Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY cost aggi ' i- are fifteen 1 the best tli oi the city are scon ,- lplll ' ; COMMENCEMENT this year will be the Diamond Jubilee of Wl Imli.ina University. The institution was established January 20, 1820 ami oprned to students in May, 1824, but the first graduating exercises were not held until 1S30. This class consisted of four members. Seventy-five years have wrought wonders. In the early days there was one building, one professor and ten students. The salary of this one professor was two hundred and fifty dollars per year. Only two subjects were taught — (ireekand Latin. In those days the Professor ' s House ' at the southwest c irner of the old campus was the social center of the new educational institution. It was made of biick and cost eight hundred and ninety-one dollars. W ' luit a ciintiast between then and now! Today the fifty-acre campus is i-((:()gni c.l as ihr most beautiful in all the country. Ten buildings, whose st hall ,1 inilliim dollars, furnish recitation rooms and library facilities. There tliirty-ii lit students. There are seventy-one members of the faculty representing t -t vi lit till ' leading colleges and universities of the world. In the choicest parts modern homes owned by members of the faculty and others who came to Blooming- ton on account of the educational facilities. On the recortls of the L ' niversity are the names of twenty-eight icreasing in a ratio that is at once wonderful and pleasing. peiied. the enrollment was only one hundred and forty- Iheie has been only one year since that time that did The- iiiiinber of graduates alone this year will exceed the 1)1 this r(.-in irkalile giowth. who is there among us so bold ull ]if lieie when the uiembeis of the class of IQOS return liundred and ten alumni. The attendance is i In 1SS4, sixt) ' years aftei- the institution was 1 four. I ' ' roin that tlate, there has been a new li not show an increase ii -er the preceding one. entire attendance of twi-nty yi-ais ago. In iei as to venture a prii|)he( ' ol the mimbers that for their silver jubilee.

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BOARD OF MANAGERS ■harlrs A, Alb,

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The road ahmo- which thi- riiiv.-rslty li.is trav.-ll.-d is niarl..-J with nuiiu-n)ns niil.-stcncs. -yiu- hrst one is January jo, iSjo, thr cLite nt ihi- act authnri iiiL; the- cstalilishniciit nl tlic State Seminary. This day is (jhsc-rvcd as l ' ' oiindation day. In iSjSan act was passed chanL;inL; the .Seminary into the Indiana College, and in i S S the name was changed to Indiana University. In iS42 the School of Law was estab- lished. In 1S54 the first College building was destroyed by tire and in the following year the structure known as the Old College building — now used by the Hloomington High -School — was erected. Prior to 1S67, there was no regular appropriation by the state for the support of the I iii iisity. In March of that year there was an annual appropriation of eight thousand dollars provided r. liat .1 contrast between the policy of the state then and now. In 1S67, largely through the earnest work of Hon. Isaac Jcukinsoii, now the honored presidciu of the Board of Trustees, huliana Uni ' ersity was made co-educational, the third i(hi(ational institution in tin- country to throw open its doors to women on the same terms as to the men. Simr thai time the atten- dance of men and women has been relatively constant at a ratio of two to one. In 1874, the old -Science Hall was erected and Covernor Thomas . . I liiidiii ks ni,idc the speech -it the laying of the cornerstone. This building w.is dcstoycd by fin- in iSS;, and tln-n lollowcd thi- agitation which ended in the selection of Dunn ' s vo(5(U , IS ihr ni-w t-unpus. W hi-n thr ( )M ,Sc:iinii- IklH burned there were dark days for Intliana L ' ni -ersit} . It w.is noi (crt-iin th-it the state would soon make -ijipidpri- ations for new buildings. The one remaining building was insutticient to meet the needs of e en the sm.ill number of students in school that year. The campus w.is too small and was too near the railroad. Itw.is at this critical time that Monroe county came loyall) tu the support of the I ' iii crsity. b ' or legal re.isons the count)- could not at that time make a direct donation to tin- I iiixersity and to a oid this eompiic.ition the county commissioners voted Fifty Thousand Dollars ' Mor iinpi-o -emeiUs. To some, improxenients ' ' meant new bridges antl roads. To others, it meant a new court house. The bonds were sold and the friends ot the I ' nixcrsity saw that the amoimt was applied in behalf of the institution whieh is iccogni ed in law and in fact as the head of Indiana ' s great common si hool system. With this money and with the sums rei ei ed h-oni insur-im e, ()weii,md lii- halls were erected on the new campus. While the Monroe county louit house may a]i|iear as a relic of the past it must be remenibi-nd lh.it .iller .ill, ils historvis insen,n il)l connei t( d with ther.uise ol hi:dier eih nation in this stale.