Excerpt from The Dedication of Rand Hall: May 23, 1912 Before the occupation of rand hall by the departments of Sibley College, for which it is intended, we have thought it desirable to have an informal opening. All formality has been avoided and invita tions have been sent only to the immediate friends and members of our University community. We regret very much that, on account of absence in Europe, our invitation could not have been accepted by Mr. Hiram W. Sibley, who has followed his father, the late Hiram Sibley, in making generous gifts to Sibley College. The audience, as I have said, is made up of our own immediate circle - undergraduates and professors, with a sprinkling of alumni and old students. Among the latter is a gentleman, now a Trustee of the University, whom we have selected to make a short address in commemoration of the occasion. He bears a name which through out the civilized world is associated with mechanical and electrical science and inventions. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Mr. Henry Herman Westinghouse, who will now address you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.