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BLOOMINGTON

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 87 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLOOMINGTON , a city and the county-seat of
Monroe
  county, Indiana, U.S.A., about 45 M. S. by W. of Indianapolis. Pop. (1890) 4018; (1900) 646o, induding 396 negroes; (191o) 8838. It is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis &
Louisville
  and the Indianapolis Southern (
Illinois
  Central) railways. Bloomington is the seat of the Indiana University (co-educational since 1868), established as a state
seminary
  in 182o, and as Indiana College in 1828, and chartered as the State university in 1838; in 1907-1908 it had 8o instructors, 2051 students, and a library of 65,000 volumes; its school of law was established in 1842, suspended in 1877 and re-established in 1889; its school of
medicine
  was established in 1903; but most of the medical course is given in Indianapolis; a
graduate
  school was organized in 1904; and a summer school (or summer
term
  of eleven weeks) was first
held in 1905. Dr
David
  Starr Jordan was the first president of the university in 1885-1891, when it was thoroughly reorganized and its curriculum put on the basis of major subjects and departments. The university's biological station is on Winona Lake, Kosciusko county. Among the manufactures of Bloomington are furniture and wooden
ware
 . There are valuable limestone quarries in the vicinity. The city was first settled about 1818.


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