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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF 
 
 COLBY COLLEGE 
 
 AND ITS EQUIPMENT 
 
 MEMORIAL HALL 
 
 WATERVILLE, MAINE 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE, MDCCCCVII 
 
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COLBY COLLEGE 
 
 Colby College was incorporated in 1813, being then 
 styled The Maine Literary and Theological Institu- 
 tion, and was located at Waterville, on the Kennebec River. 
 The name was changed to Waterville College in 1821, 
 and so it remained until January 23, 1867, when in honor 
 of its benefactor, Mr. Gardner Colby, of Boston, it was 
 again changed to Colby University. In 1899 Univer- 
 sity was changed to College, since which year it has borne 
 its present title, Colby College. 
 
 The College, the second oldest in the State, originated 
 with the Baptists of the State, and acknowledges with deep 
 gratitude the support and interest of this denomination 
 in its welfare, for its benefactors have been numerous, and 
 to none more than Gardner Colby and Abner Coburn does 
 it owe its material welfare. Its intellectual and material 
 growth have been greatly developed by the able corps of 
 presidents and professors who 
 Iiave served the Institution 
 from its earliest years, and 
 many of whom were educators 
 of national renown. 
 
 The instruction of the 
 College in all departments 
 is broad, catholic, and un- 
 ^ectarian, and the aim is 
 constantly made to give 
 sound moral and intellectual 
 training, and to make of its 
 
 GARDNER COLBY 
 
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 Students seekers after truth, which alone can give that 
 degree of intellectual and spiritual emancipation which 
 is the attribute of real culture, and for which its founders 
 stood. 
 
 The trustees number thirty-one, serving for a term of 
 three years, and represent different religious faiths. Nine 
 of this number are chosen from the alumni, one-third 
 annually, by the Alumni Association. 
 
 An interesting fact in the history of the College and one 
 that attests the broad and tolerant spirit that has always 
 characterized its direction was the provision enacted by 
 the Maine legislature in 1820, at the behest of its founders, 
 to the effect ''that the said corporation shall not make or 
 have any rule or by-law requiring that any member of the 
 Trustees shall be of any particular religious denomination," 
 and further provided that neither the privileges of the 
 Institution nor admission be denied to any student on the 
 score 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. Of 
 this number, 1,066 are still living. 
 
 The wide geographical distribution of Colby graduates 
 is seen in the fact that they represent forty-one States and 
 Territories 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 two 
 hundred 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 them 
 have had years of training and experience in the institu- 
 
THE MESSA 
 LONSKEE 
 
 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 have 
 been better chosen, for it is near the geographical centre 
 of the State and upon the main line of the Maine Central 
 Railroad, and is easily reached from every direction. In- 
 deed, Waterville is a railroad centre, being at the junction 
 of the east and w^est branches of the main line, and also 
 a terminus of the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 
 Railroad. It is eighty miles north-east of Portland and 
 one hundred and ninety-six from Boston. 
 
 Waterville is a thriving and enterprising city of about 
 ten thousand inhabitants. It has many of the advantages 
 of the city community, yet without the drawbacks and dis- 
 tractions of our larger cities. Its founders had an eye to 
 the artistic in nature, for they selected a most picturesque 
 spot on the charming Kennebec, at the Ticonic Falls. 
 Though the city itself is comparatively level, the country 
 is rolling and wooded, and is well drained and watered. 
 The Messalonskee stream, so much used for boating and 
 canoeing in summer, runs through Waterville in a winding 
 course, and is a tributary of the Kennebec River, on its 
 vvest bank. Another tributary on the east bank of the 
 Kennebec, just below Waterville, is the Sebasticook River, 
 and at the junction of these two rivers there still stands 
 the old block-house — one of the historic curiosities ot the 
 
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 FORT HALIFAX 
 
 State — which Is all 
 that remains of old 
 Fort Halifax, which 
 was built for the pro- 
 tection of the settle- 
 ments of the English 
 in 1754, at the begin- 
 ning of the French and 
 IndianWar, and which, 
 incidentally, served as 
 one of the stepping- 
 stones of the Arnold 
 Expedition of 1755. 
 
