. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. e with a time-table, telhng me just where I begin to roar, and just whereto come in; . . but this time I am playing the lion run loose, broken from the cage, andhave no keeper whatever. There is something charming about being perfectly at yourease and allowed to say anything that you please. Now, I wish to say this to you: Mytrifling gift to Stevens Institute was not a thing of chance, not a whim. No, it
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. e with a time-table, telhng me just where I begin to roar, and just whereto come in; . . but this time I am playing the lion run loose, broken from the cage, andhave no keeper whatever. There is something charming about being perfectly at yourease and allowed to say anything that you please. Now, I wish to say this to you: Mytrifling gift to Stevens Institute was not a thing of chance, not a whim. No, it was con-scientiously bestowed. It was given because of my experience with what Stevens was do-ing, because in my time I have been engaged in manufacturing. . When the Iron and Steel Institute was over here (I was chairman of the com-mittee) I invited a party of the leaders each night to dine with us. One night, the firstof all, when the principal men were there, my health was drunk—as they do in England,drink the health of everyone, and you have to get up to say something. Its a splendidhabit. I tell you the banquet that consists simply of material things and without speaking,. Andrew Carnegie DEDICATION OF THE CARNEGIE LABORATORY 57 without brightness, well, that is a feed. It is not a banquet at all. One of them rose andsaid: Mr. Carnegie, we have been all over your country and have seen everything;the doors were opened to everybody. It is not the good machinery that we have seen herethat surprises us most and which we require most; it is not even the magnificent assort-ment of ore with which you are blessed. It is something more important than both these,— the class of yoimg men that you get in this cotmtry: we know of no corresponding classin England. That man put his finger upon the preeminent cause of our superiority. Therefore when your President told me about the need of a mechanical labora-tory. I thought I owed the Alumni of Stevens a great deal more than that la
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