Colby College
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Colby College, founded in 1813, is one of the nation's oldest independent liberal arts colleges. Its 714 acre (2.9 km²) campus is located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine. One thousand, eight hundred students from more than 60 countries attend the College. Colby offers 53 major fields of study, and uses project-based learning. Volunteer programs and service-learning take many students into the surrounding community. More than two thirds of Colby students participate in study-abroad programs.
Currently, Colby is in the midst of a major campus building program, including a building for the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, and has created a new program in neuroscience.
With Bates College and Bowdoin College, Colby is one of three small liberal arts colleges in Maine. The three compete in an athletic conference known as the CBB.
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Historical timeline
- 1813—the Massachusets Legistlature grants a charter to the Maine Literary and Theological Institution
- 1818—Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin is selected by the Board of Trustees as the College's first president, classes are first taught in Chaplin's home starting in the Fall
- 1821—the Maine Legistlature empowers the Institution to grant degrees and its name is changed to Waterville College
- 1822—George Dana Boardman becomes Colby's first graduate
- 1832—planting of the Boardman Willows
- 1833—Rev. Rufus Babcock becomes Colby's second president
- 1867—name of the college changed to Colby College to honor it's benefactor Gardner Colby
- 1869—dedication of Memorial Hall, the first memorial to the dead of both sides of the Civil War
- 1875—Mary Caffrey Low becomes Colby's first female graduate, she the was valedictorian of her class
- 1923—the White Mule becomes Colby's mascot as the result of an editorial written by by Joseph Coburn Smith in the student newspaper,The Echo
- 1937—groudbreaking for the new campus located on Mayflower Hill
- 1951—the last class takes place on the old campus in Coburn Hall
Famous alumni
- Elijah P. Lovejoy 1826, abolitionist
- Benjamin F. Butler 1838, Civil War general, Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, candidate for President
- Isaac Smith Kalloch 1852, Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California
- Harold Calvin Marston Morse 1914, mathematician
- Robert B. Parker 1954, author of the Spenser detective novels
- Doris Kearns Goodwin 1964, presidential scholar and historian
- Historian Alan Taylor 1977
- Billy Bush 1994, TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush
- Author David Barr Kirtley 2000
- Former Florida governor Marcellus L. Sterns also attended Colby before leaving to fight in the American Civil War
- Stuart Rothenberg 1970, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN Political Analyst, and syndicated columnist
- Peter Hart 1964, founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a leading political polling organization
- Amy Walter 1990, House correspondent for the Cook Political Report
- Robert Diamond 1973, CEO of Barclays Capital, and Chairman of Barclays Global Investors
Points of interest
- Perkins Arboretum, 12 miles southwest of Waterville
Further reading
- Fotiades, Anestes. Colby College 1813-1963: A Venture of Faith (1994)
- Marriner, Ernest Cummings. The History of Colby College (1962)
- Marriner, Ernest Cummings. The Man of Mayflower Hill: A Biography of Franklin W. Johnson (1967)
- Marriner, Ernest Cummings. The Strider Years (1980)
- Soule, Bertha Louise. Colby's Roman, Julian Daniel Taylor (1938)
- Soule, Bertha Louise. Colby's President Roberts (1943)
- Whittemore, Edwin Carey. The History of Colby College (1927)
External links
- Colby College homepage (http://www.colby.edu/)