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In 1862, at the instance of Superintendent Hoshour, the county examiners were called together. The principal top- ics of discussion were the examination of teachers and the visitation of schools. This was the beginning of that closer supervision of country schools that has made Indiana favor- ably known throughout the States. The next convention was in 1866, at the suggestion of State Superintendent Hoss. These discussions were somewhat more formal and more comprehensive; the meeting was called for a more definite
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purpose. The weak points of the system were becoming yearly more manifest. The examiners were called in coun- cil. Upon the close of a protracted and very free discussion, resolutions were passed in favor of "establishing a county board of education, of admitting colored children to the benefits of free schools, and of reviving the provision for the levying of a special tuition tax." The accomplishment of all these objects finally was greatly due to the influence of this body.
At the special session of the State Normal School, in 1870, a "State Examiners' Association " was formed, officers were elected, an interesting programme was prepared, and a meet- ing held during the holiday session of the State Teachers' Association. Nothing appears of its further meetings.
Another convention was called by the Hon. Milton B. Hopkins in July, 1873. The new law transforming the old county examiner into a superintendent, the creation of a County Board of Education, and with other changes, had just gone into effect, and the conference with Superintendent Hopkins, his clear exposition of the law, and the exchange of local and personal views, did much to facilitate the confi- dence in and administration of the system. The improve- ment and use of township libraries were considered, school- houses and furniture, text books and tuition taxes, examina- tions, the County Board of Education, county and township institutes, and official reports. Such meetings were con- tinued, and gave new life to the system. Since 1873 the meetings have been annual. They convene at the call of the State Superintendent, usually in June, the programme being arranged by a committee of the convention.
5. The College Association.
A meeting of the college faculties of the State was con- vened upon invitation of Superintendent G. W. Hoss in December, 1867, in conjunction with the State Teachers' Association. A permanent organization was effected under the name of the Indiana Collegiate Association, which lived
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on, in a way, for years, holding annual sessions until 1874, when it became a section of the general association. As a subordinate organization its life was neither more peaceful nor fruitful, and after a few years it ceased to exist. It was immediately reorganized, however, and has held flourishing annual meetings since 1877. The following colleges are represented in its proceedings, each being entitled, in alter- nate years, to one place upon the programme, for which a delegate is sent by appointment of the faculty. These insti- tutions are Indiana University, Hanover College, Wabash College, De Pauw University, Butler University, Rose Poly- technic Institute, Purdue University, the State Normal School, Franklin College, Earlham College, Moore's Hill College, and Vincennes University.
6. The Indiana Academy of Science.
Among other organizations of this class that may fairly be called educational or professional for educators is the Indiana Academy of Science, dating from 1885, and holding semi-annual meetings. Any scientist of the State, or teach- ers of, or others interested in science, are eligible to mem- bership. Its members number about thirty, and include representatives from not only the colleges, but high schools and academies throughout the State.
7. The State Mathematical Association.
Two years since (1889) was organized a State Mathemati- cal Association, whose primary purpose was said to be to consider not only the nature and problems of mathematics, but its character and value as an instrument of culture, and the methods and conditions of its teaching. Its membership. is composed chiefly of professors of mathematics in the col- leges, instructors in the subject in the better secondary and preparatory schools, and all such as are interested in the philosophy and pedagogy of the subject. Such meetings as have been held, kept up through the years, will do much to reform the teaching and study of mathematics of every grade
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in schools of whatever rank. Every teacher is concerned in its permanent success.
8. County Teachers' Associations.
Unlike the County Institute, and somewhat different from the earlier local bodies, are the recent county associations. The sessions are shorter than those of the County Institute, and subject to local management. The organization is vol -. untary, and the exercises and discussions are chiefly carried on by the teachers themselves rather than for them. The meetings usually occur during one of the term vacations, as at Thanksgiving, the winter holidays, or in the spring. In some counties they are semi-annual. One evening lecture, generally by an invited speaker, and two days of conference upon practical school questions, make up the average pro- gramme. Being voluntary organizations, statistics of them are not to be had. It is estimated, however, that they are common to two thirds of the counties of the State, with an annual average attendance of not less than ten thousand teachers.
CONCLUSION.
THIS volume has been prepared with the conviction that teachers may fairly be held responsible for knowing the system in which they work. Its early adversity and com- parative failure, but conjoined with an unwavering faith of our fathers in the wholesomeness of liberal learning, pre- sent suggestive lessons in the economics of public educa- tion. The subesquent achievement and abundant produc- tiveness and efficiency of the system are inspiring and full of promise.
