To the north of the gymnasium room, and separated from it by the stairway and hall, is the lounging-room, 28 feet wide by 82 feet long. This room is finished with a paneled oak wainscoting and beamed ceiling, with a large fireplace at one end. To the south of the gymnasium room and separated from it by the stairway and hall, are the general offices. Above the stairway and hall at each end is a balcony overlooking the gymnasium. In cases of basketball games, etc., bleacher seats are arranged around the gymnasium, seating approximately 3,000 people. The swimming pool and main locker room are underneath the gymnasium on the first floor. The swimming pool room is 52 feet by 114 feet, with a pool 30 feet by 90 feet, and seats for approximately 200 spectators. This room and the pool are lined with tile. Separating the pool room from the main locker room is the shower-bath room containing twenty-two showers. The main locker room has ample capacity for 1,000 lockers, and has direct connection with the gymnasium above. Every effort possible has been made to make the lockers and locker rooms sanitary. Sterilizing apparatus and drying apparatus have been provided for the clothing. The Varsity and Freshmen team rooms are at either end of the building, with separate entrances to the athletic field and with separate steam, shower, and toilet rooms. The Faculty locker room, on this floor, also has its separate toilets and shower rooms. The building is fireproof. The heating, ventilating and lighting are of the best, and the building is furnished and equipped complete according to the latest and best standards. The Library Building, which was completed in 1908 at a total cost, including equipment, of $140,000, now has 115,000 volumes. The main reading room is 56 feet by 94 feet and has a seating capacity of two hundred and four. The total book capacity of the stack room is in excess of 250,000. The Indiana University Biological Station is located at Winona Lake Indiana. The Winona Assembly has erected for the Station two buildings, each 20 by 45 feet and two stories high. Indiana University is a member of the following associations: Association of American Universities; National Association of State Universties; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; American Bar Association; North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; Association of American Medical Colleges; Association of Collegiate Alumnae; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi. In Athletics Indiana University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Big Ten. The University has twelve Greek letter fraternities, established as follows: Beta Theta Pi, 1845; Phi Delta Theta, 1849; Sigma Chi, 1855; Phi Kappa Psi, 1869; Phi Gamma Delta, 1871; Delta Tau Delta, 1887; Sigma Nu, 1892; Kappa Sigma, 1900; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1907; Alpha Tau Omega, 1915; Delta Upsilon, 1915; Lambda Chi Alpha, 1917. There are seven Greek letter sororities, established as follows: Kappa Alpha Theta, 1870; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1872; Pi Beta Phi, 1893; Delta Gamma, 1898; Delta Zeta, 1909; Alpha Omicron Pi, 1916; Delta Delta Delta, 1917. The growth of the University in recent years has been remarkable. This is due to the fact that more and more it is succeeding in fulfilling its 38-11741 mission as a real university. It is trying in every way to meet the wants of the people. It meets the emergencies as they arise. A concrete example of this is shown in its war activities. It was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer its services to the State and to the Nation. Under the leaderhip of President Bryan, the faculty and students have made an enviable record in furnishing men and resources to the government in this great international crisis. The funds of the University, in its earlier days, were derived almost wholly from the proceeds of the Seminary lands, from gifts, and from fees paid by students. In 1867, by an act approved March 8, the General Assembly provided for the increase of these funds by an annual appropriation. "Whereas", the act reads, "the endowment fund of the State University, located at Bloomington, Monroe County, is no longer sufficient to meet the growing wants of education and make said University efficient and useful. and, Whereas, it should be the pride of every citizen of Indiana to place the State University in the highest condition of usefulness, and make it the crowning glory of our present great common school system, where education shall be free", therefore eight thousand dollars annually were appropriated out of the State Treasury to the use of the University. This amount was found to be insufficient, and from time to time the amount of the annual appropriation was increased. In 1883, by an act approved March 8, provision was made for a permanent endowment fund to be raised by the levy for thirteen years of a tax of "one-half of one cent on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in this State," to be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of Indiana University. In 1895 an act was passed (approved March 8) levying an annual tax of "one-sixth of one mill on every dollar of taxable property in Indiana", the proceeds to be divided among the Indiana University, Purdue University and the Indiana State Normal School, in lieu of any further annual appropriation for maintenance. Of this amount the Indiana University received one-third, or a levy of one-fifteenth of a mill on the taxable property of the State. By an act approved March 5, 1903, this law was amended, and Indiana University received one-tenth of a mill on every dollar of taxable property of the State, and on the recommendation of Governor Samuel M. Ralston the Legislature of 1913 increased this amount to two and four-fifths cents on every one hundred dollars. As a result Indiana University is now upon the threshold of a greater growth and a wider field of usefulness than ever before. The Board of Trustees of the Indiana University is required to report biennally to the Governor of the State, and to the Superintendent of Public Instruction whenever by him required, on all matters relating to the University. The whole administration of the University is likewise open to the inspection of a Board of Visitors, composed of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Judges of the Supreme Court, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and all accounts of the University are regularly audited by the Auditor of State. The President of the University, also, is ex-officio a member of the State Board of Education, a body which has general supervision of public education within the State. Indiana University is pre-eminently the institution of the people. It is the concrete example of the democracy described by President William Lowe Bryan in his inaugural address, when he said: "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 man can achieve. To make such paths, to make them open to the poorest and lead to the highest, is the mission of democracy." The rapid increase in the attendance is the best evidence that the University is fulfilling its mission. Worth and not wealth is the test applied in the classroom and in society. Last year almost three thousand of the sons and daughter of Indiana alone were in attendance. For the last five years every county in the State has been represented annually. The course of study keeps abreast of the demands of the times. Every honorable calling is ably represented by the graduates of the institution. In fact, as well as in law, Indiana University is "the crowning glory of our present great common school system." WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, Ph.D., LL.D., STANLEY COULTER, Ph.D., LL.D., Secretary of the Faculty. Dean of the School of Science. JOHN HARRISON SKINNER, B.S., GEORGE IRVING CHRISTIE, B.S.A., Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. EDWARD HATTON DAVIS, S.B., EDWARD AGUSTUS ELLSWORTH, HARRY EARL McIVOR, B.S.E.E., *Term expired June 30, 1917. Appointed February 28, 1917. ORGANIZATION 1: The Departments of Instruction Departments of English, Mathematics, Modern Languages, History. Economics, Education, Military Science and Physical Education. (a) The School of Civil Engineering. (b) The School of Mechanical Engineering. (e) The School of Electrical Engineering. (d) (e) The School of Agriculture. (f) The School of Science. (g) The School of Pharmacy. 2. The Agricultural Experiment Station- Botany. Dairy Husbandry. Entomology. Horticulture. Soils and Crops. Veterinary Science. State Chemist. Extension. 3. The Department of Agricultural Extension--- Botany. Boys' and Girls' Clubs. County Agents. Dairy Husbandry. Entomology. Farmers' Institutes. Food Production and Conservation. Home Economics. Horticulture. Seed Laboratory. Short Courses and Exhibits. Soils and Crops. Veterinary Science. 4. The Engineering Experiment Station- Purdue University is charged under the law with a great variety of functions, some of which have little or no connection with education. Its original and main purpose of course is to administer collegiate departments "when the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific or classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as one related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." This work it is doing with fidelity to its relation to the State and to the educational world. But in the course of its development other duties have been assigned by federal and state statutes, as follows: |