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[[File:Caltech aerial 1922.png|thumb|Aerial view of Caltech in 1922]] | [[File:Caltech aerial 1922.png|thumb|Aerial view of Caltech in 1922]] | ||
In 1910, Throop moved to its current site. Arthur Fleming donated the land for the permanent campus site. | In 1910, Throop moved to its current site. Arthur Fleming donated the land for the permanent campus site. Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address at Throop Institute on March 21, 1911, and he declared: | ||
<blockquote>I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the [[Panama Canal]] and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country—and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.<ref name="Hundredth1">{{Cite web |title=Guide to the California Institute of Technology Historical Files, 1891- |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt396nc6mp/admin/#:~:text=When%2C%20on%20March%2021%2C%201911,those%20men%20do%20the%20kind |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="Caltech Catalog">{{cite web |url = http://catalog.caltech.edu/pdf/catalog_10_11.pdf |title=Caltech Catalog |publisher=Caltech |access-date=May 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110409051312/http://catalog.caltech.edu/pdf/catalog_10_11.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the [[Panama Canal]] and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country—and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.<ref name="Hundredth1">{{Cite web |title=Guide to the California Institute of Technology Historical Files, 1891- |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt396nc6mp/admin/#:~:text=When%2C%20on%20March%2021%2C%201911,those%20men%20do%20the%20kind |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="Caltech Catalog">{{cite web |url = http://catalog.caltech.edu/pdf/catalog_10_11.pdf |title=Caltech Catalog |publisher=Caltech |access-date=May 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110409051312/http://catalog.caltech.edu/pdf/catalog_10_11.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref></blockquote> | ||