Unfinished Dream

Colby College, a solid little institution which has lived since its founding (1818) on the Kennebec's west bank in Waterville, Me., has discovered what it means to be too late in wartime. Thirteen years ago, finding itself grown shabby, hemmed between riverside paper mills and the Maine Central R.R., Colby decided to build itself a new $3,000,000 campus on comely Mayflower Hill, two miles from town. One alumnus, the late George Horace Lorimer, then editor of the Satevepost, gave $200,000 for a chapel.

By last autumn Colby's dream campus, a cluster of colonial buildings on a terraced hillside, had so far materialized that the college planned to move in next September.

With the finish in sight, President Franklin W. Johnson retired at 71, and the college got a new president--Harvard's Theology Professor Julius Seelye ("Bix"') Bixler.

Last week Colby sadly postponed moving day until after the war. Materials to finish its new buildings could not be had. With enough plumbing on hand to equip three buildings for Colby coeds, but no more, the college hearkened soberly to the president-elect. Bix announced that when he takes office in July he will give the college something more important than new buildings--a new educational program built around "one central idea." The idea: how man can better his environment.

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