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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BULLETIN 
 
 Vol. XIV. No. 1 
 
 Published Monthly by the Regents of the University of Colorado. 
 Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, as second-class mail matter. 
 
 APPRECIATION OF THE SERVICE OF 
 JAMES HUTCHINS BAKER 
 
 President of the University of Colorado 
 JANUARY 1, 1892, TO JANUARY 1, 1914 
 
 Boulder, Colorado. January, 1914 
 
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BULLETIN 
 
 Vol. XIV. No. 1 
 
 Published Monthly by the Regents of the University of Colorado. 
 Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, as second-class mail matter. 
 
 APPRECIATION OF THE SERVICE OF 
 JAMES HUTCHINS BAKER 
 
 President of the University of Colorado 
 JANUARY 1, 1892 TO JANUARY 1, 1914 
 
 Boulder. Colorado. January, 1914 
 
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 January 1, 1892 to January 1, 1914. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 On December 3rd, 1913, James Hutchins Baker, the third presi- 
 dent of the University of Colorado, presented to the Board of Regents 
 his resignation, to take effect on January 1st, 1914. In recognition 
 of his distinguished service to the Institution in the twenty-two years 
 of his presidency, the Regents gave him the title of President- 
 Emeritus and voted to continue his salary to January 1st, 1915. At 
 a later meeting of the Board they voted that the January number 
 of the University of Colorado Bulletin should be a memorial in 
 recognition of his service. The Trustees of the Carnegie Founda- 
 tion for the Advancement of Teaching have recognized his educa- 
 tional work by granting him a, retiring allowance. 
 
 The news of President Baker's retirement brought expressions 
 of regret from every side. Commemorative exercises were held in 
 the Macky Auditorium on December 18th. The following evening 
 the Faculty Senate gave a dinner in his honor. A reception in honor 
 of Mrs. Baker was given by the ladies of the faculties on December 
 17th. There have been many similar functions by various groups 
 and organizations, and others are planned for the near future. 
 
 In this Bulletin are given : the letter of resignation ; the 
 Regents' resolutions ; resolutions of the faculty ; abstracts of addresses 
 made at the commemorative exercises; excerpts from editorials, 
 letters, and telegrams. In this "Introduction" an attempt is made 
 to give certain pertinent facts that may not appear elsewhere. 
 
 James Hutchins Baker, the son of Wesley and Lucy (Hutchins) 
 Baker, was born in Harmony, Maine, October 13th, 1848. Both 
 parents were natives of Maine, of old New England and Revolu- 
 tionary stock. He received his elementary education in the common 
 school of his native town, and at the age of eighteen taught his first 
 school, being self-supporting from that time. He entered Bates 
 College, at Lewiston, Maine, in 1869, receiving the degree A.B. 
 in 1873 and the degree A.M. in 1876. In 1892 his Alma Mater 
 conferred on him the honorary degree LL.D. From 1873 to 1875 
 he was principal of the Yarmouth (Maine) High School. 
 
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 6 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 He came to Colorado in 1875 to accept the principalship of 
 the Denver High School (now East Denver High School), a position 
 which he filled with distinction for seventeen years. During his 
 administration the building now in use was erected, the attendance 
 increased from fifty to over seven hundred, and the school became 
 recognized as one of the best and most progressive secondary schools 
 in the United States. 
 
 From the beginning of his residence in Colorado, he identified 
 himself closely with the educational interests of the State. He was 
 president of the State Teachers' Association in 1880, and for six 
 years was president of the Educational Council. He became a mem- 
 ber of the National Council of Education in 1886, and in 1891 he 
 was elected president of this, the highest educational council in this 
 country. In 1907 he was president of the National Association of 
 State Universities. At the time of his retirement, he was, in length 
 of service, the dean of the state university presidents. 
 
 As one of the national leaders in educational thought and 
 inquiry, President Baker not only contributed many valuable papers 
 to educational science, but, in connection with the National Educa- 
 tion Association and the National Association of State Universities, 
 he has initiated several investigations of wide importance and influ- 
 ence, and has served on many committees. The following are 
 especially noteworthy: The Report of the Committee of Ten on 
 "Secondary School Studies," 1893, which aroused interest in prob- 
 lems of secondary education throughout the entire nation and has 
 since been the fruitful source of many similar investigations; 
 "Economy of Time in Education," printed by the U. S. Department 
 of Education in 1913, an investigation which contemplates the 
 reorganization of American education; "A National University," a 
 plan which he has advocated for many years and which is now receiv- 
 ing most careful consideration by national educational and political 
 leaders; and "The Standards of American Universities." 
 
 President Baker is the author of "Elementary Psychology," 
 1890, Charles E. Merrill Company of New York; "Education and 
 Life," 1900, "American Problems," 1907, and "Educational Aims 
 
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 and Civic Needs," 1913, all published by Longmans, Green, and Com- 
 pany of New York. The first has been a recognized textbook for 
 high schools and academies, and all have attracted favorable comment 
 from leading magazines. He has also written many valuable papers 
 and delivered many important addresses on educational and kindred 
 subjects. 
 
 On June 20th, 1882, he married Miss Jennie V. Hilton, a 
 native of New York, daughter of Rev. John V. Hilton, a Congre- 
 gational clergyman of Boston and later of Denver. They have two 
 children, Helen (now Mrs. Hamilton McEary Jones, of San Juan, 
 Porto Bico), and Hilton, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts. 
 Mrs. Baker has taken an active part in society and in club work both 
 in Boulder and in Denver, and has had a practical interest in many 
 phases of student welfare. She was the founder of the Woman's 
 League, an organization including all the women in the University, 
 and during the eighteen years of its existence has been a trusted 
 counsellor on its advisory board. She is a life member of the board 
 of directors of the Woman's Club of Boulder, of which organization 
 she was a charter member and president for the first three terms. She 
 was president of the Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs 
 in 1898-1899. By her tact and sympathy she has won for the Univer- 
 sity many strong and influential friends. In the light of President 
 Baker's success, both as Principal of East Denver High School and 
 as President of the University of Colorado, no higher tribute can be 
 given Mrs. Baker than to say that in his work she has been a real 
 helpmate. 
 
 Upon the resignation of President Horace M. Hale on December 
 9th, 1891, the Board of Eegents elected James Hutchins Baker to 
 succeed him. He assumed his new duties on January 1st, 1892. He 
 was not formally inaugurated, however, until May 21st, 1892. His 
 address on this occasion is in many ways one of the most remarkable 
 addresses ever delivered by him. The closing paragraphs, because 
 they are interesting in the light of the achievements of the succeed- 
 ing twenty-two years, are here recalled. 
 
 "Here in this land of pure air and sunny skies, by the broad 
 
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 plains and mighty mountains, among an ideal people, we may hope 
 that an institution may grow which will not only serve its purpose 
 to educate the young men and women within our borders, but may 
 reach forth and invite many a youth from remote sections, who will 
 find in Colorado the best opportunities for liberal education. 
 
 " It shall be enough, if I may be able to contribute at this stage 
 of its history, wisely and efficiently, toward the vigorous growth of 
 an institution whose interests have already become to me a sacred 
 trust, and then leave to others the enjoyment of the later years of 
 fulfillment." 
 
 The little college to which he had come was unknown outside 
 of Colorado, and unrecognized by the people of the State whose 
 name it bore. Principal Baker had made a mistake, people said, 
 in giving up a position in which he had gained a national reputation, 
 to take the presidency of an institution whose past could offer so 
 little to its future. But the new president had an inspiring vision. 
 
 He said: "Every institution must have its period of discour- 
 agement and doubts, its period of expenditure without adequate 
 returns, its period of enormous expense per capita. But during 
 this time it is accumulating force, and, like the century plant, by 
 and by it will burst into generous bloom. It took Harvard two 
 hundred years to reach in some ways the development that our 
 University has reached in fifteen years. The University has arrived 
 at a new epoch in its history. The silent work of taking root and 
 springing into the light has been done. It needs but the care of the 
 fostering hand to insure a vigorous and rapid growth. This is a 
 time of surprising activity in all material and educational interests 
 in the State. The University must advance with these interests." 
 And again : "The University of Colorado, too, has her mission. It 
 is to take young men from the mines, the ranges and ranches, young 
 men and women from the homes of honest toil, and offer them the 
 greatest blessing the State can bestow upon its children. Colo- 
 rado in the coming years will feel their influence, and the State will 
 reap its greatest glory from its devotion to an ideal cause." 
 
 During the five months preceding his formal inauguration, he 
 
INTRODUCTION. 9 
 
 had formulated some of the policies that were to distinguish his 
 administration. Of these may be noted the following: the Univer- 
 sity had been widely advertised through the cooperation of a generous 
 press and the efforts of the Faculty in visiting different parts of 
 the State; the Medical School had been placed upon an excellent 
 basis for superior work ; a Law School was to be opened and Graduate 
 courses were to be formally offered the following year ; arrangements 
 had been made for an efficient increase in the Arts faculty; and the 
 gradual withdrawal of the preparatory classes had been begun. 
 
 The ever-increasing needs of the University throughout his 
 administration have compelled him to devote much of his energy 
 and time to financial considerations. Upon each succeeding legis- 
 lature he has urged the University's claims for adequate and liberal 
 financial support — but always in the spirit of his inaugural message : 
 "The State University does not wish to be greedy ; it recognizes that 
 there are many other wants to be met, and that the State wishes to 
 be generous to all its interests ; it simply asks that it may receive in 
 proportion to the number and relative cost of its departments, and 
 the magnitude of its needs." Wherever he went, he emphasized 
 the needs of the University and its possibilities for state service. In 
 the consideration of the problems which confronted him, he gave 
 much thought to the financial condition of the State and its revenue- 
 raising system. Senator Shafroth, as Governor, said that to Presi- 
 dent Baker the State owes the recently-adopted taxation scheme — a 
 scheme which will ultimately provide adequately for all State needs 
 and at the same time distribute the tax burden equitably. Two 
 items from the financial history of the University, as indicative of 
 President Baker's work, may be given : In 1899-1900 when the State 
 was unable to meet its appropriations and it seemed that the Univer- 
 sity must close, he appealed directly to the citizens of the State 
 and raised a loan fimd of over $70,000. In 1903, largely through 
 his efforts, the tax levy for the maintenance of the University was 
 increased from one-fifth to two-fifths of a mill. 
 
 The physical growth of the University during the past twenty- 
 two years is shown in these figures: increase of students — regular, 
 
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 not including summer session and extension students — from 66 to 
 1,306 ; increase of degrees — from 61 to 2,177 ; increase of annual 
 income — from $40,000 to $305,000; increase of property — from 
 $300,000 to $1,300,000; increase of buildings— from 8 to 21; 
 increase of bound volumes in the Library — from 7,000 to 75,000 ; 
 increase of faculty — from 32 to 200. In 1912, in proportion to 
 population, tbe attendance was 64 per cent, larger than the average 
 in the forty state universities. 
 
 However, President Baker's claim on the future rests on higher 
 ground than material progress. He might have increased the attend- 
 ance at the expense of standards and sacrificed integrity to financial 
 enrichment. Instead he chose sound scholarship and absolute free- 
 dom from political methods. His insistence on these ideals has 
 brought to the University merited recognition by national leaders. 
 Early in his administration the medical and law courses were length- 
 ened to four and three years respectively, and the entrance require- 
 ments made those of the best similar institutions; later, two years 
 of college work were demanded for admission. For almost eighteen 
 years he bent his energies to the securing of adequate clinical facil- 
 ities for the School of Medicine ; now, the last two years of the course 
 are conducted in Denver, the School is the only one in the Rocky 
 Mountain region, and the immediate future holds large promise for 
 the upbuilding in this State of an institution, which, utilizing the 
 peculiar advantages that its location gives it, shall equal the best 
 medical schools in America. The College of Liberal Arts, throughout 
 his administration, has maintained the standards of the best colleges 
 in the country, and has met the changing needs and ideals in 
 American education. Perhaps the central feature in its progress 
 was the early adoption of the group-elective system. The Graduate 
 School has been firmly established, research work of much value 
 to Colorado has already been done, and, as the State is able to 
 furnish adequate funds, plans for wide usefulness can be developed. 
 In 1893 engineering courses of college grade were, through the 
 establishment of the College of Engineering, first offered in Colo- 
 rado. The work of this department is now recognized by technical 
 
INTRODUCTION. 11 
 
 experts and large commercial organizations throughout the country. 
 The Summer Session, 1904, because of its ideal location and its high 
 standards, is serving a wide constituency. The College of Commerce, 
 1906, the College of Education, 1908, and the School of Social and 
 Home Service, 1912, are offering high-grade courses which give 
 adequate training for particular needs. The School of Pharmacy, 
 1911, is one of only eight pharmaceutical schools in the country 
 requiring a full four-year high-school course for admission. The 
 establishment of the University Extension Division in 1912, is the 
 recognition by the University of its obligaton and opportunity to 
 extend its campus to the boundary lines of the commonwealth. Of 
 all these aspects of his work fuller treatment will be found elsewhere 
 in this Bulletin. 
 
