Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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S ' fli yllitinm ylssociatiou % The Alumni association of Indiana university ex- tends congratulations to the Class of 1928, and wel- comes them into the Alumni association. Indiana uni- versity has given its all to ou. Our splendid faculty- has contributed four years of its life to your develop- ment. The tax payers of the State of Indiana have coi:- tributed thousands of dollars for your benefit. Up to this time you have contributed nothing. You have been the recipient of their generosity. But this sacrifice of time, effort, and money has been for one great purpose. President Coolidge aptly expressed the situation when he told the graduating class of Amherst, Greatly have ou been taught — greatly must ou lead. The function of the Alumni association is to pro- President of .Huw,,-. Association vide a medium whereby the loyal sons and daughters of Indiana university can repay in a small way the debt the - owe her by uniting together in a correlati -e effort to fight her battles and assure posterity an even greater Indiana. This obligation cannot be lightly tossed aside — each and every one of us owe it. Indiana university needs your hel-p now. Remarkable strides have been made in the past few years, but we owe it to Indiana university to help make her the leading institution of her kind in the Middle West. The goal is not so •ery far away — with your help it can he done. — Allex G. Messick. m The Alumni office at Indiana university is main- tained for its alumni. Its purpose is to stimulate and promote education; to create for the alumni of Indiana uni ' ersity a cultural background, and to stimulate in the public mind a higher regard for the professions. The office is operated to maintain a contact between the University and its alumni for mutual benefit. The office hopes to be of greater ser- ' ice in the future than it has been in the past. We believe that education should not stop when a person leaves college and that he should be given an opportunity by the Uni -ersity to prolong his cultural contact with it. — George F. Heighw.ay. George F. Heighzcay Alumni Secretary l A,i

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Bursar and Registrar The bursar ' s office is the financial clearing house for all schools and departments of the University. The organization is set up under four general classifications: purchasing, accounting, fees and disbursements, and activities. Under the first head is included also work orders covering repairs, replacements, and general up- keep. Auditing is included in all the four divisions. Purchases for all Bloomington departments are made here. For the Indianapolis center purchases are made by officials accountable to the administration through the office of the bursar, who is member ex- officio of the finance committees of the center. The bursar ' s office is held responsible for the prepa- ration and preservation of all financial reports. These financial statistics form the bases for estimates and budgets, and are the measure of growth in financial resources and financial needs. Through this office direct contact is made with the auditor of state, and the state board of accounts. Here money is collected, disbursed, and balances accounted for. Student activities are assisted and audited here. A special activities manager is a mem- ber of the office force. Working with him is a student auditing committee made up of three students appointed by the bursar. — U. H. Smith. U. H. Smith m It would be a pleasure and an easy matter to write a column concerning some other department, or a vol- ume about the Uni ' ersit ' , but to write about one ' s own office is an embarrassing task. Since I have been re- quested by the editor of the Arbutus to write some- thing I will say two things: First, personally I have seen Indiana university grow from an institution of 144 to 5,742, and officially I have seen the attendance increase from 771 to 5,742. When I first knew the University the president was also the registrar, bursar, and dean as well as holder of minor positions. As the institution grew there was of necessity divisions of duty. The registrar ' s office in any college or university is, in a sense, a barometer as to the institution ' s size and growth. My hope is that Indiana university may have at an early date an admin- istration building adequate for all its needs. Second, my thirty-two years as registrar have been years of genuine pleasure, and this fact is largely due to the uniform courtesy and hearty co-operation shown by the officials, faculty, and stu- dents of the University. Another important factor is the loyal and effective services of faithful assistants throughout all these years. — Johx W. Cravens. John If. Crat ' ens Reghlrar

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UM ' - J h m Piiblidty and Publications Why all this publicity.- Is it getting us anywhere? I ' or answer, go back to the university of three cen- turies ago. They burned educators at the stake in those days. Old Bruno suffered this fate for supporting the Copernican theory of the universe. Galileo, inventor of the timepiece, telescope, thermometer, compass, and microscope, had to publish his scientific findings anon- mously and finally was tried as a heretic and forced to recant to save his own life. He couldn ' t hold a uni- versity job because he differed with Aristotelian theories 2,(IOO ' years old. It ' s been several -ears now since they ' ve burned a professor at the stake but not many since they made one stand trial for educational heresy in Tennessee. Elsewhere in these United States the educators are pretty free to go as far as they like without fear of personal violence. Indeed, people spend tax money on ' research workers. Just look at the thousands of teachers, the hundreds of thousands of students, the millions of dollars for the schools! After all, now, our university in a very important sense is just a big publicity insti- tution, for teaching men and women better ways of living. It isn ' t enough simply to develop ideas within the college walls. That was the failure of education in Gahleo ' s day. He made discoveries as astounding as any of today, but they meant scarcely any- ' ' ' ' —- -- ■ -.derstood h the Frank R. Elliot Puhluils Din-clor thing to the people of his dav because those discoveries were not understood h people. ' —Frank R. Elliot. muc it isi ofHcc Ivy L. Chamiiess Direa,,T of Publication The publications office sometimes seems to be a ch misunderstood place. It isn ' t the publicity office; The Daily Student office; nor is it the alumni It is the office where official publications are compiled, edited, and sometimes written. It is also the office where an issue of the Alumni Quarterly is pro- duced each three months. The official publications include +6 regular issues each year, varying in size from a 4-page news-letter to the catalog of the University. The regular publi- cations are the Indiana University Bulletin, the Bulle- tin of the extension division, and the News-Letter, each issued 12 times a year; the Studies, which appear quarterly, and the Bulletin of the School of Education, each alternate month. The printing of almost all of these is done under state contract by an Indianapolis firm. Much time and correspondence would be sa ed if this printing could be done on the campus, but this is a dream of the perhaps far-distant future. — Ivv L. Chamxess. ■4 r„ L .A. -V