The government of the people of the state of Indiana . A department of pedagogy is a part of thecurriculum of Indiana University. There are, besides, thefollowing supplementary educational agencies : county andtownship institutes, giving instruction in methods; thereading circles, imparting culture and professional know-ledge; and the teachers associations—State and local—directing in a large degree school legislation and awaken-ing and intensifying the professional spirit. 159. The State Universities.— It is as essential to thewelfare of a State that its leaders be thoroughly edu
The government of the people of the state of Indiana . A department of pedagogy is a part of thecurriculum of Indiana University. There are, besides, thefollowing supplementary educational agencies : county andtownship institutes, giving instruction in methods; thereading circles, imparting culture and professional know-ledge; and the teachers associations—State and local—directing in a large degree school legislation and awaken-ing and intensifying the professional spirit. 159. The State Universities.— It is as essential to thewelfare of a State that its leaders be thoroughly educatedas that its voters have a common-school education. Inan important sense, then, the colleges are the life of Indiana has answered the demand for higher educationby the establishment of the Indiana University and Pur-due University. The latter institution, located at La Fay-ette, embraces now a government experiment stationand six special schools bearing upon the scientific and in- 1 W. A. Bell, in The Schools of Indiana, p. DC< DO 138 THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF INDIANA. dustrial life of the State. It derives sustenance from threesources : (1) the interest on a permanent endowment ob-tained from the sale of lands donated by the United States,from gifts from Hon. John Purdue and from grants by Tip-pecanoe county ; (2) an annual appropriation by Congress;and (3) a revenue of one cent upon every $100 of taxableproperty in Indiana. The school has grown constantly infavor and efficiency. Indiana University, located at Bloomington, has maderapid progress in the last fifteen years. Its income is de-rived from three sources: (1) rents from unsold landsdonated by the United States ; (2) interest on the perma-nent endowment, which is in part the proceeds of landsales and in part a fund obtained by State taxation; and(3) revenue from a tax of one cent on the hundred of a literary and scientific nature is offered in twohundred and twenty-three course
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