Keywords: Maine colleges
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Site Pages
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4
"1850-1870 Full crinoline dress with fringe, ca. 1859Maine Historical Society In the late 1850s early 1860s, crinolines reached their largest…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI
"… Thomas-Marsh, Gina Sabatini, and Jodi Baker at College of the Atlantic. Special thanks to The Abbe Museum, The Bar Harbor Historical Society…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs
"… entered the office upon graduation from Bowdoin College in 1901. His older son Frederick Hamilton Coombs joined the firm in 1908 after studying…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Initially known as the Maine State College, Maine's public institution of higher learning would later be called The University of Maine."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"He went to Strong schools and to Bates College (called the Maine State Seminary until 1863) from 1862–1863."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… institution at which pupils are fitted for any college in the land. And yet there are men now living in each one of these villages who can remember…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"… until 14 September 1930 and had approximately 120 college men from all parts of the country.(1) At the time it was said that Portland would be…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"It contains William and Mary’s College, the oldest in the US, excepting Harvard. The village is nearly as large as Thomaston and very pleasantly…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools
"… than a common school education, could prepare for college admission. The sisters provided an opportunity never before available in Strong."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4
"… school she had quite a bit more, although she tells me that there wasn’t nearly as work as today. She graduated in 1947 and didn’t go to college."
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Life on a Tidal River - The Flying Torah
"… in 1934 after attending the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago and the Theological Seminary in New York."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4
"… kindergarten up until high school (as well as college if attended.) The tests are taken by the entire class at one time, quietly, and on paper or…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools
"… sent to seminaries, high schools, and commercial colleges. After a number of years a new district, Number Eight, was located on the Bluff."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"… Academy, later called Maine State Teachers College. She is said to have had a poem published in the Boston Olive Branch at the age of 15."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4
"After medical school at Kirksville (Missouri) College of Osteopathy, he completed his residency at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland."
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Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!
"… second in size at the time only to Harvard College. His library included many medical and other scientific texts."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3
"He commented, “college just wasn’t for me”, and left for the Hawaiian Air Force base. He took flying lessons, flew a 44 passenger aircraft and made…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood
"All of his children attended college. There truly was a lot more to Chester than just being the inventor of ear protectors."
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"… the intellectual challenge and opportunities of a college education were stolen and Charles returned to Mount Desert in 1922 as a business man with…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today
"… at the Abbe Museum, Acadia National Park, and College of the Atlantic, sharing their history and contemporary story with people from all over the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Development of an Island-wide Identity
"… the term “MDI.” But large institutions like the College of the Atlantic, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, and Jackson Laboratory provided…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell
"… main family home Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his brother Ralph."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2
"Fortunately, my son was home from college and his car didn’t go in the garage so we were able to have some transportation until we removed the trees…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"… this money for things like religious purposes, colleges, hospitals, libraries, and even orphanages."