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How would you like to be able to insure that you'll never have hay fever, and your feed-lot cattle never have "red nose," simply by drinking the right kind of milk and feeding some dried milk powder to your cattle?
Those are two possibilities opened· up by a new research discovery by two University of Minnesota scientists. Drs. William E. Peterson and Berry Campbell report that they have proved it is possible for people to absorb from "protec-tive milk" the antibodies which fight disease. They believe that livestock and poultry can also absorb- these antibodies. from milk, even dried milk powder made from "protective milk."
What is "protective milk?" It is milk from cows that have been vaccinated. It would pro-tect human beings or livestock against diseases -and even allergies such as hay fever-for which the cows producing the milk had been vaccinated.
In their experiments the two men have in-jected vaccines for disease-causing viruses and bacteria into the udders of cows and learned that the cows will manufacture large quantities of antibodies ·to the injected material. The re-searchers and their graduate students consumed milk from the vaccinated cows and, through blood tests,· established that immunity· factors built up in their own blood. They believe passive immunity would be maintained in the person as long as he continued to consume it.
They also believe their "protective principle" will apply not only to diseases caused by viruses and bacteria but also to those which result from certain molds and fungi, pollen and dust.
They cautiori that considerable work remains to be done before the protective milk principle will be -available for public use, but the experi-mental work has proceeded to the point where
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pilot herd of cows is being established to test on a larger scale the conclusions reached thus far. The American Dairy Association is provid-ing the fµnds to carry out the present stages of testing.Some of the diseases against which they say the protective milk may be effective are strep-tococcal infections which are the forerunners of rheumatic fever, measles, smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, polio, and others. The scientists report the milk can be pasteurized and dried without destroying the immunity factors.
The production of these immunity factors in the cow's milk does not alter the com12osition of . the milk in any way, fhe research men say. No disease-producing organisms are introduced into the milk.
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BY The Way
A WORD WITH THE PUBLISHER
Editor's Note: This is one of a series of "guest editorials" written for Colorado Rancher and Farmer by leaders in various branches of agriculture in Colorado and the region.
This "By The Way" guest column has been written by a man who has been associated with
Colorado A & M College for nearly 20 years, first as experiment s~ation edi-tor,, then as business man-ager, and for a long time now as secretary_ of the State Board of Agricul-ture. The State Board is :the governing body of :the College. "Jim" Miller is also a former state sen-ator from Larimer County and one - :time managing editor of the Fort Collins Express-Courier (now :the Coloradoan).-Sam R.
Mc-Kelvie. James R. Miller
By JAMES R. MILLER. Secre:tary. Sia:te Board of Agricul:ture. For:t Collins
One who delves into the history of Colorado agriculture must be amazed at the foresight and understanding which our pioneers displayed in their planning for the future. The difficulties of mere existence in early days did not prevent dreams, backed by deeds, of better times ahead for Colorado ranch and farm people through education and research.
Even before Colorado achieved statehood, first steps were taken toward providing formal training in agriculture for the youth of this region: The territorial legislature, in 1870, pass"ed a bill establishing at Fort Collins the Agricultural Col-lege of Colorado, now known as Colorado Agri-cultural and Mechanical College. Proponents of the proposal were not discouraged even by such remarks as that attributed tq a legislator whose vote was the deciding one, when he declared, "I'll vote for the bill, but I feel we are throwing money away, for you never can make Colorado an agricultural state; it is fit only for cow pasture and mining."
Strangely enough, the situation of legislators lagging behind the thinking of their constituents on agricultural policies was all too typical, de-spite the fact that many farmers served in the legislature. Only in comparatively recent years have lawmakers displayed an appreciation of the value of formal edwzation and of research in the agricultural and mechanical arts spheres to which the college is dedicated.
The territorial legislature failed to appropriate any funds whatever for· the ~roposed institution,
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Wheat Sanitation
This time we have more than six months to to get the rats and insects out of our wh~at!
The Food and Drug Administration has an-nounced that it will tighten sanitary require-ments on wheat beginning next July to pro-mote increased cleanliness in the nation's food · supply.
The basis of legal action against filth con-taminated wheat will be lowered to the follow-ing levels: one or more rodent pellets per pint of wheat (liquid measure) or 1 % or more of insect-damaged kernels. The change will be put into effect July 1, 1956, to coincide with the beginning of the crop year and thus permit the grain trade time to make the necessary adjustments.
These levels will be applied in the random sampling of cars of wheat which was. resumed last January after a temporary suspension for studies by an Advisory Committee on grain sanitation.
The new levels will be effective during the 1956 crop year (to July 1957), at which time the program will again be reviewed.
but even this did not deter the movement for an agricultural college. Fort Collins citizens do-nated 240 acres of land during the next two years as a site for .the college. This land included an extensive slough and what was termed facetiously "the largest prairie dog town west of the Mississippi."
Finally, in 1874, the legislature accepted its responsibility to the extent of appropriating $1,000 "to aid in erecting buildings and making ... other improvements ... " It craftily specified, however, that the money should not be made available until an equal amount had been raised by public subscription.
In the fall of 1874, a small brick building known in college history as the "claim shanty,, was constructed at a cost of $420 to evidence the determination of the people actually to build a college.
By the time Colorado became a state in 1876, some of the college land had been fenced and water rights purchased, and farming of part of the land had begun. Even then, there was strong opposition to a bill providing a mill levy for the college. Many legislators wished to divert all such funds from the agricultural college to a
school of mining, because of the relative unim-portance of agriculture in Colorado at the time.
Nevertheless, state legislation in 1877, supple-menting the earlier legislation by the territorial legislature, showed further the foresight of agri- . cultural planners of those days. The law provided that the State Board of Agriculture, governing board of the college·, iri directing experimental farming at the college, should give particular at-tention to soil preparation studies, planting methods, cultivation and harvesting, farm ma-chinery, climatic influences, fertilizers, labor costs and insect pest control.
