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the treatment of the diseases of women and for general and ab- dominal surgery, was established by Dr. Joseph East- man in 1885. The present model ed- ifice, located at 351 N. Delaware Street, was erect- ed in 1894 at a cost of nearly $50,000.00 and is entirely devoted to the uses of the hospital. It is equipped through- out with every modern conven- ience and all the necessary appli- ances and appar- atus. The hos- pital has accom- modation for the treatment of thir- ty patients, and is THE DR. JOSEPH EASTMAN HOSPITAL. reputed to have one of the finest operating rooms in the country. Dr. Joseph East- man, the founder of the hospital, was recognized as one of the leading American gynecologists. He died June 5, 1902, and the hos- pital has since been managed by Dr. Joseph Rilus Eastman and Dr. Thomas B. Eastman, both of whom are identified with the Indiana Medical College School of Medicine of Purdue University.
GENERAL CULTURE
EDUCATIONAL, ART, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY, MUSICAL AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC.
The streets and highways of Indianapolis had hardly been staked off by the surveyor, when the few people who had gathered here at this embryo capital of the state began to look around and make some arrangements for the education of the children. At that time there was no provision for public, or free schools, and the only means for education were by private or "subscription" schools. The first building devoted to education in the city was erected at the intersection of Kentucky avenue and Washington and Illinois streets. From that lit- tle beginning has developed the great school system of Indianapolis which has made the Indiana capital take high rank in educational mat- ters among the cities of the country. The magnificently endowed school fund of the state of Indiana, and the open-handed liberality of the people of Indianapolis, have united in building up the present great free school system. Just when Indianapolis first began to feel the impetus of the legislation in favor of free schools it received a severe setback by an adverse decision of the supreme court. It was just emerging from the first crude efforts to establish free schools, and was getting on a higher plane when this decision came. Graded schools were being established in different parts of the city, and the "old semi- nary," wherein many of the youth in the early days of the city had been prepared for college, had been changed into a high school under the jurisdiction of the city. Hope was bright, and the young city was buoyant with expectations of the future of the new school system, when the courts decided that the taxation provided for by the legis- lature was illegal, and the schools were compelled to depend for their maintenance on what was received from the general school fund. In consequence of this decision the schools languished for some years, but after awhile a brighter day dawned, and once again the people were permitted to tax themselves to maintain schools for the general educa- tion of their children. From that day the progress has been steady and rapid. The city has been fortunate In its selection of those chosen to have general management and control of this great interest. One idea has been steadily before them, and that was to bring the schools up to the highest grade possible while at the same time furnishing
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ample provision to accommodate all the children. Under the law all persons between the ages of six and twenty-one years are entitled to school privileges. The average daily attendance during the year 1906-7 was 26,317. The school year opens in September and closes in June. The schools are under the management of a board of five school com- missioners, who are elected by the people. The system embraces 62 graded schools and two high schools. The direct management of the schools is under the management of a superintendent and two assistants. Special branches, such as German, drawing, music, penmanship, physi- cal culture and manual training are under the charge of a supervisor. About nine hundred teachers are employed in the elementary and high schools. The school system embraces a course of studies extending over twelve years, or twenty-four half years. In the high schools the course of study covers four years and students graduating are admitted to the leading universities of the country on their certificates.
Other Schools-The efficiency and number of schools which Indi- anapolis possesses in addition to those belonging to the public school system is also a matter of pride and importance. Several schools of music are conducted where pupils are brought by eminent instructors to the highest degree of skill and knowledge to which they are capable.
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SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL-CALEB MILLS HALL.
In the Herron Art Institute painting, sketching, pen-drawing and modeling are taught by capable artists. This school is maintained and controlled by an association of liberal citizens. The schools which are connected with the Catholic churches are popular and attended by many pupils from distant parts of the country, and there are other schools of elocution, of stenography, telegraphy, business colleges and others in great number. For literary culture the people of Indianapolis have the advantage of two large and several small but very valuable libraries.
The Manual Training High School, occupying the block bounded by South Meridian, Garden, Merrill streets and Madison avenue, is one of the largest and most thoroughly equipped institutions of its kind in this country. The history of manual training in Indianapolis schools began with the year 1889, when a course in wood-working and me- chanical drawing was opened at High School No. 1. The numerous applications for admission to this department soon proved the popu- larity of a course of this nature in the high school curriculum, and the school board of 1801 conceived the idea of the establishment of a school in which special attention should be paid to manual training. The city council sanctioned the establishment of such an institution, and levied
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a special tax of five cents per hundred dollars for its erection and maintenance. Consequently ground was purchased in 1892 and the building begun, costing $165,000, in March, 1894. The school was opened February 18, 1895. The curriculum of the school includes a regular high school course and a course in mechanic and domestic arts. The latter consists of wood-working, forging, foundry work, pattern making, machine shop practice and mechanical drawing, for the boys; cooking, sewing, hygiene and home nursing, for the girls. Further, courses in stenography, typewriting and bookkeeping.
