Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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,.■- - ; v- ' V ' - . ■ i: ■ . • » .. . . • • •- • „ • : -. ' : ' ' . :; : : V : . ' . - JUNE. And what is so rare as a day in June? Nobody knows. Who cares, anyway. June is naturally a month of gladness for the June brides and those who receive diplomas, but they are sad days which enrich the Standard Oil Company with the sale of much midnight oil. Oh, bitter, bitter, examina- tion week! But even then, one can do no worse than flunk. The lit ' ry societies elected their gavel wielders. Witherow was made baseball man- ager, and Winchell track manager for 1912. But even these joyful events could not dispel the gloom of examination week. It was there, and no going around it. The following week was commencement week. It would be hard to say what was commenced. Prob- v ably it was a parable : y F V never commence C«lcl what you can- not finish. D.H.Bu- led off by being the loudest bellower, there- by acquiring the Sweet Prize for Ora- tory. Prexy delivered the baccalaureate sermon, in which he advised the Sen- iors to always be high, noble, and true. Dean Hellems, of Boulder, made the Phi Beta Kappa address, which was schola ' ly indeed, and filled with much Boulder cultuah. The intellectual clouds raised long enough on one of these days for the Seniors to pull off a bunch of rough-neck stunts in the Jungle. The serv- ices went under the name of Class Day Exercises. The climax was capped, the limit reached, and the goa l attained when Dr. Cochran delivered the regular commencement ad- dress, and the Seniors were handed their sheepskins (providing they had paid for them) . Commencement over, the Seniors began — commenced to look for jobs. The joke of it is some got jobs, t.o. Cents . % ■ » ' •. ■ i I ■ ■ ■ »V ' 12 • • t , : ;f ' ' ' ' A- 4 .V ' ••» ' ••; ' ;. ' •: ' .. ' •• ' •• ■ • . . ' : • ' • ■ -,. •, !.. ' . • • , . • ■ i ... •; » ••. »•

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- . • •. ' -. • . . - ? « • •■■ ' ; ••% ' .- •: ' . ' « • ' i • ■ ■f» ' . v -. ' ' F •» « ' SEPTEMBER. What an excitement it is to open up a college and get down to work again ! Still, some of us have to do it every year. Well, when the college opened up this year, they reported that there were twenty-five per cent, more of us here than ever before. Of course there was the biggest bunch of green rubes that all the one-horse towns in Colorado could produce, in the Freshman class. Those same rubes are still with us, but you can ' t find them. They ' ve . been assimilated. At the same time, with Mhk this assortment came one of the most re- markable acquisitions of the college. This was Freddy Ware — late of Minnesota, you know, and so forth, you know — Freddy Ware, full time secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The Freshies and the Sophs were un- usually back- ward about doing any mixing or deep p lotting before the regular fight day. The night before they had a little hand-to-hand un- der one of the city ' s arc lights, in a couple of inches of mud. They looked like Mon- day ' s washing the time the clothes line broke. So the Sophs tied up most of the Freshmen, and then on the next morning they won the Flag Rush in a walk- away. The Y. M. Stag happened at Hag Hall, where, through the eating propensities of Mr. Harder, the Sophs were able to pull it over the Freshmen once again. The Freshmen retrieved a little honor a week later when they won the football game, 6-0. Meanwhile the fraternities had been serving up a prodigious amount of free tobacco at their smokers, in order to convince the new men that they were absolutely The Only bunch on the campus. Then they got busy putting the spikes on the men. The only available XTKHV • «rf « • • ... • . : 14 :■ ' r v.:-. ■:■::■: ' .•• ' . . .• ' . ' » » • • •