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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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8 i\ KI i r\ ii i I N O I : pendou! tnd ma nifi< , [ railwa) station! at Frankfi i on ind Mono s i n H t m in \ ( > w the Main, or u p o n the m o d e m St< York 01 Chi . without feelin that, after all, that appn, priate archib tural beaut} which captivab u ul the aimmation and i »wn ot a Ion pi i diffi ill tnd on tlicated adjustments i [tending from the lootim to th< finials, Hen it is that .n hitecture and engiiK ring ;n inseparable, A shoddj father oner ^.wA to a uni> 1 ity pi ident( ncerning h ; son, who had b muni < unate in hi Kaminations, "Why, if m) >n, as you s has no capacit I will buy him on An architect must either ha\ the pacit) of an engineer or ho must buy one. These ever growing nec< sities in literatui , in \ And in tin irts, impose upon ever) appreciative \ ople verj [ari obli it ions. When, in 1S71, the victorious Germans came ba< from Paris laden with gold, the) dedicate in immense sum to the er< ction and equipment of a temple of education at Berlin, and within ten years thi thousand stud us had come together for advanced studies in the p ytechni< its. Upon the new territor) of Alsace Lorraine the) planted th University of Strassbui tnd after giving it magnificent shell r and equipping its various departments with affluent nerosity, they collected within ten years a library of 4' > < , volumes. The little republic oi Swit rland, with no cit I 7 5 , 0 0 0 i n h a b i t a n t s , a n d w i t h l< t h a n 3,< .0 all told, but evei iwake to a sense of the ate 1 good, ei ted a lew us i, for the Polytechnic hool o\ urich, a chemi d laboratory at a < t of 2,225,000 fran< tnd enjoyed the privileges aft rded b\ the new budding so much that they strai litwav followed it with a pin cal laboratory at a c t of thr< ind a quarter millions, In the United State < we build magnificent temples of learning to the three U but the ne itit oi equipment for the hi her edu tti n re only just be inning to be felt, Bui i new era is dawniin upon u oid though the light is not yet far advanced, a is
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