The Indiana teacher has no ground for shame in the presence of the progress made within a generation, in the scool-room, among teachers, in the public standards of mo-
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rality and virtue, of industry and patriotism, incident to the services of the public shool. The growth in civilization and refinement here, as elsewhere, has been slow enough and meager enough, but the place of the State is an honor- able one among American Commonwealths, and may right- ly be taken as the occasion of congratulation.
Words of criticism have been freely used where in the judgment of the author they seemed warranted; but it must not thereby be inferred that there has been wanting any appreciation of the sound and wholesome growth in schools and the sustaining public sentiment, or respect-aye, and reverence-for the self-denying fathers and homes and early institutions that, amid forests and wild beasts and poverty, and other impediments of a pioneer life, planned and car- ried to execution so efficient a system. History can not adequately reveal nor literature exaggerate the noble, un- selfish service, the heroic philanthropy and large-hearted patriotism of these frontier settlers who exchanged comforts for schools, and shared necessities to secure to us luxuries.
That the backless bench, and the few and poor books, and the wandering teachers and short terms, and appalling ignorance, have practically disappeared is due, we can afford to remember, more to them than to us who remain. In honoring them we honor ourselves.
INDEX.
Act of 1824, 24 ; 1843, 97; 1848, 101; 1849, 111; 1867, 234. Agricultural Land Grant, 233. Anticipation of school revenues, 219. Apportionment of school revenue, 333.
Article VIII of the second Constitu- tion, 129, 139, 196, 215.
Article IX of the first Constitution, 10, 170.
Article XIII of the second Consti- tution, 238.
Asbury University, 34, 414.
Associations, educational, 437 ; gen- eral, 438 ; teachers', 440 ; sectional, 443; college, 445; mathematical, 446 ; county, 447. Attempts at school systems, 19. Attendance at school, 41.
Bank charter, 34. Bank Tax Fund, 139, 167, 186.
Banta, D. D., quoted, 26, 64, 207, 309, 355. Barnard, Henry, 97, 367. Beard, John, 190. Beecher, Henry Ward, 96. Beech Grove Seminary, 66. Bell, W. A., 352. Bigger, Governor, quoted, 39, 40. Blackford, Hon. Isaac, 96.
Blind, institutions for, 228 ; educa- tion of. 374. Blue River Academy, 230.
Board of School Book Commission- ers, 268. Brookville College, 230. Bryan, President E. A., 354. Bryant, J. R. M., quoted, 91, 143; mentioned, 135.
Brute, Bishop of Vincennes, 71.
Building funds, 152. Building tax, 157, 330.
Bureau of Education, recommended, 137.
Burgdorf, mentioned, 80.
Burnside, A. E., 66.
Business schools, beginning of, in Indiana, 226. Buskirk, Attorney-General, 206. Butler, Ovid, mentioned, 96. Butler University, 421.
Cambridge City Seminary, 62, 66. Campaign of 1849, educational, 122. Campbell, J. S., 54, 55. Carlisle School, 62.
Catholic schools and colleges, 408.
Census, school, 165, 316.
Centralized control, 37. Certificating of teachers, 321.
City school corporations, 157, 159, 161, 272, 276, 297.
City schools vs. rural schools, 299. Civil War and State schools, 220. Chase, Chief Justice, quoted, 5. Churchman, W. H., 65, 85, 228.
Church schools, 62. Church seminaries, 224.
Clark, George Rodgers, 7.
Clark and Scott Counties, 1843, 42. Classics in the seminary, 50.
County Board of Education, 250, 268; State board, 265. Coburn, John, 96, 190. Codification of the school laws, 261. Co-education, 82, 86. County institutes, 395.
Colburn's Mental Arithmetic, 311. Cole, Prof. E. P., quoted, 50; men- tioned, 52, 82, 84. College Association, 445.
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Colleges, denominational, 406.
Colleges, early prejudice against, 79, 136.
Colleges, early Western, 54 ; denomi- national, 406; in the Northwest, 363 ; multiplication of, 427. Commissioned high schools, 306.
Committee on Education in the Sen- ate, 1825, 28.
Common School Fund, history of, 164 ; table of, 211 ; in Indiana, 167. Common school, the, 272, 277, 299 ; statistics of, 314; course of, 301, 323.
