Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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No account of Colorado College would be complete without mention of Gen. Wm. J. Palmer. He is, in every sense, the true founder of the College. He was President of the Colorado Springs Co., which made the original offer and grant of land to the Col- lege. He was on the first Board of Trustees. He is still a member. Railroad builder and President, financier and man of many affairs, he has always taken an active interest in the College, and had time to enlist the interest of others. The Science Building, the last and finest of all the College buildings, is fitly called, in honor of this patron of learning, philanthropist and builder, Palmer Hall. CONFIDENCE Steel and white the harbor lay Beneath a storm-racked sky ; While weird-toned gulls dove recklessly In the savage white caps high. From the no ' no ' theast the gale that night Brought swirls of fog-wreaths grey, And the creaking ships pitched heavily At the angry close of day. The longboats lay at the rain black wharf, Their crews in the chandlery store, While the moaning waves gnawed hun- grily Below on the sea-bit shore. But deep within the mutt ' nngs And threats of the dark ' ning storm Amid the gloom, the pulse of God ; Was throbbing sweet and warm. For ' mongst the harsh beach grasses, Like a trusting nesting bird Lay a wide-eyed child a-wondering At God ' s majestic word. She saw the lighthouse friendly From the eastern headland beam, She heard the steam fog whistle From the western headland scream. She smiled as she lay in her nest On the grassy spray -blown beach, She knew the waves could not touch her — She was just beyond their reach. So when the face of the ocean Weareth the storm like a frown, The child on the beach is not frightened, But cuddles the closer down. 28

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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

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