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COLBY COLLEGE LIBRARY WATER VILLE, MAINE COLBY COLLEGE BULLETIN WATERVILLE, MAINE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • May,1957 Annual Catalog Issue I j I FOR more informal information about Colby College, including photographs, the inquirer is referred to an illustrated booklet About Colby . • • • • • • • • • For a list of extra-curricular organiza ... tions, and for regulations governing social functions, athletics, and other areas of student life, one should consult The Colby Gray Book. ri Lo:.:·,·� i J \. ,_ J • �) . , I f ,,.� ;. � GENE RAL INFORMAT ION • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE ADMISSION GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS HONORS AND PRIZES HEALTH SERVICE AFR OTC GENERAL REGULATIONS ADULT EDUCATION SUMMER SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES FINANCES 1be Sloop 'J!ero, in whicb Jeremiah Chaplin sailed from Boston in 1818 to become Colby's first president. General Information CORPORATE NAME: The President and Trustees of Colby College. LEGAL BASIS: Chartered as Maine Literary and Theological Institution by the General Court of Massachu­ setts, February 27, 1813. Authorized to con­ fer degrees by the first Legislature of Maine, June 19, 1820. Name changed to Waterville College, February 5, 1821; changed to Colby University, January 23, 1867; changed to Colby College, January 25, 1899. First classes, 1818. First Commencement, 1822. FUN CTIONS: Independent College of Liberal Arts for Men and Women (women first admitted, 1871); nonsectarian, founded under Baptist auspices. DEGREE CONFERRED: Bachelor of Arts. No other degrees in course and no graduate courses. l!NROLLMENT: 650 men, 475 women. Faculty: 93. ENDOWMENT: $6,269,000. LIBRARY: 174,500 books; 31,000 pamphlets. ACCREDITATION: Accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Member of the· College Entrance Examination Board. Approved by the American Chemical Society, Association of American Medical Schools, American Association of University Women, Phi Beta Kappa Society. LOCATION: Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine. Popula­ tion 18,CXXJ. Industries: textiles, paper, molded paprus products, shirts, plastics. Junction point on Maine Central R.R.; regular stop for all express trains, Boston to Bangor. Airport with service of Northeast Air Lines. On U.S. Highway 201, connecting with Maine Turnpike at Augusta. 5 6 COLBY CO LLEGE A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE Colby is an undergraduate college of liberal arts. It confers only the Bachelor of Arts degree, has no graduate courses and no pro­ fessional schools. Colby is dedicated to the aims of unrestricted in­ quiry and to the task of seeking the truth wherever it may be found. Because life is more important than a living, the Colby student is subjected to the broad fields of knowledge and inquiry which affect not only his vocational career, but also all phases of his life. Colby does not, however, ignore the career motive which prompts so many students to attend college. The truth, as sought in the lil,, eral arts, cannot be detached from what men call "practical" and "useful." It is not enough for a college to turn out graduates who know something well; they must also be able to do something well. Hence, within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum, the student may prepare for business, for teaching, for study of medicine, dentis­ try, law, or engineering, but he may not narrowly so prepare. Every candidate for the Colby degree must meet the same broad require­ ments, demanding that he shall have taken courses in literature, for­ eign language, science, and the social sciences. Only in his field of concentration is he given direct opportunity to prepare for intended life work. Even here he finds the study general and basic, and not confined to detailed vocational topics. DIVISIONS OF INSTRUCTION The subjects in the Colby curriculum are classifiedin five divisions. In the Division of Humanities are the departments of Classics, English, Art, Music, and Modern Foreign Languages. Besides general courses in the broad field, the Division of Social Sciences includes Business Administration, Economics and Sociology, Educa­ tion and Psychology, History and Government, Philosophy and Religion. In the Division of Natural Sciences, besides a number of interdepartmental courses, are the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, and Physics. The Division of Health and Physical Education, besides offering courses in that field, administers the college health service, the athletic program, and intramural sports. The Division of Air Science administers the program for students in the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps. Certain interdepartmental courses take both content and staff from more than one department, sometimes from more than one division. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION The recitation method, so long used in American college class­ rooms is no longer the predominant means of instruction. Nor does GFNERAL IN FORMA TIO N 7 its successor, the lecture method, in which the student is a passive listener, prevail. Recitations and lectures are still used, but always accompanied by newer methods. In several of the larger courses at Colby the entire class frequently meets once or twice a week for lectures, then is broken up into small groups for weekly or more frequent sessions. These group meetings are not recitations, but are freediscussions of points raised by lectures or reading. In the sciences, lectures are supplemented not only by laboratory experiments in small sections, but also by weekly discus­ sion sections. In the foreignlanguages, the classes (though normally not more than twenty-fivein size) are still furtherbroken into smaller weekly sections for oral instruction. In the classes in speech, in literature and in foreign languages much use is made of phonograph records, tape recorders, and other modern devices. In all depart­ ments use is made of slides, motion pictures, and other visual aids. A feature of several departments is the senior seminar. THE STUDENT'S PROGRAM In each of the four years of his Colby course the student takes five subjects to which is added physical education in the first two years. In order to assure distribution among the several divisions mentioned above, every freshman must take English composition, a foreign language (unless covered by an achievement examination), mathematics or science, a social science, and physical education. For the fifth academic subject men must take ROTC; women have an elective. In sophomore year the requirements are a course in literature, one in foreignlanguage unless that requirement has been previously met, a course in science or mathematics, a second social science, and ROTC or an elective. One of the required subjects or the elective must be in the field which, at the end of the freshman year, the stu­ dent has selected for concentration or major. As a freshman each student is assigned to an individual adviser for his first year. At the end of that year, some member of the staff in the student's major field becomes his adviser for the remainder of his college course. Prospective students frequently ask just what subjects they will take, especially in the freshman year. It is true that certain require­ ments must be met, but the programs of individual freshmen differ according to their future educational plans and their tastes. For in­ stance, if a student intends to prepare for a scientific career or forthe study of medicine, he should get started on the necessary scientific requirements in freshman year. On the other hand, the student pri­ marily interested in a non ..scie ntific field has a wide choice of courses to meet the modest science requirement for graduation. To pre,sent 8 COLBY COLLEGE any specific pattern of courses for freshman and sophomore years is likely to be misleading. Whenever choice must be made, the stu ... dent should discuss his individual needs fully with his adviser before making out his program. In order, however, that the fixed requirements may be emphasized, two general programs (one for men, another for women) are here given for the freshman and sophomore years. To understand more fully why certain items appear in these programs, the reader should consult the Graduation Requirements on page 17. MEN WOMEN FRESHMAN YEAR English Composition English Composition ROTC Physical Education Physical Education Foreign Language, unless requirement Foreign Language, unless requirement already met already met A course in Science or Mathematics A course in Science or Mathematics A course in the Social Sciences A course in the Social Sciences Elective SOPHOMORE YEAR Survey of Literature Survey of Literature ROTC Physical Education Physical Education Foreign Language, unless requirement Foreign Language, unless requirement is met is met A course in Science or Mathematics A course in Science or Mathematics A course in the Social Sciences A course in the Social Sciences