Community school, 80. Concordia College, 418.
Congressional grant for agriculture, 368.
Congressional township, fund of, 31, 41, 97, 139, 150, 167, 168, 177 ; growth of, 180; consolidation of, 212; land, 171, 175, 214; sale of, 172 ; table of, 175 ; revenue from, 26, 333.
Conscience money, 46.
Consolidation of school funds, 212. Constitution, education in the first, 10, 14, 42.
Constitution, proposed amendment of, 232.
Constitutional Convention of 1850, 129 ; need of, 132.
Contingent funds, 168, 201.
Convention of 1850, 129; chairman of, 135; educational committee, 135.
Convention, educational, 102; of county superintendents, 444; of county examiners, 233, 245; In- diana territorial, 170.
Conventions, State common-school, 96.
Corporations, school, 272. Corporation taxes, 139, 202, 204.
County Superintendent, duties of, 247 ; qualifications of, 248 ; repre- sentatives on the State board, 265. County superintendency, 240, 246. Cost of schools, 321.
County Seminary Fund, 167, 183, 186 ; report of, 43, 139, 158 ; sale of, 185 ; seminaries, 43, 57.
Course of study for common schools, 284, 301; for high schools, 305 ; for universities, 362. Cutter, Dr., 170, 190.
Daily, Wm. M., 388. Deaf-mutes, education of, 373.
Delegates to Constitutional Conven- tion, 129.
Delinquent Tax Fund, 167, 196.
" Delta," quoted, 133.
Denominational schools, 35, 63, 428, 406 ; colleges, 410 ; opposition to, 411.
Denominationalism, 62, 407.
Departments in the University, 364 ; of Pedagogics, 385.
De Pauw, W. C., 54.
De Pauw Female College, 229.
De Pauw University, 414; Normal School, 391.
Didactics, Prof. of, 383.
Distribution of school revenues, 150.
Districts, number of, 278, 293, 296. District system, objection to, 148.
Dumont, Mrs. Julia, 22.
Dunn, Williamson, 59, 64, 75, 78, 94.
Earlham College, 419. Education a function of the Church, 62.
Educational Committee in Constitu- tional Convention of 1850, 135.
Education, Bureau of, 137.
Education and State Institutions, ad- dress on, 140.
Education societies, 63 ; convention, 102, 184.
Enabling act of 1816, 8, 9, 29, 170. Endowed institutions, 430.
Endowment of University, 361.
English in the University, 363.
English, W. H .. mentioned, 138.
Enumeration, school, 32, 35, 41, 316. Escheats, 139, 202.
Estray sales, 202, 203.
Equalization of revenue, 334. Examination of teachers, 25, 32, 37, 241, 321 ; uniformity in, 322.
Exemption moneys, 42, 46. Expenditures for education, 321. Experiment stations, 371.
Farmers' academies, 226, 229. Federal deposit, 34, 187, 194. Federal grants to education, 168. Feeble-minded, school for, 379. Fellenberg schools, 74.
Fines and forfeitures, 43, 47, 139, 202, 207; table of, 210; remission of, 208.
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Fletcher, State Superintendent, quot- ed, 208, 260.
Fourteenth Amendment to Federal Constitution, 239.
Franklin College, 417.
Free schools, 22, 24, 48, 97, 72, 100, 102, 252; idea of, 235 ; objections to, 87, 108, 122, 135 ; in 1850, 133, 164; vote on, 1848, 110; taxations for, 104, 122.
French [settlers in Indiana Terri- tory, 2, 7.
Friends' schools, 35, 76, 69, 419.
Funds, school, 97, 139 ; separation of, 150; productive, 168.
Gaming losses recovered, 46, 47. Girls, education of, 69, 82, 228; re- formatory for, 376, 284, 286.
Graded course, a, 281, 284; opposi- tion to, 286.
Graded schools recommended, 142; attempts at, 281; township, 282, 291.
Graduation from rural schools, 289. Griggs, Miss Susan, 225, 230.
Hall, Baynard R., quoted, 25, 354. Hannah, Hon. Bayless W., 209. Hanover College, 34, 67, 410.
Harrison, William Henry, men- tioned, 15; message of 1810, 20. Harris, Dr. W. T., 384.
Hartsville College, 423.
Haughton, William, 52, 65, 66.
Higher education in Indiana, refer- ence to, 19.
