University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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INSCMNIA 19 teachers who have received their de- grees from the University of Denver. Connected with the University itself, we find rnany professors who have re- ceived their bachelor and honorary degrees from the school. The mem- bers of the faculty who have received honorary degrees include: Benjamin Griffith, David Shaw Duncan, Hugh McLean, Andrew Wood, Bobert H. Walker, Arthur Lewis, Thomas Garth, Leslie Scofield, Wilbur D. Engle, lda Kruse Macljarlane, Humphrey Owen, Hattie H. Louthan, George A. Warfield, Alexander Lindsay, Paul Mayo, Earl A. Engle, Edward Bourke, Holland I. Wal- ters, Etienne B. Benaud, lohn Gorsuch, and Victor A. Miller. Others who received honorary de- grees within more recent years are Essie White Cohn, Byron Cohn, Henri- etta Zobel, Frank C. Cnstott, Abraham Kaplan, Albert Becht, lohn E. Lawson, Fitzhugh Lee Carmichael, Buth Holz- man, Theodore Chisholm, Olive Card, Thompson B. Marsh, Fred E. D'Amour, Frances Becker, and loe Hare. Bachelor degrees have been award- One of the modern offices in Mayo hall. 1 1 -'I - 1 r .1 r 1. 4.4. 'Y 'Arr' put forth. ln 1882, a weekly paper called Denver University Weekly Peanuts, was printed for three weeks, after which it seems to have disap- peared from university life. However, the next year the Oreopsus, a paper printed by the students majoring in Greek, was founded. This ran for a year, when it too disappeared and was out of circulation until l89O, when the Hesperus, a bi-weekly paper, was started. The Bulletin replaced the Hes- perus in 1898, and it in turn was Before the Alma Mater statue passes all student activity

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18 ALMA MATER Mayo hall, first of the newer buildings, and the home of the classics. the century, Gerald Hughes, who is a lawyer in Denver, received his degree in law. Stanley K. Hornbeck, who was chief of the Far Eastern division of the De- partment of State during the Hoover administration, was graduated in 19037 Roger Toll, former head of Rocky Mountain National park, left the institu- tion in 1905: Wayne C. Williams was graduated with the class of 1906, and Roger H. Wolcott, who is Dean of the Law school, received his diploma from that school in 1907, as did Wilbur Dan- iel Steele. In 1908, Charles O. Thibo- deau, superintendent of the Methodist church, was graduated, as was Iames Grafton Rogers, who was head of the University of Colorado law school and is now at Yale. Robert W. Steele, a District court judge, was graduated in 1910, and in 1911, MacPherrin H. Don- aldson, who received the Rhodes schol- arship from Colorado, was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, while Clem Collins, the present dean at Com- merce, received the first degree given from that school. ln 1913 came Lowell Thomas, who has attained prominence in the field of newspaper and radio since his graduation. In 1919, when there was again a fair-sized class after the years of the war, came Russell Shetterly, who is a federal judge in Shanghai. 1922 was the year in which Teller Ammons, the governor of Colo- rado, graduated from the University. 1923 saw Thomas I. Morrissey, who is the district attorney for the federal gov ernment, graduatedp and in 1924 Edgar Kettering, one of the newly elected dis- trict judges, graduated. Roy Byers, who is coaching the football team at Manual Training high school, finished his college career in 1931, and Dick lorgensen, who is the new baseball coach at South high school, was grad- uated in 1934. There are many Denver

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20 ALMA MATER l Moorish architecture of the chapel adds a distinction to the campus. changed to the Clarion in 1899. Though the Clarion has changed somewhat from year to year in make-up, it has remained essentially the same since that date. The first yearbook appeared on the campus in 1895, when the class of 1896 published the Mount Olympus, which was as much an outlet for literary tal- ent as it was a record of the events of the year. There was only one edition of the Mount Olympus and the custom was not renewed until 1898, when the Kynewisbok appeared as the annual publication of the junior class. This name, meaning Kings Wise Book, was furnished by Cora Westhaven, now a teacher at South high school. Perhaps the most active interest of the student body was oratory and de- bating. lt was foremost in the minds of the pupils from the beginning of the University, when the first contests were for the students in the various classes. As the University grew, the trays were between the members of the different schools. Then came the inter-collegiate battles and finally the state contests. ln these Denver University always dis- tinguished itself and in the years 1885, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1898, 1899, and 1991 the speakers from the University placed first in the state oratorical con- 1 tests. The debaters, too, found the paths of glory and were among the leaders in this region. At all of the contests which were held in the eve- nings before large groups of the citi- ens of Denver, the student body would appear in full force to cheer and jeer the speakers. The first one of these which is recorded is the Debating club, which was founded in 1896. Two years later the Fortnightly Debating club was founded and the Adelphian club was started in the preparatory school. 1899 was the year of the founding of the Young Men's College club for debat- . . the chapel in the moonlight. ing, and the Men's Preparatory club. These clubs continued for many years and stirred up interest for the contests. The clubs have been succeeded by others such as the Oratorical society and the Debate club, the latter of which is still in existence. The actual contests were quite in contrast to the comparatively drab evening sessions of the present day. The cheerleaders aided the speakers by directing yells and songs, and all of the student body and many of the citi- zens of the city attended these contests. The first form of student government at the University was the Senate, which was a governing body established in 1892. This group continued to function