Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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David A. Rothrock Dean S. E. Stout Dean College of Arts and Sciences 1820 The College of Arts and Sciences, around which the professional schools of Indiana university have been constructed, takes its origin from the State seminary, which was established early in 1820. In 1828 this seminary was transformed into Indiana college, and ten years later into Indiana university. At this time the College of Arts and Sciences was known as the College of Liberal Arts, under which name it continued until 1921, when it was given its present title. The departmental organization under which it now operates was introduced into the College in 1887. Since that time the number of departments has increased steadily and considerably until at the present there are twenty-six separate departments. The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences numbers 182 members at the present. — R. A. C. [22]

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The Schools ' It is all a matter of college course. — Don Herold.

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Bernard Gavit Dean School of Law 1838 In 1838 a statute was passed in this state which transformed the then existing Indiana college into Indiana university. This statute provided that one of the purposes of the state university should be to educate students in the science of law. The Indiana University Law school, however, was not opened formally until 1842. The Indiana University School of Law prospered for thirty years. Several times between 1870 and 1877 the Law graduates equaled or outnumbered the graduates of the College of Liberal Arts. In 1877, because of the legislature cutting down the salaries of the instructors to such an extent that competent instructors were unobtainable, the Law school was forced to close its doors. This suspension, which lasted over the short period of twelve years, is the only intermission in the continuous operation of the school from the time it was founded to the present. — R. A. C. [23]