 Scarcely less important is his service as an educational leader 
 in the State. All in all, it would be safe to say that there is not a 
 single educational interest in Colorado that has not been benefited 
 by his far-reaching influence. In 1893 only seven secondary schools 
 in the State were on the fully accredited list of the University, now 
 there are sixty-nine. The other higher educational institutions of 
 Colorado have followed his initiative, and have felt the quickening 
 influence of his progressive policies. 
 
 By all who have shared with him, however little, in the upbuild- 
 ing of the University, President Baker will be remembered for what 
 he is as much as for what he has done. The inspiration given to 
 fellow workers and to students has enriched and ennobled their lives. 
 His influence on the spiritual development of the Institution can 
 hardly now be measured. Throughout his educational career he 
 has strongly advocated the social end of education, and emphasized 
 the strength and power and beauty of character, and the formative 
 value of noble ideals. Students remember his chapel talks — the talks 
 of a strong man with a sturdy faith in God, an aesthetic appreciation 
 of Nature, and a catholic sympathy for his fellow men. He inspired 
 them to activity and social service, to faith and hope and better 
 things, and never wearied in urging the democracy of education and 
 in emphasizing that the only worthy end of educational training is 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 public service. Fellow-workers on the faculties remember frankness 
 and exact justice in all his dealings with them, and encouragement 
 and sympathy in their work. Eegents remember far-sightedness, 
 keen judgment, common sense, and patience in the formulating and 
 carrying out of University policies. Indeed, when the mere achieve- 
 ment of piling up wood and stone is long forgotten, these character- 
 istics and the inspiration of his own personality will be remembered 
 and will live. Self-sacrificing and self-effacing, he has regarded the 
 University as his "sacred trust," and has given to it all he had — 
 himself. 
 
LETTER OF RESIGNATION 
 
 December 3, 1913. 
 
 To the Regents of the University of Colorado: 
 
 I hereby respectfully present my resignation as President of 
 the University of Colorado to take effect January 1, 1914. That this 
 year marks my sixty-fifth birthday, more than forty years in the 
 service, and twenty-two at the University of Colorado, is not a 
 sufficient reason for selecting this particular time to retire. But 
 the decision of another question is involved — a matter of private inter- 
 ests of much importance to me, which cannot well be postponed. The 
 present relation of entire confidence and cooperation with the Regents, 
 continuing an almost unbroken record, is I believe exceptional and note- 
 worthy and adds to my natural regret in reaching this decision. The 
 ever-ready cooperation of faculties, the loyalty to the University of 
 graduates and students, the many, many instances of personal effort 
 and sacrifice for the University by citizens, the generally helpful atti- 
 tude of the press constitute a history that I shall always re-read with 
 pleasure and gratitude. I predict a strong development of the 
 University of Colorado and a speedy realization of many plans 
 and promises that have been maturing for years. The high standard 
 of the University is well known, and formal recognition by the 
 Association of American Universities and by the Carnegie Founda- 
 tion is purely a question of proper financial support for the Graduate 
 School and the School of Medicine. Since I retire while in health 
 and strength, I hope in ways still to be of service to the University 
 and the cause of education. 
 
 The many problems of the University which we have discussed 
 so frequently you, of course, have well in mind. The financial con- 
 dition for this period is good, save the contingency of non-payment 
 in full of appropriations by the State. The recent enactment of a 
 new revenue law, I believe, will place the State and the institutions 
 on a better business basis. To avoid perpetual soliciting of funds 
 from the Legislature, the University mill rate should be adjusted 
 
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 to cover fully the needs. I believe that a bond issue for building 
 needs of the various institutions, such as was proposed by the last 
 legislature, should be made. This would meet the constantly increas- 
 ing demand for buildings at the University. Mrs. Olivia Thomson, 
 recently deceased, has made a bequest of $75,000 for a Chair in 
 the School of Law to be known as "The Charles Inglis Thomson 
 Professorship of Law." I am permitted to announce informally 
 that our appeal for a large gift to the Medical School from a certain 
 trust fund will be considered favorably — that we may be "very 
 hopeful." The gifts already made to the University are numerous 
 and important, and there is promise of even greater help from private 
 sources in the future. 
 
 We have already published in order of their importance the 
 buildings required by the University. The completion of the Macky 
 Auditorium naturally will soon be provided for either by the terms 
 of the bequest or by State appropriation. The movement for a 
 Decker Memorial Building for Women, to be erected on the grounds 
 of the University, is being conducted by a committee, which is now 
 raising funds. A wing of the proposed Henry S. Denison Building 
 for Medical Research, the gift of Mrs. Ella Strong Denison, will 
 soon be completed. 
 
 The plan of the campus you have studied for years, and have 
 marked out at least the general features. The "ravine," I believe, 
 should be retained. The new athletic field should be prepared for 
 use as soon as possible ; there are great possibilities for attractive 
 athletic and recreation grounds on the new site by the creek. 
 
 The Summer School is growing substantially every year, and 
 should be further developed as a permanent department. The Extension 
 work, so well inaugurated, should be pushed as rapidly as conditions 
 will permit. There are new problems every year in the development 
 of the Medical School, and I believe a recent step in advance has 
 been taken, following your careful study of the conditions and needs 
 of the School. The Graduate School of the University should receive 
 funds for its specific uses, and its work, always of high standard but 
 carried on under difficulties, should be encouraged. The work of 
 
LETTER OF RESIGNATION. 
 
 15 
 
 the College of Liberal Arts, revised within a few years, appears to 
 be adapted to the demands of the times. A change in the courses to 
 provide practical instruction for women students is under discussion. 
 The further adjustment of the American University, in which I 
 take a strong interest, is a part of the whole problem of the reorgani- 
 zation of American Education. My views on this subject appear in 
 several recent addresses and in a report on Economy of Time in 
 Education, just published by the National Bureau of Education. 
 
 I must again call your attention to the salary question in the 
 University. The scale is not high enough for the best men. The 
 demand upon a professor allows little time for private business. 
 Either salaries should be raised, or, by some agency — state, private 
 foundation, or organization within the faculty — retiring allowances 
 should be provided — or both. The "Central Board" idea for state 
 schools is problematical, and contains elements of extreme danger, 
 especially to the possibilities of a genuine university. I strongly 
 advise that the constitutional rights of the Regents, as a distinct 
 governing Board of the University, be preserved. This I believe 
 to be vital to the best development of the Institution. 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 JAMES H. BAKER, 
 
 President of the University of Colorado. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 
 
 Whereas, Dr. James H. Baker, the trusted and honored Presi- 
 dent of the University of Colorado, has voluntarily tendered his 
 resignation to its Board of Regents; 
 
 Whereas, Dr. Baker has held the unanimous high respect of the 
 student body, and of the Faculty and of the Board of Regents, all 
 of whom have taken pride in his wise leadership ; 
 
 Whereas, Dr. Baker has brought our University to a point 
 where it not only brings glory to the Commonwealth of Colorado, but 
 where it also commands the high regard of educators all over our 
 country ; 
 
 Whereas, Dr. Baker has so conducted himself in his high 
 position and has so served the community that our State recognizes 
 him as one of the best, most faithful and patriotic of her citizens, 
 while outside the State he stands in the front rank of educators ; 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved, That it is with feelings of sadness 
 and unfeigned regret that we feel compelled to accept this resignation. 
 But, after twenty-two years of faithful service to his State and the 
 University in this high position, we feel that a decent regard to his 
 personal feelings should be displayed and he be permitted to avail 
 himself of the reward that has been offered solely as a mark of distinc- 
 tion to his eminent standing in the educational world. 
 
 Neither time nor space will permit us to review what has been 
 accomplished at the University during the twenty-two years that 
 have passed since Dr. Baker became President. It is enough to say 
 that when he came here the University was but a beginning with 
 sixty-six students; when he leaves it is a University with 1,306 
 students. No one knows better than we, the Board of Regents, 
 how much of this growth can be directly attributed to his energy, 
 ability and unflagging zeal. We also know with what difficulties he 
 has had at times to contend, but, despite it all, his courage never 
 failed, his faith never wavered. Like the Romans of old, he never 
 despaired of the Republic. And after all he emerged triumphant, 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 the Institution continued its growth, under his inspiration the people 
 furnished the money, the students came, and we have one of the fore- 
 most universities of the West. 
 
 A most remarkable tribute to the personality of President Baker 
 is apparent when we remember the absolute harmony that has pre- 
 vailed in all directions under his administration. During this period 
 eleven legislatures have passed into history, thousands of students 
 have come and gone, hundreds of professors have taught their courses, 
 scores of regents have held office ; but through it all no word of 
 faction, no breath of scandal, has ever been heard against the institu- 
 tion or its head. And now, after twenty-two years of labor, and with 
 a faculty of over two hundred and a student body of over thirteen 
 hundred, President Baker retires, an object of admiration and affec- 
 tion of both students and faculty, and carrying with him unmixed 
 regret and sorrow of the Board of Regents and the State officers 
 of the State of Colorado. There exists a much stronger commen- 
 dation of his work, well expressed in the words used about the great 
 Sir Christopher Wren, but applicable to Dr. Baker in the full 
 strength and vigor of his life — "If you would seek his monument, 
 look about you." 
 
 In losing Dr. Baker we, as the representatives of the people of 
 Colorado, desire to bestow upon him such evidence and marks of 
 our esteem as we possibly can. We have therefore given him the 
 title of President-Emeritus, with one year's allowance of salary. 
 Our only regret is that our duty to the Institution and those that 
 are left prohibits us from doing more. 
 
 And in conclusion, we are going to spread these few remarks 
 upon our records as a permanent memorial to a faithful servant for 
 work nobly done, and for the perusal and guidance of his successors 
 in years to come. We are not saying good bye, for we expect at all 
 times to have the benefit of suggestions and the help of the energy 
 of Dr. Baker. But for whatever work he undertakes, or whatever 
 he determines to do, we wish him Godspeed and the same success 
 that has always crowned his efforts at the University. 
 
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* RESOLUTIONS OF THE FACULTY 
 
 To James Hutchins Baker, 
 President of the University of Colorado. 
 
 It was the unanimous feeling of your Faculty that the twentieth 
 anniversary of your installation could not be allowed to pass without 
 some slight expression of our appreciation and goodwill ; and we would 
 accordingly ask you to accept our heartiest congratulations coupled 
 with our sincerest wishes for the future. Moreover, we would re- 
 spectfully crave the special and intimate privilege of extending our 
 felicitations to Mrs. Baker. To her, hardly less than to you, it must 
 be a supreme pleasure to look back upon the struggles and achieve- 
 ments of these twenty years. But of this, and of other phases of your 
 life together, we may not speak; for they are sacred and your own 
 hearts know them best. 
 
 Similar tributes will doubtless be showered upon you from many 
 sources ; but we may be permitted to feel that our own is inspired by 
 particularly intimate knowledge. It would be easy to rehearse the 
 numerical growth in staff and students during your incumbency, or 
 to enlarge upon the improvement in equipment or the multiplication 
 of buildings. In these respects your twenty years have been remark- 
 able, or even phenomenal, a fact that is visible to all. Nor would we 
 belittle their significance. Those of us who realize the conditions 
 in years gone by, must be the first to proclaim the tremendous im- 
 portance of this material progress under your guidance. And yet we 
 feel that this phase represents only the less significant of your achieve- 
 ments. All these ends might have been attained only to leave the 
 University a fundamental failure. It might have stood in fair sem- 
 
 *In January, 1912, the University and its friends celebrated the twentieth 
 anniversary of President Baker's service. A faculty dinner on January 10, 
 appropriate student exercises and a luncheon tendered by the Denver Chamber 
 of Commerce on January 19, and an alumni dinner on January 20 were given 
 in his honor. At the Faculty Dinner an engrossed address was presented 
 to President Baker. This address is given here as an expression of Faculty 
 appreciation. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 blance of life and health, and been only a soulless hulk withal; its 
 growth might have been purchased by the sacrifice of scholarly ideals 
 on the one hand, or of probity and independence on the other. But, 
 you, Sir, even in the sober self-criticism of maturer years, may 
 well be thrilled with the proud knowledge that standards are not 
 being bartered for numbers, and that buildings are not being 
 erected at the price of integrity. 
 
 You have fought persistently, even desperately, for necessary 
 funds; but you have always refused to obtain them by dragging 
 the University into the difficult and devious path of politics. 
 Through every crisis you have kept your own name and the honor 
 of the University free from any taint of methods that may achieve 
 success for the passing hour, but eventually prove fatal to the health 
 of the soul alike of an individual or of an institution. 
 
 You have not failed to provide for the current needs of the 
 University, but you have never lost sight of the future. Indeed it 
 may well turn out that a consistent regard for the future has been 
 the finest feature of your presidential policy. 
 
