{"id":703,"date":"2026-04-13T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/?post_type=exhibit&p=703"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:13:49","slug":"arthur-robinson-5-ober","status":"publish","type":"exhibit","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/exhibits\/arthur-g-robinson-1906\/arthur-robinson-5-ober\/","title":{"rendered":"Time at Colby (1902-1906)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arthur G. Robinson graduated from Colby in 1906 as one of the standout members of his class. He served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Colby Echo, President of Colby’s YMCA Chapter, and ran the one-mile and two-mile events on the Track Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1906 Oracle’s senior survey recorded his intended path to be a missionary in China, seven years before he sailed for Shanghai in 1913. Robinson fit the profile the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions recruited for– the “best and the brightest” — and he’d committed to the work long before he left campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Y.M.C.A President (Colby Oracle 1906)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Editor-in-Chief (Colby Oracle 1906)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0The second page of the 1906 Oracle indicates that Robinson was Echo’s editor-in-Chief\u00a0(Colby Oracle 1906)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Statistics for the seniors’ future career (Colby Oracle 1906)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Member of the Delta Kappa Fraternity at Colby (Colby Oracle 1906)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arthur G. Robinson graduated from Colby in 1906 as one of the standout members of his class. He served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Colby Echo, President of Colby’s YMCA Chapter, and ran the one-mile and two-mile events on the Track Team. The 1906 Oracle’s senior survey recorded his intended path to be a missionary in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":375,"menu_order":-2,"template":"","institution":[],"place":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibit"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/703\/revisions\/2269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}