 The city has an ex- 
 cellent water supply 
 of great purity, which 
 
 is piped to the city from China Lake, a distance of about 
 ten miles; a sewerage system covering the entire city; 
 and an adequate electric light and power system, 
 supplied by two electric light companies. Waterville 
 is the centre of a group of villages, and these are connected 
 with the city by two electric railroads, the Waterville 
 & Fairfield and the Waterville & Oakland. The city 
 supports two daily newspapers and two weeklies; has 
 two national banks, a trust company, and a savings- 
 bank, the latter occupying the handsomest block in the 
 city. 
 
 A number of large industrial enterprises are located 
 in Waterville, engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods, 
 pulp and paper, iron, woolens, building materials, and, 
 in addition to these, the shops of the Maine Central Rail- 
 
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 road. These afford opportunity for the observation and 
 study of the problems of industrial society. 
 
 Waterville has an excellent school system of the various 
 grades, including a high school and Coburn Classical Insti- 
 tute, the latter a private endowment of the best secondary 
 grade, and one of the fitting-schools of Colby. There are 
 nine churches, representing eight different denominations; 
 and a large modern city hall, containing the offices and de- 
 partments of the city government, and a w^ell-appointed 
 opera house, with a seating capacity of twelve hundred per- 
 sons. The city also has good hotel accommodations, and 
 this feature, coupled with the advantages enumerated above 
 and the hospitality of its people, have made it a favorite 
 place in the State for holding conventions and large gather- 
 ings. 
 
 The climate is healthful and invigorating. The surround- 
 ing country is beautiful, and is intersected with numerous 
 roads, the city itself with wide streets, shaded with stately 
 elms and maples, and lined with beautiful homes, giving 
 abundant opportunity for delightful walks and drives about 
 the city and country. Within a few miles are many lakes 
 and ponds, which give ample opportunity for excursions, 
 fishing and boating trips, and all the usual recreations of 
 summer and winter. 
 
 The Campus of the College, terraced by nature and cov- 
 ered with large shade-trees, occupies a tract of twenty-six 
 acres of land in the northern part of the city, and is located 
 between College Avenue and the west bank of the Kennebec, 
 and, rising from the river, extends along the bank about a 
 third of a mile. The college buildings stand upon rising 
 ground, with ample space assigned to each one, and they 
 
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CHAPEL WALK, LOOKING SOUTH 
 
 Champlin Hall in left foreground, Memorial Hall seen in distance at end of walk 
 
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 are beautified with well-kept lawns and connected by walks 
 shaded by tall and stately elms. Indeed, it may be said 
 that in the adornment of the Campus, which is the most 
 beautiful in the State, Nature has been assisted by the 
 former sons of the College, for it used to be a May-day 
 
 STATUARY, MEMORIAL HALL 
 
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 custom of the students in the fifties and sixties to plant 
 trees upon the Campus, and this accounts for the beautiful 
 willows and locusts as well as the maples and elms that the 
 students of today are enjoying. 
 
 The buildings are nine in number; and, in addition to 
 these, there are three other college buildings, located on 
 College Avenue within two minutes' walk of the Campus. 
 
 COLLEGE LIBRARY 
 
 BUILDINGS 
 
 Memorial Hall, the most conspicuous building on the 
 Campus and standing at the southern end, is a large struct- 
 ure, one hundred and seven by sixty-two feet, somewhat 
 irregular in shape, and is built of gray granite, rubble 
 finish, with a tower eighty feet high, and contains the Col- 
 
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 MEMORIAL TABLET 
 
 lege Library and the Chapel. It was erected in 1869; and 
 the academic atmosphere is given to the exterior of the 
 building as well as to its interior, for its walls are dotted 
 here and there with class stones or tablets, the gifts of 
 successive Junior Classes in the seventies. The Library 
 occupies the eastern wing of the building, and is forty- 
 four by fifty-four feet and twenty feet high, and is 
 arranged in the form of a large reading-room, with a series 
 of alcoves and a gallery. The Library contains forty-three 
 thousand and five hundred volumes and about twenty 
 thousand pamphlets. It is equipped with the card cata- 
 logue system, works of reference, and other helps nec- 
 essary in a student's library. The Librarian devotes 
 considerable attention to those who are investigating 
 special topics. The leading periodicals and papers are 
 kept on file. In addition to the shelves of books which 
 line the walls from floor to ceiling, the room is adorned 
 with numerous portraits of Presidents, Professors, and 
 others prominently connected with the history of the Col- 
 
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 lege, and in the central place on the floor, near the Libra- 
 rian's desk, stands Paul Akers's bust of Milton, the work 
 of the noted Maine sculptor. 
 
