Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1915 — Lafayette and Bloomington Partisans in Indianapolis. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette and Bloomington Partisans in Indianapolis.

The proposition embodied in Senator Van Auken’s bill to consolidate Indiana and Purdue universities at Lafayette, has aroused the people of Bloomington and Lafayette to exercise every effort in their personal interests. Bloomington wants to keep the university and Lafayette wants it consolidated with Purdue We believe that educators believe that Indiana will have one of the greatest schools in the middle states if the consolidation can be effected. We believe that parents who are sending and who will in the future send their children to the big colleges of other states will send them to Lafayette if the two colleges can be combined. Some five hundred businessmen from Lafayette went to Indianapolis Monday, headed by Mayor Thomas Bauer and Congressmanelect Will R. Wood and Mr. Wood was main spokesman in presenting to the senators and representatives in a very effective way. Bloomington was also represented with & big delegation to present their claims. Lafayette has prepared, it is said, a scheme by which members of the faculty of Indiana and fraternities with houses in Bloomington will be partly reimbursed for their property losses if the consolidation is affected. It is proposed that the state normal school at Terre Haute might be moved to Bloomington to occupy the buildings vacated by the state univeroJty It will be a hard fight and there hardly seems time enough at this session of the legislature to accomplish it