Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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

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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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Gfc faculty. e t t£ U UIS A. E. AHLERS, A. B. Head Professor of Modern Languages and Literature. Louis A. E. Alders was born in the northern part of Ger- many, where he lived until seventeen years of age. He then came to the United States and studied mechanical engineering long enough to find out that this subject did not interest him sufficiently to he made his profession. For four years lie led an interesting and adventurous life at sea, visiting the southern continents. On his return to America he entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.. to prepare for his university course ; this he took at Harvard (1890-93), but left at the end of his junior year to spend twelve months in study at the University of Berlin. Again returning to America, he received the B. A. degree from Harvard University and took a postgraduate course there during 1894-95. Since Sep- tember, 1895, he has been Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Colorado College. As President of the College Athletic Association for the past three years he has been most influential, directly and indirectly, in bringing about the athletic victories. Each year Prof. Aiders gives University Extension lectures on German, French and English literatures in Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo. SAMUEL JACKSON BARNETT, A. B., Ph. D. Professor of Physics. Samuel Jackson Barnett was born in Kansas in 1873. In 1894 he took his A. B. degree from the University of Denver and became instructor in physics and biology in the same institution. The following year he studied at the University of Virginia. Here he was assistant in the astronomical observatory and instructor in astronomy. During 1896-1898 Mr. Barnett was Graduate Scholar, Fellow and Fellow-elect in Physics at Cornell, where he took his Ph. D. degree. Dr. Barnett has written a number of papers on electricity, which have been published in the Physical Review, Electrician, Electrical Review, and Electrical World and Engineer. For the past two years he has taught physics in Colorado College. 13