98 Years Ago
The February 9, 1928 Colorado Transcript reported that the School of Mines intended to offer a summer session that year. They planned to offer a variety of undergraduate courses, including “makeup and advanced work for college students and preparatory courses for High school graduates that will allow many to complete college entrance requirements.”
The School’s leaders felt that this would position Mines to be THE “Engineering School of the Rocky Mountain Region.” In addition to the well-chosen curriculum, they assumed that the climate and scenery of Colorado would help attract summer students.
GOLDEN WOULD BENEFIT
The article went on to explain that attracting students for a summer session would help assure the town’s prosperity, so “…there is little wonder business men are backing the campaign.”
The same edition of the Transcript announced that
Mines Has First Co-Ed in Number of Years
H. E. Short was working as an assistant professor of physics. His wife,”unafraid of the difficult engineering courses at Mines,” had enrolled as a mining engineer.
The young wife, desiring to become an aid to her husband in his engineering work, nevertheless keeps up her household duties and also partakes in the social life of the faculty set.
