Before it was called Caltech it was Throop Polytechnic Institute, and 1911 Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech there where he said: > I want to see institutions like

Before it was called Caltech it was Throop Polytechnic Institute, and 1911 Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech there where he said: > 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. Within 10 years Throop decided that others could deal with turning out those 99 out of 100 students for industrial work, and it would concentrate on Roosevelt's one-hundredth man.