Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1926 — Page 18

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BUTLER S GROM ASSURES CITY OF SUPERIOR SCHOOL Superb Buildings on New Location Assured by Large Gifts. By John YV. Atherton Financial Secretary Butler Butler University approaches the year 1927 with more accomplished during the last twelve months than ever before during a similar period. Not only has actual construction started on the three buildings that ■will comprise the school’s first unit at the new Fairview Park site, but there has been a record breaking enrollment as well, strong financial

support of the expansion program, and advancement in all departments. Early last year an important, affiliation was arranged between Butler University and the Teachers College of Indianapolis. During the previous year, a similar affiliation had been made between Butler and John Herron Art Institute. Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker, who died recently, but who early in :

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the year was the active head of the ! Teachers’ College, was enthusiastic | in her belief that the affiliation meant j much for both educational institu- j tions. An interchange of credits has been arranged whereby undergraduates at Butler may obtain teacher training courses at the Teachers’ College and be given full credit for this work, not only by the vtjniversify authorities, but by the existing law governing the qualifications for teachers In Indiana schools. Jordan Gives $350,000 The largest gift made during the year was that of $350,000 from Arthur Jordan. Indianapolis capitalist and philanthropist. The Butler I board of directors decided to honor [ Mr. Jordan ns a result of his gen \ erous gift, and the first building erected at the new site will he J known as the Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall. The sum o? SSO,OOO was given by Mrs. A. M.'TJobertson. of Indianapolis, in memory of her husband, toward tlie erection of a chapel for tlie university at the new site. Plans for the chapel are in the making. Other substantial sums onmo from various sources during the year to ■ further the Butler cause. Some gifts were made that have not been announced. Three Buildings in First, Unii There will be throe structures in the first un,’. of buildings now under construe*.' -i :>t Fairview. The first effort tim.,'ii construction came last May' during the annual pageant, which was held at Fairview. [>uri-'g the day a furrow was turned, with Hilton U. Brown, chairman of the i board of directors, and Dr. Robert J. Aley, -president of the university, . at the plow. Wince then the base-j ments of the three buildings have j been completed and the foundations ; finished for two. The third founds-; tlon will be done shortly, after j which the university authorities expect to let contracts for the buildings proper. These structures will cost $1,100,000, all of which is now in hand. In addition to the Jordan Memorial Hall, there will be in this group a science building and a general recitation building. Athletic Field to Cost $500,000 As now planned, the athletic field will cost $500,000 and work on It will be undertaken shortly. The athletic building program includes a stadium and combination gymnasium and field house. The stadium will have a seating capacity of 25,000, but will be so constructed that this capacity can he doubled

GREATER BUTLER Soon To Be Ready

For over seventy-five years Butler has maintained an educational standard second to none in Indiana. Founded upon a specific charter, from the Legislature in 1850 and operating continuously since 3855, first in.the old Northwestern Christian University buildings near College Avenue and Thirteenth street, and after 1875 at the present site in Irvington. And now—with the first unit under construction at Fairview Park, Butler will soon be greater than ever. With a historical background of renown and with anew site, new buildings, new equipment—Butler will soon offer to the younger genei’ation of Indiana a University with unequaled spiritual background, educational standards, convenience of location and beauty of buildings and surroundings. I A greater Butler will provide the type of practical as well as cultural and religious education that will make young men and women better citizens —better fitted for business or professional work —better able to cope with the problems of our age.

Butler Opens the Door of Opportunity to the Young People of Indiana

Such Buildings Assure the Permanency of This Great Educational Institution

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Showing the Butler University first group, of buildings now under eonstruction, as it will api>ear when completed. The three buikiings in the first unit will cost $1,100,000, all of wh*eh is now in hand

in later years. The field house and gymnasium will have a capacity of 8,000. This will be. used for basketball games and the like. There will be a baseball diamond, tennis courts, cinder tracks and the other features that go with the best equipped athletic fields. Anticipating the move to Fairview, the city authorities have been co-operating with the Butler officials so that proper approaches would be ready. Forty-Sixth St., the principal approach to tbe new campus—has been widened to eighty feet and the Board of Works plans to pave it in the spring. Considerable ivofik has been done in completing sewers, installing gas and water marlns, and in making other preparations for removal. During the year, an active campaign has been conducted among the Christian. churches of Indiana in behalf of the general Butler expansion program, but more particularly with reference to the Butler College of Religion, of which Dr. Frederick D. Kershner is dean. Work on the building for the College of Religion will .start next year and a considerable amount of the total needed for that purpose has been pledged. Enrollment in the school of religion is twice as large as it was last year. John YV. Atherton's repoil as financial secretary of Butler showed the most important year in the school’s history. During the last five years, the assets of the institution have been increased from $780,000 to $2,750,000. During the last fiscal year collections have amount-

