Indiana university, 1820-1904; historical sketch, development of the course of instruction, bibliography . wnthin theState had been purchased from the Indians and thrown open to were but thirteen counties represented in the constitutional conven-tion. Settlements Avere few and far apart. The only means of communi-cation were the uncertain Indian trails, the rough roads, and the watersof rivers and creeks. Even the Ohio River could boast of only two or Historical Sketch three small steamboats. Tlie population of the State, all told, did not conditions ofexceed 65,000. Accordini
Indiana university, 1820-1904; historical sketch, development of the course of instruction, bibliography . wnthin theState had been purchased from the Indians and thrown open to were but thirteen counties represented in the constitutional conven-tion. Settlements Avere few and far apart. The only means of communi-cation were the uncertain Indian trails, the rough roads, and the watersof rivers and creeks. Even the Ohio River could boast of only two or Historical Sketch three small steamboats. Tlie population of the State, all told, did not conditions ofexceed 65,000. Accordinii to the accounts of this early period, the people *^^ *^™^-were for the most part illiterate, impoverished and disheartened. But therewere among them men whose minds, though lacking the graces and refine-ments of the highest culture, had a rude strength combined with acutenessand insight; they were the leaven of the lump. The members of that conr_]vention were honest, simple-hearted, unpretentious men, firm in their con^sciousness of the rights of the common people, clear in their sense of equity ^. DAVID H. MAXWELL, of the University. and justice,, and blessed with that, saving quality caUed^Timon-sensa They \believed that education would most surely quicken that unresponsive mass,stimulate the people to greater activity, and inspire them with higher that conviction and with prophetic hope they acted. It is a signilicantfact that the same man who drafted the clause of the Constitution excludingslavery from this State (Dr. David H. Maxwell) is also properly regardedas the founder of Indiana University — an institution dedicated to intel-lectual freedom, whose seal appropriately bears the motto Lux et Veritas. 1820) Indiana University STATE SEMINARY, 1820-1828 The township selected for the support of a university lay in what is nowMonroe County, and was later named Perrj^ Township—the present seatof Indiana University. It w^as stipulated in the
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