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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BEAUTIFUL BOULDER. Nestling lneath lofty peaks and spreading out into the finest of all Colorado valleys, Boulder sits, the unique and marvelous city of a marvelous state. Of her beauties the poets sing, the people sound universal acclaim. Boulder is the 't Athens of Coloradof' for she is the seat of the University of Colorado, an institution liberally endowed by the State, and this year having an attendance of three hundred students. All the elements have conspired to render the climate delightful. But twenty-nine miles from Denver, toward the mountains, Boulder is several degrees warmer in the winter and vastly cooler,by reason of the breezes fresh from the snow-clad moun- tains, in the summer. Here, at the moderate elevation of 5,280 feet, live 5,500 contented and intelligent people. Boulder is essentially a city of houses, its school rolls carry- ing the names of 1,300 children. It is, reached from Denver, by the Union Pacific Railroad, with three daily trains, Sun- days, morning and evening trains. A fine Wagon road leads to Boulder canonfalternately lovely by its rippling brook and gentle foliage, and awe-inspiring in the magnificence of its lofty peaks, dark, deep gorges, and the roar of the WonderfulBoulder falls. Hotels for the traveler are plenty and Well ordered. Boul- derls flouring mills produce two hundred barrels a day. She has founderies, a creamery, Works for the sampling of ores, assay offices, a factory for the manufacture of the Sanitary pipe, Wagon-making shops, a steam laundry, two daily and three Weekly newspapers, churches of all Protestant and Catholic faith, four school buildings that cost a'B40,000, a court house situated in a beautiful square in the heart of the city, costing ttl25,000. There are three national banks With capital and surplus of 3250,000, and average deposits of t'S500,000. An electric plant lights the city. A city of homes, the seat of learning, the base of supplies of a great mining, agricultural and fruit-growing sectionfher shipments of small fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are enormous- Boulder is, in herself, an epitome of all that constitutes Colo- rado great. 1113