High schools, organization of, 302- 303; relations to university, 304; commissions of, 306 ; objections to, 308.
Hinsdale, B. A., reference to, 14.
History, a common school subject, 233; in the university, 363.
Hobbs, B. C., 54, 55, 65, 76, 77, 203, 239, 260. Hodgin, C. W., 392. Hofwyl institution, the, 74. Holcombe, J. W., 287. Hoosier schoolmaster, 104.
Hopkins, M. B., 203, 208, 226, 246, 260. Hoshour, S. K., 53, 65, 245. Hoss, G. W., 52, 85, 218, 234, 239, 260, 298, 383.
House of Refuge, 375.
Houses, rural school, 295. Hunter, D. E., 383.
Illiteracy of the State, 39, 87 ; table of, 88; by counties, 89, 100.
Incorporated seminaries, 59; table of, 60 ; classes of, 61.
Incorporated towns, 275.
Independent normal schools, 434.
Indiana, a province of Virginia, 1; a Territory, 6, 8.
Indiana Academy of Science, 446. Indiana College, 31, 41, 83.
Indiana Seminary, 48.
Indiana Teachers' Seminary,, 59, 75, 79. Indiana University, 90 ; history of, 353 ; organization of, 355; women in, 231; and high schools, 304; funds of, 357, 360; lands of, 29, 358 ; income of, 361.
Indian school, White's, 226.
Institutes, county, 293 ; outlines of, 396; township, 399.
Institute Instructors' Association, 399.
Insurance business, tax on, 204.
Internal improvement system, 35, 39.
Investment of school funds, 216.
Jasper College, 426. Joint graded schools, 291. Jones, Wm. A., 289.
Kinney, Judge A., 98, 103, 191, 197. Knight, G. W., quoted, 3, 180, 198.
La Follette, H. M., 261. Local taxes, 152, 357 ; for tuition, 155; re-enactment of, 1867, 233, 234. Lancasterian Academy, 71.
Land grants for education in the Northwest Territory, 3, 170.
La Porte Female University, 228. La Porte University, 70, 228. Larrabee, Mrs. W. C., 83, 260.
Law of 1837, 259 ; 1847-'48, 101 ; 1849, 87, 112, 152; defects of, 120; 1852, 143, 154, 252; revision of, 156 ; mis- cellaneous provisions of, 163 ; 1873, 240, 284.
Law School in La Porte, 70. Legal branches, 301, 323. Legislation, 1865, 232. Legislature, 1847-'48,101.
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Lesueur, 75. Liber College, 72.
Libraries, 336; county, 337; city, 346 ; school district, 163, 338 ; town- ship, 339 ; university, 336.
Licensing of teachers, 321; by the State, 322.
Liquor licenses, 330.
Livonia Academy, 68.
Local control of schools, 38, 271.
Local legislation, 42, 111.
Lottery for Vincennes University, 18. Lyell, Sir Charles, 336. Lyons, Mary, 229.
Maclure, Wm., 75, 80; founding of libraries, 350.
McCulloch, Hon. Hugh, 191.
Mann, Horace, 97.
Manual-labor education, 36, 74, 76. Martin, Rev. W., 68, 230.
Martin's Academy, 62, 65, 68.
Mathematical Association, 445.
May, James G., 34, 52, 82.
Merom College, 231.
Methods of teaching, 81.
Michigan Road Fund, 168, 202, 210.
Military training, 20.
Militia money, 46.
Mills, Prof. Caleb, quoted, 62, 77, 87, 200, 208, 259, 283, 387 ; sketch of, 94 ; second message, 88-91, 90 ; third message, 109; fourth mes- sage, 124 ; fifth message, 131 ; sixth message, 141.
Monroe County Seminary, 83.
Moore's Hill College, 423.
Morill land grant act (1861), 353.
Morrison, John I., 34, 53, 55, 65, 81, 84, 135 ; service in the convention, 138.
Morse's Geography, 312.
Neef, mentioned, 34, 76, 80.
Negroes, education of, 77, 237; in Indiana, 1850, 130, 237.
New Harmony, 75, 80 ; library of, 236.
New Purchase, mentioned, 25. New York academies, 36, 54, 78. New York vote on free schools, 105. " Nigger College," the, 72.
Normal School, State, 233; distrust of, in Indiana, 137; share of State revenue, 333, 382, 386, 300.
Normal schools, mentioned, 36, 80, 142.
North west Territory, 1. Notre Dame University, 424.
