Wait’ll You Smell Roses, Jimmie Posted on November 26, 2024 by mchclibrary Blog post by Rod Spaw The last time the Indiana University football team had only one loss as it prepared to meet Purdue for its final regular season game, the year was 1967. Helping to boost spirits that week was a chimpanzee named “Jimmie,” whose owner […]
Tales of the H-T: blog posts taken from or inspired by The Herald-Times archive at the Monroe County History Center. Blog by Rod Spaw. March is a special month for fans of Indiana University basketball, a time of magic, memories, and championships. This year, Hoosiers will be watching both the men’s and women’s tournaments closely, […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson On October 1, 1918, as nature dressed the trees in lovely autumn colors, many life-changing events were occurring within the Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.) on the IU campus. That morning, precisely at 11 AM, President William Lowe Bryan met with 1,200 inductees assembled on Jordan Field in an oath-taking […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson On April 6, 1917, more than two years after the beginning of World War I, the United States declared war on Germany. A military draft was instituted in the U. S. for all men between the ages of 21 and 30 and was soon amended to include all men from 18-45. […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson Looking at the busy parking lot in front of Kroger at Second and College today, one would see little or no evidence that the property was once the original campus of Indiana University. But before the last remaining building was demolished, several relics were removed and made a part of […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson From January 1918 through December 1920, five hundred million people around the world were infected with the flu which resulted in the deaths of somewhere between three to five percent of the world’s population. Many of those who died were soldiers. During the month of October, 1918, the number of […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson A century ago, in May 1919, racing fans throughout the world eagerly awaited the upcoming 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race at that time was still in its infancy. Carl G. Fisher, an ex-race car driver and one of the first car dealers in Indianapolis, conceived the […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson In 1913 Byron K. Armstrong, an individual of color and founder of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, wrote a thesis titled “Colored Population of Bloomington. It was written under the direction of Dr. U. G. Weatherly in compliance with the requirements of the Department of Economics and Sociology of […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson David Starr Jordan was the seventh president of Indiana University. He was inaugurated on January 1, 1885, becoming the nation’s youngest university president at the age of 34 and the first president of Indiana University that was not an ordained minister. During the course of his six-year presidency he oversaw […]
Blog post by Randi Richardson In the 1940s, hotel accommodations in Bloomington were woefully inadequate. For that reason, hotel accommodations at the Indiana Memorial Union on the IU campus were expanded by opening the Union Club Hotel as an annex to the existing facility in the Spring of 1947. The new Union Club, which included […]