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How a Scandal Helped Change IU Forever PLUS IU's Most Influential Presidents & Honoring the Contributions Minorities & Women Have Made to the University IU BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL How a Scandal Helped Change IU Forever PLUS IU's Most Influential Presidents & Honoring the Contributions Minorities & Women Have Made to the University By Carmen Siering Founded on January 20, 1820, as the State Seminary, Indiana University has grown from a one-building institution of learning—where a dozen young men were taught the classics by a single professor, Baynard Rush Hall—to a world-class research institution with more than 94,000 students and more than 21,000 faculty and staff on campuses in Bloomington and across the state. The bicentennial was being discussed as early as 2007—the year Michael A. McRobbie became president. But planning for this one-time-only celebration of the university’s first 200 years kicked into high gear in 2015. That’s the year James Capshew was hired as the official university historian, and the Office of the Bicentennial, directed by Kelly Kish, began focusing on a myriad of Bloomington-based and statewide projects to coincide with the anniversary. A website, magazine, blogs, podcasts, videos, oral histories—a true multiplicity of media representations—are An 1836 drawing of the First College Building, located at Seminary Square, published all being utilized to disseminate the gathered research. And in The Indiana Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of The State of Indiana in 1850. while there is still plenty that remains murky—meaning there is Photo courtesy of IU Archives still plenty for future historians to uncover and debate—the years The Moss Killers, 1884. (seated in front, l-r) Edward leading up to the bicentennial have provided opportunities to are now South College and South Morton Street and West 1st and A. Hall, IU janitor “Uncle Tommy” Thomas Spicer, and Morton William Fordice; (back row, l-r) James Zwingle, reexamine old assumptions and listen to previously unheard (or West 2nd streets. That original location was (and still is) known as Alexander McCaughan, David Kopp Goss, Joseph even silenced) voices. Seminary Square. Classes began in 1825. Woods Wiley, and Rhorer Oakes. On the wall behind the group are the weapons they used to spy on the Some things were already well known. Indiana Seminary was In 1828, the school’s name was changed to Indiana College, and very-married President Lemuel Moss and Katherine founded in 1820 by the Indiana General Assembly, at that time renamed again in 1838 to become Indiana University. IU moved to Graydon, a single, 20-something professor of Greek. Photo courtesy of IU Archives seated in Corydon. In 1822, construction began between what its current campus in the 1880s after a fire destroyed the 10-year- 128 Bloom | August/September 2019 | magbloom.com magbloom.com | August/September 2019 | Bloom 129 improper relationship with the attractive, would go on to have unforeseen and far- was the first scientist to become president 20-something faculty member. Six students reaching consequences, shaping Indiana of an American college or university.” conspired with the janitor to spy on the pair, University in important ways for decades Capshew notes that Jordan was going so far as to drill a hole in the ceiling to come. an educational reformer, introducing of Graydon’s classroom and standing watch In The Legacy of the Laboratory (IU the elective system and revamping the to see what transpired. Eventually, they Department of Psychological and Brain curriculum to emphasize scientific caught the couple in the act. Of kissing and Sciences), Capshew writes that Moss’ subjects, and adding laboratories hugging. as a means to advance research and Newspapers investigation. While the university could as far away as attract good faculty members, it was often The Toronto difficult to retain them due to its rural (l-r) Kelly Kish and James Capshew. Daily Mail location. Therefore, Jordan sought to Photo by Rodney Margison reported the build the faculty from within, encouraging details of the promising undergraduates to pursue “improper graduate study in hopes that they could be old Science Hall on the old Seminary and immoral persuaded to return as faculty members. Square campus. conduct” of To move from a small, Midwestern which the two The influence of seminary on what was then the nation’s were accused. William Lowe Bryan frontier to a modern research university A witness Capshew writes that William Lowe Bryan took the insight, ingenuity, and effort of testified he was, at the time of the Moss Killers scandal, Former IU President William Lowe Bryan (left) stands with Registrar John W. Cravens (center) and an unidentified countless individuals. Planning was a big saw “... Miss editor of the Indiana Student newspaper, man on the newly built University Dam in the summer of 