Oberlin Collegiate Institute, 75.
Objections to free schools, 104, 108, 122, 135, 136 ; to high schools, 308. " ()ne of the People," 91, 141.
Opinions on Various Subjects, men- tioned, 81.
Ordinance of 1785, 4; of 1787, 3, 4, 13, 43, 168, 170.
Organization of Indiana University courses, 364. Origin of the School Fund, 164.
Orphan's Home, 378.
Owen, Richard, 80; Robert Dale, 80.
Parke, Judge Benjamin, 24, 64.
Parochial schools, 100.
Parr, S. S., 269.
Parsons Seminary, 229.
Pauper schools, 12.
Patch, Rufus, 62, 65, 67.
Pay of teachers, 25, 33, 48, 99.
Pedagogics in the University, 382.
Perkins, Judge, quoted, 157-162, 328. Permanent funds, 97, 139, 168; be-
ginnings of, 197; analysis of, 211 ; management of, 212; investment of, 216.
Perring, Prof. Cornelius, 34, 53, 84. Pestalozzianism in Indiana, 76, 80, 81.
Physiology, a common school sub- ject, 233.
Pickering, Col. Timothy, 4, 168, 190. Plan and Method of Education, Neef's, 81.
Population of Indiana, 7, 8, 23, 27, 35, 39, 132, 165, 172 ; growth of, 316. Private schools, 34, 65, 225; semi- naries, 59; table of, 60, 225; col- leges, 430.
Professional license for teachers, 323. Public schools, 24, 143.
Purdue University, 353, 368.
Ray, Governor, 27, 171. Read, Daniel, 134, 383.
Reading Circle Board, 258; chil- dren's, 381 ; teachers', 397.
Rectangular surveys, 3. Redding, T. B., 56. Reform Legislature, 112.
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Reformatory institutions, 374.
Revenues, distribution of, 150 ; equal- ization of, 151 ; school, 324 ; sources of, 326.
Richmond Library, 346; Normal School, 392.
Rivet, M., 22.
Roanoke Seminary, 230.
Rose Polytechnic Institute, 430.
Rugg, State Superintendent, 202, 204, 205.
Rural schools, 248. 277 ; deficiencies of, 278; graduation from, 289; local administration, 295.
St. Gabriel's College, 71.
St. Joseph's College, 427.
St. Joseph County Library, 351.
St. Meinrad's College, 426.
Salaries of teachers, 319 ; early teach- ers, 25; seminary teachers, 48. Salem Female Seminary, 81, 84.
Salt lands, sale of, 31 ; funds, 31, 78, 139, 167, 181.
Schenck vs. Robinson, 235.
Schools of Indiana, reference to, 36. Science, Academy of, 446.
School books, early, 267; selection of, 309.
School census, 41, 165, 316.
School commissioners in cities, 300. School funds, security of, 38, 139 ; amount of, 40; loan of, 43, 139, 144 ; permanent, 165 ; analysis of, 211 ; management of, 212, 253.
School lands, management of, 171; lease of, 173; in Northwest Terri- tory, 180.
School Law, editions of, 259.
School revenue, " farming out of," 34, 40; for 1859, 219; kinds of, 324; management of, 334; table of, 335.
School sections, 4, 9, 21, 26, 29, 41, 171, 215.
School taxes, objections to, 153 ; levy of, 326, 331.
School townships, 145, 146.
Seminaries and academies, 42, re- port of, 47, 55 ; support of, 45 ; aris- tocratic institutions, 47, 74; pat- ronage of, 48; curriculum of, 50, 73; private, 59; table of, 56; re- vival of 1854, 221; table of, 222, 271.
Seminary funds, 44, 47 ; buildings, 46; township, 7, 15; law of 1818, 22, 43, 207.
Sinking Fund, 167, 189.
Sixteenth section lands, 168; table of, 175.
Smart, J. H., 178, 261, 262.
Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 378.
Southern Indiana, education in, 107.
Special school revenue, 325, 331.
Spiceland Academy, 230.
State Bank of Indiana, 187.
State Board of Education, 99, 142, 163, 252, 257, 263 ; duties of, 266, 270 ; present constitution of, 264 ; proposed change in, 265.
State Educational Society, 103. State land for Michigan road, 210.
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State library, 347.
State license for teachers, 322.
State Normal School, 343.
State school systems, 30, 143; in 1824, 26 ; in 1855, 65; recent, 218. State Teachers' Association, 288.
