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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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I II 3 1 whose ^ t; N t t t n > 1 In in i will I u e vast mi !. fo beyond th order all r In j ven I ms Irai tlutar he fii i rune vv >co\ I tl t !l : l ti r pi] we know tha J > I pri I suppo t is still ^ 1 v IOI ent lly and alum :itiy supplied wi whoh ome w than n m icity. The elaboi tn De A i th \ 3r supply of Rome I one o; t of hydrauli ers, S< tus Julius 1 is oi of the remart nonuments of Roman atin • Th in rin works of Franc of Germany. and of Gr< trita ive us most SUJ stive lessons how to combin ments of utility with the elements of beauty. A hitectuu is engineering adorned. The sense of beaut is as fundament 1 in human nature as the sense of utility. Who dat is look 1 upon the Cathedral at Rheims. or the new t Ulm, or the Court of Honor at Chi tg has failed to be lifted up into an emotion of admiration ai I enthusiasm that is reserved for those lofty mo nit its when we eonten the gr itest objects of Nature and Art? Siireh arc is not only one of the finest of the fin irts. but it is also the most elaborate and the most difficult. Unlike music, and s< ulptui md \ inting, whei the object of the artist is att 1 if the tnses are duly gratified, architecture must al i; If strictly to the requirements of utility Ti f Viol le-Duc, that. " Y o u m a y h a v e o r n a m. 1 c miction but ne\ r construct 1 ornament," is th tppy expr< o o\ i requirement that ai hitecture and iri » hand in hand. None can look upon the colli 1 tl ilyin arch( of a m lisei 1 cathedral. 1 agot 1 I the (in i of n.ii or upon that most stu
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