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JAMES H. CAPSHEW Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society Press Indianapolis This book is a co-publication of Permissions constitutes the only excep- tion to this prohibition. Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street ∞ The paper used in this publication Bloomington, Indiana 47404–3797 USA meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for iupress.indiana.edu Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Telephone orders 800-842-6796 ANSI Z39.48–1992. Fax orders 812-855-7931 Manufactured in the and United States of America Indiana Historical Society Press Library of Congress Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Cataloging-in-Publication Data History Center 450 West Ohio Street Capshew, James H. Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3269 USA Herman B Wells : the promise of the American university / James H. Capshew. indianahistory.org p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and © 2012 by James H. Capshew index. ISBN 978-0-253-35720-5 (cloth : alk. All rights reserved paper)–ISBN 978-0-253-00569-4 (e-book) 1. Wells, Herman B. 2. Indiana No part of this book may be reproduced University–Presidents–Biography. or utilized in any form or by any means, 3. College presidents–Indiana– electronic or mechanical, including Biography. I. Title. photocopying and recording, or by any LD25161938.W44 C38 2012 information storage and retrieval system, 378.0092–dc23 without permission in writing from the [B] publisher. The Association of American 2011044883 University Presses’ Resolution on 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 To the Genius Loci of Indiana University and in loving memory of Herman B Wells This page intentionally left blank Consult the Genius of the Place in all. Alexander Pope, 1731 We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. Lawrence Durrell, 1957 The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature. Karl Jaspers, 1970 One has to learn what the meaning of local is, for universal purposes. The local is the only thing that is universal. William Carlos Williams, 1929 To become intimate with your home region, to know the territory as well as you can, to understand your life woven into the local life does not prevent you from recognizing and honoring the diversity of other places, cultures, ways. On the contrary, how can you value other places if you do not have one of your own? If you are not yourself placed, then you wander the world like a sightseer, a collector of sensations, with no gauge for measuring what you see. Local knowledge is the grounding for global knowledge. Scott Russell Sanders, 1993 This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface A Hoosier State of Mind xiii · Acknowledgments xvii · List of Abbreviations xxi Prologue Campus Centennial 1 Part 1 The Shaping of a Fiduciary, 1902–1937 1 In the Land of Jordan 11 2 Betwixt Banking and Social Science 37 3 The Politics of Bank Reform 59 4 First Taste of Academic Stewardship 73 Part 2 Transforming the University, 1937–1962 5 Acting like a President 89 6 A Vision for Indiana University 115 7 Charting a New Course 135 8 War Stories 147 9 Renouncing Prejudice 165
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