Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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

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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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ATHERTON NOYES. Dean of the Faculty, Instructor in English and Greek. Dean Noyes was horn in New York City in 1862. He pre- pared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in the class of 1881. In the fall of that year he entered Yale, passing the classical course and receiving the degree of A. B. in 1885. The year following his graduation was spent in tutoring, and in the fall of 1886 he entered the Harvard Medical School. After a year ' s work there he removed to Colorado, and in 1892 became connected with Colorado College. Since that time he has been Dean of the Faculty. EDWARD SMITH PARSONS, A. M., B. D. Bemis Head Professor of English. Edward Smith Parsons, by marriage second cousin, twice removed, to John Greenleaf Whittier, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1863. He prepared for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, and in 1883, graduated from Amherst with the degree of A. B. For several months after graduation, Mr. Parsons studied at the Columbia School of Political Science and then entered his father ' s office. In 1886 he received his M. A. degree at Amherst, and 1887 he graduated from the Yale Divinity School with the degree of B. D. The next summer he supplied the Congregational Church, of Platte- ville, Colorado, and in the fall returned to the Yale Divinity School for a year of postgraduate work. For four years Mr. Parsons was pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Greeley, Colorado, but in 1892 resigned to accept the Professorship o in Colorado College. He still holds this position, and is now Vice of the college. f English President LOUIS JEANNERET SOUTTER. Director of the Department of Art and Design. He graduated Louis J. Soutter is a native of Switzerland from the University of Lousanne in 1890. He then became a student in the Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels, under Eugene Ysaye, where he remained from 1892 to 1895. From 1895 to 1898 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Col- arossi Atelier, Paris, and came to Colorado College in the fall of 1898. During the summer and fall of 1899 he was in Europe in the interests of the Art Department of Colorado College. IS