Statistics of common schools, 313.
Stewart, Judge, 215.
Sturgus, Z. B., 54, 55, 65.
Subscription schools, 298.
Superintendent of common schools, 41, 47, 253 ; recommended by Mor- rison, 138, 182.
Superintendent of Public Instruc - tion, 98, 138, 163, 252, 254; reports of, 258 ; apportions revenue, 333.
Superintendents of public instruc- tion, list of, 255; education of, 263.
Superior institutions, 45.
Supervision of schools, 141; begin- nings of, 298.
Supplementary institutions, 372.
Supreme Court decisions, 28, 297 ; in 1853, 157; in 1854, 155, 327, 358 ; in 1855, 161, 162, 235, 331 ; in 1856, 151, 334 ; in 1857, 328 ; con- cerning corporation taxes, 206 ; the consolidation of funds, 214.
Surplus revenue, 34, 41, 139, 169, 198.
Swamp lands in Northwest Terri- tory, 199 ; proceeds of, 167, 193. Systems of text-book supply, 269. System, the present, 252, 271, 272.
Tables ; analysis of common school fund, 211 ; county seminaries, 57;
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congressional township lands and funds, 175; denominational col- leges, 410 ; elementary schools, 315; free school vote, 106 ; fines and' forfeitures, 210 ; graded schools, 293 ; growth of Congres- sional Township Fund, 180; illit- eracy by-States, 88; of Indiana, 89; independent normals, 437 ; permanent funds and school cen- sus, 165; permanent fund, increase of, 215 .; private seminaries, 60 ; school lands in Northwest 'Terri- tory, 180; school revenues, 335 ; seminaries since 1850, 222 ; sources of school funds, 211 ; special school revenue, 332; superintendents of public instruction, 255 ; surplus revenue fund, 195 ; unclaimed fees, 329; unsold lands, 179; vote by counties, 124; vote by sections, : 107 ; liquor-license revenue, 330.
Taxes, local, 31, 33, 35, 37, 40 ; delin- quent, 32 ; State school, 34 ; tuition, 155; in cities, 162, 166.
Tax valuations, 165. Taylor, Edward, 69.
Taylor, Rev. I. N., 72.
Teachers, contract of, 25; qualifica- tions of, 36, 77-91, 241 ; pay of, 48, 91, 319 ; training of, 78, 318, 381.
Teacher, the early Hoosier, 36, 77. Term, length of, 295. Territorial period, 1.
Text-books, 309 ; in seminaries, 51; selection, 251, 266; present law, 300.
Theory and Practice of Teaching, 82. Town school corporations, 157, 275.
Township graded schools, 291 ; prin- cipals, 294.
Township institutes, 399; outlines for, 400.
Township libraries, 339 ; law of 1852, 340; tax for, 341 ; books in, 342.
Township organization, 141, 145, 250; advantages of, 148, 214 ; civil and school, 272.
Treasurer of State as superintendent, 253.
Trustees of seminary funds, 43, 45 ; school, 32, 149 ; election of, 273.
Tucker, Rev. E., 72, 77.
Tuition revenue, 325. .
Tuttle, Dr. J. F., 94.
Unclaimed fees, 329.
Union Christian College, 42.
Union Literary Institute, 72, 77.
University and high school, 304; lands, 29, 858 ; funds, 357, 360 ; endowment, 361 ; income, 361. University of Notre Dame, 424.
Vandalia Railroad, 205. Venable, Mrs. Martha A., 69, 230. Village schools, 294.
Vincennes, 6, 7; early schools, 22; library, 336.
Vincennes Sun, quoted, 22.
Vincennes University, 15, 19, 20, 71 ; decision of Supreme Court con- cerning, 19, 358.
Virginia and Indiana Territory, 2, 169.
Vote on free schools, 1848, 105; 1849, 124.
Wabash College, 34, 75, 78, 94, 412. ! Wallace, Gen. Lew, 53.
Washington County Seminary, 80, 86.
Webster, Daniel, quoted, 5, 194.
Western Female University, 229.
White's Manual Labor Institute, 226.
Wolcottville Seminary, 225.
Women as teachers, 142, 318.
Women's prison, 377. Woodburn, Prof. J. A., 19.
Workingmen's Library, 336.
Wylie, Dr. Andrew, 355.
Young People's Reading Circle, 381. Yverdun, mentioned, 80.
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