The State Library was started soon after Indiana became a state, but for several years it met with but little encouragement from the legislature, and through carelessness and neglect many of its most valu- able books were lost or destroyed. Within the last few years, however, the legislature has been much more liberal in furnishing means for the purchase of new books and caring for the library. The library oc- cupies several elegantly appointed rooms in the state-house, and ample accommodations are provided for those who desire to consult the works contained therein. The library contains 45,000 volumes and a large number of pamphlets.
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Public Library was established in 1873 under the authority of the school commissioners. It occupies a handsome stone building erected for its use by the city. It has connected with it a reading-room for consulting the books, and for the use of those who desire to read the papers and periodicals kept there for that purpose. The reading-room is kept open from 9 a. m. until 10 p. m. on each day of the week. Any citizen is entitled to withdraw books from the library for home reading. The whole is under the control of the board of school commissioners. Branch libraries were established the latter part of 1896 in various parts of the city, each being supplied with about 1,000 volumes, and the news- paper and magazine and reading-room accommodations. Beside these there are seven delivery stations where books are delivered to and re- ceived from the patrons of the library. There are 107,500 volumes and pamphlets in the library. Additions are made monthly by the pur- chase of new books.
Agricultural Library of the state board of agriculture, located in the state-house, contains about 1,200 volumes.
Marion County Library, located in the court-house, was established in 1844, and contains about 5,200 volumes. It is open on Saturdays.
State Law Library, which was separated from the state library in 1867, contains 40,000 volumes. It is located in the state-house.
Indianapolis Bar Association Library, in the Marion county court- house, contains over 8,000 volumes and was established in 1880.
Horticultural Library, of the State Horticultural Society, in the state-house, contains over 500 volumes.
Other Libraries are Bona Thompson Library, Butler University, at Irvington ; the St. Aloysius, St. Cecilia, Y. M. C. A., Law School library and excellent special libraries in the different medical colleges.
Butler College-This institution was incorporated by special act of the legislature in January, 1850. Its charter was obtained under the auspices of the Christian Churches of Indiana, and its name was then "Northwestern Christian University." In 1877, on account of the large gifts of land and money from Ovid Butler, the institution was renamed in his honor; but the charter was otherwise unchanged, and the spirit and scope of the work carried on remained the same. The first location of the college was at College Avenue and Fourteenth Street, but it was changed to the present campus in Irvington-then outside of the city- in 1873.
The college began its work with a subscription of $75,000 to its funds. This amount was increased from time to time by gifts, and still more largely augmented by the sale of the old campus when the removal was made to the present site. Until the present year the income-bearing endowment had for a long time remained stationary at about $200,000; but in March, 1907, a movement for the increase of
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the resources of the institution culminated in the addition of $250,000 to the productive endowment. Not all of this additional fund is avail- able for the current year, but steps have already been taken to expand the work of the college, and by 1908 the new plans will begin to bear fruit in the enlarged usefulness of the institution. The physical equip- ment of the college represents an investment of about $300,000 in addi- tion to the amounts named above. The campus and adjoining property comprise about twenty-five acres, the campus proper being beautifully wooded. There are five substantial buildings, besides the astronomical observatory. The most noteworthy of these is the Bona Thompson Memorial Library building-probably the most beautiful and complete library building in the state.
The college has always been associated with the Christian Church, but there is no organic control by the denomination, and its spirit is wholly unsectarian. It is bound by its charter "to teach and in- culcate the Christian faith and Christian morality as taught in the sacred scriptures," but is under no other religious or sectarian limita- tion. The institutions has maintained from the beginning a liberal attitude toward all classes of students that have come to it. It is said to have been the first college in the world to open its doors to women on exactly equal terms with those offered to men. In educa- tional policy the college has adhered to the theory that it is the func- ยท tion of a college to give a liberal education in the arts and sciences. It has resisted the tendency toward excessive specialization, and con- tinues to stand for general culture. It has nevertheless kept pace with the educational progress of the country, advancing its requirements for a degree and adding new departments, as these steps were required by the educational movements of the age. The requirements for admission and graduation are now equal to those of the largest universities of the country, and the degree of Butler College is recognized as equivalent to the corresponding degree of any other educational institution. For a number of years the college has been affiliated with the University of Chicago on terms which guarantee that its undergraduate course is on a par with that of the university; and although the college has announced that it will cease to maintain this relation to the University of Chicago after 1910, this does not mean that its educational standards will be lowered.
