University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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Though mean be thy form, in my thoughts there's a place Endeared by past hours of exuberant glee- Rosy gleams of receptions which dreamily grace With memories sweet all my visions of thee. Just a glimpse do we get of the Engineefs pride- The New Shop, with its motto of silent command- Waste no hours! With me surcease of toil is denied! Come-but bring living heart, growinglmind, willing hand! f 9 Too young is the Chemistry Building as yet To embrace fond tradition of days of the past. l-lere memories, and dreams of the future have met But to part-misty shadows too shallow to last. ln the distance, half hid by a framework of trees, The home of the Medics, with windows a-light Repeats an old tale to the heart which now sees The signs of harsh toil, in the depths of the night. 'Tis a story of work-scathing labor, dull toil, To assuage the worldis grief with the gift of new life. New blood mixed with old through the turgid turmoil Emerges a neutral to calm diseased strife. Sheer walls gleaming white in the moon's night-day glare Show the Library, still, in the silence of sleep. 'Tis a sign not of bustle and noisy fanfare But a symbol of quiet, and knowledge-thirst deep. Recollections of Hfussingn are driven from my mind By the thoughts of my life's sweetest hours spent within While I searched, not in vain, a true solace to find For my crimes against time, and my mind's heavy sin. Not in vain did I search. There I found a sweet peace ln the long contemplation of life's highest aimg There my soul, searching musty tomes found quick release From its clay, to return nevermore as the same. For I changed, through those spells, in a swift cycle, rare, Clingizxg fast to the light, as the night to the day- As tranquil I found thee, still leave I thee there As I dry my soul's tears, now to haste on my way. IZ

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Now come to the place where the dull grinding wheels Turn a host of new scientists forth every year. Abnormally sensitive is he who feels A tremor of feelings poetic, I fear. For work were you raised tier on tier from the dust, Preparation for years of life comfort to come. Education your aim, and your sacredest trust, Adding true blood to figure in life's earnest sum. Even now in your halls, you are training a race Full of loyalty, spirit and pride, who forsooth, In the passing of years will usurp custom's mace, And iight in the world for the lifeis highest truth. Now hushed are the wheels. In the moon's feeble glare A defiance majestic, you mount to the skies: A mark of advancement in Time,s cycle thereg One step toward the goal where all future Fate lies! With regret I address you-devoid of all life!- Much too tranquil is night for your natural aim. With regret I abandon sweet memories rife, And cast you behind for the laurels of fame. l-low the Gym with an insolence born of its age ' ,Stands, a mockery grim to the near Gamble Field: An athletic weakness 'twould seem to presage, Not the spirited slogan, To foes never yield. ll

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Ziatstnry HE history of the University is simply the progressive realization of an ever broadening dream. The dream was first committed to paper in the autumn of 1861, when a bill was passed in the earliest Territorial Legislature providing for the establishment of the University of Coloradof' There were possibly twenty-five thousand in- habitants in the State, not counting the lndiansg there were practically no schoolsg there was little taxable propertyg but there was sublime faith, and that begot the vision. Our proleptic University was theoretically located from year to year in various towns, including Burlington. In I877, however, the University was actually established, and the dream had begun its realization. It is not quite easy to depict those earlier days for the present generation. We have this year over a thousand studentsg then there were forty-four. We have con- siderably over a hundred instructorsg then there were two, and when Miss Rippon came to grace the Faculty it meant an increase of Hfty per cent in the teaching force. We have excellent laboratories, a good library, and extensive apparatus 5-although in all three lines we are praying for better things-in those days there was one build- ing with absolutely no equipment. We are spending, not reckoning private dona- tions, about two hundred thousand dollars a yearg at that time the income was less than seven thousand. It would have taken a bold seer to declare that in thirty years these things would be. ' It is not necessary to chronicle the material additions. The cottages followed the Old Main in point of time. Then, in l890, came Woodbury Hall, named for Regent R. W. Woodbury of Denver, and so on to the Engineering Shops and the Heating Plant, already in existence, with the Mackey Auditorium and the Gug- genheim Law Building in immediate prospect. This material growth has been guided by three presidents. President Sewall was in charge from the beginning until I887g President Hale from that year until l89l 5 and President Baker's strong hand has been at the helm for the last seventeen years. The order of establishment of the various Schools and Colleges of the Uni- versity has been: Normal and Preparatory fboth abolishedj, Liberal Arts, Medi- cine, Law, Engineeringj The Graduate School conferred a degree as early as l885g but the beginning of its important activity may be placed in the latter years of the final decade of the century, and is associated by many with the inspiring efforts of Dr. Carl W. Belser. As to the teachers and students that have come and gone, I may not speak. The last ten years have seen almost a complete rewriting of the list of the Facultyg and inevitably the generations of students are as the leaves of the trees. Even those who abide longest, are not with us more than seven yearsg some do not tarry seven months. And yet it would be with the Faculty and students that the real history of the University ought to deal. Nor would there be many institutions, where such a history would record the same teaching, the same earnest learning, the same loyalty in all ranks. Nowhere, so far as my knowledge goes, would there be a similar record of unfailing harmonious relations between the members of the staff and the students. In whatever else we may have failed, we have at any rate established the possibiltiy of having a University where there shall be practically no final discord between the various parts. And our dream for the future must include the development of this enviable spirit of co-operation as well as our growth along every other line. We shall have g-but the Editor asked for a history, so I may not go on with our dream. I3