Thus was the way paved for the institution's entrance into the agricultural research activities. to which Colorado ranchers· and farmers increas-ingly look for assistance in their operations. Amazingly enough, the law pointed out specific-ally what, even today, are basic agricultural problems.
Experimental work, often by somewhat un-scientific methods, was done by the college from the beginning. Modern concepts of research be-gan to take shape with the formal establishment of the Experiment Station in 1888.
Present legislators, reflecting the viewpoint of their constituents, constantly give greater con-sideration to the research needs of agriculture, thus reflecting the current trend of industry.
The significance of this historical review is that the scientific bases of modern ranching and farming in Colorado have not been established the easy way. Men of vision have taken the initiative against obstacles in behalf of agricultural educa-tion and research. To their foresight and deter-mination we shall be forever indebted.
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Forme,r Secreta,ry of St,ate Board
Tcells Story of Fir:s,t CSU Pre,xy
By James Mille,r
Jim Miller stands beside the hibis-cus bush that marks the grave of Dr, E. E. Edwards, firslt president of CSU.
A grass-covered grave at Fort Myers, Florida, is the final resting place of the man who, as first pres-ident of Colorado State University, organized the institution and directed its operations during the first three years of Its ex1s1\nce. Dr. Elijah E. Edwards, president of Colorado Agri-cultural College, the first name of the institution, from 1879 to 1882, was buried in the Fort Myers cemetery on November 11, 1915, the day follow-ing his death at La Belle, Florida.
Dr. Edwards is the forgotten man of CSU history. Little is known of him here except that he was a Civil 'war veteran of the Union Army, and that in his earlier years he had been briefly a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was my realiza-tion of this lack of informarealiza-tion, plus a feeling that the first president de-served to be remembered by CSU, that ar'oused my interest in compiling a biography of the pioneer educator. To this task I have devoted consider-able time during the past five years.
Visits Granddaughter
Last fall I visited a granddaughter of Dr. Edwards, Mrs. L. B. (Alice Ed-wards) Stainton, Kalamazoo, Mich-igan. Mrs. Stainton supplied me a wealth of information about Dr. Ed-wards. If my research results in a biography deserving of a place in CSU archives, it will be to a great extent due to her interest and assistance.
From Mrs. Stainton I learned that Dr. Edwards died at La Belle, Florida, on November 10, 1915, at the home of his son, Elmer E. Edwards. At that time La Belle was a new town which had no cemetery, so burial was at Fort Myers, 17 miles away.
Search for Records
In late January of this year, I
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1915. The office of the city clerk, present custodian of the records of the city-owned cemetery, gave no in-formation; no known records had been made of burials of 45 years ago. The office of the county recorder yielded no evidence of a deed to a cemetery lot in the name of Dr. Ed-wards.
Beautifully microfilmed files of old copies of thef Fort Myers News-Press were made · available to me. They were complete for the past half-century except for a six-months' lapse which included the November 1915
issue in which I had hoped to find the story of the Edwards funeral and burial.
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Finally, the acCOJ11Pdating director of a funeral home fcfrlnd, in a bundle of old papers, a printed form bearing data of the funeral and the burial. This record disclosed the burial spot as the "W½SW¼, Lot IX, Block X" of the old portion of the cemetery. With this information, the sexton readily located the grave and proved the location by ground tests which verified that a burial had been made at that spot.
The grave is on the family lot of Elmer Edwards, whose body lies to the east, parallel to that of his father. A stone over the son's grave bears his own name and that of his widow, Theresa R. Edwards, who ultimately will be buried there also. This re-markable woman, daughter-in-law of Dr. Edwards, still lives at La Belle, where I visited her. Although she is
92 years of age, she still has a r e-markable memory. She nursed Dr. Edwards in his last two years when
he lived with her and her husband at the Hotel Everett which they oper-ated at La Belle.
President Edwards had consider-able ability as an artist, and almost to the end of his life he delighted in making pencil drawings in a sketch book. His artistic nature would have appreciated and approved the selec-tion of his last resting place, for it is a palm-dotted cemetery, profuse with hibiscus, azalea and other bushes which bea r color most of the year. His grave, well sodded and level with the surface of the surrounding ground, is marked only by a hibiscus bush, one of a row of bushes bordering a drive which extends through the cemetery.
Acthieved Nea,r-Gre,atness
CSU alumni should wish for Dr. Edwards an eternity of peaceful slum-ber under his grassy blanket, for his tenure here had a shameful conclu-sion of which neither CSU nor the State of Colorado can be proud-but that is another story which cannot be told h ere for lack of space. The experience left him a saddened and disillusioned man. Here he h ad paved the way for a great educational insti-tution and for the approachi'ng age of scientific agriculture and engineering. Here he had achieved near-greatness. After the heights upon which he stood had crumbled beneath him, he never was able to attain again the
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titled him. He attemped, witla )'.,l,Q,tylld/io()notable success, to regain a position in educational circles. Finally, he turned again to the ministry, this time in the Episcopal church, with less-than-spectacular success. He died, an embittered man, at the age of 84 year s.
The 3rd in a series featuring the choronology of Colorado State University, in which historic events and individual accomplishments are depicted.
1890
Dr. C. P. Gillette, for many years Director of the Experiment Station, came to the University.
1891
College published statement, "The soil and climate of Colorado are favor-able to the production of sugar beets and they can successfully and profitably be raised to the advantage of both the farmer and the manufacturer."
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGIAN was first published.
1892
Agricultural Hall, later known as Agronomy Building, erected.
L. M. Taylor, for many years Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, joined the faculty.
Columbian Literary Society organized on the 400th anniversary of the dis-covery of America.
Porter I. Preston, later Senior Engineer, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, in graduating class.
Alston Ellis became President of the University.
L. D. Crain, later Head of Mechanical Engineering and Building Super'-intendent, joined the faculty.
1893
Dr. William P. Headden, later Chairman of Chemistry and for many years chemist for the Experiment Station, came to the University.
1894
Horticulture Hall completed 1894 or 1895.