1915. Photo courtesy of IU Archives part of it. But, in some instances, it might Graydon which he had helped revive in 1882 with seem, luck or circumstance may have sitting in the the help and blessing of President Moss. the following year, graduating in 1884. With Jordan’s encouragement, Bryan played a part, too. Take the connection doctor’s lap The scandal was widely publicized and Following graduation, Bryan was hired as began pursuing one of the first master’s between one of IU’s early scandals and and embracing sensationalized, but Bryan refused to an English instructor in the preparatory degrees from IU, completing his studies its advancement from a 19th-century, and kissing comment beyond affirming his faith in the department. in 1886, then traveled to Germany to enlightenment-driven university focused him; that the actions of the board of trustees, who had As a result of the Moss Killers scandal serve as an experimental subject at the on a classical education to a modern, 20th- doctor gave her accepted Moss and Graydon’s resignations and Graydon’s subsequent resignation, University of Berlin. Upon his return, he century university devoted to research and a gold pin and without taking further action. Bryan was brought on board as part of the was eager to start experimentation. In the scientific method. that she kissed Bryan was born on a farm in Monroe regular faculty, teaching Greek and English. 1888, Bryan opened the Indiana University and embraced County in 1860 and grew up in the shadow Later, the scandal would further benefit Psychological Laboratory, only the second The Moss Killers and him twice; of Indiana University. IU offered a Bryan when Jordan promoted him to acting such lab in the United States. the modern university that he kissed preparatory school and Bryan entered it in professor of philosophy, replacing former Aware of his intellectual isolation The shameful misconduct of politicians, her six times 1876. He matriculated into the university President Moss. in the Midwest, Bryan left IU in 1891 to athletes, celebrities, and, yes, even some in succession; earn his Ph.D. in psychology from Clark high-profile academics, is standard grist that she patted University in Worcester, Massachusetts. for the rumor mill today. Nothing sells him on the He returned to IU in 1893 to accept a a tabloid faster (or gets a quicker click) cheek and professorship in the psychology department than a scandal, especially one involving smoothed his and the appointment to vice president infidelity and questionable morality. It hair; that when of the university. In 1902, he was named appears some things never change. she started to president. Take the case of the Moss Killers. This go, he pulled (l-r) Former IU presidents David Starr Jordan and Joseph Swain, taken June 4, 1920. “That transition from the 19th-century, Photo courtesy of IU Archives group of undergraduates—who didn’t kill her back and enlightenment-driven university to anyone—were responsible for the downfall kissed her the 20th-century scientific university? of Lemuel Moss, selected in 1875 by the several times; that she put on her shawl and resignation allowed the university to move That’s William Lowe Bryan,” Kish says. IU board of trustees as the sixth in an hat and he embraced her; that at the door away from its “Preacher President” past “He’s a renowned scientist early on in the unbroken line of “Preacher Presidents.” he embraced and kissed her; and that when when selecting the university’s seventh IU history. Certainly in the psychology According to an account on Blogging she went out he kissed her again.” president in 1884: “It encouraged the department. It remains one of our Hoosier History by Laura Bell, soon after The outcome of the scandal was the Indiana University trustees to look beyond strongest, if not our strongest, department.” the 1883 appointment of Miss Katherine resignation of both Moss and Graydon, ranks of the clergy for a new president, and Kish offers up four compelling Graydon as a professor of Greek, rumors leaving a presidency and two teaching slots they decided to appoint David Starr Jordan arguments for her assessment of Bryan to fill—an unfortunate but not uncommon as the president who has had the most began to swirl that the very-married to the post. Already well known in the state William Lowe Bryan addresses WWI recruits during their induction ceremony on October 1, 1918. Photo courtesy President Moss was indulging in an task. However, the Moss Killers scandal for his research and public speaking, Jordan of IU Archives influence on IU. 130 Bloom | August/September 2019 | magbloom.com magbloom.com | August/September 2019 | Bloom 131 “The reason why I think he’s the most only to leave a year later to take a job with community), it was Bryan who played the A search began immediately, but Bryan influential is that our modern university the Indiana Bankers Association (IBA).
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