 You have evinced your firm conviction that a state university 
 must always consult the interests of the people, and meet their 
 reasonable demands; but you have never shrunk from telling the 
 people that they must rise in the scale of their desires. 
 
 You have striven as no other President in the country for the 
 strengthening and upbuilding of the High School system, regardless 
 of thanks or recognition. 
 
 In dealing with the students you have been willing to incur 
 extreme unpopularity, if it seemed for their own ultimate good ; but 
 those of us who know you best realize that in secret disciplinary 
 conference you are always the representative of mercy. 
 
 With reference to ourselves as members of the Faculty, we feel 
 that you have never shirked telling us our duties, individually or 
 collectively; but invariably you have been the first to forget a 
 difference, your word has always been inviolable, and we have always 
 felt that if any of us should be unfairly attacked from without, we 
 had in you a just and staunch defender. 
 
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 Above all, both in the University and everywhere else you 
 have been the untiring champion of ideals of personal character and 
 civic duty. Your voice has often been raised on behalf of pure 
 science or humane studies ; but you have always demanded that 
 neither scientist nor humanist should forget his obligation to share 
 in the common lot and promote the general weal. 
 
 It has been pleasing to us when your qualities and services have 
 been recognized by the wider circles beyond the limits of our own 
 campus and beyond the borders of our own State, but whether they 
 had been applauded or decried, we should have appreciated them 
 none the less. We feel, Sir, that we have been privileged to witness 
 one of the finest sights in human experience, even a strong man 
 grappling with an arduous task, and growing in greatness as his 
 problems and difficulties increased in extent and stress. 
 
 Some day the careful historian of the Commonwealth of Colo- 
 rado will record the solemn judgment that President James H. 
 Baker placed the State University on such sound foundations, 
 equipped it with such a sane organization, and inspired it with such 
 fine ideals of public service, that its career was assured for many 
 generations. And some writer will compare that president to a 
 Doric column, not depending for approval on Corinthian foliage 
 or Ionic volutes, but standing in fine simplicity beneath the corner 
 of the temple to be praised or blamed for its fundamental merits 
 of line and proportion and strength. lie might well add that those 
 who looked upon the column from near at hand always realized 
 that it would carry its burden, however great, securely and unfalter- 
 ingly to the end of its day. 
 
 We trust that you will recognize how warmly we do congratu- 
 late you and how sincerely we hope that a generous tale of years 
 may be added to the score so happily accomplished. 
 
 The Faculty of the University of Colorado. 
 
 By its committee. 
 
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EXERCISES COMMEMORATING PRESIDENT BAKERS 
 
 SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND TO 
 
 THE STATE 
 
 MACKY AUDITORIUM. DECEMBER 18. 1913 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 Dean J. Raymond Bbackett, 
 Presiding. 
 
 Pbocessional Orchestra 
 
 Song Colorado Varsity 
 
 Addresses 
 
 His Excellency, Elias M. Amnions, Governor of Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Lucius C. Paddock, Representative of the "College Town." 
 
 Music Orchestra 
 
 Addresses 
 
 Superintendent William H. Smiley, Representing the Public 
 Schools. 
 
 President William F. Slocum, Representing the Colleges. 
 
 President Charles A. Lory, Representing the State Educational 
 Institutions. 
 
 Song If You're for Colorado 
 
 Addresses 
 
 William H. Bryant, Of the Board of Regents. 
 
 Mr. John L. Haley, President of the Associated Students. 
 
 Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, 1894, For the Alumni. 
 
 Music Orchestra 
 
 Address 
 
 Dean John D. Fleming, Member of the Faculty. 
 Response 
 
 President Baker. 
 
 Song Glory, Glory, Colorado 
 
 Recessional Orchestra 
 
 Dean Bbackett. — In September, 1875 the corner-stone of the Main 
 Building was laid. At that time the only life on the campus was the flowers 
 of the desert and the animals of the wild. In the same month and year 
 there came to Denver, James Hutchins Baker who took charge of the high 
 school of that city; for seventeen years he served the State as a foremost 
 educator in that capacity. For the last twenty-two years he has been 
 President of this University, completing a public service of forty-one years. 
 
24 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 Today all departments are assembled in thankfulness that strength and 
 power and wisdom have been given him to accomplish his great task. 
 
 We are also thankful for this ample building, the gift of Andrew 
 J. Macky. 
 
 One student in the East Denver High School, when Dr. Baker was 
 principal, is now, by his high office and integrity, of the greatest service 
 to the concluding year of President Baker's administration — His Excellency, 
 the Governor. 
 
 His Excellency, Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado. — I really 
 think it is a very fitting thing that I should appear here today, not only on be- 
 half of the State, but as a citizen of the State. My acquaintance with President 
 Baker goes back to 1876, when he was quite a young man, and had been 
 teaching but a short time. I am glad to be able to do what I can on this 
 memorable occasion, both as the chief executive of the State, and as a 
 citizen who has derived some benefit from Dr. Baker, and who has observed 
 much good to the State from his splendid work. 
 
 There is a difference in the success of men. Some have become famous 
 because of their wealth; some achieve distinction in political life; some on 
 account of inventions of new or great industries. All of these may furnish 
 pride for the recipients; but it is pleasing to me to do honor to a kind of 
 success which I think is much greater than any of these. President Baker 
 has not saved any money. His success, however, is one which has been 
 shared by the locality in which he has lived, the State in which he has 
 worked, the citizens with whom he has labored, and the people of the 
 entire Nation. I believe that we cannot fully appreciate the great benefits of 
 his work in Colorado during the last thirty-five or forty years. 
 
 There is another phase that I wish to speak of, and that is his personality. 
 In almost every great work there is some strong personality responsible for 
 it, and that personality reaches out unconsciously. Of all the large number 
 of men engaged in prominent lines of service in this western country, there 
 is none of stronger personality than President Baker. Even when he was a 
 boy, he had this same character. He brought it to the high school, and it is 
 that which has impressed itself so strongly here. 
 
 I am pleased to be here, because I realize that President Baker 
 has been valuable in making our State. I feel that none of us, perhaps, 
 can realize how strong an influence he has exerted in this regard. It is a 
 great institution that has been built up here, and nearly all of it has been 
 built by him. It is not completed yet, but the foundation has been laid, and 
 the plans have been prepared most carefully. It is for those who come after 
 him to build to those plans. If they do, the success of this institution will 
 continue, and I have every confidence that those plans will be followed. 
 
 President Baker is but sixty-five. It is true, he has spent forty years 
 in educational work, twenty-two in bringing this Institution to the 
 front, but he still has before him days of influence in this great work that 
 he has thus far perfected. He has been a live man in the past for the benefit 
 
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COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 25 
 
 of his state and his country and, knowing him as I have known him since 
 I was a boy, I realize that, while he steps out from the old field, he steps 
 into a greater field of usefulness for the people of this great western 
 country, and the influence which he will exert along the old lines will be 
 great. Not only as a citizen, but as the chief executive of the State, I wish 
 him Godspeed. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — Boulder, the home town of Mr. Macky, and the seat 
 of the University, is represented by Mr. Lucius C. Paddock. 
 
 Mb. Lucius C. Paddock, Representative of the "College Town." — One 
 fine day in the month of December, Dr. Baker resigned the presidency of this 
 Institution, and the next day it snowed. And what a fall was there, my 
 countrymen! The surprises of nature and this man Baker were almost con- 
 temporaneous, and were certainly amazing. As to the latter, Boulder has got 
 to looking upon Dr. Baker as a fixture, or rather as a fixed star in its 
 firmament. Again the weather serves us for illustration. He came in like 
 a lamb; he goes forth like a lion. He came to us a modest high-school 
 principal of only state reputation; he goes from us a university president 
 with a marvelous record of achievement, an educator of international fame. 
 He came to us to preside over a university of sixty-six students; he goes out 
 voluntarily when commander of a student body of 1,306. He came to us 
 when there were but two or three shabby buildings on the campus; he goes 
 out with a campus so full of buildings that the Regents must remove the 
 athletic field to make room for more buildings. He came to us a youth of 
 forty-three; he goes forth a physical giant in the fullness of his intellectual 
 and physical powers on the verge of sixty-five. He came here to build; he 
 has built. Now the builder lays down the tools of his craft while possessed 
 of all those splendid faculties which enabled him to create the edifice; he 
 lays down his tools at a time when his eye is bright enough to look over 
 the completed work and his vision acute enough to advise his successor 
 and gently lead us all to the achievement of still greater things. 
 
 He had no herald. There was no trumpeting. He came modestly, and 
 he gently wrought; and his career exemplifies the wisdom of the classical 
 inscription 
 
 "Let him not boast who puts his armor on, 
 
 As he who puts it off, the battle won." 
 
 Boulder has played an important part in the expansion of the University 
 — part of which it was, and all of which it saw. From Marinus G. Smith, 
 who gave a part of the site; from Captain Dave Nichols, Captain C. M. 
 Tyler, James P. Maxwell, and other pioneers who carried through the leg- 
 islative measure to locate the University here; and from those citizens who 
 gave money to assure its location — inspiration was received and out of it has 
 come a spirit of devotion to the Institution, without which even the efforts 
 of a Baker would have been unavailing. Boulder has done the good work. 
 
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 She has kept the faith. In other words, she has been true to herself, for as 
 the University prospers so Boulder prospers. 
 
 What the rugged pioneers planned in a crude fashion first, Baker has 
 splendidly realized. Individual citizens of Boulder have added their gifts, 
 concrete evidences of their love of the Institution: as witnessed by the Buck- 
 ingham library, the Phillips Art collection, the Macky Auditorium in which 
 we meet, and other free-will offerings. And shall we confess it? In that 
 elder day when lobbying was not taboo, good, churchly, righteous citizens 
 of Boulder actually rolled logs in the halls of the Legislature and pulled wires, 
 visible and invisible. It was Dr. Baker who mentioned a new philosophy — 
 not hitch your wagon to a star, but hitch your star to a wagon. He hitched 
 his star to Boulder — the wagon which has carried him for twenty-two years, 
 and which its citizens would wheel for another twenty-two. They carried 
 and fetched at Baker's beck and nod. They resolved when he wanted a reso- 
 lution, they tried to keep pace with his enormous appetite for more buildings, 
 more professors, more apparatus, and to this end bullied legislators, and 
 made governors and treasurers and auditors uncomfortable. They always 
 stood at the right hand of the President, ready to execute his orders. 
 
 The real growth of the University came with Baker. The ground had 
 been in part prepared, but it was rocky and strong hands were needed. The 
 material was here, but it needed a builder. Obstacles were mountainous: a 
 chilly press; a people not yet ripe for a university, because they did not 
 know what a university was; denominational colleges forging to the front, 
 and the University standing still; doors seventeen years open to free higher 
 education, and at the end of that period, the first seventeen years of its life, 
 only sixty-six students. But Baker came with faith. A man of iron, of 
 indefatigable industry, of growing intellect under the attrition of events, 
 he was very human. The proof of that is with us. He had one superstition. 
 For twenty-two years he labored and then he resigned, Mr. Chairman, in 
 what we must regard as undue panic for fear that the twenty-two might 
 grow into twenty-three. 
 
 Should you ask me, whence came the devotion of Boulder to the Univer- 
 sity, I shall answer, I shall tell you that it came from a deep conviction of 
 the earnestness and the oneness of purpose evident in the President. It came 
 not from Dr. Baker's social mingling with the people, for Baker had no time 
 for that. It came from a gradually but long-since formed conviction that 
 here on the hill sat a man who had a vision, a dream, and the constancy and 
 the intellect and the power to make that dream come true — a dream that 
 was to make of a struggling little college a great university, and of Boulder, 
 the seat of that University, the center of the most virile college life in the 
 West. Business men saw him dismiss whole classes for failure to do good 
 work; and, though they were losing student trade, they argued it must be 
 right since Baker did it. By degrees they came to see the unfolding, though 
 they had missed the processes, of a plan, a high standard rather than great 
 numbers, quality rather than quantity. There were no knee-breeches cadets, 
 no sub-preparatory school, no pets because of the accident of birth or fortune 
 
COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 27 
 
 — here a democracy of letters and opportunity. From this lofty pinnacle on 
 which Baker stood, he brought the schools of Colorado up to the standard 
 Boulder had set at his inspiring call, and that the University had set as its 
 standard for admission. And again, we saw him lift Boulder still higher 
 and the University higher to keep on the level with or just a little above the 
 excellence of other schools which his policy stirred to generous, noble 
 rivalry. Boulder saw Baker making our vain boast one to which we could 
 justly lay claim — the Athens of Colorado; and Boulder's citizens hastened to 
 meet the necessities of their growing favors and responsibilities by making 
 Boulder the place to live, one of the fittest of all places for the youth of the 
 land. And our gratitude has always been to Dr. Baker because he did not 
 tell us what to do. He was not an interfering President. He was content 
 with his work here on the hill and had not time to also run affairs down 
 town. It was not aloofness, but Baker was "sawing wood." He was here 
 looking after the affairs of a great state office. Boulder began to feel years 
 ago the benefit accruing from a University so managed. It began to take 
 just pride in the absence of criticism and scandal touching University 
 affairs. It never had to deplore. It was always in a position to point with 
 pride. You recall Browning's lines: 
 
 "God's in his Heaven: 
 All's right with the world.' 1 
 
 When other institutions had their troubles, Boulder citizens would shrug 
 their shoulders in utter content and say: "Baker's on the hill, all's well over 
 there." 
 
