Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Gymnasium Entrance of the Indiana Medical College, 1876, and the discontinuing of the Law School in 1877, after an honorable existence of thirty-five years. For the third time, in 1833, the University again suffered a loss from fire. Science Hall, with practically all its contents — the library of 13,000 volumes, the apparatus of the various departments and the private collections of Dr. David Starr Jordan, was destroyed. With 20,000 insurance money and the liberal donation of 50,000, given by Monroe county, the University was moved from the old site to the south of Bloomington to its present site, then called Dunn ' s Meadow, a beautiful tract of land lying on the east edge of the town . The erection of buildings was begun in 1884 and the corner stone was lain on June 10 of the same year. The following year the buildings on the new campus were ready for occupation — Owen Hall, Wylie Hall, and a frame chapel, called Mitchell Hall. In 1890 was erected the present Maxwell Hall, then used for. the library and the administration offices. The University moved into its new home under the presidenc - of Dr. David Starr Jordan. During his administration the Law School was re-established.

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At the time Indiana University was legislated into being, the annual income of the institution from all sources was less than 5,000, and this was thought by most persons of the State to be an adequate income for the support of either college or university. Shortly after the creation of the University, the Law School was added to the course of instruction, and David McDonald, in December, 1842, read the first law lecture to the students enrolled in that course. The change from college to university was not followed by the revival of for- tunes that was at first expected. The number of students dropped from eighty- nine to fifty-two in the four college classes and twenty-seven in the preparatory classes, and in the year following, 1840, the total number was as low as sixty- four. After this lowest point of depression, growth came slow, but steady. The faculty chairs were filled, the Law School was added, and (by 1846) 198 names of students appeared on the catalog. From this time until Dr. WVlie ' s death in 1 85 1, the enrollment never fell below 163. Following the death of Dr. Vlie, the first president of the L niversity, came the burning of the main L niversit}- building in April, 1854, the loss in number of students at the outbreak of the Civil War, the admission of the first woman, Aliss Sarah Parke Alorrison, as a student in Indiana University at a time when no other state university had adopted a system of co-education, the termination Eighteen

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Along the Row since which time it has made continual progress as one of the schools of the Uni- versit}-. Dr. Jordan resigned the presidency in 1891, but the spirit of instruction in a university by investigation has ever since been followed in the curriculum of Indiana. As the University prospered in number of students, there were added on the campus additional buildings. During the presidency of Dr. Joseph Swain (1893- 1902) Kirkwood Hall, a large heating plant and Science Hall were built and the money for the Student Building was raised. The attendance rose in this period from 638 to 1,285. In 1902, President Swain was elected to the presidency of Swarthmore college, Pennsylvania, and Dr. William Lowe Bryan, now president of the University, succeeded him. The spirit of President Bryan ' s administration, set forth in his inaugural address, of giving to the people of the State wide paths to the highest and best things which men can achieve, to make such paths open to the poorest and lead to the highest, has synchronized the last eighteen years of the University. Twenty