Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 8]

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ADDRESS

FOR 'THE

BY

STUDENTS,

PETER

JUXKERSFELD.

CLASS

P R E S I D E N T OF THE SENIOR

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen: T h e inauguration of a new president is an eventful date in the historv of a great universitv. T h e occasion is one of

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jov for all who are interested in its welfare. To-day we celebrate such an event at the Universitv of Illinois.

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In his love for the Univerr j and in the interest shown in its welfare the student Yields to none. Dr. Draper, it is my pleasure, on behalf of the students of the University, to welcome you to the presidency: to extend to you the most cordial and sincere greetings; to wish you success in the great work which you have just undertaken, and to express the hope that it may always prove in the highest sense pleasing and congenial to you: to assure YOU that this expression comes from every member of the student bod\". and that in every case it is given with feelings of great pleasure and gratification. Our acquaintance with you up to this me prompts us to extend an even heartier welcome and warmer greeting than we gave two m o n t h s ago. Your genial personality, distinguished attainments, and high personal charrac r have made a marked impression on all. W i t h thi knowledge and this acquaintance we give you our warmest welcome, our heartiest greet: our most sincere expres on of good will.