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University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...
...Blue also opens its season today in the Bowl against the University of Maine. Able Booth only lacks one man of having an all-veteran team. Last season the Orono stalwarts were crushed by the Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season...
...Advocate has announced the election of the following men as editors of the Literary Board: Rugene Louis Belisle '31, of Fall River, Samuel Drury Clark '31, of Orono. Maine, Brinckerhoff Jackson '32, of New York City, and Herman Warner Williams '31, of Boston...
June 9?At DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.; at Drake University, Des Moines, Ia.; at Hobart College, Geneva. N. Y.; at University of Maine, Orono...
...thousand other colleges also went on opening parade last week, from the University of Maine at Orono to the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. Some had new trappings of professors, buildings, courses; most merely brushed up their fustiness...