from that time forth, for almost a third of a century, the story of William Frederick Slocum and the story of Colorado College are one story." At Colorado College When he arrived in the fall of 1888, William Slocum found Colorado College in dire straits. There was only one building - Cutler Hall - and fewer than 50 students. There were only four faculty members, three men and one woman. Slocum began his presidential tenure by reforming the calendar. Three unequal terms were replaced with the standard two-semester calendar found at most colleges and universities. Slocum strongly emphasized the religious side of education, giving Friday morning chapel sermons called "Ethicals." He built a central heating plant to keep students warm in the residence halls. He hired Colorado College's first administrator, Ruth Loomis, to be the Dean of Women. A graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, Dean Loomis was said to "bring to a small western college the sophistication, gentility, and sense of proper behavior typified by an eastern college for women." As the student body grew in size under Slocum's leadership, he began hiring additional faculty. "The faculty that President Slocum did succeed in bringing to Colorado College gave to the institution a name among the best colleges and universities in the land." President Slocum also participated actively in community life in Colorado Springs. When gold miners in the nearby community of Cripple Creek went on strike for an eight-hour day, Slocum courageously walked through the picket lines in an effort to get the striking miners to peacefully settle their differences with the mine owners. The strike was settled, and the miners got both their goals - an eight-hour day and a $3 daily wage. Later, when a major fire roared through Cripple Creek, Slocum mobilized the students of Colorado College to canvas nearby residential areas for clothing, food, and firewood to help the burned out gold miners and their families. In 1893 President Slocum and Colorado College hosted the Colorado Summer School of Science, Philosophy, and Languages. One of the teachers in the summer school was Katherine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. While teaching at Colorado College, she took a two-day wagon trip to the top of Pike's Peak, a high Rocky Mountain to the west of Colorado Springs. Bates was so inspired by the view of the mountains and the