Butler College is peculiarly an Indianapolis institution, and the liberal contributions of the business meu of the city to its new endow- ment fund have identified it still more closely with the community. A very large proportion of its students are drawn from the city, and it is the purpose of the authorities to endeavor to increase the number. While there are special reasons why many young people should go away. for their college education, there are many advantages to be derived
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from college work under home influences, and a very large proportion of the graduates of the city high schools will never obtain a college education at all unless it is brought to their doors. The widening of the sphere of influence of Indianapolis, through the development of steam, and especially electric, railways has brought the educational advantages of the city within reach of a still greater number of young people who would otherwise be debarred from college advantages. On the other hand, the college has been recognized as an essential part of the life of the city because of the large number of eminent citizens who were first brought to Indianapolis by its educational advantages.
A comparison of the metropolitan and the country college would show certain peculiar advantages for each class, but the balance is tend- ing more and more toward the former. The opportunities to hear the best lectures, sermons and concerts, to see the best collections of artistic productions, and to study the life and institutions of a city are added to the disciplines of class-room and laboratory. Butler College like- wise boasts of pre-eminence among the colleges of the state in library facilities, since the public library of 100,000 volumes is available at the college library building, in addition to the well-selected working library of the college, while the reference libraries in the State Capitol are also accessible to the students.
The college maintalns a faculty of trained specialists in their re- spective departments, who have enjoyed the advantages of the best
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universities of America and Europe. The faculty is to be enlarged in the near future to provide for new departments. The authorities are also about to select a new president to succeed Dr. Scot Butler, who retired July 1, 1907. In the interim the executive responsibility has been placed upon Dean T. C. Howe.
The Indiana Law School (Department of Law of the University of Indianapolis)-The Indiana Law School was organized for the pur- pose of giving to the law students of the middle west an opportunity to acquire a more thorough and systematic knowledge of the law than has heretofore been afforded them by any institution within easy reach of their homes, and especially to give to those young men who contem- plate the practice of law in Indiana the same facilities and advantages which are to be found in the oldest schools of law. The school, now entering upon its fourteenth year, has already taken high rank among the professional schools of the country and the results, both in number of students and in reputation, have justified the opinion of the founders that Indianapolis possesses exceptional advantages for such an iusti- tution. Being the capital city of the state, where the supreme and appellate courts, the federal courts and the local courts, both civil and criminal, are in session practically throughout the year. the students have unusual opportunity for witnessing court procedure in all its various forms, and the sessions of the legislature enable them to see how the business of law-making is transacted. With the rapid growth of the state in wealth and population, the law of Indiana, while in its general and elementary features is like that of the other states of the union, has developed a jurisprudence of its own. A thorough and prac- tical knowledge of this law can not be acquired at law schools located in other states, nor does any other school in Indiana offer the same advantages as the Indiana Law School. The course of study covers a period of two years of thirty weeks each, and the two classes have separate and distinct instruction throughout the course. The elementary subjects and those which are fundamental are placed in the junior year, and the entire arrangement of the course is a systematic develop- ment of legal jurisprudence. The school maintains a most perfect sys- tem of moot courts, four in number, and these are held weekly, and are under the supervision of members of the faculty, who act as judges. For practice in these courts, statements of fact are furnished, and stu- dents are appointed as counsel to represent the interests involved. Pleadings are prepared, to which motions, demurrers or answers are ad- dressed by opposing counsel, and trial is had before the judge or judge and jury. The dean of the Indiana Law School is James A. Rohbach, A. M., LL. B., and the other members of the faculty are: Hon. Addison C. Harris, LL. D .: Hon. John T. Dye, A. M .; Henry M. Dowling, A. B., LL, B .; Louis B. Ewbank, LL. B .; James M. Ogden, Ph. B., LL. B .;
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Charles W. Moores, A. M., LL. B .; Merle N. A. Walker, A. B., LL. B .; William F. Elliott, A. B., LL. B .; Albert Rabb, A. B., LL. B .; Noble C. Butler, LL. D .; Francis M. Springer, LL. M., and James M. Berry- hill, B. S., LL. B., all of whom are actively engaged in the practice of law and are experienced instructors and lecturers. The offices of the school are located at 1117-1118 Law Building.
