Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Review of the Academic Year Colorado College offers through some thirty de- partments courses in arts, engineering, and science. Affiliated with the Liberal Arts College is a School of Music and The Broadmoor Art Academy. Courses in Applied Art, Interior Decorating, Cos- tume Designing, and Costume Illustration are included among the various types of work offered. In addition, the location and resources of the Academy present un- usual attraction for the student of landscape painting or for those whose chief interest lies in figure and por- Dean Fauteaux trait work. Art appreciation and history of art are taught by Miss Thayer, who temporarily fills the posi- tion left open by the death of Professor Learning. Under the direction of Professor Albright, the history and positions of the solar system were studied in the Department of Astronomy. Courses in the Biology Department are arranged to meet the needs of students who wish to satisfy the minimum science requirement, for those who wish to major in biology, and for medical school preparation. During the past year, Dr. Gilmore has been doing research work with the salamander. Dr. Penland, studying in co-operation with the Carnegie Foundation, has been studying plant life in high altitudes. The Chemistry Department offers courses to fulfill the science requirement and to provide a major in chemical engineering. In the past year, research work has been conducted in regard to: new method for electrometric titrations, graphitic acid and transformation of aruosphous carbon into graphite, quali- tative analysis of anions, and synthesis of anaesthetics. Dr. Barnes received an appointment as instructor in chemical warfare for the Eighth Corps area. The Engineering Department offers courses that enable students to re- ceive the degree of Bachelor of Science with a major in Civil Engineering. Economics and Business Administration are closely affiliated departments. A. P. R. Drucker, dean of the department, had published during the year, in the Accounting Review, an article, Budgeting and the Sales Quota, and in the magazine of the I. L. U. S., Service, an article, Education, the Greatest Force for Democracy. Courses in the Department of Education are designed to provide an intro- duction to the problems of the public schools, to meet the requirements for a graduate certificate, and to make students eligible to teach in the N. C. A. C. S.

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OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION PRESIDENT EMERITUS William Frederick Slocum w 1 - » ' B IB f i P3 ®mI B Mr h : Mr Km Jem k • ■ k 1 DEAN HERSHRY Charles C. Mierow ...President of the College William W. Postlethwaite Treasurer William D. Copeland ...Secretary Charlie B. Hershey Dean of the College William V. Lovitt Dean of Men Louise W. Fauteaux Dean of Women Josephine R. Morrow Registrar Guy H. Albright Director of the Summer School Leo W. Bortree Medical Advisor William S. Jackson Attorney for the College Louise F. Kampf.. Librarian Arthur Baylis Supt. of Buildings and Grounds Jack F. Lawson Director of Publicity E. Louise Purves Director of Dormitories Mrs. Ruth Montgomery College Nurse Dorothy D. Roberts Manager of Dining Rooms Mrs. Allie E. Brown . Assistant Registrar Helen Baxter Owen Secretary to the President C. E. Hathaway... ... Cashier Flossie Day... Secretary to the Treasurer Lorena A. Berger ...Assistant to the Secretary Elizabeth Starrett Assistant to the Secretary

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schools. The Degree with Honors at Colorado Col- lege by Dean C. B. Hershey was published in School and Society. Next year, Dean Hershey will make a study of the public school systems in Germany. Colorado College has one of the best equipped Forestry Schools in the United States. It possesses a 6,200 acre tract of wooded land timbered with a relatively young stand of western yellow pine and Douglass fir. Excellent buildings and other camp facilities are provided so that the tract may be used for a field laboratory and forestry taught in the forest. Dean Lovitt The Fremont Experiment Station and the Monument Nursery, units of the Forest Service, are close at hand and are used by the department. The Geology Department offers a full curriculum in petroleum and struc- tural geology. Work in this department is also taken up extensively by students interested in satisfying the minimum science requirement. For those students who wish to satisfy the social science requirements, and for students who plan to enter law school, the History Department offers a variety of courses. Dr. Hulbert, working under the Stewart Commission, has published articles entitled: The Dead Wood Stage Route, Letters of an Overland Stage Agent in Utah, The Provincial Basis for Patriotism, The First Wagon Train on the Road to Oregon, The Soil Factor in American History, and Frontiers. Dr. Binkley has been continuing his work on the history of Texas. Under the direction of Jack F. Lawson, city editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Department of Journalism offered a general survey course in newspaper work. An advanced course will be offered next year. Mr. Lawson was the author of an article, Pickwick Papers, which appeared in the maga- zine, Motor Travel. The Department of Mathematics was host to the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, last summer. Professor Sisam presented a paper entitled Threespread Multiply Generated by Right Line. He also published in the Messenger of Mathematics of London, an article, Ruled Three Dimensional Varieties of Order Five. For women students interested in taking graduate courses in library work, Miss Kampf, librarian, offered a practical elementary course in library science, second semester. The School of Music offers courses in vocal and in instrumental music. Majors in this department receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Frequent recitals and the meetings of the musical society, Euterpe, are features of the annual program of the department.