1895
Erected in 1892, the now-vacated Agronomy Building served stude·nts and faculty of CS,U faithfully through-out 68 memorable years.
Department of Domestic Economy opened in the present Music Building in charge of Theodosia Grace Ammons.
First SILVER SPRUCE published- Loren B. Curtis, editor.
1896
L. G. Carpenter published bulletin on return flow of it,rigation water. Addition to Mechanical Engineering Building erected. Money for the ad-dition was given by the people of Fort Collins.
Title of Department of Physics and Engineering changed to Civil and Irrigation Engineering.
E. B. House, later Dean of Engineering, became a member of the faculty.
• When the senior members of the Colorado State University alumni family, the 50-Year Club, gathered on the university campus, they were joined for the first time by the "freshman" class of 1910, who were enjoying their half-century reunion.
The celebration took place on June 3 just prior to the following day's spring commencement activities of the University, and saw about seventy members of the Club, guests and other dignitaries in attendance.
A conducted tour of the campus was followed by the traditional dinner, at which Pres. William E. Morgan and Charles Terrell, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, were the feat-ured speakers. Special guests at the function included former president of the University, Dr. Charles A. Lory, and Achievement award winner, Dr. E. L. LeClerg.
The 1910 class, led by M. Walter Pesman and Ed Aicher, met that evening for their own special "Ten Plus Fifty" reunion dinner and the ,following day were honored guests of the University at Commencement exercises and a presidential luncheon. New officers elected by the 50-year grnup included: president, Ed Aicher, '10; vice president, Fred Barnes, '09; secretary, Robert S. Tedman, '09 ; and historian, Mrs. Alta L. Bush, '97.
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F101rGolden lteunion
Members of the Class of 1910 proudly display their class banne'r on their return to the Agg i e campus for their 50th re-union. They are (front row, left) Stewart Wallace, Dr. Victor Cram, David Mathias, Harold Scamme•II, Ed Aiche•rs, Dr. Rex Van Sickle·, Ralph Jeffries and E. J. Fal loon; (back row left) Dr. Ira Watts, J.H.V. Fin1ney, Dr. E.A. Meyers, Clyde Mann, Dr.
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The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
B:y James Miller
Two elde.rly Ord women were arguing about what a sickly child should eat. Mr. B. Lock Head, overhearing them, commented, "As I remember grandmothers the, answer: should be, "You'li eat whatever Grandma prepares for you, and you'd better like it if ·you know what's good for you." Problem for Ord churches: How does it happen that the younger women at church dinners have all disappeared when- dishwash-ing time comes around.
Another way to get free foot-· ball tickets: Keep on friendly t~rms with a farmer who is also a Big Red fan. If the weather makes farm work critical, pay him a visit a few days before the game and hand up an eightpack , leans out while turning his tractor at the end of the rows. A hummingbird can fly 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico
avera,ging 50 miles an hour, and all the fuel it will need is a single gram of fat. Rosey Hewes says she can't help wondering how far . and how fast a. corpulent man
could go on that diet.
Reports of investigations of re-cent floods in several western states over-use some words which once were considered improper in official reports. It all depends on whether the findings justify the use of' "dam" or "damn" - or both.
After all, there's something to be said for being young and gull-ible. That's why those of us in the army in the good old days could crawl we.arily between two thin OD blankets each night and murmur, " Another day, another dollar; a million days, a million dollars." Also why we could rise happily at 5:30 next morning when a sergeant kicked our cot and yelled, "Rise .and shine."
An economist,, discussing t h e doubling of the present size of Nebraska farms and the result-ant dislocation of many rural residents, asks, "What are you going to do with all those people?" Fortunately, Nebraska has crea-ted many lakes during the. past half-century. Probably the bureu-cratic answer to the question will be, "Tell them 'to go jump in the lake." 2
Borrowed limeric~ collec-tion of one Joh~./P. McKnight, considered a 70 ear-old classic as a good examp e of limerick form:
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Eloped with a ma:g;And as for the bucket, Nantucket. A severely cold winter is fore-cast, and a billion -· dollar energy shortage threatens. It is apparent that America should have had a
h billion dollar appropriation to
in-duce t~ nvironmentalists to gather the soft-drink bottles and cans and fill them with the sum-mer heat that was burning up roasting ears in Augµst.
The League of Women Voters plans to ask Nebraskans to de-termine what form of governm~nt is best suited for county govern-ments. As one able to give a quick answer before ducking for cover, we (Propose whatever form it takes to construct a blacktop road leading into the farmyard
of every registered voter. A Nebraska senator says Con-gress should c.ut importation of foreign beef in half. While waiting for slow action to that effect, why not provide a quick solution to-ward the same end by exporting the surplus baloney which
accu-mulated along the campaign trails?
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been provided at that time. It had l \ Qover the year? has so much stress and strain, both physical and mental,
bs e~ understood . that the the F?rtcentered about any other buildina upon this campus.
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afterthoughts inspired by expanding Contr:act Price $7000 acres.
academic necessity, which turned its interior into an architectural night-mare, Old Main has withstood the abuse and condemnation of successive generations of Aggie students and their teachers. Despite all assaults upon its character, it has continued grimly to serve the purpose to which it was so glowingly dedicated on the drizzly afternoon of July 27, 1878, when its cornerstone was laid at formal public ceremonies.
Even now, desp,ite the glorified con-struction progran:is of recent years, the Governing Board and the
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c!fill1. of t~niv,ersity preak out invW"-r~old~t~they consider how the institution would · operate were it to lose Old Main by fire. That is a fate, incidentally, which sabotage-minded faculty members and ·irresponsible students have long held to be too good for it.
Jinx Pursued Old Main
The red-brick walls of the original building, standing strong and sub-stantial even now, belie its troubled existence. The story of Old Main is the story of one jinx after another. For it to stand, even in humiliation, is a triumph, considering the blows which hostile circumstance has rained upon it over the years.