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ed to more than .$720,000. Colleges and universities throughout the country have been interested in a peculiar phase of the money raising campaign for Butler for the reason that not one cent contributed to endowment or building funds has been taken to help pay promotional or overhead charges. Every dollar contributed will go to .the work Intended by the donors. The funds have been so well invested that the Interest more than pays the financial campaign. I.ast year, the interest was $20,000 more than was needed to carry on the activities. The department of commerce and business administration has been strengthened during the year and new courses and Instructors added. Some contributions of a substantial nature have been made to this phase of Butler's work and for the past year the board of directors and faculty have- been formulating plans for a separate school of commerce. Dr. Robert Judson Aley, as president of Butler, has announced that the enrollment for the fall semester Is about I.GOO, breaking all previous records. It was necessary to lease quarters in the College of Missions building and to convert other property near Butler Into recitation rooms because of the Increase in the size of the undergraduate body. STOCK HEARING JAN. 8 Hearing on the petition of the Interstate Public Service Company to issue 8.370 shares of common stock has been set by the public service commission for Jan. S. Commissioner Howell Ellis will preside.

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now. If a child did not fit the educational procedure, he dropped out of school and made his preparation for life in some other way. . High school education in particular was not thought essential to successful work in many lines. This did not demand a careful adjustment of the curriculum to the needs of the individual composing the whole group. If they did not fit., they dropped out. Now an entirely new problem has arisen, "the education of all the children.'* This demands a constant adjustment of subject matter and methods so that no child will be robbed of his right to all the education he is capable of receiving. In carrying out the pun*oses and ideals of a school system there are certain essentials which need constant emphasis. Capable and Devotea Teachers Indianapolis has always prided itself upon the corps of teachers which are chosen to serve its schools. Tn ability and devotion to j the cause no other group of, people in any calling can be found to j compare with them. Carefully selected from thousands of applicants, tried out by probation, the resulting group is one by which any school system and its community may well be proud. Then arises another problem. It is not only necessary to choose excellent teachers, but to afford them every* opportunity to advance in the I knowledge of their profession, to

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With the newer, freer methods of teaching come new difficulties in supervision. When every teacher was doing the same task in the same way, supervision was a matter of inspection and correction. The teacher should have the same general spirit of liberality and breadth of view. In need she should go to the supervisor for help. She should lay bare the facts as they are and seek the counsel of one whose training and experience is broader. She, however, should realize the limitations of the supervisor and not expect the impossible in the saTne way that the supervisor anticipates these qualities in her. Under the new plan of organization inaugurated in the Schools, the supervisory group is made up of the building principals and assistant superintendents for general supervision, the directors of special subjects for special teachers, and the teachers’ counselors who meet the new teachers to enable them to make adjustments to our system and methods quickly. On the whole, a spirit of friendly

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cooperation and coordination la thoO purpose of supervision. E With a changing conception offl living, a greater complexity of en-fl vironment, a clientele with new ideas ■ of education, the curriculum of the I modern school is the res’ult of adjust- I mcnls which have been made in the 1 light of tlic needs of society. gi The schools arc naturally conH servative and do not take on news ideas quickly. Although this conservatism is sometimes disconcerting to would-be reformers, It is a stabilising factor \\ hich prevents the schools from changing cirricula to suit personal whims. Increased Needs The growth in enrollment In the Indianapolis elementary schools necessitates the addition of about thirty rooms a year in order adequately to house the children, since the average Increase In enrollment over a period of years lias been about 1,200 a year. In his recommendation to the hoard last spring, the superintendent called attention to the needs of the system as follows; Additions needed, It; new buildings needed, 8; a total of 114 classrooms, so that the children in those districts which were so stable that permanent schools and locations could be determined might be properly housed. At the time of making that report, over 3,000 children were not afforded full time school facilities in permanet buildings. 2,400 being housed In* portables or remodelled houses, 200 in basements, and 450 attended school only half days. There Is always greater need than can be met at any one time, but the board has constantly kept the needs before it, worked hard at the problem, and accomplished substantial progress. _ The growing high school tion has demanded a program. The high school buildings of Indianapolis were Inadequate to meet the needs of the smaller en- / rollment, and it was necessary to inaugurate anew policy with a view to expansion and Improvement of high school facilities. With the completion of the West Side, the colored and the Shortridge High Schools, the major items In thla new plan will be accomplished.