The Delta independent., 1906-04-06
FROM A COLORADO
SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE
A Former Delta Girl Writes Interestingly Of Her
School, Work and Impressions. Speaks Highly
of the Opportunities Offered Students.

Written especially for the independently
Colorado College owns a campus of
over fifty acres in the heart of city
whose climate is unsurpassed. The city
is Colorado Springs. situated at the
base of a few Rocky mountain peaks.
chief among which is Pixies Peak.
When first came to this college the
peak meant no more to me than any
other but now to my mind and to every
other students it exemplifies the stand
ard of Colorado College. About the
base of the peaks are North and South
Cheyenne and Williams canons, Mani
tou, Cascade, and the Garden of the
Gods, all ideal places for picnics and
tramps, as they are cool in summer,
warm in winter, and beautiful at every
season of the year.
Colorado Springs itself is very beau
tiful. Some of the first things which
attract a strangers attention are its
broad, clean, shady streets, large parks
and pure mountain water. During the
administration of Mayor Hall much has
been done for the health of the city.
Every morning all the meats, .vegeta-
bles, fruits and dairy products to be
consumed are inspected. All like pre-
cautions are taken for the health of the
city's inhabitants. Colorado Springs
has no saloons. Colorado City has but
there is not the same temptation as
though they were here.
TETON is the main business street of
the city. When you walk north on this
street you see ahead of you the finest
college building in the United States,
Palmer Hall, erected at cost of 1884, 900
and equipment worth $50, 900. Besides
Palmer Hall there are eight other large
stone buildings: Coburn Library. Per-
kins Fine Arts Hall. Cutler Academy.
the presidents house. and four dormi-
tories. Several club houses, tennis
courts. gyms. shops and engine houses
are also on the campus. Washburn
Field and the Jungle occupy the west
end of the campus. You have all heard
of the heroes of the former, come and
be hero or heroine of the latter.
Colorado College offers fifteen sub
jects as majors all leading to an A. B.
degree. Next year another course is
to be added, that of forestry. There
are only three other colleges or univer-
sites in the United States having this
department. but none will offer as fine
a course as Colorado College. The en-
gineering department, under Professor
Caiiori, mathematician of information
al repute, is especially fine. Men, who
have examined the laboratories and ap-
paratus of this department in such
schools as Illinois University, Chicago.
and Iowa College, say that our equip
ments tar surpass them. In your fresh
man year would suggest that you
take German under Prof. Ahlers, Prof.
Urdahl's History A. Prof. Caijori's
Math. A, and Prof. Behant's Latin A.
Then you will realize that you are real
" in college. II you don't get your
lesson, you are sque!ched: il you do,
YOU win the esteem of these splendid
men. Every other professor is as eff
cient in his specially as these whom
have mentioned.
Book-learning is the main thing which
college seems to offer before you so.
But higher ideals for living is what is
really offered you. The man or woman
who does not go from college with a
broader conception of what his life
should be. either errs. or his college
errs. 1t seems to me that the intellec-
tual, the moral, the social and the spir
itual life of Colorado College is kept on
the very highest plane. Chapel is the
only compulsory religious service, al
though it is the wish of the faculty that