Friday flashback

Andrew Wylie 1829-1851	Alfred Ryors 1852-53	William Daily 1853-1859	John Lathrop 1859-1860	Cyrus Nutt 1860-1875
Lemuel Moss 1875-1884	David Starr Jordan 1885-1891	John M. Coulter 1891-1893	Joseph Swain 1893-1902	William Lowe Bryan 1902-1937

As a committee continues its search for the perfect presidential match for Indiana University—a quest that is expected to end with the announcement of IU’s 17th president late next month—Home Pages invites you to take a look at IU’s earlier leaders, beginning with Andrew Wylie in 1829. The last image in this presidential composite is of William Lowe Bryan, who served 35 years, the longest term in office of any of the 16 IU presidents. He oversaw the transformation of IU from a small, traditional liberal arts college into a modern research university. His most notable accomplishment was the expansion of graduate and professional training. During his administration, schools of medicine, education, nursing, business, music and dentistry were established. In 1888, Bryan had founded what is now the oldest continuing psychology laboratory in the country, during the presidency of David Starr Jordan, IU’s president in 1885-91, and a professor to Bryan during his undergraduate years.