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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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I II 1Dot hin f pu t out tl 3 : which a moral > I t 1 it have to 1 churche partly in the imily, I the 100ls_ 1 . enou i i this c tion <•'•< i 'pinion, it is by far t m a! I I ur, and that it < lis loud for the c < ition of st ucational it ol he ti Thus 1 ha\ tid D thi ; I tho ich are oi linarily < tated as it rm st but I have abstained from ! kin t th( m with a j ir object in view. I I lieve that th »st perniciou of all tl ucational heresies of the p; t generation lias b< n the pu ailing notion in regard to what are sometimes s i of as "prhctical stud, r." The clamor has been for knowledge that can be applied to the ordinary affairs of lif . Now. in re ird to all such demands. I am in the habit of askinj // he knowlD edge that can be applied to the various ai drs of lif Does the successful business man on the fai i, in the ore. or in the factory, ever use algebra, or gcometrv. or bo or chemistry, or history, or any of tl i ordii branches night in the schools? Of what he actually learns in school, 1 uses reading and writing and a little arithmetic; but b much more? Do we not forget with the most asi nish facility and rapidity what we are taught in the school ' 1 low many of us remember the chemistry and the botany 1 I advanced mathematics and the history and the Latin 1 the Greek over which we wearied and perhaps tortun I oui brail while we were in college or before? I a m D O t j o f COurs< speaking of professional mathematicians, or chemi ts, i bol anists, or linguists, but of the great ,,., . 0 f n« , prof< • men. And yet, no one of us would part with the I suit our labors in these directions. We believe our stud;. u s a c e r t a i n c o m p r e h e n s i v e n e s s of view, a c< ,,„ b . v h of method and of thought; we did acquire certain d dina
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