The construction of Old Main was predestined, for the College as o have a beginning somewhere. Only a utility building, a 14 by 28-foot brick structure, stood upon the College grounds earlier. This first structure was at the extreme northeast corner of the campus, at the present inter-section of South College A venue and West Laurel Street.
In March 1877, in the first year of Colorado's advancement from terri-torial status to that of statehood, the State Board of Agriculture was organ-ized and took charge as the governing board of the proposed college. The new board began immediately to plan for construction of "the College." At a meeting on March 29, 1878, a build-ing committee adopted a plan submit-ted by George B. King of Boulder. The building thus planned, King guar-anteed, "could be built for seven thousand dollars or less."
Two months later, on May 29, 1878, the Board opened bids for construc-tion. Twelve bids ha d been received. W. G. Bentley of Greeley submitted the lowest bid, $6,740. Differences arose between Bentley and the Board
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to him by the Board. Bentley re- With the acquiring.?{statehood in turned the contract unsigned, and the 1876, Colorado began t6' accept more Board awarded the contract to the seriously its responsibility for its next low bidder, Henry
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Bak:3r of Agricultural College. Reviewing later Boulder whose bid was $7,000. the history of the Main Building,Wil-liam F. Watrous, first president of Two weeks after the signing of a the State Board of Agriculture. wrote: construction contract, the State Board "After careful consideration of the of Agriculture turned its att ention to facts . . . it was deemed best to com-the financing of com-the project. Although mence and complete a building of suf-establishment of the College had been ficient capacity to accommodate the authorized by the Colorado territorial present wants of the state w.,hich it legislature in 1870, the date which ap- was understood could .be done,, by
com-OLD MAIN - as it appeared originally - p1r oud symbol of educational
opportunity in pioneer Colorado when CSU 's first students enrolled on Sept'em-per 1, 1879,
Samuel F. Groom recently complet-ed the Army food-service course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Lt. and Mrs. Ge·orge E. Naish are parents of a daughter, Lisa Margaret, born on J anuary 2, 1960, at Atlanta, Ga.
Lt Ronald L. Meyer and Betty Jane
Chambless were married at Fort Ben-nington, Ga., where he was stationed. He is now at Camp Walters, Tex., taking helicopter training.
James J. Vonde,rw:ahl is stationed
at Laredo, Tex., with the U. S. Air Force. He and the former Billie Louise Humphries, were married re-cently at Yuma, Colo.
E,arly CSU ·Graduate Is Pione,er In Artificial Pollina·tion Fiield
"Pioneer in the Artificial Pollina-tion Field." That is the title, which frequently is applied to Leo C:' Antles, '17, of W enat chee, Wash., who for 30 years has supplied processed pollen to fruit growers throughout the nation and in many foreign countries.
The 65-year-old Antles, a CSU grad-uate in entomology, operates 120 acres of orchard in the Wena tchee, Wash., area and near Grandview, in addition to his fruit-tree and pollen-supply offices at Wenatchee and Yak-ima. He is said to have conducted more experiments and to have com-piled more permanent r ecords of pol-len germination a nd viability than any other single person. All his pol-len is coded and certified for variety and location of gathering.
Primarily, all the methods of pro-cessing and gathering pollen, after the initial introduction of the ha nd-pollination method in 1929, have been . developed by Mr. Antles in
Wenat-chee, according to an industry publi-cation, the Goodfruit Grower, pub-lished at Yakima. He is said to own several patents and copyrights on many devices and ideas in connection with the pollen business.
Great Decisions Program
CSU Extension Service, in cooper-ation with Colorado University, will offer the "Great Decisions" program, for informal discussion of current world problems, through county ex-tension offices in Colorado, starting in February.
Profs Lecture by Telephone
Dr. William D. Carlson, '52, and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, '32, members of the CSU College of Veterinary Medi-cine faculty, recently presented a scientific paper by long-distance tele-phone from Fort Collins to a meeting of the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical association at Tulsa. This was th e first such presentation from CSU, with more than 700 miles between the
speakers an<t their audience.
1960
Season Football "Wrap-up'
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By Dick Smelser
Colorado State University's exper-ience-shy 1960 football team wound up sharing the Skyline Conference basement with Denver. It was the Aggies' lowest football finish since 1938.
A 21-12 loss to DU Thanksgiving Day at Denver left the Ags with a final league record of one win, six losses, the one victory coming by a n 8-7 count over Brigham Young. CSU's all-season record was 2-8.
The 1960 campaign was the start of a reconstruction period in CSU foot-ball for head coach Don "Tuffy" Mul-lison and his staff. From their strong 1959 club, which finished second to Wyoming in the Skyline, they had only nine lettermen returning, two of them first-stringers. The team's inex-perience and lack of depth were re-flected in the record.
Fourth-quarter woes were a major Aggie a ilment. Except for the Ari-zona State and Montana contests, the Ram s were very much in every game for the first three quarters. But the opponents went on to win handily most of the time with a last-period rush. CSU's dearth of seasoned man-power was a big factor causing this trouble, as most of their foe s were able to wear the Rams down in the late stages. It wasn't tha t the Rams didn't have some good players. They just didn't have enough of them to provide adequate reserve strength.
Commenting on the Skyline Confer-ence season, Mullison said he felt the league "was real tough and I be-lieve three of the teams-Wyoming, Utah State and Utah-were strong enough to hold up pretty well against a ny in the country. The conference was fairly well-balanced, with the other five teams being reasonably close in terms of competition."
CSU loses 10 seniors from the 1960 squad. They are ends Du_an~ . Kn~x and Don Wilson, guards Dick Harns and Don Mason, center Tom Hartle~, quarterbacks Bill Wade and Joe en-der, halfbacks Myron Pearson and Mickey Clark and wingback Ward Gates.
Mullison expects the r emainder of his 37 varsity squadmen to return, provided they stay scholastically eligible. The Aggie chief said Ile also feels 17 or 18 of this year's fresh-man crop will be of considerable help next fall. But he was reluctant to single out any individuals on the frosh squad until he's more certain of their scholastic standing.
