Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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

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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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WILLIAM STRIEBY, A. M., E. M. Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy. William Strieby was born in ( )hio but moved to Syracuse. New York, in time to begin his education in the public schools of that city. His college preparatory course was completed in Newark, New Jersey, and he received his A. B. degree from the University of New York in 1875. He then took the regular course in the School of Mines of Columbia University and, in 1878, received the degree of E. M. from that institution. After taking his Master ' s degree from the University of New York, Prof. Striebv was induced to give up his intentions of engaging in iron manufacture that he might come west to start the Santa Fe Academy under the direction of Colorado College. He was principal of this school for two years. In 1880 he was called to Colorado College to organize the Department of Chemistry and Metallu and has ever since been at the head of that department. rev. FRANCIS WALKER, S. B., A. M., Ph. D. Professor of Political and Social Science. Francis Walker was born in Washington, D. C, in 1870. His youth was spent in New Haven and Boston. In 1892 he received the degree of S. 1!. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The three years following were spent in post- graduate work in Columbia University, where he took his Master ' s degree in 1893 and his Doctor ' s degree in 1895. His Doctor ' s Thesis, on Double Taxation in the United States, was published. In 1894 and 1895 Dr. Walker was special agent for the Massachusetts Board to investigate the unemployed, and also did special work on the question of contract and city labor, and relief on public works. He became identified with Colo- rado College in 1895, and since 1897 has been Professor of Political and Social Science. 19