Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 80]

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Philli] * ilv r ,U jf pub'. to b e k ti t 1, a( a tin L;I W of public n\ i is the pul pj The power < the prt , lib til p wer carri with it com id v 01 iliti« If it 1 Is our mind with th< sign: it fat of every da I thou in us what w are t think ut tin . how iiim surable is the aec ity that I e pr< s 1 enl htened i id high minded! We are told that the managing of a journal is a busin ss, a trade. Let it be s ; but the • of a journal ought at least to deserve to be r ik( i as a learned profession. This vocation will more 1 m re chaw into it a large share of the best thinker- uul writers from our colleges and universities. And no institution of learning can properly perform all its duties unless it provide S for instruction that will engender the alertnes of mind, the thoroughness of method, the comprehensiveness of vision, the minute accuracy of knowledge, and the wide acquaintance with the historical development of institutions which are indispensable to the largest and highest editorial success. I come, I fear, at too late a moment for adequate presentation, to the third of the great branches of the subject I have undertaken to bring before you. Having presented what I consider to be the nature of the discipline all university students should acquire, whatever their purpose in life, and having described in outline the necessity of generous studies in those professions and vocations which have to do especially with men, 1 now come to that other group of studies which has to do primarily with material things. If, as President Eliot said in his inaugural address twenty-five years ago, the domain of a university is " a l l knowledge, and that of the best," the true university is a technical school, as well as a school of the humanities. In a region which has to deal with new or undeveloped conditions, the activities of thought must ever be largely