College of Idaho - Trail Yearbook (Caldwell, ID)

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16 T It e T R A I L been received for S300,000, 5lS180,000 of which has been actually paid. In 1917 the college received a wonderful gift from Mr. and Mrs. Blatchley who have given so freely of their time and money to our school. At Christmas they presented Blatchley Hall to the college, to be the home of the president and a social center for the students. In the fall of '19 Dr. Boone took up his residence there, Mr. and Mrs. Blatchley having com- pleted their new home. , BLATCHLEY HALL Athletics have always played an important part in the life of the College of Idaho. No account can be found of the first baseball team, but the College of Idaho won the Baseball Conference championship in 1914. Since the war, track has taken the place of spring baseball. The Tennis Association was organized in the fall of 1914 and in the spring of 1915 the courts were put in order. Football in the Cbllege of Idaho began to have a definite standing about the fall of 1905. Sam Bal- lentyne was coach and practically all the work was done in the main street under the electric light. John Winne was captain, and the team won from Emmett and Payette high schools. In 1908 the State Championship team was developed and coached by R. D. Kyle and H. R. Cleaver, James Boone captain. Sam Cupp was a star player that year. In 1909 the only game with the Idaho University was played. C. of I. held the university team without a score for 45 minutes. In 1915 Baldridge was captain of an un- defeated championship team. That year the first annual football banquet was given by Mrs. Boone and Mrs. Blatchley. With the coming of Coach Cornell in the middle of the 1917 season our fame and powers began to grow. There was no football in 1918 owing to 100 per cent patriotism on the part of coach and football men. In '19 the college again had an unde- feated championship team. In '20 she scored heavily against Whitman, her first big college game, with the prospects for a winning team against some of the biggest colleges in the northwest for the season '21, . ' The Coyote Hrst howled in 1907 in the form of a yearly record of stu-

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The TRAIL 15 The Y. M. C. A. was organized in 1912 and fitted up the Y. M. room in Sterry Hall. The first animal Post Exam Jubilee was celebrated most hilariously on the evening of Feb. 9, 1912, in the Lowell room. The custom of the student body unanimously cutting classes -on April first to go picnicing was started in the spring of 1912 and was observed annually until the faculty started a custom of their own in the spring of '19 by unanimously UD voting to stay out and make garden on that day. The first annual May breakfast was given by the Y. W. C. A. girls May 29, 1912, on the lawn of the Olmstead home. During the summer of 1912 the driveway was built, trees set out and the campus improved. That fall the Domestic Science Department was begun with Miss Nichol at its head, and we now have a splendidly equipped Domestic Science room. The fall of 1912 also added Prof. Rankin to our faculty. But perhaps the most important event of that year to our college was the act passed by the twelfth session of the state legislature and signed by Gov. Haines, which placed the college on an equal footing with the university in regard to, the issuing of degrees and certihcation. In 1913 a Letter Society was established for the purpose of settling all matters pertaining to the wearing of the C. of I. emblems, to create a greater respect and honor for these emblems, to promote the welfare of the athletic and literary activities of the College of Idaho, and to stimulate the spirit of comradeship and loyalty among the students. In 1914 was organizd the official Walking Club composed of girls and limited in membership to 23. Every spring sees the establishment of many unofiicial little walking clubs with the membership much more limited. The need for debating work had finally outgrown the two literary societies and in October, 1916, Prof. I-l. H. Hayman organized the Senate. This august body, with a membership limited to 15, has developed some wonderful debaters and has undoubtedly done much to- keep the debate cup in our chapel room. The annual debate banquet is an important social event and the historic gavel made in 1908 by Lawrence Henry Gipson from the first apple tree planted in Caldwell, has been the historic bone of con- tention in our college ever since. In the fall of 1917 the girls decided not to be outdone and organized the Parthenian Forum, even up to and including the annual banquet. And then in order to seek further knowledge of philosophy the Ecclesia Philathea was founded in 1919 by Prof. Springer, with a charter member- ship of 15. The Spanish Club was organized in 1918 by Mrs. Rankin and Le Cercle Francais in 1921 by Prof. Boulton. Realizing the need for a better financial backing, more buildings and better equipment, brought about by the rapid growth of the school, in 1917 Dr. Boone started the 3S500,000 endowment fund campaign. The war has interfered greatly with this just as it has with all departments of the school, but under the efficient management of Dr. Chalfant, pledges have

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T It e 'T R A I L 17 dent body activities. In 1908 a history ofthe early years of the college was published, bearing the name of the Renaissance. In 1910 under the man- agement of Dan Banks the Coyote was published in the form of a monthly magazine. In 1916 it was changed to its present newspaper form and was issued bi-weekly. In 1916 the student body decided to issue an annual. It was called The Trail. The publication was taken over by the Junior class with Hugh Caldwell as editor. In June, 1916, the boys first started to leave in answer to the call of their country. In 1917 many men enlisted and in the fall of 1918 the College of Idaho started out as a girls seminary. Prof. Carl Salomon and Coach Cornell represented the faculty in the service. Our service flag shows the record of 101 young men who answered her country's call in the time of deepest need. The one gold star is in memory of Andrew Thompson, who was killed in action at Vimy Ridge, Easter Sunday, 1917. The spring of '21 was saddened by the death of Prof. Boulton, who had been one of the most potent factors in the development of the high stan- dards of our school. In the fall of 1917 the schedule of classes was rearranged and the hour class period was used. In 1919 the College of Idaho was recognized by the state board of educa- tion as one of the two standard colleges of Idaho. The university is the other. t 'Lhe General Board of Education has put us on its map as one of the five approved colleges in the western half of the United States. And it is admitted with the state university to competition for the Oxford Rhodes Scholarship. So we have now a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that does a few things so well and is so eliicient and up to date that earnest young people will eagerly seek its tuition. And at the head of this college is Dr. W. J. Boone, big, brainy, silent, sympathetic, with the simplicity of a true gentleman, a man who has found true content and happiness through dedicating his life to the work of helping the young men and 'women of southern Idaho to fit themselves for service. -T, H. J.