The Latin requirement is made an elective. Dance courses are offered for credit. The Cowles Commission for Research in Economics arrives in the city and shares staff with the college faculty. The commission was an arm of the Econometric Society, which published the journal Econometrics . The men of Phi Gamma Delta train a canine mascot to snarl and bark at William Lovitt, a dean of men who passed the fraternity house daily on his walk to and from campus.
Tradition has it that the dog required no further prompting.
The final run of the Tejon Street streetcars is hijacked by college men north of Palmer Hall, the motorman and sole passenger removed, and the car trundled towards the Palmer Hall lawn. Police arrive, outwitted by a student warning system, to find a derailed car on an otherwise vacant street. By 1939, under the successive tutelage of Garrett Livingston and Cheddy Thompson, Colorado College icers vie with national hockey powers. Rhodes Scholar Ed Peltz's plans to matriculate at Oxford are preempted by the beginning of World War II in Europe. Alice Bemis Taylor dies, leaving a substantial bequest to the college.