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Title: A brief description of Colby college and its equipment
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Colby College, Waterville, Me. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Waterville, Me. : The College
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hall not make orhave any rule or by-law requiring that any member of theTrustees shall be of any particular religious denomination,and further provided that neither the privileges of theInstitution nor admission be denied to any student on thescore of his faith or interpretation of the Scriptures. The Graduates of the College number 1,292 men (1822-1906) and 214 women (1875-1906), a total of 1,506. Ofthis number, 1,066 are still living. The wide geographical distribution of Colby graduatesis seen in the fact that they represent forty-one States andTerritories and five foreign countries. Naturally enough,the State of Maine has contributed the largest number,with Massachusetts standing second. The present enrolment of the College (1906-07) is twohundred and fifty-four, including a Faculty of seventeen.The Faculty numbers in its roll eight graduates of the Col-lege and nine from other institutions, and most of themhave had years of training and experience in the institu- THE MESSALONSKEE
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ALONG THE RIVER,COLBY CAMPUS THE TICONIC FALLS, KENNEBEC RIVER COLBY COLLEGE tions of higher learning in this country and in Europe:as, for example, at Brown, the Johns Hopkins, Harvard,and Yale Universities; the Universities of Kiel and Gottin-gen, Germany; the Sorbonne, France; and other institu-tions. LOCATION The seat of the College at Waterville could not havebeen better chosen, for it is near the geographical centreof the State and upon the main line of the Maine CentralRailroad, and is easily reached from every direction. In-deed, Waterville is a railroad centre, being at the junctionof the east and w^est branches of the main line, and alsoa terminus of the Wiscasset, Waterville & FarmingtonRailroad. It is eighty miles north-east of Portland andone hundred and ninety-six from Boston. Waterville is a thriving and enterprising city of aboutten thousand inhabitants. It has many of the advantagesof the city community, yet without the drawbacks and dis-tractions of our larger ci

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