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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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I) K I ) I C A F I N KI 11A u 5 com f tho i e:,u! a ] ,ul thj > ' 'P •'" ' iri 1 s best me i he \ rk < build up the indn lua] mi I and ntt it r sul luent prof< mal ork. \ \ ] i a r ^e 1 elem< oi -u h a tl inii ? For all kirn 3 of si ss, tl pow< of di Imi it perception must b( velop< id cultiva . T o accomplish this work 1 believe it i s : ill t n tl it the Si I3 of Ian ua . especially a hi hly inflect d and conjuga d Ian . is best adapted. Th study of Nature, though, I think, in a subordinate deg is adapted to the same t id. 1 say, in a subordinate degree, be ruse the study of N a t u r e is very largely a study of facts, m ly of which it is impossible to explain. W e must often it< it o rselves with the fact itself. In the study of a la . on the other hand, we not only find the fact, but 2 ei fe 1 that we understand the reason for it, or at least that a reason exists which with proper investigation would be within the range of our comprehension. So long, lerefore, as we net 1 the powers of discriminating perception, I 1 eve that studies in the most highly organized and artic dated languages will continue to be of the greatest import; ice. T ;n we have to provide for the strengthening of the reason faculties. This part of education, according to the teaching of all aj JS, has best been accomplished by studies . th mat! matics, and studies in logic. While I believe that for tl purposes of a general education studies in the ith< itics can easily be carried too far (with the result vhich Sir William Hamilton pointed out, of giving men the habit : I isoning in straight lines where all the premises are \ ;11 understood, wli is, in ordinary life such problems sel1 1 oc< ur), it still remains true, that for cultivating a reason1 i ' habit a sufficient amount of study in the mathematics and j I ., never yet been ex< lied. T lht • c
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