Excerpt from A Brief Description of Colby College and Its Equipment The College, the second Oldest in the State, originated with the Baptists Of the State, and acknowledges with deep gratitude the support and interest of this denomination in its welfare, for its benefactors have been numerous, and to none more than Gardner Colby and Abner Coburn does it owe its material welfare. Its intellectual and material growth have been greatly developed by the able corps of presidents and professors who have served the Institution from its earliest years, and many of whom were educators of national renown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.