Education: At Colby

Modest in size is Colby College (Waterville, Maine) with 600 students and some 3,000 alumni. Colbyites young and old were nonetheless proud and thrilled last week as they gathered on the campus at Waterville, in alumni meetings in eight cities from Maine to California, in homes where they could listen to a broadcast of their alma mater's annual football rally, Colby Night. They hoped Colby would beat the University of Maine next day (it lost, 19 to 7). But Colby Night celebrated a greater event: the first sizable gift to a campaign...