University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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Actuated by a desire to make the Annual thoroughly cos- mopolitan, we have recognised no party but our Alma Maier, no sect but the student body. Thus catholic in spirit, may the work advance the interests of all. If this be the reward of our toil, our labor has not been vain. Errors are omnipresent. Should some mistakes be found in these pages, we trust they may not cancel the things of vital import. Absolute truth is yet to be discovered. Cynic, lr: Wi!- igzze est aiser, ez' ffm' est nfyjlicile. The editors would not claim all the credit that may attach to this volume. Some by Words of kindly greeting, others by valuable contributions, have cheered us on to the goal. G1 ate- ful thanks to Whom honor is due. In presenting this mirror of college life to our fellow students and friends, we are not insensible that some ofthe illustrations and subject matter may not be new. But as matters of history they are important, hence inserted with the hope that to some, when in the heat of a busy life or the autumn of a closing career, they may be refreshing to memory, and helpful in living again the pleasant days of college life. Happy in the belief that we have been faithful to our trust, contident of the readers' charity, hopeful of touching some cord of sympathy, and trusting that these pages may prove of service t0 our Alma Maier, we commend t.his little Volume to our readers, and entrust the future of the COLUMBINE to our successors. Vive U. of C., Vive COLUMBINEQ Vive, vale. EDITORS. C93

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INTRQDUCTIUN. Recently there was manifested a belief that the students should issue an annual. In time that belief assumed a business attitude. Today the COLUMBINE is. The Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota attest the truth that the State University, well managed, is the University for the people. The University of Colorado, profit- ing by the experience of older States, easily leads her rivals in our commonwealth. First to publish a weekly college paper. we are also first to issue a college annual. In the University of Colorado none have gone this way before us. As pioneers in a new country, we must clear the rubbish and break the soil for posterity. Our task has been twice difficult, since to our lot there has not fallen the heritage of ancestral experience, nor had we more than half a summer to complete our campaign. After most searching deliberations this new child has been christened COLUMBINE. IVe have reason to believe that upon close examination all interested in the work will deem the selection of this name a happy one. At once poetic, aesthetic, and characteristic, it seems eminently fitting that the State flower become the title of so worthy an enterprise from the State University. The work may be criticised as being too largely historical. Are not the events of childhood worthy of record? If so, there is no better time than when the youth enters manhood, for then early events are untarnished by timer, and error is least likely. Much difficulty has attended the search for some historical data. Owing to the lack of time not all the crumbs of truth could be gathered. The story must be completed by others. In the multiplicity of interests that make up the details of a book of this character, things highly amusing to some, may be equally exasperating to others. Life in its most active form is but a harp of melody and discordg an extreme of smiles and tears. If we have touched upon these extreme cords of student life, may it only arouse us to sterner activity. C35

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