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Diary For 03 01 To 05 01, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine. This section includes minutes from a Town Meeting held in March, 1881.

Diary For 09 03 To 12 28, 1881 With Cash Accounts, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine. There were no entries from August 23 to September 26 or September 27 to December 22, 1881.

Diary For 07 01 To 08 22, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine.

Catalogue Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1880-81, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1880-1881 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, graduates, and information about the design of the institution, admission, course of instruction, degrees, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine, January, 1880, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1879-1880 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, graduates, and information about the design of the institution, admission, course of instruction, expenses, and calendar. This edition includes information on completing a course of study specifically in Agriculture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemistry. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine, 1878-9, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1878-1879 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, officers of the Coburn Cadets, graduates, officers of the Alumni Association. The catalog also includes information about the design of the institution, admission, course of instruction, expenses, and calendar, the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine, 1877-8, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1876-1877 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, officers of the Coburn Cadets, and information about the design of the institution, admission, course of instruction, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, campus organizations, a list of previous graduates and officers of the Alumni Association.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine, 1876-7, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1876-1877 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, graduates, and information about the design of the institution, admission, course of instruction, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

The College Review, Maine State College, April, 1876, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Life

General University of Maine Publications

Volume 1, no. 1 of The College Review of the Maine State College included articles that provided updates on the Agricultural Department, Chemical Department, Engineering Department, and general news thought to be of interest to readers in April, 1876. Articles were written by professors, and editors included E. H. Dakin, C. P. Allen, G. H. Buker, S. M. Jones, L. R. Lothrop, and N. H. Martin.

Report Of The Evidence And Conclusions Of The Committee To Investigate The Sale Of The Agricultural College Scrip, Maine Legislature, Committee To Investigate The Sale Of The Agricultural College Scrip

General University of Maine Publications

A transcript of the testimony and evidence presented at legislative hearings made to the fifty-fifth legislature in 1876 to investigate the sale of Maine's land grant scrip at a price "far below the market rates for such property."

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine, 1875-6, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1875-1876 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, and information about the design of the institution, admission, courses of instruction and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

College Reporter, November 14, V. 1, No. 2, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A scan from the second issue of an early campus newspaper for Maine State College known as The College Reporter.

College Reporter, October 19, V. 1, No. 1, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A scan of an edition of one of the early campus newspapers for Maine State College, later the University of Maine.

The Crucible, V. 2, No. 1, W. A. Allen, W. Balentine, J. I. Gurney

General University of Maine Publications

A scan of the second edition of a student newspaper published by the Literary Fraternity of the Maine State College in 1874. Several advertisements for Orono and Bangor, Maine, businesses are also included.

The first edition of The Crucible, published in August, 1873, is also available through this collection in Digital Commons.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, Orono, Me., 1874-75, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1874-1875 includes a list of the faculty, students, information about the design of the institution, admission, courses of instruction, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

The Crucible, V. 1, No. 1, J. M. Oak, G. H. Hamlin, C. E. Reed

General University of Maine Publications

A scan of the first edition of a college paper known as The Crucible published by the students of the Maine State College. Student editors included J. M. Oak, G. H. Hamlin and C. E. Reed.

A second edition of this newspaper, published in August, 1874, is also available in this collection in Digital Commons.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1873-4, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1873-1874 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, and information about the design of the institution, admission, courses of instruction, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations and policies.

Commencement Program, Maine State College Of Agriculture And Mechanic Arts, August 7, 1872, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

The printed program for the first Commencement exercises held for Maine State College in Orono, Maine August 7, 1872.

Within the Annual Report for 1872, President Allen noted, "The day which had so long been looked forward to, as the great event in the history of student life, and which had been the occasion of so much solicitude to the friends of the institution, dawned bright and beautiful. The graduation of the first class marks an epoch in the history of the college which will be remembered with satisfaction as a successful manifestation of what can be accomplished in giving …

Mendelssohn Quintette Club Concert Programme, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

The program for a concert by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston held on the evening of the first Commencement ceremony of Maine State College, August 7, 1872.

