Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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u- 97zQ PIKES PEAK NUGGET --- N I -N HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT Coburn Library Uhen the present building was opened in March, 1894, the college possessed a very small collection of books numbering 8,000, half of which were of no value to the college world. They made an insignificant showing in so mammoth a building. But the library collection, in spite of no endowment for books, has steadily increased. When the Evening Telegraph purchased the Morning Gazette in May of 1923, the library acquired the files of both papers back to the time of their beginnings. This was a library in itself and had to be housed in the loft of Palmer Hall for lack of room in Coburn. Frequently during the last few years, a load of those books used least of all has been moved out and stored, to make room for new purchases and valuable gifts. Today the library building seems pitifully small and the erection of the main building of which the present structure will be the south wing is a commanding necessity. During the past year the librarian after five years of labor has completed cataloguing all the newspaper files of the city from the founding of the town down to date. This work is being continued every day as the papers are issued. 13,500 cards have already been used and on the average ten items are listed on every card, thus mak- ing 135,000 entries altogether, covering all important happenings in the history of the town. The library has been greatly enriched recently by the gift of two notable private libraries, that of Mrs. S. E. Solly, and that of Rev. A. F. Ridges. Manley D. OrmEj- M. D. Ormes Louise Kampf Beatrice Sims

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c 7t Q PIKES PEAK NUGGET NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT Josephine Morrow William Copeland William Postlethwaiie PRESIDENT EMERITUS William Frederick Slocum Officers of Administration Charles C. Mierow President William W. PostlEThwaite ' .— Treasurer William D. Copeland Secretary Guy H. Albright. Secretary of the Faculty Charlie B. Hershey ....Dean of Men Mabel B. LEE.... — Dean of Women Marjorie S. Crouch...:.. ....Assistant Dean of Women Josephine R. Morrow .. ...Registrar AlliE E. Brown.. Assistant Registrar Frank W. Nelson ...Cashier Mary ClEGG Owen Secretary to President Julia L. Gwyther Secretary to Treasurer Alice LawriE Secretary to Secretary ManlEY D. OrmES - .....Librarian Louise F. KampF Assistant Librarian Hazel L. Earl Manager of Dining Rooms Dr. A. A. Blackman ...Medical Advisor Jessie D. Stewart College Nurse Jack F. Lawson .Publicity Director Arthur Baylis ...Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 20

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■ flQ PIT PEAK NUGGET - NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT Prof. Sisam Department of Mathematics pxTENSivR and intensive research work has figured largely in the life of the Mathematics Department this year. Assisted by Cecil B. Read of the Senior class, a study has been made of scientific methods of sectioning Freshman. It is believed that this will lead to more accurate division of classes. The individual members of the Department have also been conducting various projects along Mathematical lines. Professor Sisam, Head of the Department, and president of Delta Epsilon, honorary scientific fraternity is in co-operation with members of the departments at Cornell, Illinois, and Princeton, publishing a report on the facts now known about Rational Transformations. Professor Lovitt, in co-operation with Professor Holtzclaw, of the University of Kansas, published in October a textbook entitled Mathematics in Business. Professor Albright has done his work along still another line. In March, he presented to the faculty a series of curves showing the distribution of grades in various ways within the college. The Department has suffered the loss of Professor Wapple, who resigned to take a position, last fall, as head of the Department at Southwestern University. His place has been filled by Miss Catherine Hood. The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Math- ematical Association met at Colorado College, on April 22 and 23. Professor Lovitt is President of the Section. Top Row — Hood, Lovitt Second Row — Albright, Sisam, Parker. 22