Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY-WHAT IT WAS AND IS. The intensive growth is indicated by the following chronicle: Year. Attendance. Graduates. 1884 - 144 ------ 21 1885 - 156 - - 26 1886 - 202 - - 20 1888 -' 263 - - 22 1888 - 275 - - 89 1889 - 800 - - 41 1890 - 321 - - 17 1891 - 394 - - 75 1892 - 497 - - 70 1893 - - - 68 1894 - 638 - - 76 1895 - 771 - - 85 1896 - 879 - - 96 1897 - 941-1 - - - 112 1898 - 1010 ------ - Kirkwood Hall and the new Gymnasium are indicative of the structural growth produced by Dr. Swain's effbrts, and it may be said in passing that he is not yet through with this kind of improvement. lVe may anticipate in our mind's eye the Auditorium, or Main University .building standing on the eminence south of Maxwell and west of Kirkwood Halls as a monument to the educational system of Indiana. IfVe find Indiana University to-day as it is. It is ours. IVhat it has become is the work of our fathers. Let honor and rever- ence be theirs. What it may become is for us to decide. Then- Let all who love this grand old State Join in this merry gleeg To praise the name we love so well, Our State University. Joseph Swain, President of Indiana University, was born in Pendleton, Indiana, June 16, 1857. He was of New Bedford Quaker parentage which endowed him with a sturdiness and strength of character as well as of body. As a young boy on the farm he was very ambitious and early determined to have a good thorough education. He prepared himself for college at a small academy in Indiana and at the age of twenty-two he entered Indiana University. During his four years of student life his thorough work and happy, genial disposition won for him the close friendship of both the instructors and students. Among the former was David Starr Jordan then occupying the chair of Mathematics. After graduation Mr. Swain was retained as a tutor in Mathematics. Two years later, 1885, he was made associate professor of mathematics and given leave of absence for one year. In September of the same year he was married to Miss Fanny Morgan, also of Pendleton. He left immedi- ately, accompanied by Mrs. Swain, for Europe where he entered the University of Edinburgh. By rare good luck and Hoosier persistence, he gained entrance to the Royal Observatory. He thereby became associated with Prof. Prazza Smythe, Royal Astronomer, and of Prof. Chrystal, the Mathematician. Re- turning home he held the position as associate professor for three years, and in 1890 became head of the Mathematics De- partment. IVhen Dr. Jordan as President of Leland Stanford University chose the Professor of Mathematics for the new institution he called upon Dr. Swain. In 1893, however, Dr. Swain was called back to Indiana where he accepted the Presi- dency of his Alma Mater. Under the able and efficient rule of President Swain, the University has steadily grown until in the year 1898, only half a decade after his return, the enrollment has reached 1,0-10 students.

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PRESIDENT JOSEPH SWAIN

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