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General William Jackson Palmer In 1870, only a few years after the last Indian raid into this vicinity, General William J. Palmer directed his engineers to stake out the City of Colorado Springs on an arid and waste prairie, and to plot within it the college campus on which are situated today the numerous college build- ings with its lawns, trees and attractive grounds. With that marvelous insight which perceived the future of Colorado in those early days, he believed that some dav there would rise here under the shadow of Pike ' s Peak, an institution which would have national power and influence. Honored, beloved, trusted, his death, this past year, has left an enduring and potent impression upon every one connected with Colorado College. Each year since its foundation, his generosity, his definite in- terest, his loyalty, have been essential factors in its creation and growth. It is most fitting that its central building should bear his name with- out whom the College would not be in existence. With the calm, judicial mental quality inherited from his Quaker ancestry, with the training and ability of a great engineer, with the ac- curacy and grasp of a far-sighted business man, with the constructive genius of an empire-builder, with a power of leadership which made him a celebrated military commander, he stands among the foremost men of the country. Not only has his wealth been generously given, but what is of even more value, his wisdom, his thought, his marvelous insight, have all entered into the creation and development of this foundation of the higher learn- ing. With all his large affairs and the never-ceasing demands upon him, he has given throughout the whole period of its history, most generously of his time, to those details which have so much to do with the making of a college. His thought has entered unobtrusively into the planning and erection of its buildings, the parking of its campus, the choice of its facul- ties, and the direction of its affairs. His high ideals of manhood and womanhood, his personal integrity of character, his unselfish devotion to everything that has made for the public weal, his creative power in the constructing of a great common- wealth, his modest refusal of all official positions, his never failing courtesy and rare kindliness, his passionate love of nature, his deep and practical interest in all philanthropy, his innumerable gifts to the poor, his wondrous breadth as well as strength of intellectual and moral grasp, have all left an influence upon the students of Colorado College which will bear their fruit in the future of our commonwealth and the nation. As he will ever be the first citizen of this commonwealth, so he will always remain the patron saint of Colorado College. The march of the faculty and student body with uncovered heads as an escort to his ashes, for miles through the city and out into the country, on the day of his funeral, was only a slight indication of the love and respect which they will ever feel for the man who has profoundly influenced the character of the College and been its founder and its great friend. 20 The Pike ' s Peak Nugget ccc 1910
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