Dedication Ceremony Held For Downtown Campus
1909 October 28
The dedication ceremony is held for the Downtown Campus with speakers Governor Charles Evans Hughs, Commissioner of Education Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper, and Regents Vice-Chancellor St. Clair McKelway. Draper, in his address, said the school would be “a pedagogical college. It is to give a liberal training to men and women who will be teachers. It is not intended that it shall grow into a state university.” The goal of the school would be to “teach, study and investigate and try to add to the sum of pedagogical knowledge and experience.” This was the first definition of a research role for the school.
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French, p. 148; The Echo, Volume 18, Number 2, 1909 November, p. 63-64