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CELEBRATED MONDAY* v2850 SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL EXERCISES AT OLD COLLEGEThe 100th anniversary of the be-1 Quarterly, Mr. Cravens writes cop-rinning of construction work on cerning the old building its follows:Indiana Unversity’s first building will be celebrated on the site of the“Although the law authorizing ; the construction of the setniiiary (uitld-:ld campus at 3:30 o’clock Monday ] ing was passed in 1820, Work did not afternoon by 2,850 Bloomington begin until April, 1822. The structureschool children and teachers and was not completed until the spring ofhundreds of university students, 1824. John Robinson had the lt;on-faculty members and townspeople, tract to furnish brick at $4.75 perProf. E. E. Ramsey, superintendent jf schools, will preside over the big )pen air convocation, and President William L Bryan, of the university, will deliver the principal address. 3upt. Ramsey said today that songs )y the school children might beivranged for the program.Work on the old seminary building, ;he cradle of higher education in [ndiana, was started April 17, 1822, y John A, Wright, who was assisted y his son, Joseph A. Wright, later governor of Indiana and United Rates senator. Another son, George V- Wright, became United^ States ;enator from Iowa. The site of the ld building is approximately 150 :eet southwest of the present Juniordgh school building, where the corner*Stone . has recently been located. A datform will be erected at this spot iround which the exercises will ‘enter.Teachers will march at the head c* heir grades from McCalla, Central, Fftirview, • Banneker and McDoel ichools, to the old college campus, vhere they will be joined by the Junior and Senior high school pupils ind teachers. The entire staff of 95 eachers in the city schools will be in ittend^nce, according to Prof. E. E. Ramsey: 26 from the Senior high tehool, 26 from the Junior high school md the remainder from-the first five rrade. A large attendance is expected from the university. JUnti].rrecantj!excayatioas were made wder the direction of John W.thousand. John Wright had thecontract to lay the brick at $4.25 per thousand. He also did the stone work.William Snodgrass had the contract*to furnish and put on extra size shingles at $4 per thousand. The other ’carpenter work was done by Edward Borland, John Borland, Samuel Hardesty and David Kelts. The cost of the buildipg.was $2,400. The plan adopted was similar to that of Nassau hall at Princeton University, New Jersey. The trustees apologized to the legislature for planning a building which would cost so tifuch money. ‘ j r“The building was a,, two-story brick structure,” continues -Mr. Cravens, “with stone foundation landstone cap and sills. It was 60 long, 31 feet wide and faced ttje east. At the center the building was iuj*-mounted by a belfry. There Were three rooms and a ball on eaclj flior.“Of the many structures) which have been erected on the old apd pewcampus of Indiana-^bniversityf’ saysMr. Cravens’ article, “the first opt; known as the old semina fy^biliidit)^ is richest in historicaf associations. What a train of thoughts coAies to one when be stands on the veyy 'sitewhich marks the beginning of’ that, • ^ j , k *•* ^ •institution destined to become dniwW and fact ‘the heUd of lrtdianaY public school system’. Ohe feels ttiatT he should stand -there head. SanSalvador, Plymouth Bpck] apdsivmncance. Each was the important’ravens, of the university, the. exactpcation of the old seminary; building I seminary ; building is »not known..; ^rom conversations j hig-her education intpd correspondence with the * oldest esidents of the city,r Mr., ( Cravens etermined the approximate* location' rW'f the building, and after excavations y, a force of ,men. . .under Charles Idys, assistant superintendent of wildings of the university, the oldoundation, including‘part of the en-rance steps wag unearthed.In an article in the January number f the Indiana University AlumniAt the opening of the |Jd i on May 1, 1824, withnard R. Hall- in char!-• '».•••»' » , . - ■reported for classes, aH.pt ,became. men of pro, respective comniunitie$*;'pilti.^a beginning of Indiaha Bloomington, where f‘. more than twice as m$Q$r the high school as the in the first state unjvK-:S ‘ v• ,- % . i*,. v - _.......
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Bloomington Evening World
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 15, 1922
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