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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Monroe county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., about 45 M. S. by W. of See also:Indianapolis. Pop. (1890) 4018; (1900) 646o, induding 396 negroes; (191o) 8838. It is served by the See also:Chicago, Indianapolis & See also:Louisville and the Indianapolis See also:Southern (See also:Illinois Central) See also:railways. Bloomington is the seat of the Indiana University (co-educational since 1868), established as a See also:state See also:seminary in 182o, and as Indiana See also: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 See also:law was established in 1842, suspended in 1877 and re-established in 1889; its school of See also:medicine was established in 1903; but most of the medical course is given in Indianapolis; a See also:graduate school was organized in 1904; and a summer school (or summer See also:term of eleven See also:weeks) was first held in 1905. Dr See also:David Starr See also:Jordan was the first See also:president of the university in 1885-1891, when it was thoroughly reorganized and its curriculum put on the basis of See also:major subjects and departments. The university's biological station is on See also:Winona See also:Lake, Kosciusko county. Among the manufactures of Bloomington are See also:furniture and wooden See also:ware. There are valuable See also:limestone quarries in the vicinity. The city was first settled about 1818.

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