 Well, Dr. Baker, between you and us, we did it. We are proud of it, 
 mighty proud to have met you and to have worked with you; mighty sorry 
 to lose you, but full of gladness to know that the world of education has 
 justified our estimate of you, and that you retire with the respect, the 
 admiration and the love of every citizen of Boulder; glad that you go in 
 the fullness of your faculties; glad that the Regents kept a string on you as 
 President-Emeritus for we shall feel that, when you are liberated from the 
 responsibilities of management, you can reciprocate the good things said and 
 done for you by helping to make Dr. Farrand as useful as you have been, 
 and by staying here by the scenes you set upon the stage, amid the people 
 who trusted you and whom you trust, under the trees you planted on the 
 campus, and where the eye of the builder can always see the processes of 
 unfolding of his own great plans. We trust the interruption of our relation 
 is only official, and we hope that the remainder of your years, and those of 
 your estimable wife may be spent in Boulder, and in the State you have so 
 ably, so nobly, so adequately served. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — Associated with Dr. Baker in charge of the East 
 Denver High School and succeeding him as its head in 1892, Dr. William 
 H. Smiley, now superintendent of education in Denver, speaks for the 
 public schools. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 Superintendent William H. Smiley, Representing the Public Schools. 
 — It is a great pleasure to come here to bring my contribution to my friend, 
 my principal, my president. If I should do justice to a friendship of twenty- 
 seven years, I should take all of the time allotted to pay tribute to the 
 tenderness of his heart as well as to the greatness of his intellect. I have 
 known him so intimately that I wish there were time to indicate specifically 
 to you instances attesting his sympathy and unfailing strength. 
 
 I have seen the young teacher, the hopeless boy beginning to teach, 
 come to him after two weeks and say: "Principal Baker, you cannot certify 
 that I am earning my salary; I desire to resign." The answer comes: 
 "Young man, go back to your desk; when I begin to talk about your resign- 
 ing, it will be time enough for you to be thinking about it." Always encour- 
 agement for the weak; always a sturdiness that gave courage to all with 
 whom he worked. Such is the personal side that all of you do not know. 
 Few are aware that of all the great work that has shaped the form of 
 secondary education in America, the larger part is his. For years before 
 the Committee of Ten produced the report, for which everyone of us owes 
 gratitude, it was being shaped for that committee by the man you now 
 honor. His is the soul that has moved to the uttermost bounds all who 
 love public education. At this very moment, after he has spent ten years 
 trying to get the ear of the educational world, all the educational world of 
 America is discussing the ultimate form and shape that public education 
 should have, and the moving spirit comes from your President and mine. 
 There is a kind of glory in the imperfect, and the shape and condition 
 of this auditorium carry me back to the East Side High School when we 
 first used it, and when it was in just about the same state of incompletion 
 as this is in now. I believe, and it ought to be everyone's belief, that 
 there is nothing finished; that there is always work to do in the shaping 
 of things; so, while there has been this marvelous work, in laying the 
 foundation and rearing the frame of the University, there is still left for 
 other hands the finishing. 
 
 I can remember the words of a strong woman, who said: "When 
 you go with a burden to Principal Baker, he takes it up and you on top 
 of it, and walks away with it as if it were a feather-weight." This is the 
 kind of thing he has been doing for us, and now all these burdens he lays 
 down; but will he rest? No. There is still a marvelous opportunity for 
 him in the new form of rest and labor that has come. I know of no soul 
 that has seen the vision of a democracy and especially of an educated 
 democracy with the clearness that he has seen it; and out of the wisdom 
 of all these years, he can stand to one side and point to us the way. He 
 can tell university presidents, if he will, the solution of many problems; 
 and he can tell the city superintendent, the principal, the public school 
 teacher, the things which we need to know, because he has a vision that 
 embraces all that the best in the world for ages past has thought and felt. 
 I have a friend who reads each one of President Baker's addresses to 
 recognize in them some references to the Plato whom he loves; and out 
 
COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 29 
 
 of this wisdom can come from him to us help to guide us in changing our 
 imperfect visions into the fullness of glory that we would like to see. The 
 educational world of Colorado extends to him the heartiest greetings and 
 blessings in the completion of the work and the fulfillment of the vision that 
 I know he sees. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — While President Baker was building a university 
 in the northern part of the State, another great administrator was raising 
 ' up an institution of higher learning in the south. He is a man of great 
 culture: he has cultivated the pocket-books of millionaires; he has 
 cultivated the riches of his own soul, and the harvest has been appraised 
 by Harvard University. President Slocum brings a message from a neigh- 
 borly institution and also from the wider world of learning. 
 
 President William F. Slocum, Representing the Colleges. — It certainly 
 is a privilege to share in the congratulations of friends of President and 
 Mrs. Baker upon all they have accomplished. There is no contribution which 
 equals the upholding of the educational movements of a commonwealth. 
 There is nothing in the life of a republic that counts for so much as the 
 development of its schools, its colleges and its universities. I want to 
 speak for the institutions of Colorado other than this distinguished Univer- 
 sity. It was Aristotle who said that the greatest happiness in all life lies 
 in the full development and the full use of one's faculties. When one has 
 an opportunity opened up before him, such as existed here in this Institution, 
 and brings to it all the powers of his mind and heart, all of his intellectual 
 strength, and succeeds in the development of an Institution like this, it is 
 a source of great congratulation. The man today to be pitied is the one who 
 has nothing to do, who finds no work and no opportunity; but here the man, 
 adequate for the task, has found his opportunity and has entered into it, and 
 today we look back upon his victory. He has risen to his task. Today there 
 ought to be in his heart, and in the minds of all his friends, a sense of glad- 
 ness and great joy, that he has done his work well. 
 
 The great work of life is not done upon the mountain top. One must 
 have his vision, but it is the daily toil, the many things of life handled 
 well, it is the drudgery of human life that really brings the victory. 
 
 If President Baker should give to us a record of what he has done, 
 he could say that these have been days and months and years of hard toil. 
 We love to think of that Great Teacher of us all, who communed on the 
 mountain top with unseen beings, but we must remember that He came down 
 from His mountain to find humanity needing help, to walk through the 
 valleys of His country finding toil and often pain, and sometimes crucifixion. 
 
 Our friend has had his visions, but remember also there have been 
 work and toil, sometimes disappointment, and again and again pain. His 
 victory is all the greater because he has had these experiences. 
 
 I congratulate him today, as I congratulate this great University, that 
 he has helped in the creation of a commonwealth. It is not only the great 
 
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 things for the University that he has done, but he has set the pace for the 
 other institutions of our beloved State. It is easier for us to do our work 
 because he has seen the ideal and entered into it. This Institution, so 
 full of spirit and so full of the realization of great opportunities is holding 
 before everyone of us, in our great commonwealth, the ideal of how things 
 ought to be done. 
 
 I am glad to be here, and it comes to my own mind that this is not a 
 day for sadness, but for congratulation that we have had a great man in 
 our State to do brave and noble work, one who was adequate for his task, 
 who has helped the State and helped the Nation. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — Another neighbor, to the north of us, the State Agri- 
 cultural College, is represented by an honored alumnus, President Lory. 
 
 President Charles A. Lory, Representing the State Educational 
 Institutions. — In thinking of the message that I came to bring, I find 
 it very difficult to speak from the standpoint of an executive of another State 
 institution. I find myself always stepping into the place of an alumnus, and 
 thinking what Dr. Baker meant to me as a student, of the training he gave 
 and what it has meant to me since I have taken up my work in another 
 institution. 
 
 This great Institution represented by stately buildings, all except one, 
 built since President Baker has been at the head of the University, is a rare 
 monument to his service, but in my opinion the greatest monument is not 
 on the campus, not in the buildings, but in the principles he inculcated in 
 the minds of those trained here. 
 
 How well do I remember his chapel talks when we assembled twice a week. 
 Yes, there was cutting of chapel in those days, I understand that the practice 
 has been discontinued since. I recall often and with pleasure those meet- 
 ings and the ideal of service and of citizenship he taught. 
 
 So far as I have been able in my work at the Agricultural College, 
 I have tried to work out this ideal of service and of good citizenship. I 
 assure you too that it is not in the time of prosperity that an institution's 
 best growth in character is made. I believe that we students got more 
 in the dark days of 1899 and 1900 when the professors were not getting 
 their pay, in fact were furnishing some of the funds to carry the work of 
 their departments, and we student assistants, who were working on the 
 great salary of from $150 to $200 a year, yet found it possible to purchase 
 some trinkets for the laboratory, than the students of a more prosperous 
 period, for it is that kind of a time and that kind of a spirit and the 
 example set by a great man like our President, that bring out the best in 
 a student. 
 
 I am amazed when I think of the work that has been done in the twenty- 
 two years that Dr. Baker has been President. From about three hundred 
 men and women in the institutions of higher learning in this State, the 
 number has increased one hundred-fold, at the University the increase has 
 been two-hundred-fold. 
 
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COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 31 
 
 If you will take the enrollment of this Institution from the time that 
 President Baker came here and plot it as ordinates with the years as 
 abscissae, you will find that the curve has a slope of forty-five degrees. I 
 am sure that if we were able to plot the curve of influence of the Institution, 
 we would find it to be even steeper than that of enrollment. This growth 
 has been made against very great obstacles, because it was not only neces- 
 sary to build up the University, but the high schools and the public schools 
 as well, to furnish, as it were, the raw material for the University. 
 
 It was a time when the various State institutions of higher learning were 
 finding themselves, it was necessary to do much pioneer work, some mis- 
 takes were made. The growth of the institutions was rapid, the State support 
 not always generous, the confidence in the future not strong. The growth 
 of the University testifies to the business ability of its President, it testifies 
 to his ability as an educator, it is a splendid tribute to his statesmanship 
 and to his confidence in Colorado. 
 
 I feel that while we have made great progress in higher education in 
 Colorado in the last twenty-two years we must look forward to making 
 even greater progress in the next twenty-two years. President Baker 
 started out witb small equipment and with indifferent support and yet, 
 with conditions uncertain and difficult as they were in the educational 
 affairs of the State, he has been able to build up an institution like this, 
 lifting at the same time the whole public-school system to higher efficiency. 
 Continuing then what shall we, who have been privileged to work with him 
 and have the benefit of his example, be able to do for education in Colorado. 
 The problems of the future will be just as numerous as they were in the 
 last twenty-two years, conditions will change as rapidly, and the State of 
 Colorado is expecting and is going to expect a full measure of service from 
 all of her institutions. 
 
 A new ideal has come into education, a new ideal of service. The 
 institutions will be judged by what they do for Colorado, what they do to 
 develop her resources, what they do for better citizenship, what they do to 
 lift the ideals of morality. It rests with the faculties and executives of 
 their institutions. Fortunate are we if we are to have the service of 
 our President in the future. I hope that his lot will be cast in Colorado, 
 and that he will continue in the educational service of the State, that we 
 can all work together. Let each institution carry on its special work, 
 let us get together and correlate our activities so that all the institutions 
 of higher learning may work as one effective whole in State service. We 
 have a splendid function to perform, and we must perform it nobly. 
 
 Speaking for the State Teachers' College, the School of Mines, and the 
 State Agricultural College, we are ready to meet with the men of the 
 University to work out such a plan. In behalf of these other State insti- 
 tutions I pledge you men of Colorado the most cordial cooperation. In 
 this we shall expect much from the University, we look to you for wise 
 counsel and advanced statesmanship. God grant that our University may 
 
32 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 continue to hold the position of leadership in the education of the State that 
 it has held in the last twenty-two years. 
 
 ♦William H. Bryant, fob the Board of Regents. — I wish to express my 
 sincere regret at my inability to be present at the exercises arranged on 
 December 18th to commemorate the service of President Baker. I had made 
 every arrangement to be present, but owing to some matters that came up 
 unexpectedly it was simply impossible. I think every loyal citizen of Colo- 
 rado should have united in paying tribute to Dr. Baker for his services to 
 the State and to Education. I have known Dr. Baker since before he went 
 to the University, and have watched his work with great care, and I must 
 say that no educator that I know of has made the record he has. His retire- 
 ment is more than a loss to the University and the State — it is a calamity; 
 but it is something that we had to face, and we must accept the inevitable 
 and do the very best we can. We are fortunate in the assurance that we 
 will have the benefit of Dr. Baker's advice from time to time in the future, 
 and let us hope that a long life will be spared to him, that he will spend it 
 in Colorado, and that we may at all times be permitted to avail ourselves of 
 his assistance. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — The greatest ornaments to a university are not beauti- 
 ful gates, broad walks, velvet lawns, graceful trees, and costly buildings, 
 but a friendly, studious, energetic, and orderly student body, a student body 
 developing its own high ideals and voluntarily conforming thereto. Such 
 an association is represented by Mr. John L. Haley. 
 
