «o be solved t I somewhat d.nerent way. In the older states, havmg old universities, it was but natural that the same course should
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