DigitalCommons@Colby

The Strider Years: An Extension of the History of Colby College

Ernest C. Marriner

Beloved Colby historian Ernest Cummings Marriner '13 documents Robert E. Lee Strider's nineteen years as president of Colby College. Marriner is also the author of the definitive History of Colby, which covers the period up to the Strider presidency.

The Man of Mayflower Hill: A Biography of Franklin W. Johnson

Ernest C. Marriner

An account of the life of Franklin W. Johnson, Colby College's fifteenth president, who served from 1929-1942. Under Johnson, the college relocated from a crowded downtown campus to its current home on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine.

Colby's President Roberts

Bertha Louise Soule

An account of the life of Arthur J. Roberts, president of Colby College during the years 1908-1927.

"He could be an outstanding president because with comprehending mind he knew what to notice and what to overlook, when to condemn and when to forgive, and kept always the commonsense, the fresh outlook of youth."

Colby College 1820-1925: An Account of Its Beginnings, Progress and Service

Edwin Carey Whittemore

The definitive history of Colby College's first century.