 Mr. John L. Haley, President of the Associated Students. — The great 
 work and the great achievements of President Baker, during his twenty-two 
 years of service to our University, have been ably told you by those speakers 
 who have preceded me. 
 
 It is not for us, the students, with our small conception of the value of 
 such achievements, to realize at this time all that these years of earnest 
 effort have accomplished. This realization will come to us after our names 
 have stood upon the alumni role, and after we have learned from the rough 
 school of experience the wisdom that is essential and the price that is 
 demanded for the accomplishment of such great things as he has accom- 
 plished here. 
 
 We realfze in our small way the magnitude of his great work, and the 
 esteem with which it is regarded by men whose privilege it is to judge; but 
 it is not by this realization alone that the expression from the students is 
 prompted, but by the four years of our daily association with him, out of 
 which has grown a feeling of reverence. 
 
 *At the last moment Regent Bryant was detained in Denver by urgent 
 business. As a substitute for his address a letter sent to the committee in 
 charge of the exercises is given. 
 
COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 33 
 
 We have recognized in him the faithful guardian of our every interest, 
 as children recognize their father as the guardian of their interests. 
 
 His character and life have been an inspiration to us; for, as the 
 mountains lend beauty and grandeur to the location of our Alma Mater, so 
 has his life and character lent strength and dignity to her atmosphere. 
 
 And so there is a feeling of sadness in our hearts as we think that this 
 is the last time we shall meet with him as students — as his children; and 
 it is with the deepest regret that we see him leave us. 
 
 [Here Mr. Haley, on behalf of the students, presented a loving cup to 
 President Baker.] 
 
 President Baker, may this small token, which I have the honor to present 
 to you, on behalf of the students, serve to remind you in the years to come 
 of our appreciation for all that you have done for us, and of our great love 
 for all that you have been to us. May you be blessed with happiness through 
 the years that are to come. 
 
 The cup is engraved as follows: 
 
 WE THE STUDENTS OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 
 
 PRESENT THIS CUP TO 
 
 OUR PRESIDENT 
 
 JAMES H. BAKER 
 
 AS A TOKEN OF 
 
 OUR AFFECTIONATE REGARD 
 
 AND ESTEEM 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 
 
 1892-1914 
 
 Dean Brackett. — The ripened fruit of the garnered years — learned and 
 loyal alumni. Mr. Bethuel M. Webster. 
 
 Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, 1894, for the Alumni. — Upon this memorable 
 occasion when we are gathered to honor the work and character of the 
 retiring President of the University of Colorado, I deem it no small honor 
 to represent the Alumni of this Institution. Although I regret my meagre 
 equipment for a task so pleasant, I take it up with a heart grateful for the 
 friendship of President Baker, which extends back into high-school days 
 and covers a period of nearly thirty years. 
 
 I have not the retentive memory with which some are endowed — or 
 which others by diligent application have acquired, but I well remember 
 the reading by Dr. Baker from the chapel platform of the little story of 
 the old man whose custom it was to retire to the seclusion of the forest 
 upon his birthday and spend the entire day in meditation and thought, 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 examining his inner self and contemplating his manner of life and thought. 
 How appropriate that we should pause at this milestone, if but briefly, 
 and consider the work and standards of this University, which to so great 
 an extent are the result of, and the reflection of, the life, work and ideals 
 of the man who is just leaving the President's chair. 
 
 As the prophet is not without honor save in his own country, so we 
 have so gradually and so naturally appropriated to ourselves the talents 
 and the energies which he has given with such prodigal generosity, that 
 only now do we begin to realize the great benefit which has been ours in 
 having such a man at the helm during this formative period in the history 
 of education in this State. 
 
 Time and time again I have thought, not only that his work and his 
 worth were not appreciated as they should be, but have marvelled at 
 the remarkable determination with which he has carried out his great 
 purpose to establish here a university, second in standing to none in this 
 country, in the face of such difficulties and discouragements as would have 
 overwhelmed any but a man of surpassing ability and unlimited capacity for 
 hard work. 
 
 I need not refer to the increase in the number of students or to the 
 constructive work of his rare executive ability in the establishment and 
 reorganization of the various schools constituting the University — in the 
 first graduating class of one of which it was my privilege to be a member — 
 nor need I remind you of the beautiful and stately buildings now erected 
 and planned, which are not only monuments to the generosity of those 
 whose names they bear, but which altogether are a monument to the genius 
 of our retiring President and to his great love and unceasing effort for this 
 Institution. 
 
 However great have been the results in the growth of the University 
 in numbers, in buildings, and in the machinery of education, greater and 
 more far-reaching and inspiring has been the example of his wonderful 
 devotion to this cause and to the high ideals of life and accomplishment 
 for which the University has stood in his administration. 
 
 The business life has in it the promise of affluence and power to those 
 who are diligent in its pursuit; the professional life has the inducement 
 of position and preferment to those who attain success in its callings; the 
 life of the artist holds out to those who are ambitious the possibility of 
 popular acclaim; the life of the soldier who goes into battle with blood 
 tingling with excitement and enthusiasm of the occasion carries with it the 
 promise of glory for devotion to one's country; but how much greater and 
 more worth while than any of these is the life of the educator who has the 
 courage to put aside the allurements of wealth, of luxury, of power, of 
 position and of preferment and to choose for his life work the training 
 and moulding of those who will thereafter do the great things of this life. 
 
 How more than fortunate that while still in the prime of life President 
 Baker is to be relieved of the arduous and exacting labor of the position he 
 
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 has so nobly filled, and that he will be free to devote all of his efforts in 
 a wider sphere to the working out of the problems of his chosen profession. 
 
 As we leave our Alma Mater and scatter to the distant quarters of the 
 earth, we may like thoughtless children seem to forget the guiding influence 
 of our college days, but wherever we go there is an invisible web radiating 
 from this common center, with a thread extending out to every one of us, 
 even to the remotest corners of the globe, which binds us together in a 
 common regard and admiration for the man who some twenty-two years 
 ago had the courage and the optimism to accept the presidency of a then 
 struggling institution and under whose guidance during that time it has 
 attained an enviable position in the educational world. 
 
 The Alumni of this Institution, who owe to him such a debt of grati- 
 tude, therefore unite in paying a tribute to the commanding figure of our 
 retiring President, whose remarkable constructive and executive ability, 
 combined with the high standards of thought and action for which he has 
 always stood, have been a constant encouragement and inspiration to 
 students, alumni, faculty and fellow citizens. 
 
 May he live long and gather a harvest of an hundred-fold from the labor 
 which he has so generously given without stint or measure to all who have 
 been associated with him. 
 
 Dean Brackett. — Strangers admire the site of the University of Colo- 
 rado; many find a charm in the campus; but it is not on such things as 
 these that the fame of a university depends. Are there instructors who 
 know a subject, who teach it, who make scholars? Are there men on the 
 Faculty who write what the world loves to read? Among its leaders are 
 there builders, projecting cantilevers into space, raising highways for other 
 men to pass over to new points of vantage in the conquest of Nature? 
 Such a Faculty, abundantly able to discuss and abundantly able to administer 
 higher education in Colorado, President Baker has formed. It is his truest 
 monument. Buildings may burn, sites may be changed, political estimates 
 are unstable; the fame of a president is in the estimate of his Faculty. 
 That verdict today is uttered by the loved voice of the School of Law — 
 John D. Fleming. 
 
 Dean John D. Fleming, Member of the Faculty. — The old lawyers of 
 what may be termed Merrie England, had a writ which they called in the bar- 
 barous Latin of the period, the writ of ne injuste vexes. It was a writ of 
 prohibition, and was employed by one who felt himself unduly harassed 
 by the exactions of a superior. I would, Mr. Chairman, that I might invoke 
 the protection of that process against the agitations of this present moment. 
 
 I am bid on behalf of the Senate and Faculty of the University to say a 
 few words of farewell to President Baker. It is fitting that one should do this, 
 but I feel altogether unequal to the task. There are moments when, what- 
 ever the provocation, the tongue is silent. I cannot express my own feelings 
 
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 upon this occasion, much less the varied emotions which must be rising in 
 the breasts of many who are assembled here and demanding disclosure. 
 
 But if I have not "the power of necessary words," I can perhaps 
 express in simple phrase the thought that is doubtless uppermost 
 in the minds of the faculty assembled here, when they consider their 
 relations with President Baker in the light of the limitations by which he 
 has been necessarily governed. In all these relations, I believe I can say in 
 behalf of this Faculty and without a dissenting voice, President Baker has 
 been a just man. 
 
 I believe that it was the good St. Benedict who said: "If one man be 
 just, I am well. If one man be wise and learned and virtuous, still I am 
 well; yet, until all these graces do come into one man, one man shall not 
 come into my grace." It is perhaps too much in these profane times to 
 demand that all of the mere graces should come even unto a college presi- 
 dent; but, speaking as a lawyer, and I was a lawyer before I was a pro- 
 fessor, and standing here, perhaps as the attorney for this assembled faculty, 
 I believe I am warranted in saying that the greatest thing of all of these 
 that have been mentioned on the part of a university president, in his rela- 
 tions to the faculty, is his broad appreciation and practice of justice. 
 
 Professor Curtis, in an address upon the twentieth anniversary of Presi- 
 dent Baker's work here, said that President Baker had received his degree 
 at Bates College in Maine, but that he was educated in the University of 
 Colorado. That is equivalent to saying, perhaps, that President Baker in 
 this interval got wisdom; and I believe, and I think that every member 
 of this faculty believes, that with all his wisdom he got understanding — 
 understanding of his teachers' needs, their desires, their hopes, aspirations, 
 abilities, and, too, their defects and shortcomings; and that in all these per- 
 plexities, and though moving sometimes amidst hazards, he has ever exhibited 
 the character of a just judge. Greater praise hath no man than this. 
 
 And so it comes to say Farewell. President Baker's active connection 
 with the University ceases in a few days. While the shadows still are falling, 
 let us hope not far toward the east, he leaves us. In the language of one 
 of America's greatest orators, "while yet in love with life and raptured with 
 the world" he passes to other scenes and other adventures. May every good 
 fortune go with him. 
 
 On tomorrow, the 19th day of December, the University closes its doors 
 for the calendar year, and President Baker practically lays down the reins. 
 When two more tomorrows shall have come, the sun will be lowest in 
 the heavens. Shall we say that when "tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in 
 with petty pace," we then shall witness the solstice of our discontent? Let 
 us hope that soon a glorious summer will succeed. 
 
 And so again, Goodbye! If these words mean anything, President Baker, 
 they mean, God be with you and by you. 
 
 Dean Beackett. — Now we come to the text itself, the man whom we 
 have met to honor. What we have done thus far has been to prepare our 
 
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 minds to receive and to treasure up what his years of wisdom may bestow 
 upon us. 
 
 Honored Sir, the door of the golden opportunity that you have so nobly 
 improved, was opened by the hand of a classmate; his eloquence welcomed 
 and advised you on the day of inauguration; and this day of completion 
 is less perfect, missing the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a 
 voice that is still. He died in that first year. I revere the name of Isaac C. 
 Dennett, Professor of Latin; on this occasion I would not pronounce it for 
 myself or for you; but his name stands for the silent many. As I speak, 
 not a few mourn for the good and noble whose bodies were broken and 
 their lives poured out that others might have life and have it more abun- 
 dantly. Somehow their lives were shed into yours. Theirs was death; 
 yours, the victory. Nor would the dead have me silent of that larger 
 number who have poured the service of their best years into your life, a 
 vessel sanctified to receive the most costly wine of the ages to be offered 
 all unimpaired, not one drop spilled, to the Master of Life whence it came. 
 
 Enough has been said of the past. We are now at the parting of the 
 ways; whether it is better to go or to stay, we do not know. In the name 
 of the State and of the University — Godspeed! 
 
 President Baker. — My gratitude for the generous words spoken here 
 today is deep. But I feel that they are a tribute not to the Leader alone 
 but to the bravery of the Regiment — the professors and instructors, who, 
 together with the students, constitute the University. This should have 
 been called the record of twenty-two years of the University. In this 
 occasion center the memories of a period of our history. As I think of the 
 human factors that are and have been and will be a part of it all, no wonder 
 if I experience something akin to a big emotion. 
 
 Many things that it might be proper to say here, I have already 
 expressed. Let me add that I have great faith in my successor, great hope 
 for the future of the University, strong belief in the rapid development of 
 Colorado, and in the University and the other institutions of learning as 
 factors in that development. 
 
