Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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ft r :: , iV SO WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT to the students, the alumni, and the other friends of Colorado College, Volume I of THE PIKE ' S PEAK NUGGET. You may test it in the crucible of criticism, you may horde it away like a miser, or you may make it an ornament for your table and exhibit it freely to your friends. Our labor will be repaid if you find it true gold. THESE SENTIMENTS are not unlike those felt by the current staff seventy years later, and so we echo this INTRODUCTION with but minor emendations. SO WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT to the students, the alumni, and the other friends of Colorado College, Volume Seventy- Three of THE PIKE ' S PEAK NUGGET, the record of the year of the Centennial, 1974. ALTHOUGH COLORADO COLLEGE is strictly non-sectarian and independent of all ecclesiastical control, its early history shows the influence of the Congregational Church. THE FOUNDATION of Colorado College was first actively un- dertaken by the Congregational Association in 1873 due to a proposal of Reverend Edward P. Tenney, who realized the need for educational facilities under Christian auspices. The first ac- tive work of the association was prompted by Professor Thomas Haskell, who entered into the foundation with great earnestness and acted as financial agent during the establishment of the College. The College was officially approved at a meeting of The Congregational Conference in Denver on January 20, 1874, two years prior to the statehood of Colorado. Chief financial backer of the young college was General William Jackson Palmer, owner and builder of the Denver Rio Grande Railroad. The Reverend Jonathan Edwards was in charge of the opening of the college.

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:: - j ! IN submitting to the public the first annual issued by any class in Colorado College, a few introductory words seem fitting. The purpose of the class of 1901 in publishing this book is to give an impulse to the life of the College which shall inspire every future class to follow our example. We have chosen as a name, which we hope the successive volumes will bear, one which was, in our judgment, the best of many suggested by the student body; one appropriate to this region and to the locality, at the same time symbolic of the tiger colors, and expressive of the spirit which is characteristic of the College. We have tried to make this publication what a college annual should be — a record of the college life, representative of the students and containing a fair proportion of fun and fancy, yet not unmindful of the best literary standards.

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