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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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VI II n er ! tm n Hi ' ' < V the I when' ; tl r hu utter* tl how ver much ti. of ai pi ll sion may 1 tl ro< n t tin top, It n th in. 1 I to rush ] rely into he I innin of pro onal lii knowi that it is ot h< ; who b( jins the loi fir \ but h who 1 t in tl best condition. it has th b< I cha It iot cont t with the 1 Lre ue< £ prof< onal cholarj iij it would a^ >rn and enrich those nee si with tri! ll \ bl I from every realm of knowle As the wealth of the country increase . the number who can afford the most liberal training will beco ie greater and greater. All knowled e is inclined to take on the historical form. It is impossible to know what is, withoi lowing what has been. Edison, the Modern Mercury of Sci' ice, has built up his lofty structure on foundations laid by Faraday Henry, and H e l m h o l t z : and even Darwin, a Conquerer greater than Alexander the Great, was the historian of Nature, before he would venture to explain N a t u r e ' s laws. T h e great jurists who built that most enduring m o n u m e n t of Napoleon the Napoleonic Code, like the builders of the Justinian Code twelve hundred years before, simply brought tog* her and framed into convenient form the legal learning of former ages So it is in all the fields of knowledge—not only in law, in theology, and in medicine, but in literature, in science, and in art. It is from this group of studies, which I have ranged under the term Philosophy, that the most thorou trained m i in all our professions are to be recruited. T h e s e studies n e in the largest sense preparatory to the lai \ pro work. If the elementary schools were here as judi ly organize I, and as efficiently taught, as in some >untri y are, our students, by reaching the universil | tl young would be able more generally to t k< he whole of the un
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