Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Jforefcdorb Co celebrate our 3nbiana sJ pirtftbap, nb gibe a picture of tfje pasit pear; recorb of tfje Clagg of Jgineteen tETluentp, 3 ebieb3 in part tfje manp tbingg tftat ijappeneb 3n clubsi anb organi ationg anb atfjleticsi; 1 0 bring back memorie£i of tbe bapei in college Co tbose itibo call b r noto tbeir iilma jHater, nb keep tbe present bapg foreber libing; Cbesie are our aimsi, tbesie tbe inspiration Co get about tbe tassk.

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The Old Doorw; The STORY of INDIANA UNIVERSITY ON a certain day in July, 1820, (histon- does not record anything more de- finite), Charles Dewey, David H. Alaxwell, John M. Jenkins, Jonathan Nichols and William Lowe, authorized by the General Assembly of the same year to select an eligible and convenient site for a seminary , met at Bloom- ington and chose the place of founding the State Seminary. In their report to the next legislature they said: The site chosen is about one quarter of a mile due west from Bloomington, on a beautiful eminence and convenient to an ex- cellent spring of water, the only one on the section that could with convenience answer the purposes of a seminar} . The native beeches, maples, oaks and poplars, still growing close around, the thickness of the July foliage and thickets of green, made the trustees over- look the highlands to the east and west — the contrasting upland and lowland which greet the e}-e of the Bloomington visitor and Universit} ' student today. True, the excellent spring of water , the trustees naively said, was the only one that could with convenience answer the purpose of a seminary, — as if the art of digging wells was not yet known ; wrote the late Judge David D. Banta, writer of the earh histoiv of Indiana Universitv.