Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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merits of history, ascribe it to the fact that as yet time enough has not elapsed to study the results of the deeds narrated upon the development of the human race. To begin with, in the fall of ninety-eight, seventy-five of as green and innocent Freshmen as one could wish to see, timidly entered the portals of the Oldest Institution for Higher Learning in the West. There they met the customary treatment accorded such simple and helpless beings by those who, once simple and helpless like themselves, have become skilled in the wiles of the college world through much hard experience, and have carefully and craftily buried their own blunders and breaks in oblivion. These youthful enthusiasts had not been long in school before there was borne in upon them the necessity of im- pressing their importance upon the outside world, and especially the Sophomore part of it. The unique method chosen to bring about this desirable result, was that of decorating the roofs of the buildings and ! horror of horrors ! the sacred little grass plot ' with the class numerals. The customary and to-be-expected squelch followed closely upon this performance, effectually, too, for during the remainder of the year class spirit did not overstep the bounds prescribed for it by the unsym- pathetic Faculty. After a hard-foug ht and skilfully contested baseball game which gave the Freshmen a victory over the hated Sophomores, all superabundant energy was turned to the contemplation of the arts of peace. The good results of this devotion to the high ethical idear were apparent in the goodly number of honors carried off by the class of ' 02. The Sophomore year of this remarkable class was distinguished, principally for the famous Battle of the Ivinni- kinnick. Desiring revenge for previous wrongs, and also to suppress the new class who were of the customary degree of freshness and shade of greenness, the warlike Sophomore youths perpetrated the attack now famed in song and story, upon the Castle of the Kinnikinnick, within which the guileless Freshies were harmlessly and instructively occupied in playing Progressive Cat and Up Jenkins. The attack was prevented from being successful by the unwarrantable interference of a righteous minded professor. Blessed are the peace makers. The after results in the form of mass meetings, resolu- tions, irate professors, weeping maidens and anarchistic oratory are too well knoAvn to all who are likely to read these pages to need repeating here. Suffice it to say that class spirit was again reprimanded and forbidden to indulge in anything more exciting than an occasional game of marbles or leap frog, with sometimes a dish of bread and molasses by way of a treat. The rest of the year was again devoted to intellectual pursuits and scholarly attainments. The Junior year of ' 02 is remarkable for the super-excellence of the Annual published in behalf of the Alma Mater, and by the increased ability, executive, official, mental and moral everywhere plainly visible. The cultivated and well-bred 23

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CLASS OF ii)02 Officers Tracy R. Love President. Edith Albert Vice-Presidenr. Jessie Hart Secretary-Treasurer. Colors Red and Black. Tell Hoo— Rah— Bah ! Hoo— Rah— Ra 1 1 ! Wah— Hoo ! Wall— Hoo ! Rip! Rah! Pah! Kazik — a — la ! Kazik — a — la ! Ree ! Pi ! Poo ! Holly— Boom ! Solly— Boom ! Nineteen Two ! ! SENIOR CLASS HISTORY The task of the historian is a hard one. Not only does he have to give an accurate chronological statement of facts, events, and epochs, but he is also popularly supposed to discourse more or less at length on the philosophical bearing of these facts, events and epochs on the life and civilization of man. For that reason, if this humble and modest chronicle of the doings of the topmost class in College during the past three and one half years does not seem to come up to the require-

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status attained is clearly demonstrated by telling you that, while in previous years it had been deemed wise to choose one of the sterner sex as class president, now a maiden peacefully swayed the sceptre, and her gentle, peaceful and womanly ad- ministration left a permanent impress upon the character and manners of those administered. The Senior year has not been marked by much of anything as yet, but hopes to win renown by the fewness of its flunks at the final examination crisis in June. If anything can be especially remarked upon, it is the ease and dignity man- ifested, especially by the young men, in the wearing of the cap and gown, and the graceful management of the train — per- haps, also, the princely hospitality extended to lower classmen, especially demonstrated at the Insignia Day party in honor of the Junior Class. So here we are, thirty-five of the original seventy-five, not all originals either, for some have gone and others have taken their places; all gathered on the stage for the last scene of the last act of the College drama. Soon we shall have gone on our last picnic together, our last recitation will have ended, our last tete-a-tete on the coping, our last stroll across the Campus ; our faces will be set toward the east to watch for the dawning of a new day ; our footsteps will have ceased to echo in the corridors of learning, and to you, dear fellow schoolmates and teachers, we shall have become only a memory, our faults and mistakes gently erased by the tender fingers of Time and, let us hope, only our better and more lovable selves will continue to live in the history of our beloved College. 24