Grace Glueck reviews current and permanent exhibits in museums along Maine's art trail; describes collections at Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum, Bowdoin College Museum, Colby College Museum, Bates College Museum and University of Maine Museum; photos; map

Schiele vs. Restorers

For college students and their parents, commencement is a time of joy and flashing cameras. But for people like Jeffrey S. Baron -- the senior class president at Colby College on whose shoulders fell the burden of finding a commencement speaker -- it is more like selling encyclopedias door to door. Nearly a dozen greats and near-greats received the Colby sales pitch from Mr. Baron, who was snubbed by Hollywood stars, singers and political figures, from Billy Crystal and Jodie Foster to Mikhail ...

After a steel-band version of "Pomp and Circumstance," the California State Treasurer, Kathleen Brown, urged graduating law students on Saturday to "remember who you represent and be as generous to this state as it has been to you." Elected in 1990, Ms. Brown is the daughter of one former California Governor and the sister of another. She has been the state's chief financial officer during what has been called the state's worst economic times since the Depression and is considered a possible De...

A big gift for a small college: ALEX KATZ, the painter, has announced that he will donate 414 of his works to the Colby College Museum of Art, in Waterville, Me. The gift, which encompasses more than 30 years of work, includes 15 large and 40 small paintings, 32 completed portrait drawings, 146 small drawings in pencil and ink, 7 cutouts, 5 cartoons and 169 prints. The choice of Colby was based in part on Mr. Katz's affinity for Maine. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculptur...

James M. Carpenter, who developed the art department at Colby College and founded its art museum, drowned along with his daughter on Tuesday in an ocean swimming accident in Puerto Rico. Dr. Carpenter, 77 years old, was a resident of Waterville, Me. His daughter, Jane Poliquin, an art conservator, was 36 and lived in Cumberland Foreside, Me.

LEAD: Colby College barred 16 seniors from attending commencement exercises yesterday on the Waterville, Me., campus as part of their punishment for participating in an underground fraternity.

LEAD: COLBY COLLEGE's 96-80 victory last week over the University of Southern Maine in a Division III basketball game at Southern Maine's Hill Gymnasium in Gorham did more than preserve Colby's unblemished record.

LEAD: Colby College's bookstore administrators say that a former employee, Jeffrey Winkler, was wrong: Mr. Winkler, class of '89, should never have given information about textbooks sold at the college-owned bookstore to the competing Iron Horse Bookstore.

LEAD: John Kifner, a New York Times reporter and foreign correspondent, has been chosen to receive the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for 1988 from Colby College in Waterville, Me.

LEAD: Sitting beside a campfire in the woods of western Maine on a recent chilly evening, Dave Jorgensen was given a simple, but treasured gift: all the information not fit to print in the student handbook for Colby College, the school he would soon enter.

LEAD: When the Passamaquoddy Indians were fighting to regain ownership of tribal lands in the 1960's and 1970's, Wayne Newell felt uncomfortable protesting against the Federal Government. It was through his tribe's music that he found strength.

Many college officials are asking whether more should be done to encourage students to consider public service.

A 21st-century obelisk rising 20 feet has emerged in the middle of Doris C. Freedman Plaza near the southeast entrance to Central Park.

Two shows in Maine are honoring Alex Katz with what they call firsts.

Experts in campaign finance say political action committees could find political influence enhanced in campaign-finance overhaul wending way through Congress; reform measure prohibits unregluated soft-money contributions to political parties but does not tighten controls on largest political action committees that collect regulated hard-money donations

United States Senate stands on threshold of far-raging debate on campaign finance law; already, some politicians look for ways that political parties might circumvent Sen John McCain's drive to ban them from accepting large, unregulated contributions--just as so many earlier reform efforts have been circumvented; McCain photo

Grace Glueck reviews current and permanent exhibits in museums along Maine's art trail; describes collections at Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum, Bowdoin College Museum, Colby College Museum, Bates College Museum and University of Maine Museum; photos; map

Schiele vs. Restorers

For college students and their parents, commencement is a time of joy and flashing cameras. But for people like Jeffrey S. Baron -- the senior class president at Colby College on whose shoulders fell the burden of finding a commencement speaker -- it is more like selling encyclopedias door to door. Nearly a dozen greats and near-greats received the Colby sales pitch from Mr. Baron, who was snubbed by Hollywood stars, singers and political figures, from Billy Crystal and Jodie Foster to Mikhail ...

After a steel-band version of "Pomp and Circumstance," the California State Treasurer, Kathleen Brown, urged graduating law students on Saturday to "remember who you represent and be as generous to this state as it has been to you." Elected in 1990, Ms. Brown is the daughter of one former California Governor and the sister of another. She has been the state's chief financial officer during what has been called the state's worst economic times since the Depression and is considered a possible De...

A big gift for a small college: ALEX KATZ, the painter, has announced that he will donate 414 of his works to the Colby College Museum of Art, in Waterville, Me. The gift, which encompasses more than 30 years of work, includes 15 large and 40 small paintings, 32 completed portrait drawings, 146 small drawings in pencil and ink, 7 cutouts, 5 cartoons and 169 prints. The choice of Colby was based in part on Mr. Katz's affinity for Maine. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculptur...

James M. Carpenter, who developed the art department at Colby College and founded its art museum, drowned along with his daughter on Tuesday in an ocean swimming accident in Puerto Rico. Dr. Carpenter, 77 years old, was a resident of Waterville, Me. His daughter, Jane Poliquin, an art conservator, was 36 and lived in Cumberland Foreside, Me.

LEAD: Colby College barred 16 seniors from attending commencement exercises yesterday on the Waterville, Me., campus as part of their punishment for participating in an underground fraternity.

LEAD: COLBY COLLEGE's 96-80 victory last week over the University of Southern Maine in a Division III basketball game at Southern Maine's Hill Gymnasium in Gorham did more than preserve Colby's unblemished record.

LEAD: Colby College's bookstore administrators say that a former employee, Jeffrey Winkler, was wrong: Mr. Winkler, class of '89, should never have given information about textbooks sold at the college-owned bookstore to the competing Iron Horse Bookstore.

LEAD: John Kifner, a New York Times reporter and foreign correspondent, has been chosen to receive the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for 1988 from Colby College in Waterville, Me.