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Title: The Tiger (student newspaper), Sept. 1903-June 1904
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Colorado College Student publications Colorado College student newspaper College newspapers and periodicals
Publisher: Colorado College
Contributing Library: Colorado College, Tutt Library
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bout them. Prof. Bigelowgave a very graphic description of the laboratoriesin which, despite their poor facilities, some of thegreatest discoveries of the world were made.Eighty years ago there was not in any country alaboratory for the purpose of teaching chemistry.The function of the laboratory is to let the stu-dent get the facts first hand; it develops in himthe faculties of observation and accuracy; hissearch for the truth strengthens his moral char-acter. The second address was by Dr. Charles E.Bessey on The Possibilities of the BotanicalLaboratory. Instead of being content as it was25 years ago, with a mere collection of driedplants and flowers and the correct naming ofeach, Botany now studies plant life broadly andthoroughly from several widely different stand-points. Botany has its practical value in aiding thefarmer to raise his crops and destroy his weeds.The very important study of forestry is only abranch of botany. The work of the laboratory must be used as 7(5 THE TIGER
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The Forge Shop. an aid to much more extensive work in the field.Some of the topics he suggested were: A thor-oughly revised and systematic classification ofhotanical knowledge; the study of the embryoniclife of plants. Before the botanical student inColorado College lies the important work of takingactive steps to preserve the wild flowers in ourcanons and the forests on our mountainsides. Henry Crew, Ph. D., Professor of Physics inNorthwestern University, brought the programto a close with a paper on Recent Advances in theTeaching of Physics. Prof. Crew congratulatedColorado College very highly on its wonderfuladvance in the last few years. He brought thegreetings of his university to our President andto his staff. In discussing the advances in teach-ing physics, he said there were three possiblemeans of advancement; improvement in materials,in method and in men. Unfortunately, the great-este advance has been made in the least importantline, while the least advance has been made inth

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