From The Indianapolis News, Monday, December 22, 1919: Butler College will be enlarged and placed on a university status by September 1923. Alumni have joined committees appointed by the college trustees to select a new location for the Irvington school. Possible sites include the vacant Hibben land along East Washington St between Emerson Av and Hawthorne Lane and Ellenberger Park. Another proposal is to acquire land from Washington St south to the Pennsylvania Railroad

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, October 16, 1919: Newly-elected junior class officers at Butler College were surprised to learn that their election has been declared invalid by the student control board following charges that the ballot boxes were stuffed in the recent election and another vote has been ordered. Yesterday’s freshmen class officer elections at the college may have taken a lesson from the juniors in that the votes for vice president, secretary, and trea

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, December 7: Yesterday afternoon the 223 men who were inducted into the Student Army Training Corps at Butler College on October 1 were discharged from government service. It is believed that this is the first college unit to receive discharge papers. Orders have also been received for the demobilization of the entire 1,500 men at the army vocational training camp at the State School for the Deaf in one day. However, the release of the

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, September 30: Permits were taken out yesterday for the construction of four buildings to house the Student Army Training Corps at Butler College in Irvington. The new structures, designed by Butler alumnus Lee Burns, will be erected on college ground, south of University Avenue between Ohmer and Butler Avenues, at a total cost of $20,000 (2017: $331,842). The main buildings will be two barracks, each 42 x 172 feet in size, of northern c

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, August 16: Butler College received word today that it has been selected as a site for a unit of the students’ army training corps which will be in working operation when classes resume next month. The purpose of the corps, which has been established under the President, is to qualify students for effective service in the armed forces of the United States. Physically fit students over eighteen years of age will be enlisted in the United S