Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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to meet its full share of 1950 I A AA Teaclieis— 60 19 DO Students-1,016 Subjects— Liberal Arts, Law Liberal Arts and Law. Excellent; but not enough. The Uni ersit - must press on the problems of cisilized men. Teachers-Total of Staffs 1,625 Students Resident- L5,37S Non-Resident-8.922 Total-24,300 Subjects: Schools: Liberal Arts, Education, Graduate, Law, Medicine, Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Military, Adult Education. Extension, Public Services. And now our Indiana has its mission - to learn all that the ancient East can teach and then confidently dare in every vocation new entures of which the East dared not to dream. We should never boast of numbers. We should consider what they mean and what they prophesy. Dentistrv, Business. Music, yyA CK {,,i I 21

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.TafeV«feVvv ' f ' .««t; Ak i The future has a tendency to make Hars of us all. The forecasts made seriously in 1900 as to the coming half century were not extreme; in fact they were too modest. To contemporaries many of them seemed fantastic. In retrospect, thev are the ultimate in conser atism. Those who saw one thousand students at Indiana University and forecast that one da ' perhaps there might be two thousand were only ten per cent optimistic. Administration officers, fifty years ago, went on record that Indiana would ne er need more than the forty acres of campus then owned. In a children ' s magazine a youngster won a contest with his dream of transportation as it would be in 1950. His scribbled idea included a balloon powered b ' a steam engine. His son has flown faster than the speed of sound. The material progress of these fifty years has been because men have thought. Curiosity has found answers in the unknown or the unrecognized. And that will continue. When some other editors publish an . rbntus in 2000 — if printing is still a means of communication — they will recount the progress of another fifty years. What that progress will be depends on what you and I do with the days that are ours. 20

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Dean of Students Ravniond L. Shoemaker Dean of Faculty Herman Thompson Briscoe