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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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\ \ . • ! of i w 1 ' ; nan 1 ii I 1« I by in scho ess ot. Th lon< j . ine In: it WOUld I Oil ion , sSfc . W y not claim th • is <> way of a l to gC \ . ha n i" New Y < I railroad. A i max > mi 1 fin I 'oad til ome, a; I wish m to 1. c r thin . c triel of thi %s. So h i liti ih ick little bye lal 1 >a a little by ste . a 1 tie by st coach, and end his journe on a bic W h o would not say to such a man: \ . you have in eed learnt I sonn thin . b u t y o u h e paid too lai a price for your A ety of s tall 1 -w i g e . So ! would sa; to the fa er and the mother of tl pupil in our schools, even up to ; the middle of he ordii try c o l l ' c o u r s e : Make proA on for the great ess ntials. Your boys and Is do not need a; infinite variety of elementary knowledge; on the contrar they need t e most vigorous and capacious minds you can possibly give them. And the^e are not to be formed I the sweets and "goo* es " of education, but by solid foo .. nutritious in kind, and abundant in amount. Herein also lies the secret of those m< i who have attained great success, without the education of the schools. Take an extreme example—that of the great n irtyr presid nt. wl >e career gives a perennial interest to all the n ions of central Illinois. If the standards of education I have presented are applied to Lincoln's development, he will be found to have been essentially a well educated man. 1 j did not > by rail. but on foot and by canal boat. But he ! spt his ey< and ears open for all he could see and hear; he studied grammar and geometry with the utmost diligence and thoroughness; he read the history of the United States with aordinary C rej he passed an unusual proportion of his life in most intimat association with what may be call. I the avera frade of his fellow men; and he had extraordinary K Q n e s s ()( o b s e ,
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