University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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..-..-.nv -.., ..... ,,..',,,,, . ' -, ' '. . 'N Of THE ,QJUAR TO-CENTEZVNIAT. Celebrations, inaugurations, corner stones, have been quite the thing in academic circles during the past few years. Colleges and universities are hard up for money the country over. It has even been suggested that our college presidents should attend the national convention of dyed-in-the-wool beggars in a body! Instead of this drastic remedy, certain semi-evil things known as celebrations' have been resorted. to regardless of expense, somewhat on the principle that whatsoever you sow, that shall you also reap. An abundant crop of gold coins is devoutly hoped for as a result of celebrations ostensibly inaugurated for quite different reasons. To be sure, the other reasons are not ignored. The desire to perpetuate and enlarge the work begun by the pioneers is best expressed in the hope for more money, and the doubtful but rather ex- pedient ideal of a swollen enrollment will soonest be realized through superior equipment and closer specialization possible only through large 'noney en- dowments. The days of Mark Hopkins at one end of the log and a student at the other as constituting a college, even, are past. There is now a trinity, at least, of requirements, for making a university,--f'Brains, books, buildings. lt sounds well to put brains first and buildings last, but the discrimination, how- ever beguiling, is only specious. Neither brains, nor books, nor buildings may be omitted, nor one made subordinate to another. All three presuppose nroney in liberal allotments. The State universities of the country, on the whole, are meagerly equipped save in brains, and are, at the same time, pretty generally ailiieted with the nightmare delusion that they are centers of self-created light. In a larger sense, all institutions of so-called higher education happen at this particular stage of the world's advancement to be the foci of a process of enlightenment to which all humanity is continually contributing. The state university, cre- ated by and. representative of the people, is the most taught and the best taught of the people. lt is pm' cazcellczzcfe, today, the focus of tho higher enlightenment of the people. Nevertheless, this very strength is the weakness of the state universitv. The ideals ot the people, as a whole, judged by the history of state 27 g

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HOME OF MARINUS G. SMITH In the fall of 1902, just before the Quarto-Centennial Celebration, Miss Bippon called on those subscribers now living in Boulder. One family that paid 95500, in the words of the Wife, C'couldn't raise live cents noun , tivo other subscribers are represented by widows who support themselves by ivasliingg others, who had to borrow in 187 5, now have money to lend 5 but, on the Whole, the impression grows, as We look up details, that the money for securing the University was raised at great personal sacrifice. So the Main Building rose as an index' of the ideals, and as a. partial measure of the sacrifice of those pioneers who I f, -, l sixteen years before had seen on this spot not a university campus, but hundreds of elk grazing in the evening sun. The crack of the Arapa- U 1 f 1' if it y hoe, s rifle gave place to the college bell sninnion- if ing the neiV generation to the victories of Peace. .A , .45 ,mgjd vf,4,vg,,.,,,, ,130 ,V ,gf ,M W., -5 kg Q ,wif dflgfif, jaygff My .. . ' ' AVN fiylyf' Yfsililf '1.lfa ' v , ,ww ,ff wf :3,ffH' . j , f' ,afar ' f ., , ,,,Q,fk'l ?f,14 N f- 4+fwfz,,,,,.a,,,M.4i W 3, J ff' 'f f '45i14 ya N ' ' ' ' T X ' ' ' 'f fm.. Zf,','Lfi271f5iZC'2:QiA , Q! 49 ff 7 Boulder, March 8, 1003. , Qi i iv I' v A , I , 1 1 A cm. 0- My , J f540'i3f7'2f V uf' 'P,., '?'n'+fy, N A Et ff 'ff' 'ffwff 'VH' ,I V ms'Zf:411,fnQWf ii X' i l rf:: f'm+ Mama M f f 'ff 4 4. lava W Q0 4 544 'xifgaz 'M W ,wwf ff, apjgfiggfffg 4 Af ,fggmv qi, , ,J ,f,9-fwfwwvflja 'Wim' ,wg1f,2,1,g,1'WwiL,A, 4:1 J' J ,wif 1 ' A Y QV' 4 Q I 5 i ' ' . -f - - ,M-,..' 4 1 ' ' 'Wmbaw fi ,sv A AWK' P' ,fdlzkfgajzf-Qjfu - 22' gfffima f'.'-my j ,j -ffff - if! if , . - ' ,wffa ,,' , i5..f4ff: .' 2, g,f,g1f, . ,,i, ,,u, Q win' .i , I 4 fb? 'f' li 'ft',,'1'J ' 'Q V .. ,wr 'f f f ' 1' . ' . . . , ' !J WO' f f', f f sf -r V' , I J' ' Kiss 15551 ll , X . 3 lx , X . X, ,, , my-i - 1.4 f,f,,,,, ruff - , . , 1 V .1 . . i .xi in M wiv .xi 1111.1 1. V . , , ,cr . .,, , 'G . ,Y 1 26

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li t I 1 l u E '1 5 Q I 11 5 1 3 ,. 2 3 li 'l e universities thus far, have been lower for their sons and daughters than have been the ideals of a few wealthy men back of the great universities of the east for their sons. The people's ideals, per contra, have been broader.. Educational opportunities have been extended impartially to the daughters as well as to the sons of the state. In some rough way, the state university may be re- garded as a sort of popular parliament of education. To it have come not merely the elect few, the haughty earls and greater barons, the fine old arch- bishops, the bishops and the modest abbots, but the humbler shire knights, the fat and important burgesses, the commoner people, as well, have availed them- selves of its democratic privileges. If the monasteries and cathedral chapters, members of that courageous predestinated minority, have not been largely represented in the past, their delegates have been of the choicest, and their best minds are even now pledged for the future. This, then, I take it, is the chiefly significant thing in the Quarto-Centen- nial of the University of Colorado,-that there was registered the endorsement of the people, the co-operation of sister institutions within and without the State. With august bishops and reforming dissenters realizing at last that whatever of godlessness appertains to the State University may be laid at their own doors as a sin of omissiong with patient laymen willing to sit for hours listening to speeches and papers, addresses and remarks shot through with more or less of gush and truth overstated 5 with a governor recommending four times the appropriations which the Regents have the nerve to ask for, the Quarto-Centennial marks a unique fact in the history of the State and the institution,-the consciousness of democracy educating itself. In this con- sciousness is the pledge of rrroney, of numbers, of expansion. A A whole people must sooner or later, once its progress is in the right direction, plan more highly and broadly for itself than the few wealthy persons in whose hands the direction of educational institutions has rested in the past. It seems al- together likely, then, that the days of small things are pretty well over for the University of Colorado. r The problems of the discernible- future will probably more and more become those of the curriculum, of internal administration, of wise expenditure, rather than the mere hustling for money and students so characteristic of the bygone days, and so ruinous to the self-respect of students and officers. A This general interest in the welfare of the University of Colorado is but a phase of the larger educational movement in our country. The past decade has witnessed an incredible growth in numbers in nearly all of our universities of rank, while enormous sums of money have been dedicated to bettering their equipment, to increasing and specializing their teaching and investigating forces. The University of Colorado thus passes its Twenty-fifth Anniversary with the future doubly, secured,-on the one hand by State patriotism resting on a growing consciousness of high self-interest 3 and, on the other, by the de- veloping national consciousness of educational 'ideals and processes. NVALTER. H. Nroirons. 28