points. Local and long distance telephone stations afford communication with the outside world. The cross section of the road is a parabolic curve, and surface material is nearly all of a disintegrated granite formation, which packs down to a hard, smooth surface exceptionally easy on tires. Each mile with its elevation is announced by metal sign posts. Each curve has its signal. It is also the intention to build a beautiful Swiss chalet at Glen Cove, a natural amphitheatre near timberline in mile 11, where the traveler may enjoy the solitude of the mountains and drink of the cold, pure water that water that gushes out of the rock walled side of the mountain. Any one may drive his own machine to the summit, and in addition, a large fleet of automobiles have been provided to carry tourists from Colorado Springs and Manitou. The round trip can be made in five hours. The new highway offers ideal conditions for a "Supreme Hill Climbing" test, and plans are already under way for such a contest to be held next year. Substantial prizes have been pledged, one being a $1,000 cup donated by Mr. Spencer Penrose. The route from Colorado Springs is by way of the far famed Garden of the Gods to Manitou; thence up historic Ute Pass to Cascade, 12 miles west of Colorado Springs, starting point of the Pike's Peak Highway. From here the 18 mile motor trip to the summit has a perpendicular rise of 6,694 feet. Miles 1 and 2 wind up the forested side of Cascade Mountain to Observation Point, then along Cascade Creek

through picturesque scenes to Crystal Creek summit, and on to its headwaters in miles 7 and 8. Glen Cove is reached by skirting the front range, where con'tact is made with the granite walls of the Peak. Timberline is reached just beyond Glen Cove, where the ascent of the mountain's rocky cliff begins. Up and up in ten swings, reaching the crest of the Rampart range in mile 14, at an elevation of 13,000 feet, but so easy has been the rise that one scarcely realizes he has motored to the top of the world. What a magnificent vision greets the eye! South, west and north are 300 miles of giant peaks mantled with eternal snows. Eastward the billowy plain rolls far out into Kansas, while below, mile upon mile of the Highway winds gracefully up through the National Forest, whose towering pines, from this altitude, seem but blades of grass. Down below on the eastward side, Colorado Springs is seen as a checkerboard on the edge of the plain and directly beneath on the west, the great Cripple Creek mining district appears no larger than your car. A tiny lake; a speck of a farm or a mountain town are scattered here and there like dots, in the blackness of the forest. The course now follows the backbone of the continent on nearly level grades to mile 17, the last pull to the rockstrewn summit, three miles high. Such is the Pike's Peak Auto Highway, highest and most wonderful of the earth's motor roads. Long will it stand as a monument to the genius and pluck of its builder.

Athletic Rally is the spontaneous outburst of virile college manhood, so the Partheneia is the naive revelation of the spirit of womanhood.

The theme of the Partheneia is the transition of girlhood to womanhood, the first realization of the maiden that she has passed from the carefree realm of childhood and must now assume the responsibilities of womanhood and the consequent joys and sorrows. Character development of the maiden who takes the leading part is one of the essential phases of this spring measure. It is this development, and by what means accomplished, which forms the plot of the Partheneia. An important characteristic is the close connection between the human and the natural worlds with the addition of the imaginative, the diminutive fairies and fays. The allegory always draws largely from nature and her storehouse. The sylvan setting of Faculty Glade bounded by the sparkling brook invites elfin folk -Pan, wood nymphs, water lily sprites, dryads and fairies. In every Partheneia nature plays an important part not only as the setting-for the masque is always given out-of-doors and the audience is seated on the greensward of the natural amphitheatre-but in the interpretative dancing groups. The weather moods are interpreted by dancing choruses dressed in colors suited to the season represented, flitting over the grass in movement with the music of many musicians.

"Aranyani of the Jasmine Vine," written by Maude Meagher, a San Francisco girl registered as a Junior, has been the scenario chosen for presentation by the college woman in April on the campus fresh with spring growth. The setting, character and atmosphere are Hindu and differ decidedly from all former productions except in the general theme. Miss Catherine Urner, a student in the music department, has composed several musical episodes and song accompaniments for the Partheneia. Her compositions are of great creative value

Dorothy Epping, who took a leading part in the 1915 Partheneia, and is in charge of designing the costumes

for the 1916 Partheneia.