Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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w 27 Frederick R. Henshaw Dean School of Dentistry 1879 The Indiana Dental college was established in 1879 as a private institution by a group of members of the State Dental association in accordance with an agreement with the General Assembly of that year which had passed the first dental law governing the practices of dentistry in Indiana. It was the tenth dental school to be organized in America. On March 9, 1925, the governor of Indiana signed the bill providing that the State of Indiana should take over the Indiana Dental college and make it a part of Indiana university. On June 1 of that year the school was purchased by the state and became the Indiana University School of Dentistry. — R. A. G. [24]

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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]

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Waiis D. Gatch Indianapolis Dean Burton D. Myers Bloiiniington Dean School of Medicine 1903 The Indiana School of Medicine in Indian apoHs was organized in 1907, the result of the merging of the Indiana University School of Medicine, established in Bloomington in 1903, and the State College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1909 an act of the state legislature gave the Indiana University Board of Trustees the right to establish a medical school in Marion County, and to receive gifts and real estate and other property in behalf of the State of Indiana for the maintenance of medical education in that county. Since that time the development of this school has been rapid and highly commendable. The Robert W. Long, the William H. Coleman and the James Whitcomb Riley hospitals, together with the recently added Rotarian Convalescent Home for Children, the Ball Nurses ' Home and the Indiana School of Medicine make up the Indiana University Medical Center. Medical students also have access to the Bobbs and City Free Dispensary, Indianapolis City hospital and Central State hospital. — R. A. G. [25]