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TOWN AND GOWNEn r^ :PresidentdressestcUIVPtiBPnIVIbei15atiIIbPooBloomington and Indiana University united in celebration yesterday afternoon of the 100th anniversaryof the beginning of construction work on the first building at the University. The exercises were held in the auditorium of the high school building, due to inclement weather, instead pf on the site of the old col--lege building, as had been planned.After the regular exercises in the auditorium, at which Dr. William L. Bryan, president of the University, was the principal .speaker, a tablet iyas placed in the center of the plot on which the building formerly stood.A picture was made of the crowd, and of Dr. Bryan and others gathered around the tablet. This photograph will be hemetically sealed and preserved among the University valuables, not to be opened until April 17, 2022, at the close of the second hundred years of the University’s , progress.Prof. E. E. Ramsey, superintendent of- schools, presided over the meeting, while Dr. Bryan spoke on ! s the significance of the University \ both to the children of 1822 and to i the.; r rf Prof. L. C. M't’aul- j cey led the audience in singing “America” and “Gloriana Franjipana.” During the exercises high school pupils gave a series of yells for Bloomington and Indiana University and members of the high school basket-, ball team were awarded their sweat-i:t*lIt4CFFIA\
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Bloomington Evening World
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 18, 1922
Page 4
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