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A presidential legacy
In the beginning… |
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| Wylie |
“Of what advantage is a College
to the community? To this question it is reasonably
expected that, on an occasion like the present, a plain
and satisfactory answer should be given. Institutions
of this kind depend for their prosperity upon public
favor, which, without the prospect of reciprocal advantage,
cannot be expected the public should bestow.”
Andrew Wylie
—excerpt from inaugural address delivered in Bloomington
Oct. 29, 1829 |
“…in
that measure our people have come to believe in education.
… This campus is an Acropolis. And the people know
that they have here a defense that is stronger than a
battleship.…
Let me say this again: what the people need and demand
is that their children shall have a chance—as good
a chance as any other children in the world—to make
the most of themselves, to rise in any and every occupation,
including those occupations which require the most thorough
training. What the people want is open paths from every
corner of the State through the schools to the highest
and best things which men can achieve. To make such paths,
to make them open to the poorest and make them lead to
the highest, is the mission of democracy.”
William Lowe Bryan
—excerpt from inaugural address delivered Jan. 21,
1903
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Photo courtesy of IU Archives
On Oct. 23, 1915, William Lowe
Bryan and his wife, Charlotte, were among a group
of administrators, deans, faculty and students who
felled more than 200 apple trees in order to clear
the way for the new men’s gymnasium. The actual
groundbreaking (ploughing) for the facility came
later, on Dec. 7, 1915. In 2003, the now former
men’s gymnasium is the oldest building in the
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Photo courtesy of IU Archives
100 years…
Former presidents David Starr Jordan (left) and Joseph
Swain returned to the Bloomington campus for the university’s
100th birthday celebration in 1920. Jordan, who left
the university in 1891 to be the first president of
Stanford University, was a scientist. Swain, a mathematician,
was IU's president from 1893 to 1902, when he resigned
to head Swarthmore College. |
Photo courtesy of IU
Archives
150 years…
Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb (seated) signs a proclamation
in honor of the university’s sesquicentennial.
To his left are alumni secretary Claude Rich and IU
President Joseph Sutton (center). |
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The University cannot discharge any of its obligations
to society unless it is first and foremost an institution
dedicated to scholarship and scholarly objectives: a
place where students learn the slow and arduous processes
of mental discipline by which knowledge is acquired
and wisdom won; a place where the frontiers of new truth
are pushed back by the research explorer and old truth
is subjected to critical analysis until it assumes new
significance; a place where reason is exalted over emotion
and force. Unless the University is such a place, it
cannot develop in each succeeding generation of students
that ‘toughmindedness’ which is essential
for effective living in a complex society. Unless it
is such a place, it cannot continue to be a reservoir
of truth, old and new, upon which youth and adults can
draw in charting the course of society.”
Herman B Wells
—excerpt from inaugural address delivered Dec.
1, 1938 |
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Photo courtesy of IU Archives
1969…
Former president Herman B Wells
walks with students near Wylie Hall.
“The faculty and students are the most effective
public relations representatives of a university.
When they believe in their institution, they will
tell the world of their enthusiasm.” —Herman
B Wells |
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1969—Former president Herman B Wells walks with
students near Wylie Hall.
“The faculty and students are the most effective public
relations representatives
of a university. When they believe in their institution, they
will tell the world of their enthusiasm.”
—Herman B Wells
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