Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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M. CLEMENT GILE, A. M. Head Professor of Classical Languages and Literature. M. Clement Gile was born in Havehill, Mass, He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated from Brown University in 1883. Mr. ( iile then taught at Phillips Academy, and in 1886 took his M. A. degree from Brown. He spent the next two years abroad in study and travel ami, on his return, resumed his former duties at Andover. Between 1892 and 1894 Mr. Gile held the Associate Professorship of Greek at the Chicago University on leave of absence in Colorado. Since that time he has been connected with Colorado College. RUBIN GOLDMARK. Director of the Conservatory. Rubin Goldmark was born in Xew York ' in 1872. He was educated at the College of the City of New York, and at the same ime studied music under Mr. Alfred Von Livonius. He spent two years at Vienna in studying the pianofort with Anton Door, and theory and compositio n with the Fuchs brothers. n his re- turn to America Mr. Goldmark studied the pianofort with Joseffy •and composition with Dvorak. In 1894, on account of ill health, he came to Colorado Springs and is at present Director of the Colorado College Conservatory of Music. During the past winter Mr. Goldmark ' s overture to Hiawatha was played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at all its concerts. ELLSWORTH GAGE LANCASTER. Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster was born in Dixfield, Maine. Until he entered Amherst College he attended the Augusta City schools. In 1885 he received his Bachelor ' s degree; in 1888, his Master ' s degree from Amherst, and in 1889, after studying a year at Andover, he was made B. D. During the next two years Dr. Lancaster was Pastor of the Congregational Church at Ashby, Massachusetts. In 1890, having taught various branches of study previously at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, and at Morgan Park, Illinois, he accepted the position of Principal of the Southern Kansas Academy, Eureka, Kansas. He taught there for five years, then spent two years in Clark University, first as University Scholar, then as University 16

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NATHAN BROWN COY, A. B. Associate Professor of the Classical Languages and Literatures and Principal of Cutler Academy. Nathan Brown Coy was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1847. He prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., and, in 1870, took his A. B. degree at Yale. After gradu- ation, Mr. Coy taught first in New Jersey and then in Connecticut, and in 1875 became the head of the Latin Department at Phillips Academy, Andover ; but the next year he came to Colorado on account of poor health. For five years he taught classics in the East Denver High School, and in 1891 began his duties as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. At the same time, he was President of the State Teachers ' Association and superin- tended with great success the Colorado Educational Exhibit at the World ' s Fair. For the last three years Mr. Coy has been connected with Colorado College. FRANCIS W. CRAGIN, S. B. Professor of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology. Greenfield, New Hampshire, is the birth-place of Prof. Ciagin, September 4th, 1858, being the date of his birth. In 1862 his parents removed to Wisconsin, and later, in his eleventh year, to Crawford County, Kansas. He prepared for college at Washburn from 1872 to 1875, and then studied four years at the Polytechnic Institute, of Brooklyn, after which he specialized in Natural History at Harvard in 1 880-1 881. The summer of 1 88 1 he spent in the private biological laboratory of Agassiz, the only student in a group of several professors. In 1882 he received the degree of B. S. (Magna Cum Lau dc) at the Harvard Scien- tific School, and after that spent a summer in the Sausen Col- lege of Languages, at Amherst. He was called to the Chair of Natural History in Washburn in 1882, and filled that position until 1891, when he came to Colorado College. Since coming to Colorado College Prof. Cragin has filled the position of Assistant State Geologist, of Texas, and has taken the degree of Ph. D. at John Hopkins University; the former during a leave of absence from 1892 to 1894, and the latter in 1898- 1899. While at Washburn he originated and prose- cuted a biological survey of the State of Kansas, the first survey of its kind in the country. For six years — 1890- 1897 — he was one of the editors and pub- lishers of the American Geologist. 15

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Fellow in Psychology, and obtained the degree of Ph. D. in 1897. In September of the same year he came to Colorado College, whei the Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy. of the same year he came to Colorado College, where he has been ever since, MABEL RUTH LOOMIS, A. B. Dean of Women Miss Ruth Loomis was born in North Manchester, Con- necticut, and spent the years of her school life in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she took the preparatory course for Vassar College. In 1885 she received an A. B. degree from that col- lege and two years after was made instructor in English in the same institution; this position she held for nine years. In 1891 Miss Loomis spent four months in France, taking lectures at both the Sorhaune, in Paris, and L ' Ecole Normale Superieure, at Sevres, with the view of studying the methods of the French in teaching composition. She came to Colorado College in il and since 1897 has been Dean of Women in this institution. GEORGE N. MARDEN. Treasurer of the College. George N. Marden was born in Concord, New Hampshire, March 18, 1836. He studied at first under Dr. Cyrus Richards, at Meridan, New Hampshire, afterwards teaching for several years. For three years he studied Theology at Bangor, and in 1862 was ordained as a Congregational minister, taking as his first charge the church at Boxboro, Mass. For seven months he was agent in Virginia for the United States Christian Com- mission, and immediately after that went to Washington, D. C, where he labored in the cause of the freedmen. Later he was for five years pastor of the Old South Church, at Fannington, Maine. After he had resigned this position he traveled for a year in Europe, returning to America in 1876, and accepting the Pastorate of the Union Church, in South Weymouth. In 1881 he came to Colorado Springs, and became Professor of Political Economy and History. Prof. Marden ' s life, in connection with Colorado College, has been a heroic one. A staunch and loyal friend of the college through all those years of adversity, he has been with it in despair as well as in prosperity. In 1884 he undertook to raise funds for the delinquent college, and by his own efforts has brought into the treasury since then over $200,000. In the words of Presi- dent Thwing, He has brought forth life under the very ribs of death. 17