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Color fro Col lege Tc.tr ool; llattapt-Stfrct COLORADO COLLEGE IN 1882. Past, Present an future By Erle V. Painter. Colorado College is the oldest institution of higher education in the State. This familiar legend we find inscribed in the front of our catalogues, and all like appropriate places. And to those of us who have entered in but recent years, a conception of this beginning very probably embraces the present Cam- pus, with, perhaps, the exception of Palmer Hall. A little curiosity, however, very quickly shows us our mistake. Established in 1874. Colorado Springs itself but three years old. Colorado not admitted to Statehood until ' 76. Denver approximating some ten thousand inhabitants, the Springs boasting but fifteen hundred. Ever notice from one of the many vantage points of the nearby mountains what a little splash on the rolling landscape before you Colorado Springs really makes? Cut that m half, divide the remainder by two, bunch what is left around Pike ' s Peak and Cascade Avenues, and your first result will leave the Campus somewhere a mile or so to the north, out on the prairie, lost in weeds, sagebrush and sand. So let us forget the reality of today and go back to the beginning; to Colorado Springs in ' 74 — a clump of log cabins and shacks, sunshine and dreams, dreams, dreams. Prof Kerr, the oldest professor now resident in the Springs, talks most interestingly of those early days. He says: I came over to Colorado Springs, was told that there were here two thousand people. There did not appear, however, to be more than half that number. It becoming known that I had been connected with the University of Mis- souri, and was the head of the Normal School in southeast Missouri, everybody seemed to think he must talk school to me, and the main subject I heard discussed was the mak- ing of this prospective city a great center of learning. One man, I think it was Major McAllister, said: ' There are millions of people who cannot live in the East and who are looking for just such a place as this, where they can enjoy, without money and without effort, the grandest mountain scenery of the world, drink the life-giving waters of Man- ltou, charged with sulphur for the skin, soda for the stomach, and iron for the blood; where they can grow strong and happy in the finest climate ever let loose from the hands of the Creator, and where, under their own watchful eyes, they can give their children a princely education. ' I ventured to ask where the College buildings were. ' Don ' t have any, ' was the reply. ' Don ' t need any, yet. A room or two will be enough to start with. This is a land where things grow. All that is necessary here is to plant the seed — college seed, if you please — sprinkle a little water over it, and it will grow. I tell you it will grow. ' Well, I didn ' t dare say it wouldn ' t. The man was too much m ear- nest, and I was too far away from home. Speaking of life in those days, he says: In 1875 I was living in the frame house 14
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