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Word: ganett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Colby pondered the matter, an offer came of a site in Augusta, on the estate of William Howard Ganett, retired publisher of Comfort.* Colby declined. Its loyalty to Waterville was rewarded: Citizens donated 600 acres on Mayflower Hill in the outskirts. There, when the $3,000,000 is raised, a new Colby will rise, on a cruciform campus with redbrick, white-columned Georgian buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Colby | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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