Colorado Springs
a city and county-seat of El Paso co., Colo.; on the Denver and Rio Grande, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and other railroads; 70 miles S. of Denver. It is situated on a plain 6,000 feet above sea-level, and is a health resort for victims of lung troubles. The city is the center of the gold mining district of Colorado, and the the seat of Colorado College, sanitariums, St. Francis Hospital, the State School for Deaf Mutes, and the Union Printers' Home, several parks, and many handsome public buildings. It has electric railway connection with adjacent towns, electric lights, public schools, several daily and weekly newspapers, churches, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 29,078; (1920) 30,105.
COLORADO STATE AGRICULTU- RAL COLLEGE, a State institution for agricultural and scientific education, founded at Fort Collins, Colo., in 1876.
It is coeducational. It gives degrees in engineering, agriculture, and home economics. The library contains. about 50,000 volumes.
COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational (non-sect.) institution in COLOR BLINDNESS Boulder, Col.; founded in 1877; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and in- structors, 200; students, 1868; volumes at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 200; students, 1868; volumes in the library, 118,500; income, $600,000; president, George Norlin, Ph. D. COLOR BLINDNESS, a peculiar defect of sight in which those who are af- fected are incapable of distinguishing different colors. Some see everything either to be light or dark, and have no conception of any other colors. This condition is, however, happily rare.