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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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i tl SCd |j| || \\ the I •: : O! thanks a mi Jg to lli v. ho g )«;• to M to n Ih tl t urn t tl ,(] loin and lil lily ol tl i the mom ( K\ it it i th g at I m its will c me £r< t hei g i v I is is a fi institut: of tl JO] for t! Peopl T h e poorest hoy. if h is but rious and fru al, may enter here md work his ov i \ through. I sa this a visedly, for I did the like nn r circum< nces far more difficult than those which t here. 1 how many men have done the and have conn out strc gc and better prepared for the duties of life 1 r having done so. T h e >ung men who enter here do so on the plan of absolute lit ith the best of facilities for tting a thorough icat <n and correct habits of thought and action. And 1 kno from actual trial of the graduates of the U n r of Illinois, that they are admirabl prepared to enter the proii sion of cii I engineers, with the best of chances for succe in it. 'J organization of the University is broad, liberal and comprel nsive. Divi< ( h a s it is. into coll .which again I tl ir sub-divisions reaching and covering th< > < d p instructs tnd tr ing 1 calculated to develop experts in s al of work, it giv i to its alumni the opportunity for h to foil N the stroi 1 nt of his own talent and inclination to select the work which is in it: If promisin id m t cong I to his own tast And here, let us remember thai the I ild ol ;in< ring work >w and the knowL r [uir< i to make < us famili r with it . t whole, so varii tnd almost unlimited low c
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