Commencement Concert Flyer, 1872, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

A flyer announcing a concert to be held on the evening of the first Commencement for Maine State College, Orono, August 7, 1872.

Catalogue Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1872-3, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This University of Maine catalog for the year 1872-1873 includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, and information about the design of the institution, admission, courses of instruction, expenses, and calendar. It also provides information about the college farm, buildings, library, and campus organizations.

The list of students provides a summary indicating that there were 7 seniors, 7 juniors, 25 sophomores and 32 freshman that year.

One of the juniors is Louise Hammond Ramsdell, the first female student who attended the Maine State College of Agriculture (now the University of Maine) after legislation passed in February, 1872, …

Rules Of The Laboratory Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, S. F. Peckham

General University of Maine Publications

A scan of the published rules for the scientific laboratory on the campus of Maine State College in 1871.

Exhibition Of The Junior And Sophomore Classes, Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanical Arts

General University of Maine Publications

A printed program that provides the order of exercises for an Exhibition of Declamations (original speeches and readings) by the members of the junior and sophomore classes at Maine State College in 1871.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1871, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College for the year of 1871 includes a list of faculty, students, courses of instruction and information about several policies and expenses.

This edition also includes a list of donations of books, specimens and equipment that had been made to the library, the cabinet, the reading room, and the farm.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, November, 1870, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts for the year 1870 lists the trustees, faculty, students, and provides information about the design of the institution, conditions of admission, course of study, labor, location, farm and buildings, library, reading room, cabinet, literary society, public worship, expenses and how to defray them, a general statement on policies and the academic calendar.

Faculty members listed include Merritt C. Fernald, Samuel Johnson, Stephen F. Peckham, John Swift, Mrs. Mary L. Fernald, Calvin Cutter, Corydon B. Lakin, X. A. Willard, A. S. Packard Jr., James J. H. Gregory, and …

Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts Prize Declamation By The Sophomore Class, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A program for a Prize Declamation ceremony held at the Methodist Church in Orono, Tuesday, August 2, 1870 for the Maine State College. A handwritten note on the program says, "First Public Exercise of Any Kind."

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, January, 1870, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, later known as the University of Maine, includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty members, students in the first two classes to ever enter the college -- listing them as being among the sophomore and freshman class -- and provides information about the design of the institution, conditions of admission, describes the classes to be taken in a two year course of study, describes the labor requirement, location, farm and buildings, expenses and means for defraying them, a general statement on the need for strict …

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1869, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture, later known as the University of Maine, includes sections on the design of the institution, conditions of admission, courses to be taken during a two year course of study, labor requirement for students, information about the location of campus, the farm and buildings, equipment, library, reading room, chemical laboratory's mineralogical cabinet, a student-organized Literary Society, and the requirement for public worship and attending daily prayers.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1868, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog of the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1868, the first for the institution, includes a list of the members of the Board of Trustees, two faculty members (Merritt C. Fernald and Samuel Johnson), the first thirteen students, information about the design of the institution, admissions, course of study, labor requirements for students, location, farm, buildings, library, reading room, scientific specimens on display, literary society, public worship, expenses, policies, degrees, and the academic calendar.

Architect's Report To The Board Of Trustees Of The College Of Agriculture, And The Mechanic Arts, Of The State Of Maine, Frederick Law Olmsted

General University of Maine Publications

The report of Frederick Law Olmsted on design considerations for the Land Grant College for the state of Maine presented in 1867.

Olmsted's report begins on page 15 of the Annual Report of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as it appeared in Documents of the Legislature of the State of Maine, 46th Legislature, House Document no. 57. The entire document was scanned.

Olmsted discusses what he views as important and unique design considerations given the goal of the college, to provide a liberal education to those who are to remain members of the industrial classes. He …