 The western wing of Memorial Hall is forty by fifty-eight 
 feet and two-storied, and upon the first floor is found the 
 Chapel and upon the second floor the Hall of the Alumni, 
 which gives its name to the building. This hall contains 
 the most important collection of works of art owned by the 
 College, including portraits of Presidents and Professors 
 and benefactors, paintings, bas-reliefs, and casts of the 
 most noted sculptures of European galleries, and above all, 
 in an appropriate and central niche in the east wall, Martin 
 Milmore's marble copy of Thorwaldsen's famous ''Lion 
 of Lucerne," reposing above the marble memorial tablet 
 upon which are chiselled, in indehble letters, the names of 
 those students of the College who in the days of the Civil 
 War responded with loyal and unselfish devotion, and gave 
 their fives as sacrifices to the call of their country. Lideed, 
 Colby stands high in the roll of honor, for the records show 
 that more than one-third of her living graduates that were 
 eligible for military 
 service were in the 
 Union Army. The 
 College has no more 
 tender and loving 
 memorial than this 
 tribute to its noble 
 sons of a former day. 
 
 This is, fittingly, the 
 great gathering place 
 of the alumni for their 
 
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 LOVEJOY MEMORIAL 
 
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 annual reunions and for the observance of the festivities 
 of Commencement and other college functions. 
 
 In the Chapel belov^ are found several memorials of 
 interest to the friends of the College. On the w^est wall 
 there has been placed a marble memorial tablet, suitably 
 inscribed, in mem.ory of Dr. Jeremiah Chaplin, the first 
 President of Colby, who served the College with great 
 fidelity during the years 1822 to 1833, and who left a num- 
 
 
 
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 ber of monuments of his administration, including the two 
 college dormitories, the oldest buildings on the Campus. 
 
 Opposite, on the west wall, there is another tablet, in 
 bronze, to the memory of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a graduate 
 of Colby in the class of 1826, and one of the first martyrs 
 to the cause of slavery. On the walls are found large carbon 
 photographs, beautifully framed, of Raphael's Sistine Ma- 
 donna, Titian's Assumption, Murillo's Holy Family, and 
 Westminster Abbey. jg 
 
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 LECTURE ROOM 
 
 CHEMICAL LABORATORY 
 
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 Chemical Hall. A short distance to the south-east of 
 Memorial Hall stands Chemical Hall, the most modern 
 of the college buildings on the Campus. It was erected 
 in 1898, during the administration of President Nathaniel 
 Butler, D.D. Its dimensions are one hundred and five by 
 seventy-six feet, and it contains the Chemical Department, 
 
 NORTH COLLEGE AND CAMPUS, LOOKING SOUTH 
 
 which occupies the entire first floor and basement, and the 
 four class-rooms of the Departments of Philosophy, Latin, 
 English, French, and Mathematics, which, together with 
 the President's offices and the faculty room, occupy the 
 entire second floor. The faculty room is a comfortably 
 furnished front room overlooking the Campus, and, accord- 
 ing to present intentions, is to be known henceforth as the 
 Stearns Room, in honor of a former Trustee of the College. 
 
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 CHAMPLIN 
 HALL 
 
 LECTURE ROOM, 
 HISTORY 
 
 HISTORICAL 
 LIBRARY 
 
COLBY COLLEGE 
 
 The Chemical Department has a large laboratory, thirty- 
 six by fifty-four feet, used for the work in general chemistry, 
 several smaller laboratories for advanced work, storerooms 
 and offices, and a large lecture-room, seating one hundred, 
 equipped with opera chairs in rising tiers, and all the neces- 
 sary appointments for experimental demonstrations and 
 illustrative w^ork. 
 
