University of Central Oklahoma - Bronze Book Yearbook (Edmond, OK)

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r BRONZE ZBOUK] 1 L JOHN G. MITCHELL, A. M., President i i- . LI920 J

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r BRON7E D3EQK] 1 CENTRAL ' S SCHOOL COLORS Sometime early in the fall of 1 895 former President Murdaugh called the attention of the Faculty and the student body to the advisability of select- ing colors for the school — the first ever adopted in Oklahoma, the writer be- lieves. A careful investigation was made of those then in use among the various prominent institutions in the United States that we might avoid copying. With the thought in mind that the colors should be significant, stand for something, be suggestive, the choice fell upon BRONZE and BLUE: Bronze, The sha- dowed livery of the burnished sun — the gentle light of intelligence; Blue, the color of the heavens — broad, expansive, suggestive of depth, aspiration, hope, ideals. Their first public, statewide display was at Guthrie when the Hon. John Adams, a prominent lawyer now of Guthrie, then a member of the first class ever graduated from an Oklahoma Educational Institution, represented the school in the first oratorical contest ever held in Oklahoma — the schools taking part being the University, the A. S M. College and The Normal School for Oklahoma — now Central. I he worthy wearer of the BRONZE and BLUE must be enthusiastic in intelligent service and inspired by noble thought, lofty aspirations and unselfish ideals. EDM1 l ) DANDRIDGE MURDAUGH. J