Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Senior Class Ristory X THE fall of ' 97 there came to Colorado College the class which was destined to make a record more brilliant than any that has gone before or is likely to follow, at least for some time to come. Now from this statement it would be quite wrong to conjecture that the members of this class are conceited or have had their heads turned in die slightest degree by the praises which have been heaped upon them. On the contrary, it would be quite impossible to convince them of their importance as members of the Oldest Institution of Higher Learning in the West, and it is only by their many friends and admirers that they are appreciated. Although somewhat inexperienced, this class showed none of those marks i nnsophistication commonly called greenness, which are characterist ' c of most Freshman classes, and conducted itself with exemplary dignity even dur- ing the cane rush with the Sophomores early in the year and in which the Sophomores claim to have been victorious. Dignity in a cane rush may sound paradoxical, but that was not worth mentioning compared with the dignity with which a number of these same Freshmen rode heme on the car from a Canon picnic, while the bicycles on which they had started out were trundled along, saddleless, in a lumber wagon. Silently, but with threatening looks they scored this against the Sophomores, and soon they added another score, that of disconnected electric wires and a disturbed party. So, biding their time they waited until the Sophomores were being enter- tained, when they crept stealthily up the stairs and relieved the young gentle- men of the trouble of carrying home their hats, believing that plenty of fresh air locally applied is a good remedy for mental derangement- Soon after, following the dictates of their own lofty aspirations, some daring youths ascended in the dead of night to the top of the newly-painted smokestack and there inscribed in burning characters, ' 01 ; which, when it met the gaze of the awakening Sophs, aroused in them such a spirit of envy that 20

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Cbe Senior Class Officers President Benjamin Rastall. Vice-President Ethel Van Wagenen. Secretary-Treasurer Bernard L. Rice. Colors Royal Purple and White. Veil Smoke Stack ! Palmer ! ! Barbecue ! Fun ! ! Annual ! Scholarship ! ! Victories won ! ! Twentieth Century ! Nineteen-One ! ! ! ! Class Roll ■ La c Sj. Lit— Qf-.Q or l. fe £-ty

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they straightway tried to substitute their own oo ; but in vain. President Slocum, however, pitying the agonies of the naughty naughts, had every ves- tige of the sign removed. In the spring the young men ' s fancy, contrary to precedent and prescribed rules, lightly turned to thoughts of baseball, and the result was a game with the Sophomores in which the Freshmen acquitted themselves with dignity. J he following fall, owing to the abolition by request, of the regulation cane rush, the first opportunity of distinction for the class of ' 01 came with the approach of the pumpkin jack o ' lantern season, when, according to an ancient, but long discontinued custom, the Sophomore class gave a barbecue, the finest entertainment of its kind which the writer has ever had the good fortune to attend. 1 he glory of this achievement so eclipsed all other incidents of the year, that little record of them is left. Mention might be made, however, of the ' or ' s which adorned Palmer Hall during the greater part of the year, and also of an unimportant baseball game which occurred with the Freshman class late in the spring. The record of this year would not be complete without the men- tion of an event which shook the College to its foundations. Brown got mar- ried. Brown, that sedate Sophomore, whom no one would have suspected of harboring such wild designs. Truth is stranger than fiction. When the class of nineteen hundred and one reached the Junior year, all personal combats being things of the past, it lent its support to the Freshmen, who, with this aid and their own iron constitutions, won the athletic contest with great ease, not so much as turning a hair at the bread-and-molasses test. To the eternal glory of ' oi be it stated that the first Annual ever gotten out in Colorado College was compiled by this class, and so great was the suc- cess of this work that it was with the greatest misgivings that the present junior class took up the duty which now devolved upon them of publishing another. The Senior year, although an interesting one, has had few events for a historian to chronicle- Insignia day was a red-letter day and the Insignia party was quite a success, as the occasion when that much abused being, Class Spirit, was tried and sentenced to be hung. There have been numerous social functions since of both formal and informal .nature, and there is a shocking rumor that some members of the class were seen sliding clown hill on what looked suspiciously like a ladder, but this report is not well founded and is not worthy of credence in the opinion of the historian. It must be clear to everyone by this time that as a class, ' or has acquitted itself during its College course with the greatest credit. Moreover it has fur- nished to the College leaders in every department. Football, baseball, ora- torical association and Christian association have all strongly felt its influence. A few have been obliged to leave before the course was finished and have left big vacancies, which, however, have been well filled by the members who have come in during the last two years. 21