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Monographs published by Colby College and the Colby College Press, including college histories, presidential biographies, and other subjects.
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  • Jim Connolly and the Fishermen of Gloucester: An Appreciation of James Brendan Connolly at Eighty by Ernest Cummings Marriner

    Jim Connolly and the Fishermen of Gloucester: An Appreciation of James Brendan Connolly at Eighty

    Ernest Cummings Marriner

  • Kennebec Yesterdays by Ernest Cummings Marriner

    Kennebec Yesterdays

    Ernest Cummings Marriner

    A “social history of the Pine Tree State…especially…the Kennebec Valley” inspired by Marriner’s long-running Sunday evening radio program “Little Talks on Common Things,” broadcast by Waterville’s WTVL beginning in 1948.

    From the foreword:

    To my amazement I found hundreds of people interested in the social history of the Pine Tree State. Material has always poured in faster than I could use it. Out of trunks and boxes stored away in attics, came letters and diaries, account books and legal documents. Scrap books prepared by patient hands many decades ago were ... Read More

  • Remembered Maine by Ernest Cummings Marriner

    Remembered Maine

    Ernest Cummings Marriner

  • The History of Colby College by Ernest Cummings Marriner

    The History of Colby College

    Ernest Cummings Marriner

    As Colby College approaches 1963, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the granting of its charter by the General Court of Massachusetts, a new history of the college seems appropriate. Many changes have occurred during the third of a century since Dr. Edwin C. Whittemore published his history of the college in 1927. A great deal of material not available to Dr. Whittemore has also come to light concerning Colby's first century. Decision has therefore been made to publish an entirely new account.

    The present [1963] history seeks to ... Read More

  • The Man of Mayflower Hill: A Biography of Franklin W. Johnson by Ernest Cummings Marriner

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

    Ernest Cummings 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.

  • The Strider Years: An Extension of the History of Colby College by Ernest Cummings Marriner

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

    Ernest Cummings 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.

  • Anthology of Recent Colby Verse by Norris Potter Jr.

    Anthology of Recent Colby Verse

    Norris Potter Jr.

    A collection of Colby student poetry edited by Norris Potter, Jr.

    "This 'Anthology of Recent Colby Verse' merits the attention of everyone interested in poetry-or in Colby. It contains, perhaps, no great poems; but it contains many interesting ones." --From the introduction by Merle Crowell, Editor of the American Magazine.

  • Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College by Earl H. Smith

    Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College

    Earl H. Smith

    A lively history of Colby College from its founding in 1813 to the present day.

    Founded by Baptists in Waterville, Maine (and originally named The Maine Literary and Theological Institution), Colby College began as a tiny place- half college, half seminary. It faced doom at the end of the Civil War but was rescued by Gardner Colby, a wealthy manufacturer whose $50,000 donation saved the college. Three years later, it changed its name to honor its benefactor. Sixty years after that, the tiny college had become choked by the city's ... Read More

  • Colby's President Roberts by Bertha Louise Soule

    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 by Edwin Carey Whittemore

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

    Edwin Carey Whittemore

    The definitive history of Colby College's first century.

 
 
 

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