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| title: | Memorial Fund Drive bonfire after the fund reached $413,000 |
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| image number: | P0034284 |
| description: | The fire took place at midnight on the night of March 8, 1922. This image appeared in the March 30, 1922 edition of The Indiana Daily Student. The title above the image reads "Celebrate Victory with Bonfire". The caption below reads, in full: "Round the swirling, roaring bonfire danced 2,000 joyous students, writhing in serpentine coils and sending forth undulating shouts of triumph over the roofs of the sleeping city. Two thousand voices rang out in 'Indiana' chorus, 2,000 happy faces flashed back the roseate glow of the firelight. The 'Series', Indiana's famous yell, crashed out from 2,000 straining throats and the 'rumbling Monon thundered on the midnight air. Nine rahs for Noble Butler, Nine rahs for Libbets Johnston and nine rahs for Prexy Bryan re-echoed thru Dunn Meadow. Symbolic in its meaning was this phoenix-like blaze, for in the leaping flames the students saw near-future martyrdom for the long-standing rubbish heap which has for years disgraced a corner of our campus. The glowing embers reflected to them visions of new structures soon to be born to grace our campus, and from the flying sparks they caught the spirit of a greater Indiana." The Memorial Fund Drive raised money for the construction of Memorial Hall, the 10th Street Memorial Stadium, and the Indiana Memorial Union building. Another bonfire was held the night of March 7, 1923. This image also appears in the April 1923 edition of the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly; and the Memorial Fund Campaign: Forms and Pictures Used in 1923 scrapbook / photograph album. Note that this image is also used on page 135 of the 1924 Arbutus yearbook. However, the caption there is obviously incorrect in that it reads: "Artist's conception of the bonfire kindled the night before the Purdue game." |
| date taken: | 1922 March 7 or 8 |
| photographer studio: | Hutchison, William Marion "Hutch" (as artist) |
| accession number: | 7871 |
| accession number: | C80 box 12 (for original drawing) |
| accession number: | C80 box 11 (copies) |
| copyright owner: | Indiana University |
| building name: | Student Building (1906) |
| corporate name: | Memorial Fund Campaign |
| topic: | Fire |
| topic: | Fund raising |
| topic: | Drawings |
| topic: | Art |
| topic: | Philanthropy |
| city: | Bloomington |
| state: | Indiana |
| other place name: | Dunn Meadow |
| series: | Groups |
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