Old CU

  • watch
    Historic memorabilia from CU president Norlin.
  • old main
    It started with a loud knock on Frank Tyler’s door in the dead of night in January 1874, as the story goes.

  • old main
    Imagine the campus without Varsity Lake — just a deep, muddy ravine channeling snowmelt down the hill.
  • macky
    As Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawai’i on Dec. 7, 1941, CU-Boulder President Robert L. Stearns called an emergency meeting with students in Macky Auditorium.
  • students in 1907
    A 1907 photo of students at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·.
  • hiking club
    A brief history of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· hiking club.
  • cu parade
    In 1956 CU Days became Sea U Days and had a maritime theme.
  • sewall hall
    In September 1934 the women’s dormitory, now Sewall Hall, opened and is considered by many to be campus architect Charles Klauder’s masterpiece.
  • first cu football team
    The university’s first football team took to the field undisciplined and without a coach. The 1890 flannel-clad sportsmen lost every game.
  • wheat textile blanet
    During John Wesley Powell’s epic western adventures during the late 1860s and early 1870s, including a pioneering float trip down the Colorado River, he collected Native American blankets.

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