Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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friends been ready to come to its help. It is easy to prophecy that in the next twelve years still greater progress will be made and the institution will become one of the large colleges of the country. May it never lose the standards, the aspirations, the spirit, which have given it such an individuality in these early years of its history ! EDWARD S. PARSONS.

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nasium, in 1891 ; the Coburn Library, the gift of the late N. P. Coburn, of Newton, Mass., and the Wolcott Observatory, in 1894 ; Ticknor Hall, for young women, in 1897, and the Perkins Fine Arts Building during the present college year. In the purchase, or the building, of these and one or two other smaller structures, about $160,000 has been expended. In addition, about $400,000 has been added to the endowment funds. About $65,000 more is now in hand with which a Science and Administration Building is to be begun as soon as the architect ' s plans can be prepared. This material growth has been paralleled by the internal development. In 1888, when President Slocum came, there were seven instructors, now there are thirty-five. Then there were twenty-five students in the college and the academy, and not one regular college student. Before the present year closes there will have been enrolled in all departments nearly five hundred. There will be granted this year thirty diplomas as against five in 1894 and eighteen last year. The class which is just completing its Freshman year numbers about sixty. But the growth in numbers has not been more marked than the growth in college spirit. Five or six years ago there was a college here only in the sense that professors heard the recitations of students in college work. But all is now changed. Every class is organized, and class spirit and rivalrv are a healthful influence. The college has taken a prominent place in inter- collegiate athletics during the last year, having won the State Championship in base-ball and foot-ball. Last spring it defeated the University of Nebraska in an intercollegiate debate. It has one of the finest glee-clubs in the West. There could not be found a college where the students are more loyal to their institution than are the students of Colorado College. The college stands above all for the pre-eminence of the religious spirit. It seeks to see the meaning of life through the eyes of Christ, to judge all things by his standards, to infuse into all human relations his spirit. In the first circular issued by the institution were these words : The character which is most desired for this college is that of thorough scholarship and fervent piety, each assisting the other, and neither ever offered as a compensation for the defects of the other. From the beginning, this has been the ambition of those who have directed its affairs, and it has always sought to accomplish this result without appealing to sectarianism. Members of the leading denominations are among its trustees and faculty. Hardly a denomination is unrepresented in its student body. Every one of the past twelve years of the history of the college has been a marked advance upon its predecessor. The year which is just closing has been in all respects the best. Never before has it had such a sentiment of loyalty behind it in the city and in the Stat e. Never before have so many W

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N? VO K J I A M cm =? • I 5 u 5y EQ Ttx IBoard of {Trustees. William F. Slocum, President of the Board ..Colorado Springs. George W. Bailey, , Denver. William P. Bonbright Colorado Springs. Rev. W. H. W. Boyle, D. D Colorado Springs. John Campbell Denver Frank Trumbull Denver. Rev. James B. Gregg, D. D Colorado Springs. J. J. Hagerman Colorado Springs. John R. Hanna Denver. Thomas S. Hayden Denver. Irving Howbert Colorado Springs. William S. Jackson Colorado Springs. Horace G. Lunt Colorado Springs. F. L. Martin Colorado Springs. William J. Palmer Colorado Springs. George Foster Peabody New York. M. D. Thatcher Pueblo 12