Indiana Dental College was organized in 1878 by the members of the Indiana State Dental Association. The college occupied rooms in the Thorpe Block, on East Market street, until 1881. From 1881 to 1894 it was lo- cated in the Aetna block, on North Pennsylvan i a street. During the summer of '94 the present building of the college w a s erected on the corner of Ohio and Dela- w are streets. The growth of the college INDIANA DENTAL COLLEGE. has been
steady and constant. During the session of 1901-1902 there were 217 students eurolled. These came principally from the central, western and southern states. The increase in facilities for teaching has kept pace with this growth. The building at present occupied by the college was built for dental educational purposes. The arrange- ment of the floor space is designed to attain the very best results. Each department is amply large to accommodate a school of 250 students. The laboratories, lecture rooms and infirmary are completely equipped and appointed. Improvements in the equipment and facilities for teach- ing are constantly being made. The faculty of the college is composed of fourteen members. The course is strictly a graded one ; no two classes receive the same lectures. The practical work Is required and a high standard is insisted upon. Careful attention to details in every depart-
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ment has placed the college on its present high plane. Its uniform in- crease in popularity and strength attests its value as an educational in- stitution. The college course extends over seven and one-half months. from the first week in October to the middle of May. The officers are John N. Hurty, M. D., Ph. D., president ; George E. Hunt, M. D., D. D. S., dean and secretary.
Indiana University School of Medicine-By provision of an act of the Legislature, Indiana University was expressly authorized to teach medicine. Acting upon this provision, for many years strong science courses were given which led up to the course in medicine. About 1890 a full biologic course was established which was equivalent to the course given in the freshman year of the best medical colleges of the time, with the exception of dissection in human anatomy. In 1903 a full two years' course, including every subject taught in the freshman and sophomore years of the standard medical college, was established. This school was placed upon a high basis, and was equipped and con- ducted upon a plane that secured its students recognition by all first- class schools of the country. From the first it was the intention of
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the University to establish, as soon as its funds would permit, the last two or clinical years of the full medical course at Indianapolis, where clinical facilities would be adequate for modern medical teaching. In 1906 the building formerly occupied by the Central College of Physi- cians and Surgeons was secured and the clinical department of the medical school was established.
Throughout the several years from the beginning of the science course leading to medicine until the establishment of the full four years' course by the University, every step that was taken by the authorities was taken after an investigation of the progress of modern medical education, and the needs of the modern medical school. When, there- fore, the two clinical years were established in Indianapolis a clinical hospital-the State College Hospital-was provided in order to give the student attending the Indiana University School of Medicine an as- sured amount of clinical instruction at close range. The Indiana Uni- versity School of Medicine was established and has been conducted upon plans approved by the highest authorities in medical education. This school, therefore, received an early official recognition from the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Council on Educa- tion of the American Medical Association. It will be the foremost aim of the Trustees of Indiana University to provide the Student of Medi- cine the best opportunities to secure the most thorough medical train- ing. To this end the first two, or purely laboratory years, of the course will be given, as heretofore, in the extensive laboratories at the Uni- versity, under the guidance of thoroughly trained and paid instructors, whereas the last two years of the course will be given in the clinical center at Indianapolis, in connection with the State College Hospital, with a faculty each member of which is a thoroughly trained specialist in his respective department.
Indiana University School of Medicine, Clinical Department, 212, 214 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis-This splendid structure was completed in 1902 after plans embodying the latest ideas in medical college construction. The building is of brick, steel and stone, contains 24,000 square feet of floor space, and is steam heated and electric lighted throughout. On the third and fourth floors is the State College Hospital of seventy beds. This hospital is thoroughly modern in every way and the equal to any other in the state. A high-class training school for nurses is maintained. The first, or basement floor, is used for the out-patient department of the medical school, and an average of 1,000 patients are treated each month. On the second floor are located the offices, laboratories and lecture rooms. The officers are: Allison Maxwell, M. D., dean; John F. Barnhill, M. D., secretary.
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ENTRANCE TO WINONA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GROUNDS.
The Winona Technical Institute-This school was incorporated April, 1904. Previous to this time the press of Indianapolis had unani- mously endorsed and favored the purchase of the United States Arsenal site for the establishment of a Technical Institute. At a conference of joint committees, representing the Press, Commercial Club, Board of Trade, University of Indianapolis, Woodruff Place, Winona Assembly and citizens of Indianapolis, a resolution was unanimously adopted commending the plan of the Winona Agricultural Institute to raise by subscription a fund with which to purchase the Arsenal grounds for the use of a national technical institute. The board appointed for the above purpose made a thorough investigation of the trade schools of the country and decided to proceed slowly and carefully in the work of establishing an educational institution which should avoid duplicating, as far as possible, the work of either church or state. In pursuance of this plan The Winona Technical Institute was informally opened in September, 1904, with departments of Pharmacy and Chemistry, Elec- trical Wiring and, a little later, Lithography and House and Sign
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