Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. It is also known as
Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, or simply IU, and is located in Bloomington, Indiana.
Indiana University is among the top 100 universities in the world.
Indiana's state government in Corydon founded Indiana University in 1820 as the "State Seminary."
It was originally located at what is now called Seminary Square Park near the intersection of Second
Street and College Avenue. The 1816 Indiana state constitution required that the General Assembly
(Indiana's state legislature) create a "general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation,
from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all."
It took some time for the legislature to fulfill its promise, partly due to a debate regarding whether
the Indiana Territory's public university—what is now Vincennes University—should be adopted as
the State of Indiana's public university or whether a new public university should be founded in
Bloomington to replace the territorial university..
Contents
FOREWORD William Lowe Bryan. '84 5
PART I
HISTORY OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY David Demaree Banta, 55 9
PART II
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: TODAY AND TOMORROW
Jacob Gould Schurman 117
RESEARCHES ON SPIROCHAETA PALLIDA....
Aldred Scott Warthin, '88 141
THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE STATE
Aldred Scott Warthin, '88 157
GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE WITH THE
MINNESOTA PLAN Elias Potter Lyon 163
THE THOMAS JEFFERSON THEORY OF EDUCATION
Samuel Moffett Ralston 179
THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND BUSINESS Evans Woollen 193
THE STATE UNIVERSITY AT THE OPENING OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY Edward A. Birge 203
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY Paul Shorey 223
THE OBLIGATION OF THE STATE TOWARD SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
James Rowland Angell 243
THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION Roscoe Pound 257
A PRESENT NEED IN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.
Robert Andrews Millikan 273
SPIRITUAL FRONTIERSMEN Francis John McConnell 281
THE SPIRITUAL IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY
Sir Robert Alexander Falconer 293
THE CENTENNIAL COMMENCEMENT. 305