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The 1914 Colby Mules football team has been described as the greatest in Colby's history and one of the strongest college teams ever in the state of Maine. The Harold Alfond Athletic Center is the center of athletic life at Colby, and home to the Colby Mules. It contains the Wadsworth Gymnasium, with a capacity of 2,600 people, the Alfond Rink ...
Colby College overlooks the Kennebec River valley and city of Waterville.. In 2013 Colby became the fourth college in the country to achieve carbon neutrality.Colby uses 100-percent renewable electricity, has 12 LEED-certified buildings (other certifications pending), has geothermal heating and cooling in two buildings, and has a biomass plant that burns sustainably harvested wood to heat most ...
Maine's public education system also includes the Maine Community College System, comprising seven schools, and the Maine Maritime Academy. The state's three oldest institutions of higher education are Bowdoin College (founded in 1794), Colby College (1813), and Bates College (1855).
The Colby Mules (formerly known as the White Mules prior to 2002) are the varsity and club athletic teams of Colby College, a liberal arts college located in Waterville, Maine. Colby's varsity teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The college ...
Franklin Winslow Johnson (August 17, 1870 – February 19, 1956) was the 15th President of Colby College, Maine, United States, from 1929–1942.Franklin W. Johnson is widely remembered as the president who began to move Colby College to its Mayflower Hill location and set it on the road to national prestige, in the face of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.
In "The History of Colby College," Ernest C. Marriner wrote, "No small part of the agitation that arose later in regard to the retention of women in the College was prompted by the fact that they persistently ran away with the honors." In 1890, the president of Colby initiated a plan to divide women and men into separate classes at the college.
Arthur Jeremiah Roberts (October 11, 1867 – 1927) was the 14th President of Colby College, Maine, United States from 1908–1927, notable for being the first non-preacher president of the school. He guided the college through its first centennial celebration and World War I .
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