Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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To Indiana To every Senior now comes home the thought, What can we offer as a fair retiirn For all the college gave to us? We yearn To give in gratitude the pay we ought. The things we found were not the things we sought. We eame to gain what seemed of great concern - Degrees and credits — but, instead, we learn Of better things than those for which we wrought. How can we pay our debt? There will be few Who can repay with money, but we trust That gold is least of all the offering due. Our part is to be sober, upright, just, And quit in part the debt to her we owe By lives that honor her where ' er we go. W. O.

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Indiana University MOST of the eighteen hundred students of Indiana University take things for granted. As they walk out Kirkwood Avenue and come within view of the campus, one of the most beautiful in the country, with unmistakable evi- dences on every hand of growth and prosperity, they have little notion of the many years of discouragements and reverses that retarded the advance of Indiana ' s chief ed- ucational institution. And yet, in spite of all obstacles. Indiana University has had a most remarkable growth. It may be said that the history of the State of Indiana is in many respects the his- tory of the University of Indiana; the progress of the former has been no more rapid and remarkable than that of the latter. In 1820, just after Indiana, with a meager pop- ulation of 65,000 inhabitants, was admitted as a State, the General Assembly passed an act establishing a State Seminary, at Bloomington, Monroe County. Eight years later, the Legislature changed the name Seminary to Indiana College for the purpose of providing the youth of the State instruction in the American, learned and foreign lan- guages, the useful arts, sciences and literature. In 1838, by legislative act, Indiana College became Indiana University with full authority to grant additional degrees in law and medicine. However, June 17, IS52. may properly be called the birthday of the University, for it was on this day that an act was passed recognizing the University as the Univer- sity of the State. And just fifty years later, in 1902, the Supreme Court of the State declared that the Indiana University is an integral part of the free school system; and it was the special creation of the constitution ; and that the University as well as its endowment has always been under the supervision of the State. The enactments by the Legislature and favorable decisions by the Courts were not sufficient to make Indiana LTniversity a university in kind and grade of work done ; that was an internal matter that depended upon the educational leaders of the institu- tion. In 1824, as a Seminary, there was one professor, who taught his ten students Latin and Greek, the subjects that were con- sidered sufficient for the scholar in those pioneer days. When the Seminary became Indiana College, three professors were em- ployed, and the course of study was broadened to include two or three sciences., and a short course in literature. Even after