Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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BOOK ONE , COLLEGE THE unfinished task that has busied Colo- rado College and its long line of Admin- istrations, Faculties, and Student Bodies during the past sixty-two years is a task that must of necessity remain forever unfinished; it is a self- perpetuating work that embraces two processes — questioning and finding answers that suggest more questions. The success of the College depends not upon the attainment of any definite goal, but upon constant progress in the dissemination of knowl- edge and the development of understanding atti- tudes and true wisdom among those who come to her for advancement. This is the second year of the administration of President Thurston J. Davies, who has proved more and more conclusively to be a capable organizer and leader and a true devotee of student welfare. He has injected a new life into faculty circles and into the campus as a whole. Entering his office in a period of depression, he has worked tirelessly toward the economic and academic betterment of Colorado College. Even newer in the administra- tive group is Dr. Thomas H. Rawles, Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admission. He came to Colorado College from Yale University. Seven members of the administration and fac- ulty of Colorado College are listed in Who ' s Who in American Education for this year. They are: President Thurston J. Davies, Dean W. V. Lovitt, Dean Louise W. Fauteaux, Dean James G. McMur- try, Miss Amanda M. Ellis, associate professor of English, Mrs. Anne B. Sutton, assistant professor of Modern Language, and Dr. George L. Anderson, instructor in History. This year witnessed the opening of the new Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The building, in architecture and in purpose, is a symbol of prog- ress and of modernism. Next September, the College and the city of Colorado Springs will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of General William Jack- son Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs and one of the first supporters of Colorado College. Gen- eral Palmer was one of the most picturesque figures of the Pikes Peak region in its early days. He built the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and had numerous mining and real estate interests through- out a wide territory centering in the city he planned — Colorado Springs. The progress that Colorado College is making is signified in a considerable increase in this year ' s enrollment over that for the previous year. The students come from thirty-four states, Alaska, China and Turkey. It is quite fitting that the keynote of this year ' s Nugget and of Colorado College be the unfinished task. Both from the standpoint of the College and in the eyes of the students, the work of education is a ceaseless procession of advancement of learn- ing, of relearning, and of revision of learning. The scientist in his laboratory, the writer at his desk, the lawyer at the bar, the industrialist in his office, the merchant in his store, the professor in his class- room, the doctor at the sick-bed, the government official in the centers of rule — all these profit by education, all advance in their particular fields of accomplishment in proportion to their progressive advancement in the fields of learning related to their endeavor. Likewise, Colorado College pro- gresses as it improves upon its service to the people by bettering its methods of instruction, by increas- ing its education facilities, and by making available to an increasing number of men and women the benefits of the higher learning. This, then, is the unfinished task of Colorado College: to welcome to its campus those who come in search of self-improvement and social better- ment, and to give them the opportunity to gain for themselves the best in education and in campus life.

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