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From Bates History: inaugural keys, silver chalice, and a 1908 Rand Hall midnight party
Friday, March 15, 2024 2:38 pm
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, including a Peter Gomes '65 chalice and a 1908 midnight party by the women of Rand Hall.
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From Bates History: Martin Luther’s stained glass, water-shooting derrick
Friday, September 22, 2023 1:01 pm
Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, and our thoughts about what they are and mean.
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From Bates history: Granite from Mount David and a prince from Liberia
Friday, May 12, 2023 11:34 am
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, and our thoughts about what they are and mean.
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From Bates History: Bib, trowel, and a pinback Bates button
Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:21 pm
Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, including an item worn during autumn haze days decades ago.
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From Bates History: World War II flag, women’s sports pin, ash tray (what’s that?)
Friday, September 30, 2022 12:09 pm
Here's another selection of item from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Librarythat tell stories about Bates' past.
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From Bates History: Pin, picture, fob, and trophy
Friday, June 24, 2022 4:03 pm
Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere.
![Items from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library for Bates Magazine "Archives" section -- November 2015.Baseball mitt; belonged to Donald C. Webster '41. Box 6, Item 294.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2021/04/G2-151119_glove-Archives_5259-400x267.jpg)
From the Archives: Let’s play ball!
Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:21 pm
It’s opening day of the 2021 Major League baseball season, and here…
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From the Archives: Greek cup, sports medal, and a call for abstinence
Friday, September 11, 2020 10:31 am
Does sex weaken athletic performance? In 1955 Bates students thought it did.
![Items from the Bates artifacts collection, 1860s to 2011.See: bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC098.htmlIncluding: peace pipe used during class day; banners;Cornet used by Levi Washington Ballard who organized the Maine State Seminary Band; conk found by Outing Club; Paperweight with drawing of a scene from Bates vs Bowdoin football game of Oct. 29, 1898 showing William A. Saunders '99 with the ball and a score of Bates 6 and Bowdoin; nurse pin; shaving set; white cane used by President Phillips.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2020/06/detail-G2-nursepin-091-400x267.jpg)
From the Archives: Bates nurses, Julia Child, and a German ace
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 1:52 pm
Historical items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collection Library and elsewhere.
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From the Archives: Hazing paddle, cigarette card, and huge peace sign
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3:35 pm
From the Muskie Archives, a Varsity Club initiation paddle, a cigarette trading card featuring Bates, and a big peace sign on Lake Andrews.