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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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U \ l \ SUN Dl II »l devott I to material thin we can l( \ ^i the i : and] a t be sub . :|0), n ot the more advan In Tl :H p ol ImprOA I ;i ultUl 1 to reveal elf a oc is the first uits c the vii in rth ha\ m r 1. No oil, hov • i . ran fo gi th at so i As v 1 i 1 ct b; k to honor our ^ itts r an i wi ut I ceiving corre;po ig ch sits, E\ i t 1 of ov. ube tnt rairies b< fins I inl aa that its | e Is led with. The real Scie ice of A iculture had i origin in the lemo ration of Liebig that b r n of the ro r ingredients, a soil, how; r much is 1 of it. in; ' become increasin ly productive, for an inde nite | 1. (":: : the inspiration of this great truth, th ei e crop j r acre has been greatly increase I during the \ st fifl ar , in all the countries of western E u r o p e . In the United Si \. e been languidly contenting ourselve with th beliel th our soiis were inexhaustible, and w have hardly yet wakt o the portentous fact that e v e n ten years the i us s that the average crop per acre is 1 ss than it v ten \ rs before. W e must be deaf as adders if w o not s oi la r the trumpet call of agriculture for all that scien s can brin This need, moreover, is gr« itly emphasi I In the marvc ous improvements that have recently bet i mad i transpoi tation. T h e Bessemer steel rail and the telegraph hav brought the farmers on the frontiers e\ rvwhere into all th marts of civilization. T h e competition in agriculture is get ting to be like the competition in the gr< manufactui n centers of the world. Before it stands the Genius f Succ< beckoning it on with the warning assurance that lar-o reward are for those, and for those only, who are p 0 > with d een and comprehensive intelligence. On tin nthei \ \, i ot his banc r seems to be inscribed the 1 loratiau phra
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