BLOOMINGTON  , a

city and the county-seat of Monroe county, Indiana, U.S.A., about 45 M . S. by W. of Indianapolis . Pop . (1890) 4018; (1900) 646o, induding 396 negroes; (191o) 8838 . It is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville and the Indianapolis Southern (Illinois Central) railways . Bloomington is the seat of the Indiana University (co-educational since 1868), established as a state seminary in 182o, and as Indiana College in 1828, and chartered as the State university in 1838; in 1907-1908 it had 8o instructors, 2051 students, and a library of 65,000 volumes; its school of law was established in 1842, suspended in 1877 and re-established in 1889; its school of medicine was established in 1903; but most of the medical course is given in Indianapolis; a graduate school was organized in 1904; and a summer school (or summer term of eleven weeks) was first held in 1905 . Dr David Starr Jordan was the first president of the university in 1885-1891, when it was thoroughly reorganized and its curriculum put on the basis of major subjects and departments . The university's biological station is on Winona Lake, Kosciusko county . Among the manufactures of Bloomington are furniture and wooden ware . There are valuable limestone quarries in the vicinity . The city was first settled about 1818 .