The coaching staff plans to bring m a number of junior college tra·ns-fers to augment the 1961 squad. Mul-lison and line coach Joe Cribari took extensive recruiting trips in
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by CSU
'Sports Writer
"Our staff feels," Mullison said, "that CSU is in a critical situation in the Skyline Conference right now. We're on the bottom of the pile and it's not going to be easy to climb back up. But we'll make the utmost effo.rt to do this in the coming year." Ha).fbacks Bi:ady Keys and Pearson staged a close race for team rushing honors during the 1960 season, with Keys eking out a slim edge. He totaled 368 net yards in 103 carries. P earson rolled up 362 yards in 100 at-tempts. Each showed a 3.6 yard average per carry. Junior halfback Dennis Wohlhueter, however, had the top average-4.7. He had 205 net yards in 43 carries.
Quarter back Crider led the passers with 305 yards on 25 completions in 64 attempts. Gates topped the pass receivers with 16 catches for 219 yards. He wound up second in the Skyline to Denver's Jim Cobb. Gates also headed the Aggie punters with a 36.7 yard average. Pearson was the team scoring leader with 20 points.
In the honors department Knox, the rugged Laporte end, was a first-team selection on the Associated Press, United Press International and the players' All-Skyline teams._ H!3 and Pearson were placed on the second team by the De.nver Post.
Old lssu1es o,f Spruce Are Offered for Sal,e
Need an old issue of the Silver Spruce, Aggie yearbook, for your files? Copies may be obtained by addressing the business manager of the Silver Spruce at CSU. Prices are $6 for the 1960 book and $2 for the earlier ones, mailed C. 0. D.
Smi·th Still Active
Dr. Ernest C. Smith, retired mem-ber of the CSU faculty, now lives with a granddaughter in Houston, Texas. Although 96 years of age, he is still interested in his academic field of botany and only a year ago had an article in the Southwestern Naturalist, a technical publication. His address is 408 Littleton Street, Houston 22.
Aggi,es in Wa,s·hington
Graduates of CSU's College of Vet-erinary Medicine hold important
pos-itions in the animal inspection and quarantine division of the Agricul-tural Research Service of the U. S. D. A. in Washington, D. C. They include Dr. S. N. Studer, '33; Dr. Thomas W. T amoglia, '36 ; Dr. William McMich-ael, '35; Dr. Paul Lanphear, '42; and Dr. Harolq. Waters, '52.
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bining the two levies of 1879 and 1878 and creating a fund of about eight thousand five hundred and fifty dol-lars."
Mo ney Bo rrowed for Construction
Upon the basis of this understand-ing, the Board proceeded with con-struction and without funds actually in hand. It borrowed money from several private sources in Denver to finance the construction, signing promissory notes and issuing certifi-cates of indebtedness against its ac-count in the state treasurer's office.
The report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1878 says ground was broken for the Main Building about June 20, 1878. Apparently there were no ground-breaking ceremonies when Contractor Baker and his me·n started w9rk. Using a fine quality of dark-red stone quarried in the nearby mountains, the workmen laid a deep and substantial foundation resting solidly upon a bed of shale. The foundation is in reasonably good con-dition 82 years later.
So well did the work progress that the Board set July 27, 1878, as the date for the formal laying of the cornerstone. Plans for the building provided for a contrasting gray corn-erstone, properly inscribed. The Board gave the Grange, a farmers' organiza-tion, the responsibility of planning the ceremonies at the plancing of the stone, and for a street parade to pre-cede the ceremonies.
Ma,sons Laid Co rnerstone
J. C. Shattuck, state superintendent of public instruction was speaker of the day. William H . Watrous, presi-dent of the State Board of Agricul-ture, presided. J. C. Hart of Pueblo, grand master of the Masonic lodge of Colorado, and other lodge officials placed the cornerstone with the tra-ditional ceremonies of their order.
A special train carried visitors from Denver and intermediate points to Fort Colllins for the day's observ-ances. Governor John L. Routt head-ed the delegation, which includhead-ed other state officials and President W. A. H. Loveland of the Colorado Central Railroad, who h ad arranged for the special train and for excurs-ion rates of one and one-fifth fare for the visitors.
A reporter for the Denver Daily Tribune, in his published account of the day's ceremonies, made this ob-servation regarding the p a r a d e : "After the citizens on foot came a long line of wagons, the entire pro-cession being perhaps four hundred yards long. The footmen walked in pairs, and as the rain was falling all the time, and as about every other man carried an umbrella, the scene presented to an outsider was pictur-esque and peculiar."
Of the scene at the Main Building, the reporter wrote: "The basement of the building had already been erected and joists put down with planks across them, forming an excel-lent platform for the accommodation
of as many of the crowd as chose to avail themselves of it."
Regarding the addresses by the grand master and the superintendent of public instruction, the reporter noted : "The rain was falling during the time that both gentlemen spoke, and theyfi:ook off their hats and went in like little men,' never pausing, and the people stood and listened until they had concluded, and then ap-plauded vigorously."
Contracto,r "Went Broke"
The involved and often irritating procedures of financing construction were merely the prelude to the diffi-culties which the State Board of Agri-culture encountered when the Main Building was completed. The con-tractor found himself involved in fi-nancial obligations for labor and materials beyond the amount he would receive under the contract price of $7,000.
As a result of his inability to : meet his bills, numbers of subcontractors, workmen and suppliers filed a series of liens against the project, forcing the Board to take a hand in the fiasco. It was found that claims totaled $2,594.49, and that the balance due the contractor from the Board was $1,801.65. The Board settled by paying immediately 60 per cent of each claim, conditioned upon the claimants relinquishing all claims under their liens. Later additional payments were made in final settle-m ent within the contract total.
Thus, for the $7,000 actual invest-ment, the Board obtained a building which cost the contractor $8,801.65-a g$8,801.65-ain of 1,801.65 in doll$8,801.65-ars but $8,801.65-at $8,801.65-a cost of extra legal services and a great deal of time and annoya1ice to the unpaid members of the Board personally.
