Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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.:-. ■:■::■: ' .•• ' . . .• ' . ' » » • • •

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. • .V , ' • , ••„•••••-... ' •...• ' •• ' •• .... • , • • . • . • ; • , . . » » » . • v • . V » ' • ' . • ' h . ' • » .•• .. . ■,: ., VACATION. Summer days are the happy days — after a fashion. Scientifically speaking, Vacations have been established in order that the student may recuperate his overworked mental faculties by withdrawing from the turmoil of the class room to secluded places, and there to dwell in leisurely contemplation. A more mercenary point of view considers vacation as a time to regain the balance caused by every- thing going out and nothing coming in. Even then an education is not to be measured in dollars. Some say that vacation is time to prepare for condition exams. Be that as it may, we were glad when the vacation began, and gladder still when it was over. Pro- fessoress Miss Rheinhardt was the most popular bride the college pro- duced. Jimmy McClintock was the lucky man. Doctor Schneider went up Pike ' s Peak with some Yale and Oxford profs to study altitude effects qn the body. Prof. Strieby, too, was in the research field. They would have been happier if they had not worked so hard. Prof. Woodbridge and Prof. Al- bright enjoyed themselves much better pitching horseshoes in a camp beneath Pike ' s Peak. Every prof in his humor, though, dur- ing the summer time. Up in Estes Park some of our Y. M. C. A. boys were struggling hard with the problems which meet every fellow and college man. The meetings put great enthusiasm for the work into the young men, and it took nearly three weeks after they had returned to college in the fall for the effects of this confer- ence to wear off. The campaigners for the college were out on the road using up more railroad mileage than most persons use in a lifetime NG TIRED THEl INDULGED N°E T TREE ' N ™ E SH ° W ELL. I 6H3U ' -D SMILE ' . n - , ;£?• ' . ' 4 MM ' ; ' .;• v (■■ .Vs.

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:.o v ...s-V ' •• •vr.: ' - ,, -A S% ; : v ' • ' • ' •- : : ft : :v:?. ' : •v : x .i • » 1 . man who was not pledged was the one who had no buttonhole in the lapel of his coat for the pledge spike. Petty politics ran rife for a short time while each of the classes was considering which were the ones in the class who could best guide their particular ship of state through the turbulous year of study. It was a slightly new sensation to some of the old-timers when chapel was opened with a grand display of cere- mony, for the first time. Still, it was interesting to see just who we did have on the faculty. There were new faces among them. Two dark young men, one with an acquired Parisian manner which did not seem to fit him very well, and the other with a grave, thoughtful look, as if he was bearing all the weight of the past ages of history upon his shoul- ders were there ; and there was a round- faced, dark, bright - eyed young whom we might call Grecian beauty for lack of better descrip- tion. You guessed it: B. Woodbndge, King and Spaulding. Everyone began wearing yellow tags, to show that they had been parted each from one simoleon in order that the football team might eat heart- ily of the proper pigskin grub. The foot- ball team was going hard down on Wash- burn Field, while Coach Rothgeb fed them the proper verbal food for thought. The Juniors gave a reception to the Freshmen, where the Fresh- men ate an exceeding abundance of ice cream, much the detriment of the perfect working of the Junior Ex- chequer. The girls ' lit ' ry societies announced pledges from the Sophomore class, and the men ' s took chances on a few likely looking youngsters among the new ones, who seemed to resemble Daniel Webster. The first campus sing went off without a hitch. Sale, .. ' •. 15 ifc .. ' . ■.Vc- ».-.«? : •••