Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Colorado eoIIcflc¥car goojU Itattfltjt-Srfrcn Athletic life proper, began in 1895. There had been an Intercollegiate League for some years, but Colorado College had not been a member of it. This year they entered in baseball, and to the surprise of everybody, won a close second. The next year they won the championship, and entering the Intercollegiate track and field meet, surprised every one by winning it also. There was also a Faculty-Senior baseball game. Prexy was captain of the Professors. They entered football in ' 95, but were for the nex t three years far outclassed in weight and playing. In ' 98, Boulder withdrew from the League because of her refusal to hold to the four-year rule. (Boulder has from the first been distinctly Boulder. ) C. C. tied with Golden for football championship. In Spring of ' 98 the College again won the baseball championship, not having been defeated the whole year. This championship they successfully defended during the next two seasons of ' 99 and 1900. In ' 98 football and baseball sweaters were first given. In ' 99 and 1 900 the Tigers won the football championship, the second year not being scored against. It was said: Prexy broke his telephone hollering Pike ' s Peak or Bust! In 1903 the baseball championship was won again. In November, 1891, was the first Barbecue, only boys attending. Girls were invited next year, however. In 1 892 and ' 93, Colorado College won first in the State Oratorical Contest. For the ' 93 and ' 94 contests over one hundred rooters accompanied the men to Denver and Boulder. And thus we read. The pages fairly shouting their victorious yells, and brimming over with their energy and enthusiasm. We have a heritage handed down to us that it behooves us to treat with utmost reverence. A Colorado College man stands for something ! The reputation of the Col- lege is in our keeping. And as one searches among the old records of the lives of faculty, students and generous friends who have made our College, and who, through all the days of darkness and of hopes turned false, of bitter defeats and victories pregnant with the danger of repeated success, have held steadfast to their great ideal, and have handed it down to us without one blemish upon it — the significance of being a student of Colorado College comes to him with a two-fold meaning. It s eems not so much now an oppor- tunity to get something out of the College, as it does an opportunity to give something to it. And that it is not we who receive the impress of the College, but the College that re- ceives its impress from us. That what it is, we make it; and that just what we give it of loyalty and noble endeavors, or of smallness and indifference, do we receive back from it. The following will give some idea of how the College stands today: Colorado College, with somewhat less than $400,000 of endowment, endeavored to do, and actually has done the same work in character and quality that institutions from fifty to one hundred years older are doing, with three or four times the invested funds. Since the College began its rapid growth, that is, since Dr. Wm. F. Slocum took charge of its affairs, the financial, as well as the academic management has been a signal success. In a new community like Colorado Springs the College has developed from very small beginnings into an institution of the first grade, the value of its property has increased from an insignificant sum to nearly one and one-half million dollars — and all this without the loss of a single dollar in interest or investment. 25

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Co o rafro c ollrgr Igt v gogft It « tt fllff -Scfrcn Twenty years ago, the whole system of College and Preparatory School was divided into six forms. In I 904, Colorado College offered one hundred and forty courses inde- pendent of the Academy. 1 hat the work has been well done, its reputation both in the East and West dem- onstrates. In 1 904 the College was unanimously voted a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, an honor that it shares with only a few universities and colleges west of the Mis- sissippi River. Colorado College has the distinction of being the only ' college, ' that is, the only institution without schools of law and medicine, that has received a chapter in the Society, west of Indiana. Colorado is one of the colleges of the rank of Bowdoin, Williams and Amherst, and in a very short time it has developed a great deal of the cultural quality which has always given the education of the institution a certain distinction. It has ever been President Slocum ' s ambition to make the College hold as high a standard of scholarship as any in the country. To this end he has gathered about him an excellent faculty, among them men of international reputation. The College stands for the highest ideals of religious character, intellectual train- ing and public service. Speaking of the future, our President says: Yes, I do believe very strongly in the future of Colorado College. It occupies, as has often been said, a strategic position here at Colorado Springs, and more and more will this city become a college or univer- sity town. Our students now come from all over the Union, and there is not any spot so good for a great engineering school as this is. Aside from the state institutions, after leaving the Atlantic seaboard, one finds Cornell, the University of Chicago; in the South, Vanderbilt in Tennessee; the Tulane at New Orleans, and the Leland Stanford in Cali- fornia. There certainly ought to be a great educational foundation in the center of the Rocky Mountain region. As an index of what the future holds for Colorado College, of the potency of Presi- dent Slocum ' s strong belief in this future, we have but to call to mind the Engineering School, established some two years ago and now well under way, housed in the finest arranged and equipped Science Building in the West; and the School of Forestry soon to be opened. This latter department is made possible by the magnificent gift of Gen. Wm. J. Palmer and Dr. Wm. A. Bell, of Manitou Park of 15,009 acres, valued at at least $150,000. The importance of the Engineering School cannot be overestimated; the School of Forestry is perhaps of even greater importance. For the enormous consumption of timber for industrial purposes, the criminal waste of splendid forests, the ravages of parasites and fires, have made the question of the preservation of forests, one of the whole nation ' s greatest problems. There are at present only four important schools of forestry in America, one each at Yale University, at Michigan and California University, and at Biltmore, in North Carolina. It is a well-known fact that in forestry, each particular territory demands its own peculiar treatment. Principles that govern the care of New England forests, do not apply to the coniferous growths in the Rocky Mountains. The distinct object of the Colorado College School of Forestry is the preservation of the forests that cover the millions of acres of the Rocky Mountain region, which, it is said, must sometime become a forest reserve. 27