University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER CAMPUS

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CURRICULAR ADMINISTRATION 27 MANNERISMS Ida Kruse MacFarlane, the Emily Post of the campus, has the distinction of being one of the two best-dressed women in the faculty. Miss Batione and Elizabeth Fackt are also fashion- plates. Miss Moore eats cough-drops and Pro- ffessor Werling is suspected of being partial to the more attractive girls. Fred D'Amour is the athlete's savior. Granville Iohnson, who can still lick any of his wrestlers, owns a Pierce- Arrow but rides ai bicycle. Dr. S. A. Lough is the grand old man of the University. He is about to retire, and future student generations will surely miss his refresh- ing ideas on religion and philosophy. P Irene A. Winterbotham is conspicuous for holding her classes on Chapel steps in the dis- tracting and intriguing weather of early fall. Professor Laird, according to a report re- -ceived by an undergraduate, uttered 125 abs in ten minutes of lecture, for the entertainment of his class. m-I SMALLER departments under their jurisdiction, the Deans of the downtown schools can have a much closer contact with their students. Asa result Dean G. A. Warfield and his assistant, Clem Collins, of Commerce, and Dean Roger Wolcott of the Law School, enjoy a large degree of popularity. Especially are the human qualities of Dean Wolcott appre- ciated by the cynical barristers. Dean Malcolm Wyer and Turner B. Messick of the Library School and Fine Arts School respectively, are best known among the students at large for their unending efforts to make their particular branches of the University more ellicient and of increasing service. Unfortunately, Dean Messick met with some opposition in his endeavors this year. There's no doubt that the present School of Fine Arts has grown to its largest capacity and therefore needs an expansion of quarters. Although a committee suggested that the school be moved into the basement of Chapel, the matter was dropped indefinitely when Dean Walters insisted that the Liberal Arts courses might conflict with the Fine Arts courses. TWO DISHWASHERS . . are wanted, says Dean Lawson to Iim Binns, who heads the Student Placement Bureau

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II Alma Mater The creation of a man . . . Rendezvous of minds . . Walls encompass events HE VERY existence of the University of Denver re- sulted from the fact that one of President Lincoln's Cabinet members desired the governor- ship of the Territory of Ne- braska for his son-in-law. Far-fetched as this appears, we are not play- ing on the gullibility of our readers but rather on the flexibility of fact which editorial exag- geration permits us.- Actually, however, there are many interesting as well as little known sidelights which make the history of the Uni- versity of Denver sparkle in its richness of human interest. Among these is the novel turn of events by which Dr. Iohn Evans acquired the governor- ship of the territory which became the State of Colorado. Held in high esteem by his friend, President Lincoln, Iohn Evans was at an early date offered the governorship of the Territory of Washington, which he found impossible to accept. President Lincoln then offered Dr. Evans the governorship of the Territory of Ne- braska, which he accepted, only to step aside when President Lincoln explained that a Cab- inet member had specifically requested this position for his son-in-law. Dr. Iohn Evans, seeing the advantages, richness, and beauty of Colorado, took the governorship of this terri- tory instead. Perhaps without this fall of the cards of fate, the institution which is now the University of Denver might never have been brought into existence. 5 OVERNOR IOHN EVANS, see- ing the need for higher institutions of learning in this part of the country, secured the charter for the establishment of the Colorado Seminary March 5, 1864, which, under his care- ful supervision, has grown into the Univer- sity of Denver. In the fall of 1863, a building was erected at Fourteenth and Arapahoe Streets near the center of the business section, across the street from the Iohn Evans home. This was the first building of the Colorado Semi- nary, which opened as a school in 1864. Year by year progress was made until the fall of 1880, when the institution was reorgan- ized under the name of the University of Den- ver with Dr. D. H. Moore as the first Chancel- lor. As the years hurried on, and conditions permitted, additional schools were added. The profits from the sale of barbed wire fences contributed to the progress of the Uni- versity during this period. It was by this unique means that Mr. Iacob Haish of DeKalb, Illi- nois, made his donation to the University. In 1885, Mr. Haish, interested in the University by Bishop Henry W. Warren, offered to give the University one-half of his receipts from the sale of barbed wire in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah, until the amount reached 350,000