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In 1969, Colby became officially coeducational. In honor of her devotion to women’s education, Mary Low’s name adorns one of Colby’s oldest dormitories. After Colby, Mary became accomplished in the field of library science.
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821.
Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.
It was a coeducational secondary school, for which Susan Colby served as the first teacher and principal. It opened with a student body of 26 girls and one boy, but soon enrolled 54 male students.
In 1890, President Albion Small introduced a plan to end coeducation at Colby and effectively push women out of the college by creating a separate women’s division. Coburn helped Mary Low draft a letter of protest in response to Small’s decision.
Colby College was chartered by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1813. It was the 12th private liberal arts college established in the United States. The college was founded by Maine Baptists and began as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution.
Colby College, at Waterville, Maine; coeducational; est. 1813, opened 1818. The school, principally a liberal arts college, adopted its present name in 1899. Its library includes the papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
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