In memento mori : Doctor Caroline Colvin. [19--]

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In memento mori : Doctor Caroline Colvin. [19--]

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A scrapbook about Caroline Colvin compiled by Mary W. Ogborn, a relative of Dr. Colvin. The volume contains newspaper clippings about Colvin, information about her former students, documents from her study in 1926 at Oxford University, etc. Entries are annotated by the compiler.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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University of Maine

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The University of Maine saw approximately 1,000 students and alumni serve in World War I and 3,900 serve in World War II. Both wars had a strong effect on the university and its students; the desire to honor those who had served and to memorialize those who had died led to various activities on campus. After the end of World War I, funds were raised to erect the Memorial Gymnasium and Armory and after World War II, those who had died were honored in a volume titled "University of Maine, World Wa...

Colvin, Caroline

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Ogborn, Mary W.,

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Caroline Colvin was born Oct. 8, 1863, in Webster, Indiana. She graduated from Indiana State Normal School in 1890 and from Indiana University in 1893. She received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1901. In 1902 she became an instructor in history at the University of Maine, beginning a lifelong career there that saw her serving as chair of the history department, 1906-1932, and as the first dean of women, 1923-1927. Colvin Hall on the campus of the University of Maine i...