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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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I \ II I. a:i,i atior. I Tin: it ill n }„, , : S o it til : b e foui 1 tl. it ii o ( [f. ma< o: i\ laj ea the > charactei 1 \ so man' l 0 t only \vl me:: \vi tout e hi of t sc ools attain arge succe.^ . ut lso why >o that have been regular] fed t : S ai ; of 1 lowle ge in the schools have pre o be on ourc of clisaj >ointment and sorrow. 'I re is another m •--•'; of a good preliminary trainin t m not be passed over in silence. I mean what ma >e calk I ;e ele:r. nt of intellectual enterprise or enthusias i. Success d e p e n d s not so much on what we have learned is st£ of our education as upon the tastes and |en ^ we have acquin i. T h e student who feels that at .ie end of his disc plinary work he has nothing more to do i any of the studies he has pursued, is never likely to reach the highest attainments, or the highest successes. W e grow b; our en .usiasms. It is not necessary that the} be many n number, but the}- must be genuine and they must be persistent. Foi m a t e indeed is the student who acquires an en usiastic fondness for the literature of some particular tud and all its cognate attendants. It will lead him into the pleasant paths of higher knowledge, and make him content with nothing short of the very best. It will give him the issed companionship of the good and great of all time who have contributed to the knowledge with which he is in love. It will enliven the dull hours of life, or rather it will drive hem quite away. In the end, it will give him the halo that awaits the head of the genuine scholar, and will lead him to know what Emerson meant when, in his old age, referring to his college days, he said: ' ' N e i t h e r years nor books have yet a iled to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me that a !;ir is the favorite of heaven and earth, the excellency of his country, the happiest of men."
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