Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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strangers has been interesting. But to set ourselves up as censors and pass judgment on everything and everybody has been the most interesting of all. We have learned, through the money spent on faces in this book, the extent to which man will allow his vanity to drain his pocket. While we have no use for the individual who would not pay us for accepting his picture and printing it, we must confess our admiration of his common sense, if it may be called common sense. While compiling what follows, we have been careful not to lie other- wise than justifiably- Wherever we have improved on the truth, we have done so with caref ul consideration of plausibility. We have done our best to offend every one. We hope we have suc- ceeded. Our inability to do this in a thoroughly criminal manner in every case must be confessed. But should any one of us be hanged, or shot, or should any three of us suffer bodily inconvenience, we shall feel that our task has not been performed in vain. If I might make a last request, — kill the editor first, then the male assistant and so on down through the men to the business manager. Don ' t kill him : he hates us as much as you do. After you have finished the other men, start in on the girls. Heaven bless them! Kill them easily. Don ' t you dare add pain to death, vou scoundrels! G. W. S. Mountain Retreat, May i, mug. The Pike ' s Peak Nugget ccc 1910

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PREFACE A Thing Which Nobody Ever Reads. That no one ever reads prefaces, I am glad; because I want to write a few lines that I would rather no one should read. Speaking from behind the editorial we, meaning the Board, I am about to speak as frankly as the editor of an Annual can. We offer you here a college Annual, which remark is entirely super- fluous. No other catalogue would come out dressed in a freak cover. No other book would contain such a hodgepodge of praise and insult. The insolence which may appear in an Annual would bring the law on a man if he dared shove it on the public in any other form. Knowing this, we have eagerly snatched at the one opportunity of our twelve lifetimes and have put in these pages whatsoever pleased us. We franklv despise the whole universe. This is the tenth time that someone has done likewise at Colorado College. How tired Prexy must be of seeing his august phiz grace the front pages of a joke book! How tired he must be of having business managers come around and ask him to take 200 volumes off their respec- tive hands! How tired he must be of seeing faculty and fussers jollied in the same breath ! How tired you must be of reading this, and how tired I am of writing it ! But I have to write it. We are in duty bound to confess our thanks to all those who have aided us. We do so humbly and regretfully. We give no names, for we wish to incriminate no one. Whenever no possible harm could come of an article, we have printed the author ' s name with it, provided the article was in nowise an advertisement and the author was willing. We also have to thank all the Annuals ever published. We have not seen them all, but we have seen enough to know that between them they have. In other words, this book is not original. Annuals never are. This one looks very much like the palm-covered journal in which Noah kept account of his companions on that eventful voyage years ago. Books of this sort are all alike. Read one and you have read them all. Edit one and you will never edit another. Nobodv will let you. Still our work has been interesting. To tell ourselves that we were doing something new has been interesti ng. To see with what alacrity names and honors-held have been turned in, and with what reticence dollars, has been interesting. To see friends avoid us and strangers remain The Pike ' s Peak Nugget ctt 19 10

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Official Calendar The Year ' s Growth College Officers Trustees In Memoriam Faculty College Buildings Classes . . Athletics Fraternities Literary Societies Organizations Publications Calendar Events Scrap Book . Cutler Academy A Rag Book for the Kids Tailings from the Mills Advertisements PAGE. I 2 13 15 16 19 25 43 55 113 131 151 167 195 203 214 223 241 253 265 271 The Pike ' s Peak Nugget ««« 1910