First President A rrives
Meanwhile, Dr. E. E. Edwards had been elected president of the College at a salary of $1,800 to head the three-man faculty. With his family, he had arrived from Illinois in July, 1879. After living for a brief period in the little one-room utility building at South College Avenue and West Laurel Street, they moved into sec-ond-floor rooms of the Main Building. This was their home until the last half-year of Dr. Edwards' tenure, when they moved into a new dorm-itory, now known as Spruce Hall, in order that Mrs. Edwards might serve there as matron.
Prof. A. E. Blount, "professor of practical agriculture," and his family lived in basement rooms. There, too, the professor started various field and garden plants for transplanting later on the College Farm, operation of which was his responsibility. Mrs. Blount grew flowers and ornamental plants in the makeshift nursery and set them out in the first efforts at campus beautification.
Records indicate that Ch arles F. Davis, a bachelor who was an early professor of mathematics and chem-istry, also lived in the basement of the Main Buildin~ when he first
joined the ~aculty, as did several stu-dents, including the well-remembered Dr. George H . Glover, whose name is m emorialized on the present veteri'n-ary hospital.
First Classes In 1879
With the building completed, school opened on September 1, 1879, for a short "preparatory course" designed _to review pre-college studies and other.wise prep~re students for begin-ning college-level work. However, completion of the _Main Building did not m~an that troubles with the build-ing wer e at an end.
Shortly · after the term opened, someone raised a question about the adequacy of a lightning rod which had been installed oil the roof. At the November 29th meeting of the Board, President Edwards, Prof. Frank J. Annis and Board Member Stanger were appointed "to examine the light-ning rod on the College and report to the Board at its next meeting whether it is properly erected or not." Three months later the committee was "granted further time to report." An-other three months elapsed before the committee finally reported: "The committee on Lightning Rod made a verbal report, saying that the rod was connected with the iron work on the roof, and therefore of little utility. On motion the committee was dis-charged."
Wha t appears to be the final epi-sode in the story of the erratic light-ning rod appeared in Board minutes more than three years later, when the Committee on Finance reported: "We have examined bill of B. F. Woods for $54 for fixing lightning rod and respectfully submit same for your consideration."
Even at that late date, the subject continued to be an irritating one, for further in the record of the same meeting is this notation: "The bill of Mr. Woods for repair of lightning rod taken up and after disc1,1.ssion fifty dollars allowed after rod · should be put in proper shape."
Building Found Defective
Nor was this the last nor the great-est of the difficulties involving the Main Building. During the next year a·nd a h alf, serfous- defects began to appear. The west wall, on the end next to the railroad, cracked and ap-peared in danger of collapse. Further, roof gutters dumped their water so close to the building that the found-ation was in danger of being washed out.
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How Library S,tartied
W nat was th e beginning of the CSU Library?
Miss Charlotte A. Baker, librarian in 1923, wrote in the Fort Collins Ex-press of that year:
"There is a tradition that very early in the history of the college, the first president walked into his office with a Webster's Dictionary under his arm. Placing it on a table, Dr. Edwards re-marked, 'Now we have started our library.' "
On June 21, 1880, the minutes stated: "LaGrange report read and committee discharged, but new com-mittee of Watrous and LaGrange on the college building appointed and in-structed to immediately procure three one inch iron rods of sufficient length, with 16 inch star heads, with buckle joints in the center of each rod, said rods to pass through the building in the best manner to strengthen the west wall. The committee are in-structed to have the water conduct-ors leading from the roof lengthened sufficiently to carry the water into open drains so as to protect the foundation."
On the following morning, after the Board members had considered their predicament over night and recovered somewhat from their panic, a more grandiose scheme of supporting the west wall was devised: " ... it was ordered that as soon as possible an addition be made to the present col-lege building; the addition to be made upon the west side, to be three stories in height, including the
base-ment, to be built of brick with stone facings ,in dimensions of ground plan of about 30 x 40 feet, each story to be divided into rooms according to a plan submitted to and adopted by a building committee to be hereinafter appointed. The whole cost of the ad-dition not to exceed $4,500.00. The vote against the foregoing was car-ried by 5 ayes against one nay."
The sequel to this hasty and ill-ad-vised subterfuge is related in Board minutes of September 9, 1880: "Build-ing committee reported that inasmuch as the rods and braces which had been put into the building was (sic) considered sufficient protection to the College building, it would be inex-pedient to proceed at the present time to construct the addition to the Col-lege as contemplated by the resolu-tion passed at the special meeting of the board on the 22d of June 1880; and therefore ask to be discharged. On motion the report was accepted and the committee discharged."
(To Be Concluded Next Issue)
Railroad Across Campus Has Been Source
Of Irritation Since f.ou,nding of CSU
Lost in the maze of history is the answer to the question, "Who was responsible for permitting a railroad to traverse the campus of Colorado State University?" The railroad was here before the institution was organ-ized in 1879. \
At the second m eting of the newly organized State Board of Agriculture, governing board of the institution, on September 11, 1877, action was taken as. follows: "On motion of M. N. Ev-erett, the Board authorized Prest. Watrous to collect the sum of one hundred dollars, the amount assessed as damage to the College land, for the right of way of the C. C. R. R. and place the same in the funds of the College."
At the following meeting, on Dec-ember 26th, _ financial statement sub-mitted by President Watrous showed this item: "Damage rcvd. from C. C.
R. R. for right of way $100." Five months later, the records show this action: "Ordered: That the Secy. cor-respond with Mr. A. H . Loveland, president of the C. C. R. R. in refer-ence to the obstruction caused by the embankment on the College farm."
So far as the records of the Board indicate, the Board, for a mere $100, bequeathed to the institution not only an annoying situation but one which became more dangerous as the volume of both pedestrian and vehicular traf-fic upon the campus increased with the arrival of the automobile age.