 It is related that a certain good old farmer in the busy season felt 
 he could not spare the time for daily grace at meals and was accustomed 
 to invoke a wholesale blessing on all the articles of food collectively and 
 individually. I do not wish to seem trivial, but the smile and the tear 
 are curiously related. I have not time even to enumerate the many grounds 
 of gratitude, much less to dwell upon them. And so I say God bless the 
 students in their aim at greater worth and service; the teachers in their 
 sacrifice, devotion, and ideal purpose; the people of this college town who 
 have contributed so much in effort and good will, and so many noteworthy 
 gifts; the people of Colorado in their progressive efforts to develop here 
 a civilization rich in all that makes for human welfare; and their repre- 
 sentatives, the Regents, who have shown a deep sense of their responsi- 
 
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 bilities as the agents of a great people in fostering one of their ideal 
 interests. 
 
 January first my formal relations with the University of Colorado end. 
 The Regents have seen fit to give me the title of President-Emeritus, and 
 I regard it the highest honor. I hope it means that as a citizen I may be 
 permitted sometimes to serve the University. I recall a touching story of 
 an aged professor who was about to retire from his life work. The question 
 arose among his colleagues whether giving him the title of Emeritus would 
 in any way embarrass the department. Finally the professor, who was 
 present at the friendly discussion but had kept silent, took a cup from the 
 table, and carefully filled it with water to the brim — no room for another 
 drop; he then delicately placed an olive leaf on the water's surface and the 
 cup did not overflow. The argument of the mute symbol was effective and 
 was greeted with generous acclaim. 
 
CONCERNING PRESIDENT BAKERS SERVICE AND 
 RESIGNATION 
 
 [Of many editorials, letters, and telegrams, excerpts from a few 
 only are given here. These are typical of the many.] 
 
 UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS 
 
 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. — While you are 
 celebrating President Baker's service to the University of Colorado and to the 
 State of Colorado, permit me to add that you may very well stress also his 
 services to the Nation as well. Dr. Baker has been one of the real forces 
 in American higher education during the last fifteen years, and the Univer- 
 sity of Colorado and the State of Colorado are to be congratulated upon 
 having found such a man and upon having given him an opportunity to do 
 the great work he has accomplished. 
 
 President Harry Pratt Judson, University of Chicago. — I wish to express, 
 on behalf of the University of Chicago, high appreciation of the service 
 rendered by President Baker not merely to Colorado, but also to the cause of 
 education throughout the United States. 
 
 President Charles F. Thwing, Western Reserve University. — I wish I 
 could have come to the great service in honor of President Baker. However 
 great that commemoration was, it could give no intimation of the worth of 
 his work. He has been the President of the University of Colorado, but he 
 also has served the nation and the world. I use the past tense, but I also 
 want to use the future. He is still going to do lasting and large things. 
 
 President W. O. Thompson, Ohio State University. — I congratulate Presi- 
 dent Baker and the University also upon these twenty years that are now 
 past. They have been years of struggle and constructive service, and mean- 
 time Dr. Baker has filled a place in the cause of higher education clearly 
 conceded to him by all his contemporaries in the work. I hope the plans 
 for his future are such as may be agreeable and comfortable to him and that 
 he may find the next decade fruitful in contributing the results of his 
 experience in some permanent form to the cause of education. 
 
 President W. H. P. Faunce, Brown University. — President Baker's great 
 service to the State of Colorado all of us in the East recognize, and we know 
 that his influence has extended far outside that State and permeated all our 
 educational system. 
 
 Chancellor Samuel Black McCormick, University of Pittsburgh. — I take 
 advantage of this opportunity to congratulate President Baker upon the 
 eminent and worthy service which he has rendered to the cause of education 
 in the State of Colorado and in the Nation. It is altogether fitting that this 
 
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 service should have its due recognition on the part of President Baker's 
 associates. 
 
 President George C. Chase, Bates College. — We are proud of our distin- 
 guished graduate and of his services to education in our country. 
 
 President James A. MacLean, University of Manitoba. — It is just this 
 sort of thing (this recognition of service) that makes me resolve never to 
 despair of the Republic even in little things, never to despair of justice, nor 
 of plain dealing, nor of good teachers nor good teaching, nor any of the 
 great things he has believed in. The kind of completeness in which he has 
 builded himself and his life leaves nothing specific that his friends may 
 wish for him at this time, but if there is in him any unsatisfied desire of 
 the slighter sort, whether for good books or Italian skies, or conversation 
 merry or philosophical, I hope that it may be speedly and easily gratified. 
 
 Remember me kindly to Mrs. Baker and tell her that I do not forget that 
 her official connection with the University of Colorado has been contempor- 
 aneous and coequal with his own. 
 
 Chancellor Elmer B. Brown, New York University. — Let me add my 
 heartiest felicitations to those with which President Baker was undoubtedly 
 deluged on this interesting occasion. 
 
 President Robert J. Aley, University of Maine. — I want to congratulate 
 President Baker upon the fine thing the faculty and regents have done for 
 him in commemoration of his long service to the University and State. 
 
 President C. A. Duniway, University of Wyoming. — President Baker 
 has done a great constructive work which is, I am sure, appreciated by the 
 thoughtful people in Colorado. It is a gratification to know that he is going 
 to keep busy in public service, even when on the retired list. 
 
 President E. B. Craighead, University of Montana. — President Baker has 
 done a great and good work for the University of Colorado and I am glad 
 to know that the Regents and Faculties are showing some appreciation of 
 his services. I am happy to join with those who wish him all good things, 
 who congratulate him on his splendid service both for Colorado and for 
 the Nation, and who wish him yet many years of happiness and service. 
 
 President Z. X. Snyder, State Teachers' College of Colorado.— The Presi- 
 dent of the State Teachers' College wishes to express his regrets and the 
 regrets of the institution on the retirement of President Baker. I congratu- 
 late the State that it has had in it so prominent a man at the head of 
 educational matters as Dr. Baker. His ideals as a citizen, as an educator, 
 and as a man have always been high, inspiring and stimulating. He has 
 our best wishes; so has the University of Colorado. 
 
 President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University. — I am delighted 
 to have confirmed the newspaper reports in regard to the selection of Farrand 
 
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 as President Baker's successor. In bringing this about he has done every- 
 thing in his power to insure the continuance of the high and advancing 
 standards and policies that have marked his administration. 
 
 President David R. Boyd, University of New Mexico. — I have known 
 President Baker during the entire time of his connection with the Univer- 
 sity of Colorado, and have learned to place a very high estimate on his 
 ability and service, not only to the Institution over which he has presided, 
 but to education in general. He has been wise, very resourceful and 
 thoroughly and earnestly devoted to the high ideals that he has, of life 
 conduct and work. 
 
 Regis Chauvenet, President-Emeritus, Colorado State School of Mines. — 
 If it be true that "Men, high minded men," constitute a state; if the real 
 foundations of a community are those that regard man's higher needs rather 
 than his material prosperity; then are those who now extend their greetings 
 more than justified in saying to President Baker: "Well done." 
 
 Livingston Farrand, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University. — 
 I have just learned this morning of the meeting to be held this afternoon to 
 commemorate the service of President Baker to the University and to the 
 State of Colorado. It is a source of keen regret to me that I am unable to 
 be present and testify not only to my admiration for the man, but also to 
 what he has meant for education in the country at large. Will you not 
 extend to him my heartiest congratulations on the completion of twenty-two 
 years of eminent service and express my earnest hope that he may enjoy 
 a long life and continued usefulness not only to the State, but to the 
 University. 
 
 Paul H. Hanus, Professor of Education, Harvard University. — When 
 President Baker took charge of the University its reputation had scarcely 
 travelled beyond the borders of the State. Through his energetic activity 
 in the field of Education throughout the country, through his wise choice 
 of able professors, through his aggressive but careful educational policy, he 
 has made the University widely known as a substantial and useful member of 
 the great group of American state universities. 
 
 Milton C. Whitaker, Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University. — I am 
 very sorry indeed to see President Baker leave the University because it will 
 be exceedingly difficult to maintain the successful standards which he has 
 established and to continue development at the pace which he has set. 
 
 Edward S. Parsons, Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, Colo- 
 rado College. — It is a great work President Baker has done in bringing the 
 University from the position it occupied in 1892 to that it holds now, with 
 its great group of students, its strong faculty, its large service to the State. 
 I have known some of the problems he has had to meet during these years 
 
42 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 and he has shown great purpose and perseverance and tact and wisdom 
 in handling them. 
 
 Colorado school matters will hardly seem the same without his active 
 leadership in them. But we are not to lose him altogether, I understand. 
 His training and experience will find many places where he can help in 
 our State, which still greatly needs wise leadership. 
 
 Ammi Bradford Hyde, Lecturer on Philology and Linguistics, University 
 of Denver. — President Baker's career has been one of steady advance since 
 I met him at our high school. He has laid me under obligations, personal 
 and professional, which I hold in lively remembrance. 
 
 Nevin M. Fenneman, Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati. — 
 Since leaving Colorado I have thought much of what President Baker's long 
 administration means to the University and to the State. I flatter myself 
 that I can see far enough through the necessities, complications and annoy- 
 ances of administration to get at the fundamental idealism which has been at 
 the basis of his character and work. It is a satisfaction to see such qualities 
 surviving the rough experiences of public life and gaining strength (so I 
 may hope) with advancing years. I remember with great pleasure our too 
 limited personal acquaintance. Companionship with men of ideals is not so 
 plenty that one can afford to forget even the little. I wish him many years 
 of service to the causes for which he lives. 
 
 Aaron Gove, former Superintendent, Denver (Colorado) Schools. — In 
 these times of stress his persistence, his reticence, and his never wavering 
 conduct in abstaining from whatever bordered or smacked of dishonor, an 
 integrity crystalized and unwarped and more, far more than all, his loyalty 
 to a friend are notable traits for me to realize. He has demonstrated that 
 the qualities that make men gush and compliment and praise and with words 
 fill the hearer with temporary pleasure not enduring or valuable are quite 
 unnecessary to the successful man. 
 
 James H. Van Sickle, Superintendent, Springfield (Massachusetts) 
 Schools. — I wish also to congratulate President Baker on the great service 
 he has rendered the State of Colorado and the hundreds there and elsewhere 
 who hold the diploma which has his signature. I allow no one of them to 
 surpass me in appreciation of this service. I appreciate even better than 
 some of the alumni that wider service to the educational interests of the 
 country as a whole which he has rendered and which I hope he will have 
 health and strength to continue for many years. 
 
 C. E. Chadsey, Superintendent, Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools. — I 
 have learned with great personal regret through the press that President 
 Baker is about to retire from his work at the University of Colorado. I say 
 that I learn this with regret not on his account, but on account of the 
 University and the educational interests of Colorado. So many people have 
 expressed so much better than I can his wonderful services that I shall not 
 
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 attempt to add to the tribute. I wish to assure him of my personal esteem 
 and affection and to tell him, as I never have before, of the inspiration he has 
 been to me during the years that we have worked together. I feel very sure 
 that the increased leisure which will now be his will enable him to render 
 even more valuable service to education. 
 
 Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. — 
 This Commonwealth will always remain the debtor of President James H. 
 Baker for the educational standards he has maintained and the personal 
 sanctions given by him to all things that make for strength and power and 
 beauty in the life of a community. May I add to this that Mrs. Baker's 
 influence will long remain as an abiding element in the creation of a type 
 of civilization destined to become the achievement of Colorado citizenship. 
 
 J. F. Keating, Superintendent, Pueblo (Colorado) City Schools, District 
 No. 20. — It would give me great pleasure to participate in the commemoration 
 of President Baker's long, honorable, and efficient service in the cause of 
 education in our State and Nation. May his voice long continue to be heard 
 in our educational councils. 
 
 Frank D. Slutz, Superintendent, Pueblo (Colorado) City Schools, Dis- 
 trict No. 1. — I take this opportunity of congratulating President Baker upon 
 his record and upon his eminent success. 
 
 H. S. Phillips, President, Denver Teachers' Club. — Allow me to express 
 my admiration for Dr. Baker and for his labors in behalf of education in 
 Colorado. I am sure he will be the same giant for many years to come, for 
 all that is sane and worthy, as he has been in the past. We are not to lose 
 him, but to gain by his greater freedom from the petty but strength-absorbing 
 cares of administration. 
 
 ALUMNI 
 
 The Chicago Alumni Club of the University of Colorado. — Whereas, 
 The Chicago Alumni Club of the University of Colorado has learned with 
 deep regret of the proposed withdrawal from the leadership of the University 
 of Colorado of its distinguished and beloved President, James Hutchins 
 Baker; and, 
 
 Whereas, The Chicago Alumni Club desires at this time to give expres- 
 sion of its loyality to the University, its appreciation of the services of its 
 revered President, and its good wishes for his future achievements; 
 
 Now Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the said Chicago Alumni Club in 
 meeting assembled, that we take this means of reaffirming our loyalty to the 
 University of Colorado, and to its President who is relinquishing active 
 direction of the affairs of the Institution; and, 
 
 Be It Further Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be presented to 
 the Secretary of the University of Colorado Alumni Association, to the 
 Board of Regents, and to President James H. Baker with our heartiest greet- 
 ings of the season to President and Mrs. Baker. 
 
