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The '90s were big

Temporary Building No. 1 has been a hospital, offices and classroom space. One thing it’s never been is temporary.

By 1911 CU-�鶹ӰԺ’s women had decided the time was right for a major campus building of their own, one with parlors, bedrooms, a dining room and a gymnasium.

The automobile age arrived in �鶹ӰԺ in October 1900, when a visitor rumbled through town on the way to nearby Magnolia.

The University of Colorado Hiking Club was founded April 1, 1919, to foster “a greater interest in the vast natural beauty that surrounds the University and to furnish an opportunity for the fullest enjoyment of [it].”

The �鶹ӰԺ played its first intercollegiate baseball game in the spring of 1890. CU defeated the Colorado School of Mines, 5-4, in �鶹ӰԺ.

Many of America’s first universities were centuries old by the time they admitted women. At CU-�鶹ӰԺ co-education began early — with the Tyler sisters.

For a short time, still within memory for some Baby Boomers, �鶹ӰԺ had its own ski run: Chautauqua Mesa Ski Area operated from 1949-52 and in 1962.

From the early 1900s until sometime in the 1960s, freshmen were required to wear distinctive green caps called beanies or “dinks” until Homecoming.

The Sports Beverage Co. of Champaign, Ill., produced Big 8 and Big 10 Football Sports Soda can collections in 1984, but little is known about why they were produced.