Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 79]

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just blast. 1 the greater villainy of Tammany Hall. Kven the perfervid denunciations of Dr. Parkhuist w > , (jen ,dent upon the stentorian voice of the press to uiaK themselves

h( ird t h r o u g h o u t the s t a t e . " T h e ocean.' cried Weiulell