Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY-WHAT IT WAS AND IS. is evident. The population of the State mounted up to half a million in 1825, and was still increasing, but the condition of affairs was even worse than before the increase. The survival of the fittest became a necessity and every hand had to be turned to the ax and the pick. Rev. Hall continued as the sole professor in the Seminary for three years. No catalogues of the period were printed and the records of the Board of Trustees were destroyed by iire. This misfortune limits the sources of information. A Legisla- tive Resolution of 1828 called out a report from the President of the Board, Dr. Maxwell, which has been preserved in the House Journal. This report affords the only data concerning the Seminary period. The Professor's salary was continued at 3250, and Latin and Greek were the only subjects offered dur- ing the period. In November, 1827, a Board of Visitors, of which James B. Ray, Governor, and James Scott, a Judge of the Supreme Court were members, visited the institution and examined both the students :and the Professor, a test from which students of to-day would recoil, and on which our pro- fessors would hesitate to risk the dependence of their positions. This Board of Visitors reported to the General Assembly and all concurred that the Indiana Seminary be raised to the dignity ofa College. On January 24, 1828, seven years after the charter for the Seminary had been granted, the act was passed establishing the Indiana College. During all the vicissitudes of the Seminary period, Dr. Max- well was the fostering induence that gave it life and growth. In the words of the late Judge Banta, for nearly forty years, of all men outside the circle of those engaged as teachers, he gave the most of time to its service and to its better purpose. So unremitting was he in his labors in its behalf and to such a good purpose were they directed, that it can better be said of him than of any other: 'He was the Father of Indiana Uni- versity. ' In May, 1828, the Trustees of the College met and selected Andrew Wylie, D. D., for the Presidency of the new College. At the time of his election President IVylie was President of Washington College, Pennsylvania, and he did not assume the duties of his oflice till October, 1829. In the establishment of the College, provision was made for the extension of the courses of instruction and an addition of two teachers was made. Some of the spirit of our English Department was anticipated by this creation and English Gram- mar was introduced intu the course of study. Logic, Rhetoric, Geography, Moral and Natural Philosophy, were made a part of the course at the same time. John H. Harney was elected Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Natural and Me- , mifw

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY-WHAT IT WAS AND IS. chanical Philosophy, and Chemistry. An amusing incident of his journey from Oxford, Ohio, to Bloomington, is related. He made the trip on foot and before arriving at his destination, halted at a creek, bathed, washed his shirt, dried it in the sun, and appeared in Bloomington in clean linen. Baynard R. Hall was continued as Professor of Ancient Languages. In the act creating Indiana College is found the birth of the Preparatory Department. YV. H. Stockwell was appointed Superintendent of this department. Soon after the organiza- tion of the College, another larger and more convenient build- ing was contracted for, but it was not completed until 18365 and that year the seventh commencement exercises were held in the new College building. 1 The College charter extended only through a period oi ten years. When this charter expired, an act was passed February 15,1838, by the General Assembly chartering a University. And from this time dates the growth of Indiana's educational insti- tution as a University. The College published its first catalogue in 1831, giving a list of the students, courses of study offered, and something with regard to the management and discipline. Under the last sub- ject it read, the studies are so conducted that each student gives his individual attention to one principal study until it is completed. Some one has said that this system was no doubt well adapted to minds like the Presidentts who had in phrenolo- gical language a great organ of concentrativeness, but not to the average minds of students nor to the condition of things as they then existed. This plan was changed in 1840. In that year the number oi students was 64, and three years later it had risen to 115. In 1842 the Law School was established as a de- partment of the University with Judge David McDonald as the first Professor. The year 1850 opened auspiciously for the University. At the opening of the year there were 160 students in attendance. But in light of this dawning prosperity the institution suffered the loss of its beloved President who had fostered its interests in that capacity for twenty-two years. Dr. Alfred Ryors, Presi- dent of Ohio University, succeeded Dr. W'ylie, but his adminis- tration was short. He resigned in the summer of 1853. Dr. NVm. M. Dailey, a member of the Board of Trustees, was chosen to succeed Dr. Ryors. The affairs of the University seemed to OLD COLLEGE BUILDING. be prospering and the outlook was good. But misfortune fol- lowed misfortune. The hopes of its friends were buried in the ruins of the new building which was destroyed by fire on the night of April 11, 1854. It seemed a death blow to the Univer- sity. Its small, though valuable, library, its chapel, recitation rooms, and the Philomathean and Athenian Society halls were