The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-31
ANOTHER PEAK
YEAR ENJOYED
BY INDIANA u.
12,449 Students Registered
During 1890; Direct Aid
Given Cos, 2O9.
BY Times Special

By Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 81
With COS, 1909 persons directly aided
and with 12,449 students registered
during the year, Indiana university
has reached another peak in its LOG
years Of service to the state.
Check of the enrolment records
shows that the institution had 1913
more students this year than last
year, in spite of the fact that sol
students had to be turned away
from the school of medicine be-
cause of insufficient room and
teaching facilities.
An unusually heavy summer SEES
sion enrolment for 1880 far Offsets
the slight decrease in enrolment
for the present semester and the
close of the 1930-31 school year
probably will see new enrolment
records set.
On the campus during the last
year have been 5,788 different STU
dents. This includes the campus
at Bloomington and the medical
center at Indianapolis. In addition,
1851 students took home study and
correspondence extension courses
during the year now closing.
Health Work Important
Among the university's direct
service agencies, perhaps none was
more important to the state than
its health and disqualification service
for 58,5S7 persons. This number in
cluded 10,725 in Long, Riley and
Coleman state hospitals, part of the
I. U. medical center at indianapolis.
The health and disqualification list
also included 5,843 patients in the
dental clinic, also cases under care
Of the social service department, and
37,869 persons served in nineteen
counties of the state by the public
health nursing campaign conducted
in cooperation with the extension
division.
The extension divisions public
welfare service had on its rolls for
the year 38s,962 persons. The
division furnished aid to 1862
parent-teachers over the state,
$1,000 persons engaged in club study
programs, so, 800 individuals engaged
in state wide contests and dis
cussion programs of an educational
nature, $4,000 who heard extension
lecturers on educational subjects,
and $4,000 who subscribed to the
univerSity's program of visual cd
ucation through use of moving
picture films, lantern slides, and
poster displays.
Thousands See Exhibits
Educational exhibits presented by
the university at the state fair and
elsewhere drew attendances con-
Servatively estimated at 10000.
In the field of business research,
the records show that 400 business
firms and individuals throughout
the state received help from the
bureau of business research, which
is a division of the school of COM
MERGE and finance.
Another division of the uni
sity's direct service which proved of
direct commercial value to Indiana
was that of sIndiara university
biologists. In the routine Of the
years business they had for analysis
and report 2,611 different specimens
of Indiana minerals.
The bureau of science service had
up for solution during the year 1873
different scientific problems in the
fields of chemistry, geology and
physics.
The university's graduate school
had 901 different students engaged
during the year in research work
and granted ISL degrees for salts
factory completion of research
studies.