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INDIANA UNIVERSITY HE life of a University is like the life of a man. Though there are occasional red letter days that stand out prominently, it is the steady, quiet growth and development on which the final stature d(.-|icn.ls. -t ill tilling tlu- story .if the life it is necessary to touch Miily tile higlicr k uN : the l.iiig sc:is..ii . ,f calm day by day growth The liii-tliday of I ii,liaii;i rnivcrMty wa the twentieth of Junuat-y, 1820. I ' ivr iiu-ii u ere that .la appointed 1, tlie (ieneral Assembly of the Slate of Indiana to select in tlie sch.,ol township of I Ionroe county an eligible and convenient site for a . tate Seminary and to erect thereon a suitable building and also a suitable ami commodious house for a professor. As a result of this act of the Asseinbh the new seminary was opened in .Max , 1824. During the next three years the attendance increased so rapidlv that the curriculum was enlarged and in the first month of 1828 the Legislature raised the school to tire dignity of a college. Ten years later the title College was raised to University. I ' or si.xty-nine years now the school has been known as the State L ' niversity of Indiana, the head .if a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall lie without charge, and equally open to all. Until 1867 the funds for the support of the University came almost entirely from the sale of seminary lands, eked out by gifts from friends and fees paid by students. In that year eight thousand dollars were appropriated to place the State University in the highest condition of usefulness and make it the crowning glory of our present great common school system, where education shall be free . As time went on this amount was increased
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to meet the growing needs of the -University. Finall} ' , in 1883, provision was made for a permanent endowment fund to be raised b v the lev.y for thirteen years of tax of one-half cent on each hundred dollars worth of taxaljle prop- erty in the state. At the expiration of this time an act was passed lewmt; an annual tax, the proceeds to be divided among the three state educational institutions. The amount of this tax has been increased until now Indiana University receives the proceeds of an annual tax of one cent on each hundred dollars ' worth of taxable property in the state. For almost half a century from the time of its founding, and full twoscore years after receiving the name it now holds, the University was open only to men. By that time, however, it was old enough to realize the folly of pursuing such a course, and in ISO.S opened its donrs to the daughters as well as the sons of the state. Since then the University has been co-educa- tional in all its departments. In 1883 one of the buildings was destroyed by fire, after which the site of the University was changed to Dunn ' s woods. At that time the out- look was disheartening. Funds were low, and after the new campus was secured there was scarcely anything left. Realizing the critical need of tht University, Monroe County came loyally to the support of the state school, and applied to the building of Owen and Wylie Halls funds which were intended for the erection of a new court house. ith this start the future ni the University was assured. When David Starr Jordan became prcsi k-nt of the University in 1885 he adopted a policy, the carrying out of which put Indiana in the first rank of educational institutions in the country. Through the administrations of Presidents Coulter and Swain the work was carried on with greater and greater success. Since the inauguration of President Bryan in 1902 the cur- riculum has been so altered and enlarged that ever) student may receive colleg iate training that will prepare him to enter any of the professions and many of the arts and crafts. The courses given in the University, says President Bryan, are such as will prepare young men and women for any work that has a place in the complex life of the twentieth century. Educa- tion by the state should be as broad as the life of the people and shouM con- form to that life. During all this time the equipment has been advancing with the changes in curriculum, until now it is as efficient as any in the West, ' ith the completion this spring of the Library there will be on the campus nine
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