Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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THE PIKE ' S PEAK NUGGET 11 preface We are glad to put this book into the hands of the students and friends of Colorado College, and in proportion as it meets with their approval we shall feel rewarded for the labor which it has cost us. Our effort has been to preserve here a record of those things which are really worth while, and the memory of which will be made more vivid by the sight of the printed page. A college life is so pleasant and so different from anything else that it must throughout life be the source of ever recurring memories, and if by this book we can increase the pleasure of those memories we shall be satisfied. We expect criticism, both favorable and unfavorable. To those who criticise us favorably we say, Thank you ; to the others we can only say that we have done our best for our College and our class. S. T- S. (Contributors The following persons have rendered valuable assistance in the compilation of this book by the contribution of articles, drawings, or photographs : President Slocum Homer E. Woodbridge Roger H. Motten Donald Tucker Irene Anson Fred S. Baker W. C. Barnes E. W. Barnes Alice M. Brown Paul H. Clifford David Smiley E. B. Fowler J. E. Fuller Ellen Galpin A. L. Golden Bruce Gustin Alta Harris E. E. Hedblom Beth Knouse W. L. Meyers Henry Rhone L. L. Shaw Margaret Sherman Chas. K. Seeley B. P. Siddons Lois Smith Ray Templin J. B. Thornell L. M. Van Stone Grace Wilson Harry C. Wray

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Table of Contents % Introduction .... 11 ! Announcements .... 12 Trustees 15 Schools ..... 17 Faculty ..... 29 Commencement .... 37 Seniors ..... 41 Juniors ..... 65 Sophomores ..... 95 Freshmen ..... 101 The Student Body .... . 110 Athletics ..... 113 Football .... . 115 Baseball .... 125 Track ..... 131 Fraternities .... 139 Men ' s Literary Societies . 153 Women ' s Literary Societies 161 Other Organizations .... . 169 Publications .... 195 Calendar and Events .... . 201

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12 THE PIKE ' S PEAK NUGGET JWtomucmcitts THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO BE ADDED TO THE FUNDS OF COLORADO COLLEGE The financing of a modern college is an enormously difficult undertaking and the cost of the maintenance of higher education is increasing every year. Build- ings, equipment of laboratories, libraries, salaries, incidental expenses and many other things make the annual budget a very serious matter for those who have to provide for it. When Colorado College passed from the stage of a local school into that o an institution for higher learning, with its departments of science, its enlarged faculties, its complicated equipment, it had to meet the problem which comes to every college of first rank : that of providing funds for its plant, the annual ex- penses, and most important of all, an adequate permanent endowment fund. When President Slocum came to its presidency, there was practi cally no equipment, and only one very inadequate building. There was no library worthy of the name and no endowment whatsoever. The task seemed an impossible one ; for it involved the erection of costly college halls and their furnishings, a library building, and the accumulation of a large endowment fund which should cor- respond with that of the older Eastern institutions. Hagerman Hall was first erected as a home for men, and in these twenty- three years of the present administration, over seven hundred thousand dollars has been put into the necessary buildings and their equipment, the erection of a library, and the purchase of over fifty thousand volumes for its shelves. In addi- tion it has been necessary to provide for annual current expenses, which have increased from eight to over fifty thousand dollars a year. The College receives nothing whatsoever from state or national funds, as do all the state institutions which are always supported by the tax-payers. The receipts from tuition at Colorado College pay less than one-quarter of the current expenses, and nothing for the erection of buildings and their equip- ment fund. The thing that is most essential in financing a modern college is the creation of an endowment fund, the interest upon which can be used for the payment of salaries and other necessary expenses. Without such a fund, an institution of the character of Colorado College can hardly exist at all, as it cannot depend as does the State University upon money supplied by public taxation. The creation of an endowment fund was one of the things to which the present administration set itself from the very first. With this in view, Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago was told about the College, and as a result he promised to give to its endowment funds fifty thousand dollars, if one hundred and fifty thou- sand more were secured, and this project was brought to a successful conclusion.