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5T.8i or by DS. wYorksalne* »IT»at,• # Urefl.DNHr. Ow|« Ootman flpaoka Concerning Intellectual Work of th* ' Surly HooeiarlankSIKESiSONmanU* to SIGeorge S. Cotman, editor of the IntfW ana Quarterly Magazine of History spoke in chapel this morning on The Early Hoosier and his Intellectual Beginning.” In part he said:A great many things have been said about our ancestors in Indiana which must be of vital interest to us now. The name Hoosier is not thought of very highly in the outside world It was imported from the south, where it is still used as a name typifying an unkempt, uncouth person, or as a term of reproach and ridicule. But in Indiana the Hoosier is looked upon with respect; be was a man of personal liberty, and great energy. He was the representative of the wild western type of men who did things.” He endured hardships of all kinds. As we look back upon them now we cannot understand how they survived them.“If a man in the early Hoosier days happened to have an inspiration for learning, he had to shift for himself. Every thing that he happened to pick up in the way of knowledge had to be obtained by himself. It was au uphill fight in thosedays tu net au cuuuUiuu.If* « • xui aiidtuljrof Lincoln is a good example of this.“This may have been a good thing in one way\ as it made the pioneer Hookers men who were nobody's slaves. Tbey were hardy, rough men of the woods, who were ready to fight against woods, who were ready to fight against any odds at any time.Most of our Indiana forefathers who afterwards became men of note were selfmade men. Tbey had no one to look to for help. If they went through college, tbey did it by their own means. But very few of them went through college, most of them receiving a very poor educatioa“If we examine into the literature of the state or into all the intellectual work of the Hoosiers, we will find that all came out of that hardy rough element of Indiana Hoosierdom of which we are not able to conveive now.”BoaTrack Meet Ie Wonby First Year Men.(Continued from page one.) val, ’08, ran a game race against the Sophomore captain, Thompson, and finished well in the lead, giving the race to the ’08 men. Time, 3:45.The final event gave the meet to the Freshmen by the decisive score of 47 to23.Yale is soon to exert a powerful influence in the far East. A branch college is now being established in Changsha, province of Hunan, China. It will not be a missionary organization, but a regular college, with especial emphasison science and medicine. There will be a tuition fee and as fax as possible, the college will be self-supporting. It will not be begun on a large scale, but is expected to grow sod so assume a position 116 fl of great Internationa] prominence.
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Bloomington Daily Student
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1905
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