Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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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

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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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the new name of Alpha Nu. This local is now petitioning the national fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. It is contrary to the administrative policy of the College to allow sororities on the campus. In their absence, literary societies take their place in the social life of the girls. Officers and Trustees Throughout the history of Colorado College, its destiny has been guided by business men of influence and character. From the time of William J. Palmer, Empire Builder, States- man, and Business Man, down to the present, the business affairs of the College have been most ably taken care of, and the College has prospered, because of the efforts of its Officers and Trustees. It is hardly necessary, in reviewing the many years of College business, to do more than to give a list of these men; their names alone will mean much to anyone accpiainted with Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and the Centennial State. Officers Tenney, E. P., President 1874-1890 Humphrey, J. F., Vice-President 1874-1878 Wood, Franc O., Secretary 1874-1878 Jackson, William S., Treasurer 1874-1878 Severy, James B., Financial Secretary 1874-1878 Wood, D. Russ, Vice-President 1878-1880 Hanna, John R., Treasurer 1878-1880 BartlETT, Enoch N., Secretary 1878-1880 Parsons, George H., Secretary 1890-1899 Barlow, J. H., Treasurer 1890-1898 Slocum, William F., Jr., President 1890-Emeritus Loomis, Mabel Ruth, Dean of Women 1898-1917 MardEN, George N., Treasurer 1898-1908 Gregg, James B., Secretary 1899-1907 Parsons, Edward S., Vice-President 1902-1918 GoodalE, NELLE P. Sater, Cashier, Assist. Treasurer. 1903-1912 Blackman, Alfred Atwater, Medical Adviser. . . . 1905- Touret, Frank H., Treasurer 1908- Howbert, Irving, Treasurer 1908-1912 Sater, Harriet A., Cashier 1910-1918 Haee, Henry Clay, Attorney for the College 1910-1916 Tucker, Donald SkeelE, Secretary 1911- PostlEThwaiTE, William Wallace, Treasurer. . . .191 2— Motten, Roger H., Secretary 1916-1920 Bennett and Hall, Attorneys for the College 1916-1919 Duniway, Clyde Augustus, President 1918- Churchill, Marion, Dean of Women 1917-1920 Morrow, Mrs. Josephine R., Registrar 1919— McMurtry, James G., Dean of the College 1920- PhinnEy, Lucy C, Dean of Women 1920- Bennett, John Lewis, Attorney for the College. . . 1920- Trustees Pitkin, Frederick W., 1874-1890 Palmer, William J., 1874-1890; 1896-1910 Willcox, William H., 1874-1890 Hill, Nathaniel P., 1874-1878 De La Vergne, George, 1874-1878 Hanna, John R., 1874-1890 Bell, William A., 1874-1890 Rice, Charles B., 1874-1896 Howbert, Irving, 1874-1878; 1890- HumphrEy, Joseph F., 1874-1890 Austin, Henry W., 1874-1890 KERR, James H., 1874-1890 Cutler, Henry, 1874-1899 Tarbox, I. N., 1874-1890 Martin, F. L., 1874-1901 Bristol, Richard C, 1874-1891 NettlETon, Edwin S., 1874-1890 France, Matthew, 1874-1890 Tenney, E. P., 1874-1890 Jackson, William S., 1878-1917 McAllister, Henry Jr., 1878-1890; 1915-1920 Foster, Henri E-, 1878-1890 18