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 44 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 The Kansas City Alumni of the University of Colorado. — The Kansas 
 City Alumni of the University of Colorado, wish to express their appreciation 
 of President Baker and the work he has done for the University. 
 
 Dr. Baker will be remembered as a hard worker and a loyal supporter 
 of the University; as a deep thinker and forceful speaker; and as a man 
 worthy of the high position he has held. Colorado will seek far to find a 
 man who will advance her University as Dr. Baker has done. 
 
 It is with regret that we learn of his resignation as president, and our 
 best wishes will go with him always. 
 
 The Schenectady-Pittsfield Colorado Alumni Club. — The Schenectady- 
 Pittsfield Colorado Alumni Club regrets that the University is to lose Dr. 
 Baker. At the same time, the fact must be recognized that the duties of the 
 position are arduous and growing more so, and that twenty-two years of 
 faithful service entitle the President to a well-earned retirement. We trust 
 that the University may still have available his counsel in time of need. We 
 unite with other loyal alumni in wishing Dr. Baker many years of usefulness 
 and enjoyment. 
 
 Weld County Alumni Association of the University of Colorado. — 
 Whereas, There has been announced the resignation of Dr. James H. Baker 
 from the presidency of the University of Colorado, and whereas we wish to 
 in some way betoken the obligation we feel for the great good he has rendered 
 for the past twenty-two years in that position; 
 
 Resolved, That this Association express to President Baker and to all 
 the alumni and citizens of Colorado, that we are deeply sensible of the great 
 service he has rendered to the University, to the State, and to the cause of 
 education in general. The work of President Baker has created a University 
 that is represented by the steadily increasing buildings and equipment, and 
 another that is represented by the ideals of the men and women who hold its 
 diploma. 
 
 His high scholastic ability, his untiring devotion to the institution's 
 every interest, his unswerving adherence to integrity and manhood, have 
 achieved the great growth and high rank of the University of Colorado in 
 the educational world, and have been an incentive and example to the highest 
 effort and ideals among the young men and women of this State. 
 
 In so giving voice to our gratitude for his past work, we trust his con- 
 nection with the University of Colorado will not be entirely severed, and 
 we wish for him the realization of his best hopes in whatever his new 
 activity may be. 
 
 Pueblo Alumni Association. — We greet President Baker and appreciate 
 his splendid unselfish service. 
 
 University of Colorado Club of Denver. — Whereas, The University of 
 Colorado Club of Denver, realizing the excellence of the work done by 
 President James H. Baker, and appreciating his efforts and success in the 
 
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 upbuilding of the Institution to its present enviable position in educational 
 circles of this country; and, 
 
 Whekeas, This Club valuing these services, not only to the University, 
 but also to the people of the State of Colorado — and the country at large, 
 and recognizing also the high standard set by President Baker as a man 
 and educator; and, 
 
 Whereas, We, as alumni and former students of the University, having 
 been personally benefited and having profited by our association with Presi- 
 dent Baker, deem it a pleasure and a privilege to express at this time our 
 sincere gratitude and appreciation for his influence which will continue as an 
 inspiration throughout our lives; 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the University of Colorado Club of Denver, 
 in regular meeting assembled, that we hereby extend to President Baker our 
 sincerest wishes for a pleasant and prosperous future. 
 
 The University of Colorado Alumnae Club of Denver. — The U. of C. 
 Alumnae Club of Denver deeply regrets President Baker's decision to sever 
 his connection with the University. We feel that the Institution and our- 
 selves are suffering an irreparable loss; that no one could have furthered 
 the interests of the University more rapidly or more substantially than 
 President and Mrs. Baker have done; and that we shall miss them as 
 personal friends when we return now and then to the University life. That 
 prosperity and peace attend them is our earnest and affectionate wish. 
 
 Wilson M. Shafer, 1898, Superintendent, Cripple Creek (Colorado) 
 Schools. — Many of us will continue to feel a personal interest and pride in 
 the future activities of Dr. Baker and will look to him, as in the past, as 
 our sanest and safest counselor in educational matters. May I add that some 
 of us will cherish the hope that the personal touch we have enjoyed in the 
 past shall continue. 
 
 Omar E. Garwood, 1901, 1903. — It seemed to me that his whole ambition 
 in life was to make a success, not for himself, but for the institution whose 
 destinies were in his hands. Dr. Baker is really a great man, and I con- 
 sider it perhaps the greatest privilege of my life to have labored intimately 
 with him during the years when I needed his sort of discipline. He imbued 
 me so strongly with his own devoted University spirit that he inspired my 
 energies to work almost automatically in devising ways and means to help 
 him. In the ordinary affairs of life we seldom see such devotion to an ideal 
 as has been witnessed by President Baker's sacrifices for the University 
 since he became its executive head. During all the years that he has been at 
 Boulder, his personal thoughts and wishes have with singular regularity 
 been made secondary to those of the University, its faculty and students. 
 Such devotion cannot fail to bring success in any line of human endeavor 
 and here lies the big lesson in Dr. Baker's life for all of us. 
 
 John M. Downen, 1899, Superintendent, George W. Clayton College. — Dr. 
 Baker is in my opinion one of the really large figures in American education 
 
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 today. His intellect, high ideals, sagacity, and force of will, have been an 
 inspiration to me during the seventeen years I have known him. 
 
 George S. Darley, 189S. — President James H. Baker — The great man of 
 Colorado's greatest educational institution; whose untiring efforts in behalf 
 of our Alma Mater put her in the front ranks. 
 
 I for one well remember his advent among us in the year 1891. He was 
 tall and commanding, and has grown taller ever since, and more than ever 
 commands the respect and confidence of the students of the University and 
 the citizens of Colorado. 
 
 As one of the "old boys"' I have the highest estimate of President Baker 
 as a man and educator; and one who was far more interested in us than we 
 sometimes gave him credit. His work and his accomplishments speak for 
 him; and there is a monument in the hearts and minds of hundreds of 
 students of the University of Colorado who have gone out into the walks 
 of life to be a credit to the University whence they came. 
 
 Conrad Bluhm, 1895. — It is well the living appreciate the service 
 rendered. Yet the full face value of what he has done for the great University 
 will be known only when he shall have passed from the seat of struggle. 
 
 Albert Dakan, 1897, 1899. — When I contemplate the obstacles overcome 
 by Doctor Baker in building the institutions to his credit in Colorado, my 
 ideal of the Pilgrim strength is quite fulfilled in this descendant, for, was 
 he not born and reared and fitted on that coast? When he was "outfitted," 
 back there, in the middle seventies, I fancy the Spirit of the Fathers looked 
 upon him in stern admiration and breathed the command, "Westward, For- 
 ward, March" — and that, with high purpose and undaunted tread, he marched 
 to the real West, into its very midst, where with ideals lofty enough to see 
 the good in the elemental characters around him and with the power to 
 correlate that portion of those characters, he made unselfish use of them in 
 successfully building great institutions of learning. And these institutions 
 shall not partake of the nature of monuments, but of temples, where youth 
 may be imbued ever anew with the Spirit of the Fathers, dedicated to the 
 conquest of selfishness and to a cheerful realization of Christian citizenship. 
 
 Fred G. Persons, 1905, 1911, Professor of Physics, Colorado Agricultural 
 College. — We, of the University alumni, know what President Baker has done 
 in the upbuilding of our Institution and the individual stimulus which we 
 have received from him as its head. To us it will not seem quite like "home" 
 when we are back to visit our Alma Mater and find another in his place. 
 
 John R. Wolff, 1899, 1900. — The splendid work which Dr. Baker has done 
 in building up a great university in the Rocky Mountain Region will be more 
 fully appreciated by the alumni, as well as by the citizens of Colorado, as 
 time goes on. 
 
 Alice Storms, 1908. — But it is not only the returning alumni who will 
 miss President Baker — the University is losing, officially, one whose interest 
 
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 has been so vital as to carry everything before it to success. That the loss 
 may be only official and that the world may treat him in proportion to his 
 good works is the wish of all alumni and friends of the University. 
 
 Gilbert W. States, 1904. — Dr. Baker's services have been priceless. Every 
 year since graduating I have looked forward with eagerness to his splendid 
 address to the graduates and the inspiration to be found therein. May he 
 find happiness, prosperity, and contentment in his future work. 
 
 Alwyn C. Smith, 1894, 1901. — As an alumnus I wish to express my regret 
 in the loss of President Baker's leadership for the University. I trust that 
 his resignation does not mean the loss of his influence for the University 
 nor his retirement from service, but simply the diverting of his activities to 
 new and wider fields of usefulness and greater storehouses of happiness. 
 
 Chester E. Smedley, 1899, 1900. — The pride in our "Prexy" forms no 
 small part of the college pride of every alumnus or student who has attended 
 the University of Colorado during the past quarter century. No college 
 president ever inspired or held a deeper loyalty and respect of his student 
 body. 
 
 Frederick W. Doolittle, 1907, 1911. — The recipient of three degrees from 
 the University of Colorado, I feel myself peculiarly indebted to the man 
 whose devotion for more than twenty years to my Alma Mater has rendered 
 her such worthy service. I hope that, though he is now withdrawing from the 
 more onerous of his labors, the University may still have the benefit of the 
 wisdom that has brought her to her present high estate. 
 
 Ernest Morris, 1896, 1898. — No one but the highest type of efficient and 
 practical educator could have successfully guided the University during the 
 difficult years of its development to its present high position. The work done 
 by President Baker has firmly established higher education as a permanent 
 institution in Colorado. When the future history of Colorado is written the 
 name of James H. Baker will stand out as the champion of higher education, 
 and as the man who has done more than any one else to firmly establish and 
 develop our chief educational institution for the benefit and glory of the 
 people of our State and Nation. 
 
 PRESS AND CITIZENS 
 
 Editorial, Rocky Mountain News (Denver), December 8, 1913. — After 
 twenty-two years of excellent and profitable service to the University of 
 Colorado, James H. Baker retires voluntarily from the presidency of that 
 splendid institution. The retirement is a distinct loss to the University, to 
 the educational status of the state and to that idealistic progress in which 
 he was such a stalwart and commanding figure. For President Baker was 
 more than the accomplished educator, or the able executive. He was always 
 a citizen of fine proportion, striving for the advancement of the common- 
 
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 wealth along material and uplifting lines, and a very earnest and honest 
 champion of all the moralities that go to develop a better citizenship. 
 
 His presidency of the university is a record of consistent worth, work, 
 progress, and prosperity. He brought a ripe and rare talent to his executive 
 labors. He kept far aloof from the small things that only breed vexations. 
 He tempered his labors with an altruism that begot the respect and confidence 
 of students and people. He succeeded most admirably in placing the Univer- 
 sity of Colorado on a sure foundation of merit that should make the task 
 of his successor comparatively easy to maintain. 
 
 The State will be sorry to lose President Baker. Still it is good to know 
 that he will not divorce himself and his valuable counsels from the University 
 entirely. He promises his help at any time it may be needed and that 
 is a great deal. But in his going it must be said with indisputable truth that 
 the history of the University of Colorado for the two and twenty years of 
 his presidency is largely his personal record — a record remarkable in suc- 
 cesses, professionally and individually. 
 
 Editorial, United Labor Bulletin (Denver), December 13, 1913. — Colo- 
 rado's most noted educator is to retire from active service on January 1. For 
 forty years Dr. James H. Baker, president of Colorado University, has 
 been actively connected with educational institutions of the State, first 
 becoming identified with the Denver High School in 1875, where he served 
 as principal seventeen years and saw the attendance grow from 50 to 700 
 pupils. Twenty-two years ago he was called to the head of the state 
 institution at Boulder, which he has caused to become recognized as one 
 of the leading state universities of the country, now having an enrollment 
 of 1,300 pupils. During all these years Dr. Baker has enjoyed the fullest 
 cooperation of the student body and the state regents of the University, 
 and his kindly advice has assisted many young men to successful avenues 
 of life. In recognition of his long and valued service, the board of regents 
 bestowed the title of president-emeritus upon the doctor and voted him one 
 year's salary dating from time of his retirement. This action has the 
 approval of every citizen of the state. Dr. Baker is sixty-five years of age 
 and will become a beneficiary under the Carnegie pension fund for 
 educators. Professor Livingston Farrand of Columbia University has been 
 appointed to the position. 
 
