University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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fiL UM NI OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. President .... ........................... O mar E. Garwood, Ph.B., 'Ol Vice-President ..... ..... I Irs. Maude C. Gardiner, B.S., '99 Secrotary-Treasurer .... ....... I iarold P. Martin, Ph.B., '01 E t, C ,tt f Thomas O. McHarg, LLB., 599 4 XCCLI IVQ f0l1lTI11 GU. . . . . . . l iiarnn E. Miles, Mn., '01 Last November the University celebrated the consunnnation of twenty-five years of its growth and influence. Many alumni returned to take part in vari- ous reunions and events of that celebration, and there Was much thought of and talk of the graduates of the University, and Where they were, and what they had been doing. The result of it all Was, like that of the Whole retrospect, one of the gratifications 5 gratification to those who have contributed and labored for the upbuilding of the University, gratification and deepest gratitude on the part of the alumni. ' This cast back over a comparatively short past, brought, for one thing, the realization that those who have gone out from these walls with the reputation and honor of the University of Colorado in their keeping, have done nobly by their Alma Mater. May we not even say that they have made her reputation. Many of her graduates have gone from this to other universities and colleges, and have rarely failed to win high honors. Many of them are men and women of State and even of national reputation. A large number hold places in the educational institutions of this and other states. Many are successfully en- gaged in business, holding places of trust and confidence. The success of her professional men has been remarkable for the short period since the foundation of the professional schools. You will, in short, find the Alumni in many call- ings and under many skies, and wherever they go and Whatever calling pursue they are becoming known as earnest Workers and good citizens, true gentlemen and gentlewomen. This marked success of her alumni led such a man as Doctor Sewall, in his speech at the alumni dinner, to say: I feel it is some- thing to be proud of to be a part of an institution which has turned out so many men that stand high in the educational World, that have won a state and even national reputation. I say the University of Colorado has furnished more such men in proportion to those that have attended the institution than Harvard, or Yale, or Columbia, or Michigan, or all of them put together, in the last twenty-ive years 3 and I say that is something to be proud of. What shall We say is the meaning of the success of these graduates? Does it mean that a degree from this University is charged with some magic power which brings to its bearer position and success? Not at all 5 in the struggle for recognition in the World at large, in the measure of man's strength of mind 58

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and body with man, a mere degree counts but for little. There are even today people in whose eyes a college education is considered a drawback. It means, then, that the University of Colorado is sending out, not students and highly educated people merely, but men and Women, that good men and Women have entered the University, and have gone forth better men and nobler Women 3 that her children are going out into the World with the ideals of their Alma Mater in their hearts, and are using for a purpose the things that have been put into them by the faculty of the University, and by its traditions and associations. It means that her graduates have not only received admirable training in some particular department and line of Work, but it means that they have been brought under a broadening influence, giving them a broader and better view of life, and the purpose of life. And shall we not say that they have in them something of the grit and grim hold and push of the football teams, something of the joy of struggle and victory, and the courage to fight a losing battle, and the heart to bear defeat, and yet to iight again and Win? Something, too, of the influence of rugged hills, and rich-checkered valleys, of blue skies and free, strong winds. Surely these young mon and Women have not squandered the rich heritage which the founders of the University have left them, and those founders and all who have stood by the University and fought for her may Well feel that their efforts have not been in vain. The alumni bring their greeting to the undergraduates, and suggest that there is this thought and purpose for us all 3 to stand always for the dignity of the University 3 whatever We do, and Whatever We say, ever bear in mind the dignity of our Alma Mater, to keep her reputation as clean as the White of the white snows that gleam on the range behind her 3 to write her name On the highest elilfs toward the sunrise. H. P. M. '01. 59