 ALUMNI ATHLETIC FI 
 
 South College, Chaplin Hall, and Champlin Hall. To 
 the north of Memorial Hall and in the centre of the 
 Campus stand three buildings in a row, facing the west. 
 They are the oldest buildings upon the Campus and the 
 three links that connect the College of to-day with the 
 earliest years of its existence. The northernmost and 
 southernmost buildings are known respectively as North 
 College, or Chaplin Hall, and South College, both of 
 
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 which were erected in the time of Dr. Chaplin, after whom 
 the former was named by a subsequent action of the Board 
 of Trustees, and they are still used as student dormitories. 
 Midway between the two dormitories stands Recitation 
 Hall, a three-story brick building, sixty-five by forty feet, 
 which was erected in 1836, though it has since been re- 
 modelled and named Champlin Hall in honor of President 
 
 ND GRAND STAND 
 
 James T. ChampHn, D.D., LL.D., the distinguished and 
 energetic President of the College during the years J^ST^TS- 
 Formerly the Chapel, the Library, and the Department 
 of Physics were housed in this building. But for all of 
 these separate buildings have since been provided, and the 
 building now contains the Departments of Greek and Ger- 
 man located on the second floor, and the Department of 
 History on the third floor, with recitation-room, oflfice, 
 
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CO LEY COLLEGE 
 
 museum, and Department Library. This library now 
 numbers a thousand volumes, and, in addition to the books, 
 includes a large collection of maps, photographs, engrav- 
 ings, lantern slides, stone implements, and other relics, to 
 illustrate the courses in History and Politics. 
 
 On the ground floor and to the south of the lobby, in a 
 large room neatly furnished, are found the quarters of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association, w^hile on the opposite 
 side of the lobby are two recreation-rooms used by the 
 students and their organizations for various purposes. 
 
 The two dormitories, South College and Chaplin Hall, 
 were erected in 1821 and 1822, respectively, and they are 
 constructed of brick, four stories high, and the dimensions 
 of each are eighty by forty feet. Chaplin Hall was de- 
 stroyed by fire in December, 1902, but was immediately 
 rebuilt, the interior arrangements and furnishings being 
 greatly improved and modernized. These buildings, which 
 are locally known, in terms of student endearment, as ''The 
 Bricks," are equipped with steam heat, electric Hghts, and 
 large sanitary lavatories, and have accommodations for 
 
 sixty students in each 
 building. The rooms 
 are arranged in suites 
 of two each, including 
 study and bedroom, 
 with closets, and are 
 usually occupied by 
 two students each. 
 
 Upon the roof of 
 South College stands 
 the tower containing 
 
 PHYSICAL LABORATORY 
 
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 the college bell. This still chimes out, as in days of old, 
 the hours for the opening and closing of recitations. 
 .Shannon Observatory, Cohurn Hall, and the Gymnasium. 
 At the north end of the Campus stands another group of 
 three buildings, the one furthest north being the home of 
 the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and known as 
 
 Coburn Hall 
 
 NORTH CAMPUS 
 
 Shannon Observatory 
 
 Gymnasium 
 
 Shannon Observatory and Physical Laboratory, in honor 
 of Hon. Richard C. Shannon, LL.D., class of 1862, who 
 presented the building to the College in 1889. 
 
 The main laboratory and lecture room, with storerooms 
 for apparatus, occupy the entire second floor, while on the 
 first floor are several smaller laboratories and class-rooms 
 for advanced work, and a dark room for photographic pur- 
 
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 poses. The Physical Laboratory is well supplied with a 
 variety of apparatus for illustrating physical laws, some of 
 which is indicated in detail in the current catalogue. 
 
 The Observatory in the tower is equipped with a good- 
 sized telescope and other necessary instruments for ob- 
 servations and instruction in Astronomy. 
 
 There is a workshop in the basement of the building, 
 fitted with a power lathe and the tools necessary for me- 
 chanical work and for instruction in the mechanical arts. 
 The dimensions of this building are sixty-two by thirty- 
 six feet, exclusive of the tower, which contains the stair- 
 case, the lobbies, and the observatory. 
 
 Cohurn Hall, west of Shannon Observatory, is a square 
 slatestone building, with granite trimmings, fifty-six by 
 forty-eight feet and forty-one feet high, arranged in three 
 stories. It was completed in 1872, during the administra- 
 tion of President Champlin, and received its name from 
 one of the foremost benefactors of the College, who con- 
 tributed a liberal sum toward its construction, Hon. 
 Abner Coburn, a former Governor of Maine. 
 