 Editorial, Daily Herald (Boulder), December 8, 1913. — The history of 
 Dr. Baker, as president of the University is a remarkable one. Coming here 
 twenty-two years ago when the institution was struggling for existence, he 
 brought with him a masterful insight into its needs and its possibilities 
 
 At all times he has worked for its upbuilding and has reared, out of a 
 puny institution of a few schools a University which stands among the high- 
 est in the land, with departments covering almost every known branch of 
 learning. His executive ability has been remarkable. In his general manage- 
 ment of the entire University, he has kept an eye on every branch and on 
 every detail of which it was necessary for him to be cognizant. When, several 
 
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 years ago, for lack of state funds to keep the institution alive, it was feared 
 its doors would be closed forever, it was his genius, his perspicacity, his fore- 
 sight, and his resourcefulness which warded off what threatened to be a death 
 blow, and, by calling on patriotic citizens, he tided it over until the state 
 could again come to its rescue. His every thought for the last twenty- two 
 years has been the good of the University. Whatever he did seemed to be 
 done for the purpose of helping along the cause of the school of which he 
 was the head. In public and in private he ever labored for the one cause. 
 Broad, liberal-minded, a deep thinker and a clear and forceful speaker — 
 argumentative rather than eloquent, whether he addressed the people of 
 Boulder or labored with the legislators, whether he lectured from the plat- 
 form or attended teachers' meetings — his main thought was to do that 
 which he could by influencing others, by enlarging his own learning, by 
 visiting and becoming acquainted with the affairs of other like institutions, 
 and that which would always redound to the interests of this main object 
 of his solicitude, the University of Colorado. Tactful he was in the extreme. 
 While other state institutions had their internal dissensions, some of them 
 changing heads frequently, Dr. Baker's position was always secure, because he 
 made it necessary that he be kept where he was. He has always stood, not 
 only for the mental advancement of the students, but also for their moral 
 uplift. He has entered into student life sufficiently to endear himself to 
 all who ever attended the University without breaking the barrier which 
 should of necessity separate student from president. He has made a record 
 of which any man can be proud. That he has been a hard worker, consistent 
 and persistent, that he has had his worries, that he has overcome difficulties 
 which seemed insurmountable, that he has indeed been a remarkably suc- 
 cessful executive, and that he can with justice point with pride to the 
 wonderful success with which the University has been crowned, is conceded 
 by all. 
 
 Editorials, Daily Camera (Boulder), September 9, 1913 and December 
 8, 1913. — Dr. James H. Baker entered upon his 22nd anniversary of the 
 presidency of the University of Colorado with the beginning of this semester 
 on Monday. They have been notable and busy years for Dr. Baker — building 
 years, the formative and constructive period of the institution. From a two 
 or three-building campus it has become a campus full of buildings for many 
 departments, not all the good doctor expected or reasonably hoped for, but 
 serviceable, useful and doing their work. From a handful of students, 
 frequently a commencement without graduates, it has become a great aggre- 
 gation of colleges with 1,300 students of letters, the arts, the sciences, and 
 the business of life. Two panics have occurred during his presidency, yet 
 the University has each year marked increased attendance over the preceding 
 year. 
 
 With Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," ringing in his 
 ears, he came to Denver in 1875 to take charge of that city's high school. 
 Governor Ammons, the late Chief Justice Steele, and other prominent men 
 
50 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 
 
 who were students of Baker's there, have partially told the story of his 
 great work in Denver which endured seventeen years until he was called 
 to the presidency of the University here. Recognized as a leader by the 
 National Council of Education and the Association of State University 
 Presidents, he has held the highest positions they had to offer. Long 
 since, the University he had built here in the West was rated by the German 
 year book as among the first eleven American universities and the first five 
 state universities. He set the standard high and inflexibly adhered to his 
 standard. It was not a rich man's school but a democratic institution 
 based on certain rules of fitness for entry and certain rules of conduct and 
 of work within the course. Whole classes were suspended or expelled, sons 
 and daughters of rich and poor alike fell under the ban of his disapproval 
 and had to go or were gently shoved aside, until all came to recognize 
 the genius, justice and intellectual might and Tightness of the man. It 
 isn't his A.M. and LL.D. that give Baker place in the educational world, 
 though he has all these and more designations — it is that he set his standards 
 high, well to the front though not too far forward, and that he not only 
 stood there but by sheer force of moral and intellectual power rallied there 
 and kept there — always in the van — those he would have about him, those 
 he would have as soldiers in the crusade for higher education in the Great 
 American Desert. 
 
 Both as man and president he stands high in the esteem of every 
 citizen of Boulder. His resignation when in the prime of his faculties 
 reveals that keen sense of the fitness of things and high purpose of 
 service to the people that have always characterized his acts. He goes 
 in the fullness of his powers and at a time when he can choose, and not 
 permit the politics of parties or colleges to choose his successor. He 
 has named a man twenty years his junior to carry on the great work Baker 
 has planned for greatness to come. He goes out of a spirit of justice 
 to his family, and against the wishes of a protesting regency, but with 
 the good will of every regent and all the faculty. He will be unfettered 
 by responsibilities but will have time to lend to his successor by way 
 of the advice due from a president-emeritus and from an architect and 
 builder of the foundation to the superintendent of the work of completing 
 the edifice. He will have time also to advise all departments and to 
 address educational bodies and to work for methods that will secure better 
 monetary consideration for the faculty. Colorado is not to lose Baker, 
 though younger hands are to grasp the educational reins. 
 
 Editorial, Colorado Alumnus, December, 1913. — He battled fearlessly 
 and successfully with all sorts of obstacles, suffering pain and disappoint- 
 ment many, many times, and shouldering monstrous responsibilities without 
 even swerving. He has carried the welfare of the University through 
 many discouraging storms for years, until now he has placed it on the 
 solid rock where it shall continue to stand and grow through the ages, 
 ever enlarging its sphere of usefulness and influence. It stands a splendid 
 
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 monument to his name, the realization of the vision of a master mind. 
 Having gone through twenty-two years of constant, unceasing work and 
 worry, he now, at the age of sixty-five while yet a giant in mind and body, 
 resigns the presidency. The present high standards and the broad national 
 recognition of our Alma Mater were made possible by his rare executive 
 ability and leadership, assisted by a carefully selected and faithful faculty. 
 The alumni of the University, the State of Colorado, and the entire educa- 
 tional world have profited much from his noble deeds, and we owe our 
 President-Emeritus a great debt of gratitude. 
 
 Editorial, Silver and Gold (Student Semi-weekly), December 11, 1913. — 
 We are faced with the proposition of expressing our esteem and apprecia- 
 tion to the man who has made our Alma Mater. We confess at the start — 
 it is beyond our ability. The mingling of our regret at his leaving, our 
 admiration for the man and our pride in his work produce in each one 
 of us an emotion impossible of expression. 
 
 "Prex!" No, the word is not spoken in any light or familiar sense. It 
 has a distinct and different connotation in every college and university 
 the country over, and yet is everywhere spoken with a feeling of unques- 
 tioned filiation. His life has been full of the serious. His indomitable 
 energy and force of character have been his most prominent characteristics 
 during his whole life and have finally brought him fame and distinction. 
 Anyone who has come into contact with the formal, reserved exterior of the 
 man cannot help feeling the power which he possesses. 
 
 Though his attitude toward the student body has never been one of 
 intimacy, though he has chosen few close personal friends, he has com- 
 manded greatest respect and admiration from all who know him. The 
 sympathetic side of his nature, so seldom seen by the students in their 
 casual relations with him, is attested by his inability to appear before 
 the student assembly Monday. On the eve of his vacation he found it 
 impossible to announce formally to his students that his work was nearly 
 done, that he would give over to younger hands the machinery which he 
 has so well governed. 
 
 What President Baker has done for the University of Colorado is 
 so well known that his work hardly needs reviewing. The growth of 
 the institution has been remarkable in the twenty-two years that he has 
 fostered it. He has given it the best that he had — his youth, his energy, 
 his deepest thought — and the School has grown hand in hand with his 
 fame as an educator. 
 
 Now, while still full of vigor, personal matters demand his attention. 
 He turns over to another man the results of labor and sacrifice — the 
 culmination of his hopes and ambitions, the University of Colorado. Even 
 at the close of his active career, he is looking optimistically to the future. 
 His letter of resignation is full of hope, thoughtful of the needs of the 
 School, mindful of the pitfalls which his long service has experienced, and 
 replete with suggestions for his successor. 
 
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 May his hope be fulfilled! May his work continue by the impetus he 
 has given it; ever increasing in its standards and sphere of usefulness! 
 May the past University generations ever continue to revere him and to 
 feel his influence; and may those to come become imbued with his force 
 and never forget that the present University of Colorado is largely the 
 result of its past president — the President-Emeritus — James H. Baker! 
 
 Bishop David H. Moore. — I extend to President Baker my hearty con- 
 gratulations on his able and eminent work both in Denver and in Boulder; 
 and my sincere wish that he may be permitted to achieve still greater 
 things for the University and for the Centennial State. 
 
 Arthur Henry Chamberlain, Managing Editor, Sierra Educational 
 News. — It is a great pleasure for me to say that I know President Baker 
 to have been one of the most successful college presidents during the last 
 several decades. His work at Colorado has been decidedly constructive. 
 
 Judge William H. Gabbert. — I am pleased to note, however, that the 
 valuable services Dr. Baker has rendered during the past twenty-two years 
 are appreciated, which no doubt will be expressed in a manner that will 
 be gratifying. 
 
 Senator and Mrs. John T. Joyce. — There is no reward like the love 
 and respect of your fellow beings for the faithful performance of duty. 
 Such is Colorado's offering, and in the light of President Baker's marvelous 
 achievements she will ever revere his name. 
 
 Edward J. Yetter, President, Denver Chamber of Commerce. — I feel 
 that the University will suffer a great loss when Dr. Baker retires as its 
 active head, but hope that the school will have the benefit of his guidance 
 in an advisory capacity until the new president has his work well in hand. 
 
 Joseph C. Bell, Regent, 1906-1912. — I very much regret to see President 
 Baker resign, as it will make me feel like a stranger to visit Boulder and 
 not meet him in command. I considered him a great man doing a great 
 work. 
 
 Thomas B. Stearns. — A record such as Dr. Baker's is one to be proud 
 of, and one on which he can retire with great satisfaction. Anything well 
 done and completely done is all that one can accomplish in this world, and 
 he has done a great work, and has left behind him a very fitting monu- 
 ment of this work. 
 
 Charles Caverno, 1891. — In President Baker the hour and the man met 
 with the usual outcome — triumphant success. Health to him and pros- 
 perity to University of Colorado. 
 
 Edwin Van Cise. — I join most cordially in the warm tribute of com- 
 mendation and esteem paid to President Baker by the Board of Regents 
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 of our State will unite in praise and good will. And how pleasant it must 
 be to him that several thousand graduates, men and women, residing in 
 Colorado and other states give him credit not only for aid in solving the 
 problems of the collegiate course, but those of life as well, and more 
 especially for implanting and developing in them the high ideals of service 
 for which he always stood. Dr. Baker has contributed to make leaders 
 of them. 
 
 Caesar A. Roberts. — The state of Colorado owes President Baker a 
 debt that ought to be recognized by an ample annuity. There, is only one 
 man in about three hundred who is really executive and constructive, 
 and he is one of those. His teaching place might be filled, but the con- 
 struction and upbuilding cannot readily be filled by a man combining, as he 
 does, in the highest degree, the two qualities. 
 
 Henry T. Rogers. — It would indeed be a pleasure to have a part, even 
 in the humble capacity of auditor and spectator, in any movement taken 
 to recognize the unselfish and invaluable services President Baker has 
 rendered for many years past, not only to the University, but to the cause 
 of education in general, but as it is I must content myself with offering him 
 my congratulations and my best wishes for his happiness and continued 
 success in whatever field of labor he may enter upon. 
 
 James Grafton Rogers. — Please convey to Dr. Baker my personal 
 regards and my very genuine appreciation as a citizen of Colorado of his 
 long and diligent services in behalf of our University. If his successor 
 can achieve a moderate proportion of the advance that has attended Dr. 
 Baker's administration, the State will be contented. 
 
 Ursula D. Herrick, Donor of the William Porter Herrick Memorial (Stu- 
 dent Loan) Fund. — It is a greater source of regret that the University will 
 lose the valuable services of President Baker, but I trust that his labors in the 
 future in his chosen line of work, will be crowned with the same great 
 success, and be equally as valuable to the public as his past labors have 
 been. 
 
 Clyde L. King. — I want to join the number of young men who every- 
 where are paying tribute to President Baker for the incentive he gave 
 them for high-grade work and for the poise and outlook he helped instill 
 in them. 
 
 William MacLeod Raine. — One point has stood out both to me and 
 all others with whom his decision was the last court of appeal — he was 
 always fair and open minded. His mind moved in the most direct and 
 candid way to what he judged to be the best thing for all. I am told that 
 this is a rare virtue among the presidents of our colleges, many of whom 
 have been too political in their temperaments. It is generally recognized 
 that the biggest educational figure in the State has now retired from active 
 service. 
 
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