When the site was selected for Old Main building, the first building on the campus other than a small untility building for storage of farm equip-ment and supplies, the Board chose to locate it only 200 feet from the railroad right-of-way. When additions to the west end of the building were made in later years, the westermost
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The Fort, Collins Courier, shortly before the dedication of Old Main in 1878, ob,served: "Unfortunately, the Colorado Central Railroad cuts into the forty on which the building stands."
The route of the railroad may have been determined, at least insofar as the College lands are concerned, with-out the formality of obtaining written permission, leaving the matter of pay-ment to be determined later. This ap-pears possible in view of the Board's statement that the $100 which it de-manded of the railroad was "the amount asssessed as damage." It is possible, of couse, that the old Board of Trustees planning the College as predecessors of the State Board of Agriculture in territorial days, may have agreed to the encroachment.
Probably public opinion at the time would have supported the desecration of the campus, even had it been pos-sible for the matter to become an issue at that early date, for residents of Northern Colorado were more than eager to have a railroad enter their part of the state. They probably would have permitted no sentimental drivel from educators to have inter-fered. At any rate, the railroad crossed the land, and now neither the railroad company nor the University seems likely to outlive the other.
In recent years, the subject of re-moval of the railroad from the campus has been raised occasionally. Partic-ularly in 1959, a joint University-com-munity · study was m ade and inter-views held with railroad officials in a futile effort to find a solution of the problem. - J. R. M. 3
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foundation." /
On the following morning, after the Board members had considered their predicament over night and recovered somewhat from their panic, a more grandiose scheme of supporting the west wall was devised: " . . . it was ordered that as soon as possible an addition be made to the present col-lege building; the addition to be made upon the west side, to be three stories in height, including the
base-ment, to be built of brick with stone facings ,in dimensions of ground plan of about 30 x 40 feet, each story to be divided into rooms according to a plan submitted to and adopted by a building committee to be hereinafter appointed. The whole_...Gost of the ad-dition not to exc.eed $4,500.00. The vote against the foregoing was car-ried by 5 ayes against one nay."
The sequel to this hasty and ill-ad-vised subterfuge is related in Board minutes of September 9, 1880: "Build-ing committee reported that inasmuch as the rods and braces which had been put into the building was (sic) considered sufficient protection to the College building, it would be inex-pedient tQ proceed at the present time to construGt the addition to the Col-lege as con emplated by the resolu-tion passed at the special meeting of the board on the 22d of June 1880 ; and therefore ask to be discharged. On motion the report was accepted and the committee discharged."
(To Be Concluded Next Issue)
Railroad Across Campus Has Been Source
Of Irritation Sin~e f.ounding of CSU
Lost in the maze of history is the answer to the question, "Who was responsible for permitting a railroad to traverse the campus of Colorado State University?" The railroad was here before the institution was organ-ized in 1879.
At the second meeting of the newly organized State Board of Agriculture, governing board of the institution, on September 11, 1877, action was taken as follows: "On motion of M. N. Ev-erett the Board authorized Prest. Wat;ous to collect the sum of one hundred dollars, the amount assessed as damage to the College land, for the right of way of the C. C. R. R. and place the same in the funds of the College."
At the following meeting, on Dec-ember 26th, a financial statement sub-mitted by President Watrous showed this item: "Damage rcvd. from C. C.
R. R. for right of way $100." Five months later, the records show this action: "Ordered: That the Secy. cor-respond with Mr. A. H. Loveland, president of the C. C. R. R. in refer-ence to the obstruction caused by the embankment on the College farm."
So far as the records of the Board indicate, the Board, for a mere $100, bequeathed to the institution not only an annoying situation but one which became more dangerous as the volume of both pedestrian and vehicular traf-fic upon the campus increased with the arrival of the automobile age.
When the site was selected for Old Main building, the first building on the campus other than a small untility building for storage of farm equip-ment and supplies, the Board chose to locate it only 200 feet from the railroad right-of-way. When additions to the west end of the building were made in later years, the westermost
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The Fort Collins Courier, shortly before the dedication of Old Main in 1878, observed: "Unfortunately, the Colorado Central Railroad cuts into the forty on which the building stands."
The route of the railroad may have been determined, at least insofar as the College lands are concerned, with-out the formality of obtaining written permission, leaving the matter of pay-ment to be determined later. This ap-pears possible in view of the Board's statement that the $100 which it de-manded of the railroad was "the amount asssessed as damage." It is possible, of cause, that the old Board of Trustees planning the College as predecessors of the State Board of Agriculture in territorial days, may have agreed to the encroachment.
Probably public opinion at the time would have supported the desecration of the campus, even had it been pos-sible for the matter to become an issue at that early date, for residents of Northern Colorado were more than eager to have a railroad enter thEir part of the state. They probably would have permitted no sentimental drivel from educators to have inter-fered. At any rate, the railroad crossed the land, and now neither the railroad company nor the University seems likely to outlive the other.
In recent years, the subject of re-moval of the railroad from the campus has been raised occasionally. Partic-ularlv in 1959, a joint University-com-munity study was made arui ·inter-views held with railroad officials in a futile effort to find a solution of the problem. - J . R. M. 3
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bining the two levies of 1879 and 1878 and creating a fund of about eight thousand five hundred and fifty dol-lars."
Mo ney Borrowed fo r Construction
Upon the basis of this understand-ing, the Board proceeded with con-struction and without funds actually in hand. It borrowed money from several private sources in Denver to finance the construction, signing promissory notes and issuing certifi-cates of indebtedness against its ac-count in the state treasurer's office.
The report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1878 says ground was broken for the Main Building about June 20, 1878. Apparently there were no ground-breaking ceremonies when Contractor Baker and his men st3.rted work. Using a fine quality of dark-red stone quarried in the nearby mountains, the workmen laid a deep and substantial foundation resting solidly upon a bed of shale. The foundation is in reasonably good con-dition 82 years later.