 This building contains tw^o Departments, the Geological, 
 which occupies the first floor, and the Biological, which 
 occupies the second floor. Both floors are divided into 
 classrooms, laboratories, offices, and storerooms, fitted 
 with cabinets to suit the convenience of the Departments. 
 These cabinets contain the collection of rocks, minerals, 
 fossils, and other specimens, models and masks for 
 ethnological study, and also the maps, lantern slides, 
 photographs, and other apparatus necessary to illustrate 
 the courses in Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology, and 
 Physical Geography. The Department of Biology is 
 
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 GYMNASIUM 
 
 further equipped 
 with a well-stocked 
 herbarium to illus- 
 trate the work in 
 Botany, and a 
 zoological collec- 
 tion of specimens 
 of vertebrates, in- 
 vertebrates, and 
 animal tissues and 
 organs. The 
 Maine Collection 
 of Minerals and 
 the Hamlin Col- 
 lection of Birds of Maine, a collection of shells, and the 
 Merrill Collection of Natural History are also preserved 
 in this building, the third floor being used in addition to 
 the other two for the housing of the museum. 
 
 The Gymnasium, conveniently located, is well furnished 
 with apparatus for gymnastic exercises and physical in- 
 struction, and is provided with baths, lockers, and a base- 
 ball cage, and is heated by steam. 
 
 Just to the north of the Gymnasium is the Alumni Ath- 
 letic Field, beautifully graded and ample in size for all 
 the college sports. The field is surrounded by a quarter- 
 mile cinder track for bicycle races and track athletics, and 
 has recently been further improved by the erection of a 
 fine modern grand stand, with a seating capacity of seven 
 hundred persons, the gift of the alumni. 
 
 Near the Gymnasium and just south of South College 
 are located the tennis courts, and these are in constant use 
 during the good days of the spring and fall. 
 
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 WOMEN'S COLLEGE 
 
 In 1871 the Trustees voted to admit women to the College 
 on the same terms as young men; and in 1890 the Board of 
 Trustees adopted a plan proposed by President Small, and 
 organized within the College a division for young men and 
 a co-ordinate division for young women. In June, 1905, 
 
 FOSS HALL 
 
 it was voted by the Board of Trustees that the Women's 
 Division of Colby College be made a separate college; and 
 that a joint committee, consisting of the Faculty of Colby 
 College and a special committee of Trustees, be appointed 
 and directed to make such further separation in the work 
 
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FOSS HALL 
 
 READING ROOM 
 
 DINING HALL 
 
 STUDENT S 
 
 ROOM 
 
COLBY COLLEGE 
 
 and administration of the women's division and the men's 
 division of the college as may be done v^ithout increasing 
 the expenses of the College; and that a committee be ap- 
 pointed to secure funds for the endowment of a women's 
 college and to decide upon a name. The conditions for 
 entrance remain identical in the two divisions. In class 
 organization, rank, prize contests, appointments, and honors, 
 the members of the two divisions are treated as independ- 
 ently as though they were in distinct institutions. 
 
 Just south of the Campus, on College Avenue, and within 
 two minutes' walk, are located the additional buildings, 
 used by the Women's Division of the College. 
 
 Foss Hall, the new Women's Dormitory, which was 
 given to Colby College by the late Mrs. Eliza Adaline Foss 
 Dexter, of Worcester, Mass., and which bears her maiden 
 name, is situated on the western side of the avenue. It is 
 a handsome building, and the newest and largest of the 
 college structures. The corner-stone of the building was 
 laid October 6, 1904, and it was completed and opened for 
 the reception of students in the following September, 1905, 
 during the administration of President Charles L. White, 
 D.D. It is a three-story, red brick building, of the Co- 
 lonial style, trimmed with light brick, and with a portico, 
 supported by Ionic pillars. The main building is one hun- 
 dred and twenty-seven by forty-nine feet, and there is an 
 ell forty-seven by thirty-four feet which joins the building 
 on the north side. Foss Hall is essentially the home of the 
 women of the College, for it contains accommodations, in 
 well-appointed and attractive rooms, for seventy-five stu- 
 dents; a large dining hall, with a seating capacity of two 
 hundred, a reading-room and library, parlor, and 
 
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 spacious lobbies; the 
 offices of the dean 
 and of the resident 
 physician and director 
 of physical training in 
 the Women's Division; 
 a gymnasium, which is 
 located in the base- 
 ment; and an assem- 
 bly hall on the third 
 floor, where the chapel 
 services for the women 
 are held each day at 
 fully equipped with a 
 
 PALMER HOUSE 
 
 noon. The building is also 
 kitchen, pantry, serving-room, 
 storage-rooms, steam-heating plant, and all necessary com- 
 forts of the most modern type for the convenience of its 
 residents. At the right of the main entrance there is placed 
 in the wall a bronze tablet, which is thus inscribed: — 
 
 THIS BUILDING IS THE GIFT OF 
 
 ELIZA ADALINE FOSS DEXTER 
 
 DAUGHTER OF PHINEHAS FOSS 
 
 OF WAYNE HILL, MAINE. 
 
