Excerpt from The Centennial Pageant of Indiana University, 1820-1920 The pageant grounds are located on the Campus of the Uni versity, on the Dunn Meadow looking across the brook which has for many years been genially called the River Jordan, to ward a grassy knoll and grove of evergreen trees behind which rise the walls and roof and tower of the Student Building. The Centennial Pageant of Indiana University has been written and composed on the principle that both dramatically and musically the pageant is a distinct and individual art-form, having its own laws and its own technique. All the elements of this pageant have been worked together, in accordance with these laws and technical considerations, to produce, if may be, in the sequence of actual, typical, or symbolic scenes, a clear, beautiful, and impressive drama of the life of the community. Most of the scene designated as II. The Founding of the University, 1820, has been taken from the corresponding scene in the Pageant of Bloomington and Indiana University, 1916, additions and slight modifications being made to focus the episode more distinctly upon the present educational Situation. The scene entitled IV. The Present Crisis, 1920, is really only a partial presentation of the significance of the crisis in the present educational situation as it affects the universities of America, confining itself to the financial aspect of the crisis and to a discussion of some other underlying questions. It does not by any means adequately represent the writer's belief as to the truth and the fundamental facts of the matter, thoughit is correct as far as it goes, in his Opinion. In this episode the statements made by characters who are actual people are set forth very largely in their own words, and it is believed that no misrepresentation occurs therein, as to their Opinions, but the responsibility for the facts and the opinions set forth in the episode as a Whole lies of course only with the writer of the pageant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.