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as in the world of practice. We now take a fresh start with fair 

 complexion, on a larger scale than even the most sanguine have 

 anticipated ; but depreciation must not be ignored. A manufac- 

 turing plant keeping pace with the times is duplicated every ten 

 yeais or an expense equal to duplication is expended for mainten- 

 ance. The requirements of an engineering department parallel 

 with the times must fully equal those of the manufactory, and it is 

 the hope of every Alumnus that the good work of this department 

 and its graduates shall be so manifest that those who provide for 

 its welfare shall fully realize its needs in constantly maintaining 

 the important work it has to accomplish. 



Reviewing the past, and contemplating the present, realizing 

 what was given us and what now stands open to those who can ob- 

 tain for the asking, our gratitude goes out to Hiram Sibley in such a 

 way that to formulate it in words is to weaken it, and it is only in the 

 work we accomplish that the full expression of our thanks can be 

 made. Mechanical Engineering has not been an educated profes- 

 sion, and this fact makes wide the field for those who at this time 

 enter upon it with the preparation which is the basis of efficient 

 work. On this account the energy expended in thus training 

 young men to-day and the money spent to successfully equip and 

 carry on such a department draws compound interest and will 

 continue so to do for generations. 



The Sibley College of Mechanic Arts is a pioneer in the work, 

 and I can only present to-day the handful of young men whose 

 best work is yet to be done ; but when time has passed and long 

 after this portrait we now unveil has been decorated with the 

 wreathes of many anniversaries, a greater wreath of works, not 

 leaves, and as broad as the land shall be woven about it and the 

 weavers will ever proudly bear honor to him whose name is insep- 

 arably linked to the foundation of their success. 



ADDRESS OF EX-GOVERNOR ALONZO B. CORNELL. 



Mr. President : 



Never before has my inability to address an audience been the 

 cause of so much regret as upon this occasion when it would. af- 

 ford me so much pleasure to make an adequate expression of my 

 appreciation of him whom you have to-day met to honor. My rela- 