 The Palmer House, a smaller dormitory with accommo- 
 dations for thirty students, stands on the same side of Col- 
 lege Avenue, at the corner of Getchell Street, just a half- 
 block below Foss Hall, and is in charge of a resident 
 matron. 
 
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 The President's Home is located on College Avenue, 
 opposite Foss Hall, and is a large brick double house. 
 
 ADMINISTRATION 
 
 Admission. Candidates for admission must offer studies 
 amounting to a total of twenty-six points. . For the A.B. 
 Course, twenty of these points are required, and include the 
 following subjects: English, Latin, Algebra, Plane Geom- 
 etry, and History. 
 The remaining six 
 points may be selected 
 from a list of nine 
 elective subjects. For 
 the B.S. Course, eleven 
 points are required, 
 including English, Al- 
 gebra, Plane and 
 Solid Geometry; 
 and the remainino- fif- 
 teen points may be elected from fourteen other subjects. 
 Admission by Certificate. Graduates from the Colby 
 fitting-schools and from other academies and high schools 
 whose courses of study have been approved by the Faculty 
 of the College are admitted on certificates properly filled out 
 and indorsed by the principal of the school, certifying that 
 all the college requirements have been satisfactorily fulfilled. 
 Detailed information concerning the admission require- 
 ments and the amount of work stipulated in each course 
 is given in the Catalogue of the College, which will be sent 
 to any one requesting a copy. 
 
 Courses. The College offers two degrees, Bachelor of 
 
 PRESIDENT S HOME 
 
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 Arts and Bachelor of Science, and the course of study re- 
 quired of candidates for either degree is four years in length. 
 Indeed, there is no distinction, so far as election of studies 
 is concerned, between the two courses, except in the Fresh- 
 man year. In the latter year the work is arranged in 
 nine groups, six in the A.B. and three in the B.S. Course. 
 The main distinction is the omission of Latin from the B.S. 
 group. 
 
 Required Courses in the A.B. Group: Latin, French, 
 Mathematics, Reading, Books and Libraries. Electives are 
 selected from Greek, German, French, and Physics. 
 
 Required Courses in the B.S. Group: Mathematics, Ger- 
 man, French, Commercial Geography, Physics, Reading, 
 Books and Libraries. Electives are chosen from German, 
 French, and Biology. 
 
 The work of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years 
 is arranged in three groups: 
 
 A. Language and Literature. 
 
 B. History, Economics, and Philosophy. 
 
 C. Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences. 
 In the Sophomore year all students are required to take 
 
 courses in German, Rhetoric, and Physics; and the B.S. 
 students must take Chemistry, in addition. The remain- 
 ing courses of the Sophomore year, together with all the 
 courses of the Junior and Senior years, are elective. In 
 the Sophomore year, students must take a total of five 
 courses each term; in the Junior year, likewise five courses; 
 and in the Senior year, four courses. Almost all of them are 
 three period courses. 
 
 The number of electives beyond the Freshman year is 
 ninety-eight, and includes, besides advanced courses in the 
 
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 Studies already mentioned, courses in History, Politics, Eco- 
 nomics, Spanish, English Literature, Philosophy, Astron- 
 omy, Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Philology, 
 Debating, and Mechanical Drawing, the two latter being 
 new courses added to the curriculum for the first time dur- 
 ing the current year. 
 
 This condition, however, is imposed upon the elections 
 
 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, WATERVILLE 
 
 of Students in the last three years of the college course; 
 that is, that two years must be elected in the Language and 
 Literature Group (A), one year in History and Philosophy 
 (B), and one year in Mathematics and Natural Science (C). 
 The Tuition charges are ^60 a year and incidentals. 
 Good table board may be obtained in the city for ^3 per 
 week and upwards. This applies to the Men's Division. 
 Students of the Women's Division of the College whose 
 homes are outside of Waterville are expected to room and 
 board in the women's buildings. 
 
