Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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for furnishing the equipment for laboratories and the scientific work. The building was dedicated in 1904, President David Starr Jordan giving the address. It was named after General William J. Palmer, the great benefactor of the College. McGregor and Bemis Halls After the completion of Palmer Hall, the student body grew by leaps and bounds and it was again a question of housing the women. To provide for this, a third dormitory for women McGregor Hall was built. It was begun in 1902 and com- pleted in 1903 at a cost of $28,000 and named in honor of one of the early instructors who rendered valuable services to the College. None of the three dormitories now existing conformed with the President ' s ideal of a woman ' s dormitory. A building was planned which was to be the center of the girls life on the campus as well as a place to meet for social functions. Such a building was opened and dedicated in 1908 in honor of Judson M. Bemis, one of the most generous patrons of the College. It contains accommodations for eighty-two women, a dining hall, common room, reception room with parlor, and the apartment of the Dean of Women, a little theater, kitchen, store rooms and servants quarters. Cossitt Hall As early as 1902, President Slocum was planning a men ' s build- ing which was to be the center of all non-acad- emic life of the College. In the fall of 1911 he announced his plan to begin a campaign to raise money for what is now Cossitt Hall. Early in the Spring of 1913, $250,000 of the neces- sary $300,000 was raised and the contract was let and the corner stone laid at commencement time. Cossitt Hall contains the gymnasium, a full equipment for all ath- letics, including quarters for visiting teams, a large Common Room, offices of the athletic dining room, kitchen, rooms, dressing rooms GENERAL WM. J. PALMER COSSITT STADIUM, FROM WEATHER BUREAU TOWER director and his assistants, a men ' s the C Club, boxing and wrestling and shower baths. A large stadium is a part of this building. In 1917, President Sloeum retired and the Board of Trustees chose Dr. C. A. Duniway, then President of the University of 16

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Modern Library Started In 1900 the College had only a small num- ber of books, which were kept in the North wing of Cutler Academy. The next need was a modern and well furnished library. Mr.Coburn of Newton, Mass., gave President Slocum $50,000 for a library building. Such a building was started and built of peachblow sandstone, which had been selected by the Board of Trustees as the building material for the rest of the buildings on the quadrangle of the campus. The library now contains over 100,000 bound volumes. Ticknor Hale The growth of the College became so rapid that they were obliged to rent a house off the cam- pus to house the women who were unable to get into Montgomery Hall. This was very unsatis- factory, and Ticknor Hal! was given to us by Miss Elizabeth Cheney. This building contains an infirmary, a recre- ation room, reception room and parlor and was built of stone taken from a quarry in Ute Pass. Perkins ' Fine Arts Hall The President now felt the need of a building for the department of Music and Art, and as these ideas began to take shape, Mr. Willard B. Perkins bequeathed $10,000 to be used for the erection of some college building. Having faith in the possi- bilities of raising the additional money needed, they used this $10,000 toward the erection of the building now known as the Perkins Hall of Fine Arts. This building was also constructed of peachblow sandstone, and furnished us with an auditorium especially suited for concerts, lectures and Chapel. Miss Elizabeth Cheney gave an excellent pipe organ for this auditorium, in memory of her brother. COBURN LIBRARY AND PERKINS HALL Palmer Hall Palmer Hall was the next addition to the College group, and was to contain lecture rooms and laboratories for general work and independent research. It was started in 1903 and completed at a cost of $267,000. Dr. D. K. Pearson added $50,000 toward endowment fund and $50,000 more was added 15

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Wyoming to become President of Colorado College. Coming here at the beginning of the war President Duniway was called upon to face new and perplexing problems, several of which were the decrease of the student body, the necessity for many new professors and an in- crease in the salaries of these instructors. It was found necessary during the war to drop the four-year course in engineering. This was later restored on a six-year basis, four years to be given at Colorado College and two at an Engineering School. In May, 1918, Colorado College desired to do its bit and so offered housing and accom- modations to the vS.A.T.C. This was accepted by the government and 250 men were received for instruction in radio work. The men were housed in Hagerman Hall, Ticknor Hall, Mont- gomery Hall and five Fraternity houses. In December the S. A. T. C. was demobilized and the great helpfulness of the College ceased. Colorado College has forged ahead in financial matters as is shown by the figures for the year ending June 30, 1921. The cash receipts for endowment for that year were $80,117. The total donations for endowment and current expenses were $97,835. Fraternities Social life has kept pace with the growth of the College, but it is a remarkable fact that fraternities have only been on the campus for the last fifteen years. The first fraternities to be established on the campus were Kappa Sigma in 1904 and Sigma Chi in 1905. Three years later, 1908, Phi Gamma Delta established a chapter here. With three national fraternities in the field there were 255 men in the College. Phi Delta Theta came on the campus in 1913, five years after Phi Gamma Delta. At this time there were 285 men for the four nationals to draw DURING THE WAR COLORADO COLLEGE ENTERTAINED THE S. A. T. C. from. Fraternity material was still so abundant that Beta Theta Pi established a chapter the following year, 1914. Two locals appeared in 1917. One of them was a reorganization of the Engineers Club which was founded in 1911. It took for its name Epsilon Sigma Alpha (rumored to mean Engineering, Science and Art ) and immediately petitioned for a charter from a professional engineering national. Failing in this be- cause the College discontinued the engineering school, a charter was accepted from the Pi Kappa Alpha national social frater- nity. The other local established a few months before was called Omega Psi. When the war broke out in the spring of that year, nineteen of the twenty charter members of Omega Psi enlisted and left College. This forced the local to suspend activity. In the spring of 1920, three members of Omega Psi returned from the war and with eight other men petitioned the faculty for recognition of the reorganization of Omega Psi under 17