18793 In Bioomington 



town 



the "Bates School of Philosophy," a m ell-deserved 

 name which persisted for years. Most of the younger 

 professors of those days — as well as many of the 

 earnest students — became informal members of 

 the cobbler's class. In 1893 Mr. Bates was made 

 university registrar, in which capacity he was 

 especially useful as adviser to young people. 



Of other good and kindly residents I may instance 

 notably Dr. James D. Maxwell and the Reverend 

 S. R. Lyons, both members of the board of trustees; 

 William P. Rogers, attorney, afterward professor of 

 Law and, still later, dean of the Cincinnati Law 

 School; and \\^3\ttv E. Woodburn, banker. 



When we arrived in Bloomington, only one street The 

 was covered with gravel, the others, almost im- 

 passable after rain, being composed of bright red 

 clay and crossed by pedestrians on stepping stones 

 made of rough cubes of limestone, flat slabs of which 

 also served as sidewalks. Our house was a modest 

 frame affair on Morton Street, at the north end of 

 town. Within a few rods of it now stands a monu- 

 ment marking the actual center of population of 

 the United States as determined in 1917. W^ith 

 each succeeding census new pillars will, of course, be 

 required to indicate the gradual westward trend. 

 During my seventeen years' residence in the state 

 the point moved from near Cincinnati to Greens- 

 burg, Indiana. It is now (1920) at W^hitehall in 

 Owen County. 



The central square of town was marked by the 

 courthouse, then a shabby building surrounded on 

 Saturdays by the saddle horses and teams of the 

 neighboring farmers — all Monroe County, after 



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