In 1820, the academic institution at which the Six Million Dollar Man first began his college football career as a defensive end, thanks to an IU athletic scholarship, was founded. This Midwest school with nine campuses and 90,000 students today was founded as a seminary.
Classes began at this Hoosier seminary four years after the school’s founding.
Those early classes were held in Bloomington. Just as IU classes are held in Bloomington today.
Before Indiana University became Indiana University, Indiana University was educating Hoosiers as Indiana College. After first educating Hoosiers as Indiana Seminary.
Our Hoosier school. First, Indiana Seminary. Then, Indiana College. Then, Indiana University.
Indiana Seminary became Indiana College in 1828…four years after those first classes were held in Bloomington. At Indiana Seminary. Eight years after the school which would go on to become Indiana University was established. Twelve years after an Indiana university was to be established. According to Indiana’s state constitution.
Indiana’s university became Indiana University twenty two years after Indiana’s state constitution called for the establishment of an Indiana university.
Indiana’s state constitution was written in 1816. Written at the state capital. Written in Cordyn.
Indianapolis is Indiana’s capitol today. in 1816 Cordyn was the capital in the Hoosier State. Written in Cordyn in 1816, Indiana’s state constitution paved the way for the transformative history of IU.
Indiana’s university…
Indiana Seminary. Later becoming Indiana College. Later becoming Indiana University, where the Bionic Man once played defensive end.
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