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 Scholarships and Prizes. The income of ^90,000 is de- 
 voted to scholarships, which are awarded to worthy stu- 
 dents needing aid, providing certain conditions are met 
 and an average rank of not less than 70 per cent, is main- 
 tained. A number of prizes for excellence in scholarship 
 in various departments are awarded each year. A list of 
 these is found in the Catalogue, together with the names 
 of the recipients of such honors. 
 
 Terms and Vacations. The academic year is divided 
 into three terms of thirteen, eleven, and thirteen weeks, re- 
 spectively, separat- 
 ed by the summer 
 vacation of twelve 
 weeks, the Christ- 
 mas recess of two 
 weeks, and the 
 spring recess of two 
 weeks, coming us- 
 ually in the neigh- 
 borhood of the 1st 
 of April. 
 
 Commenc e m e n t 
 Day occurs on the 
 last Wednesday in 
 June, concluding the closing exercises of the year, which 
 begin on the preceding Saturday evening. 
 
 Advisory System. Colby has the advantages of the best 
 of the smaller colleges in that close personal relations are 
 estabUshed and cultivated between instructors and students; 
 for they frequently meet outside of the class-room in a so- 
 cial way and for individual conferences, and the machinery 
 
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 of the administration is gauged to foster this relation. The 
 advisory system, which was adopted in 1901, has proven 
 very successful. Each student has an adviser, appointed 
 from the Faculty, to whom he may freely go to consult 
 about his work or any of the routine matters of college 
 life, and through whom he may appeal to the Faculty on 
 occasion, and who, in turn, feels a personal responsibility 
 for the intellectual and moral welfare of the student so 
 assigned. 
 
 Further, this same spirit of co-operation is seen in the 
 membership and conduct of the Boards of Conference, 
 which have a wholesome influence upon college discipline 
 
 in both divisions of the College. 
 Again, in the Athletic Association 
 and in the Board of Management 
 of the Echo, the college paper, as 
 well as in other activities, we find 
 the same helpful association of 
 representatives of Faculty and stu- 
 dents, with the result that these 
 activities are much better managed, 
 more successfully financed, and 
 conducted with more esprit de corps 
 than ever before. 
 
 The Religious Life of the College 
 is pronounced and wholesome, as 
 attested by the activity of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association 
 and the Young Women's Christian 
 Association, and the interest of the 
 students in the weekly meetings of 
 
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 these organizations, as well as their interest in the various 
 classes organized for the study of the Bible and of Missions. 
 
 Daily chapel worship is conducted in the College Chapel 
 for the Men's Division at the noon hour, led by the Presi- 
 dent, who is occasionally assisted by members of the Faculty 
 and others; and at the same hour for the Women's Di- 
 vision in the Assembly Room of Foss Hall, the exercises 
 being led by the Dean. 
 
 Phi Beta Kappa. Colby is proud of the possession of a 
 Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Beta of Maine, 
 the charter having been granted in 1895, and, in spite of 
 the severe Hmitations of high scholarship imposed upon the 
 election of members, the roll of the Chapter is a large and 
 distinguished one, and numbers two hundred and seventy- 
 three alumni and alumnae. Further information about 
 this is found in the Handbook of the Chapter. 
 
 Art Collections. Besides the casts, portraits, and paint- 
 ings in Memorial Hall, already mentioned, the College 
 possesses the Warren Collection of four hundred large 
 photographs, illustrating the history of ancient and modern 
 art. Through the kindness of a recent donor, many new 
 portraits and reproductions of works of art, appropriately 
 framed, have been added to the walls of the college build- 
 ings, and have served to quicken the enthusiasm of the 
 students and the academic atmosphere of the college. 
 
 Public Lectures. The College is frequently favored with 
 public lectures by men eminent in the various fields of 
 letters, science, and philosophy; and permanent provision 
 has recently been made, as announced in the Catalogue for 
 1906-07, for an annual and permanent addition to these 
 intellectual treats of the college year. 
 