So well did the work progress that the Board set July 27, 1878, as the date for the formal laying of the cornerstone. Plans for the building provided for a contrasting gray corn-erstone, properly inscribed. The Board gave the Grange, a farmers' organiza-tion, the responsibility of planning the ceremonies at the plancing of the stone, and for a street parade to pre-cede the ceremonies.
Ma,sons Laid Co rnerstone
J . C. Shattuck, state superintendent of public instruction was speaker of the day. William H. Watrous, presi-dent of the State Board of Agricul-ture, presided. J. C. Hart of Pueblo, grand master of the Masonic lodge of Colorado, and other lodge officials placed the cornerstone with the tra-ditional ceremonies of their order.
A special train carried visitors from Denver and' intermediate points to Fort Colllins for the day's observ-ances. Governor John L. Routt head-ed the delegation, which includhead-ed other state officials and President W. A. H. Loveland of the Colorado Central Railroad, who h ad arranged for the special train and for excurs-ion rates of one and one-fifth fare for the visitors.
A reporter fo the Denver Daily Tribune, in his :i,, ~tblished account of the day's ceremonies, made _ this ob-servation r egarding the p a r a d e : "After the citizens on foot came a long line of wagons, the entire pro-cession being perhaps four hundred yards long. The footmen walked in pairs, and as the rain was falling all the time, and as about every other man carried an umbrella, the scene presented to an outsider was pictur-esque and peculiar."
Of the scene at the Main Building, the r eporter wrote: "The basement of the building had already been erectgd and joists put down with. planks across them, forming an excel-lent platform for the accommodation
of as many of the crowd ,as chose to avail themselves of it." .
Regarding the addresses by the grand master and the superintendent of public instruction, the reporter noted : "The rain was falling dµring the time that both gentlemen spoke, and they took off their hats and went in like little men,' never pausing, and the people stood and listened until they had concluded, and then ap-plauded vigorously."
Cont racto,r "Went Broke"
The involved and often irritating procedures of financing construction were merely the prelude to the diffi-culties which the State Board of Agri-culture encountered when the Main Building was completed. The con-tractor found himself involved in fi-nancial obligations for labor and materials beyond the amount he would receive under the contract price of $7,000.
As a result of his inability to meet his bills, numbers of subcontractors, workmen and suppliers filed a series of liens against the project, forcing the Board to take a hand in the fiasco. It was found that claims totaled $2,594.49, and that the balance due the contractor from the Board was $1,801.65. The Board settled by paying immediately 60 per cent of each claim, conditioned upon the claimants relinquishing all claims under their liens. Later additional payments were made in final settle-ment within the contract total.
Thus, for the $7,000 actual invest-ment, the Board obtained a building which cost the contractor $8,801.65-a g$8,801.65-ain of 1,801.65 in doll$8,801.65-ars but $8,801.65-at $8,801.65-a cost of extra legal services and a great deal of time and annoyance to the unpaid members of the Board personally.
F irst President A rrives
Meanwhile, Dr. E. E. Edwards had been elected president of the College at a salary of $1,800 to head the three-man faculty. With his family, he had arrived from Illinois in July, 1879. After living for a brief period in the little one-room utility building at South College Avenue and West Laurel Street, they moved into sec-ond-floor rooms of the Main Building. This was their home until the last half-year of Dr. Edwards' tenure, when they moved into a new dorm-itory, now known as Spruce Hall, in order that Mrs. Edwards might serve there as matron.
Prof. A. E . Blount, "professor of practical agriculture,'' and his family lived in basement rooms. There too, the professor started various ·' field and garden plants for transplanting later on the College Farm, operation of which was his r esponsibility. Mrs. Blount grew flowers and ornamental plants in the makeshift nursery and set them out in the first efforts at campus beautification.
Records indicate that Charles F. Davis, a bachelor who was an early professor of mathematics and chem-istry, also lived in the basernent of the Main Buildin~ when he first
_joined the Faculty, as did several stu-dents, includiµg the well-remembered Dr. George H. Glover, whose name is memorialized on the present veterin-ary hospital.
First C las,ses In 1879
With the building completed, school opened on September 1, 1879, for a short "preparatory course" designed to review pre-college studies and otherwise prepare students for begin-ning college-level work. However, completion of the Main Building did not mean that troubles with the build-ing wer e at an end.
Shortly after the term opened, someone raised a question about the adequacy of a lightning rod which had been installed on the roof. At the Nov~mber 29th meeting of the Board, President Edwards, Prof. Frank J. Annis and Board Member Stanger were appointed "to examine the light-ning rod on the College and report to the Board at its next meeting whether it is properly erected or not." Three months later the committee was "granted further time to report." An-other three months elapsed before the committee finally reported: "The committee on Lightning Rod made a verbal report, saying that the rod was connected with the iron work on the roof, and therefore of little utility. On motion the committee was dis-charged."
Wha t appears to be the final epi-sode in the story of the erratic light-ning rod appeared in Board minutes more than three years later, when the Committee on Finance reported: "We have examined bill of B. F. Woods for $54 for fixing lightning rod and respectfully submit same for your consideration."
Even at that late date, the subject continued to be an irritating one, for further in the record of the same m eeting is this notation: "The bill of _Mr. Woods for repair of lightning rod taken up and after discussion fifty dollars allowed after rod should be put in proper shape."
Building Found Defective
Nor was this the last nor the great-est of the difficulties involving the Main Building. During the next year and a half, serious defects began to appear. The west wall, on the end next to. the railroad, cracked and ap-peared 111 danger of collapse. Further,
roof gutters dumped their water so close to the building that the found-ation was in danger of being washed
out.
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How Library S,tartied
What was the beginning of the CSU Library?
Miss Charlotte A. Baker, libraria n in 1923, wrote in the Fort Collins Ex-press of that year:
"There is a tradition that very early in the history of the college, the first president walked into his office with a Webster's Dictionary under his arm. Placing it on a table, Dr. Edwards re-marked, 'Now we have started our library.'"
