Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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- ».-.«? : •••

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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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' . .-.££•-• ...•!« » r ' • •.■ ' » ■ .•. ' » ••.■ , 1 W ? :-:; : ;; ? - : : C ' .V i ' •. «• ' i ' ' . ■ • •• •-• - •.- ' - ' , ». ' ' ••• ' i - v, ».V-... ' : «»••» .■»• • 1 ' .•« !■ OCTOBER. October is the month for nut-brown ale, but this is a dry town. Still, autumn seemed to get around just as regularly without the nut brown as if there had been two or three kegs of it on tap. In fact, autumn came in the same way as it has during the nineteen hundred-odd years of the earth ' s existence. How sweet are the rustling leaves in the autumn time, but yet how happy it makes some poor crea- ture that the lawn on the campus has to be mowed no more. Dramatic Society enter- tained, and undertook the work of show- ing the new girls that they could be real men on the stage, when garbed in the regulation bloomis cos- tume. That thriving adjunct of the college, the Motten Lecture Bureau, had a howling success in its first lecturer, Dr. Bacon. No re- 1 a 1 1 o n to Francis. The Wyom- ing foot- ball team and Mr. Bur- gess stayed a few days in Colorado Springs. On one of these days, the Tiger boys took ' ' twenty-nine points away from them, but in return they gave nine. A few elections were neces- sary to fill the vacancies on the Stu- dent Commission, the Athletic Board, and the Tiger Board, but ward-heelers were prohibited. Contemporary gave their annual German. A German band furnished the music, and a beautifully appointed Dutch lunch was served. All favors were thankfully received. Prexy entertained the Freshmen. They had a much better time than they expected, and decided that they were going to have a great liking for him. Everyone ' s heart went pity-pat quite a considerable number of times on that day when we sent oui Tigers to defeat the University of Wisconsin, but no one was the least bit 16 • . ■£i:$ ' $ !.«• ' « •. .. .• ' . ' . » • • • « . ' ' . ' . ' ' • .« f • .1 •.v: » • V •. V. ' - • :