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DR. BRYANSPEAKS AT MEMORIAL TODAYBloomington school children took part in the formal opening of theMonroe County Memorial campaign for Indiana university this afternoon.Addressing an audience of hundreds of school children, townspeople, students and faculty members of Indiana university assembled at the old college campus this afternoon for the centennial celebration of the beginning of work on the first biuiding atIndiana university, April 17, 1S22,Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the university, recounted thegrowth of the state’s educational system and pictured a glorious futurefor if during the next 100 years. Prof. G . 10. Kamsey, superintendent of schools, presided over the meeting,“1 wish that this great crowd could see the little crowd that stood on this spot a hundred years ago today,” said Dr. Bryan. “Indians back woods-, nen. children, wondering what it was all about, A few knew what it meant to begin a university in the wilderness.“One little boy in Flat Creek thought Hint God had forgotten Flat 'reek. But God did not forget Flat Creek or Bloomington when he led men of 1822 to found a school where boys of the backwoods could have a chance to make the most of themselves.“'The people of ’822 could not dream I the greatness which a hundred years would bring to the school which they founded. They did the best in their day. We must do our best in our day. And a greater city and a greater .iniversity far beyond our dreams will meet on April 17, 2022, to celebrate what the Bloomington of 1822 and the Bloomington of 1922 have done.
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Bloomington Evening World
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 17, 1922
Page 4
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Indiana U.
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