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 College Publications. These include the Annual Cata- 
 logue, published in January, containing the calendar of 
 academic events, registration of students and officers, and 
 complete information as to courses and government and 
 other matters; the President's Report, the Treasurer's 
 Report, the Address Book, and minor publications from 
 time to time. 
 
 The students' publications include the Echo, a four-page 
 paper, published weekly by the Echo Board; and the 
 Oracle, the College Annual, published by the Oracle Asso- 
 ciation, in the spring term. 
 
 OTHER INTERESTS. 
 
 Incidental Advantages. There is a good deal besides 
 what goes on in the class-room and laboratory in the make-up 
 of college life. Of great service to the social and fraternal 
 life of the students is the organization of societies. There 
 are eight of these at present at Colby, five Fraternities and 
 three Sororities. The Fraternities are as follows: the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon, established in 1846; the Zeta Psi, 1850; 
 the Delta Upsilon, 1852; the Phi Delta Theta, 1884; and 
 the Alpha Tau Omega, 1892. Two of these organizations, 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Phi Delta Theta Frater- 
 nities, have Chapter Houses, and in these well-ordered and 
 attractive homes the best side of the social life of the College 
 is fostered. At present plans are under way for providing 
 permanent homes on the College Campus for the other 
 fraternities. 
 
 The Sororities are as follows: the Sigma Kappa, estab- 
 Hshed in 1874; the Beta Phi, 1895, re-estabHshed as the 
 
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 Beta Chapter of Chi Omega in 1906; and the Alpha Up- 
 silon, estabhshed in 1904. 
 
 The Athletic Interests of the College are cared for by the 
 Colby Athletic Association, which through the agency of 
 an Executive Committee of fifteen (three from the Faculty, 
 three from the alumni, and nine from the undergraduates) 
 directs the interests of football, baseball, basketball, tennis, 
 
 and track athletics, 
 and manages and 
 finances the public 
 contests. This sys- 
 tem has proved its 
 w^isdom in bringing 
 athletics under w^ise 
 direction and regu- 
 lation, and in keep- 
 ing out the objection- 
 able features and ele- 
 m e n t s of f o r m e r 
 years. 
 The students also successfully maintain musical organi- 
 zations, including Glee and Mandolin Clubs, a Dramatic 
 Club, which presents an annual play in the college year, 
 and the Debating Society. 
 
 The non-society girls have organized a club known as 
 the Hypatia Club, and the Women's Division ot the Col- 
 lege has organized the Dexter Club, tor literary and social 
 pursuits, and this organization meets Saturday evenings for 
 lectures, musicales, and the discussion of current events. 
 
 Three years ago there was established a Rally Day for 
 students and alumni, known as "Colby Day," and the 
 
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 festivities of the day are celebrated in the latter part of 
 October each year. 
 
 Endeared to the College not alone by close association 
 in religious activity, but because it is a place hallowed in 
 the traditions of the College, is the First Baptist Church 
 of Waterville. This building is used for the holding of 
 Commencement exercises and the various other events of 
 the collegiate calendar, including the Sophomore Declama- 
 tion and the Junior and Senior Exhibitions. 
 
 An adjunct of no little value to the College is the re- 
 cently established Carnegie Library, located on Elm Street, 
 opposite the Public Park. This library, which occupies a 
 handsome new building, the gift of the philanthropist, 
 Andrew Carnegie, was opened in 
 May, 1905. The volumes on its 
 shelves number seven thousand. The 
 building also provides a home for the 
 library and collections of the Water- 
 ville Historical Society. 
 
 The College has four academies in 
 the State which are affiliated with it and whose conduct 
 is under the general direction of its Board of Trustees. 
 They are as follows: Hebron Academy at Hebron, estab- 
 lished in 1804; Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, 
 1829; Higgins Classical Institute at Charleston, 1837; 
 and Ricker Classical Institute at Houlton, 1848. 
 
 Interest in Colby and her welfare is stimulated and spread 
 abroad by her Alumni and Alumnae Associations, of which 
 the College is pardonably proud. They are as follows: 
 the General Alumni Association, which meets in Water- 
 ville Commencement week; the Boston Colby Alumni 
 
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 Association; the New York Colby Alumni Association; 
 and the Colby Club of Waterville. 
 
 The alumnae have organized the Colby Alumnae Asso- 
 ciation, which holds its annual meeting Commencement 
 week, and the Boston Colby Alumnae Association. 
 
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