Stories about "Garcelon Field"
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Campus Construction Update: Sept. 15, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 2:12 pm
The renovated Chase Hall is “absolutely fantastic and ready to bring students and faculty back,” President Garry Jenkins stated at the building’s reopening on Sept. 7.
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Campus Construction Update: Aug. 10, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 1:41 pm
A rainstorm pushes back move-in day for Chase Hall, but three other summer projects are complete or nearly so.
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Campus Construction Update: July 6, 2023
Monday, July 3, 2023 2:24 pm
Still a constellation of construction hotspots, but with Bates folks scheduled to return in August, Chase Hall had a certain air of anticipation last week — something along the lines of, “Is it Christmas yet?"
![Just July. Or as Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read says: “We are in that month we wish could last forever.”Hathorn Hall and Historic Quad](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2020/05/190716_Campus_0164-400x267.jpg)
Campus Construction Update: June 16, 2023
Thursday, June 8, 2023 8:26 am
Like the work we covered last week, construction projects begun this week involve campus landmarks whose long histories resound in Bates lore.
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Video: Campus osprey tries to build a nest at Garcelon
Friday, April 21, 2023 1:52 pm
Immense talent at finding prey doesn’t mean that an osprey, or any bird, will also be good at nest-building.
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What’s in a Lewiston Name: Garcelon
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:13 pm
The signature athletic field at Bates is named for Dr. Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston, one of the earliest and longest supporters of Bates College.
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Video: Plowing Garcelon means “16 miles forward, 16 miles backward”
Friday, January 26, 2018 11:46 am
Clearing Garcelon's FieldTurf surface is "a sign of spring and a sign of spring sports," says Tim Kivus of Facilities Services.
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Video: Highlights of football’s CBB-clinching win over Bowdoin
Thursday, November 9, 2017 1:56 pm
"We came in knowing there would be some ups and downs," senior captain Frank Williams of Brookline, Mass. said. "That always happens with a rivalry game."
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Video: Football seeks historic fourth straight CBB title Saturday
Thursday, November 2, 2017 10:30 pm
Players talk about the chance to make Bates football history vs. Bowdoin on Saturday. Game time is 12:30 p.m.
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Then and Now: Garcelon Field in the 1930s and right now
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00 pm
What's different and what's the name about these two photographs of Garcelon Field taken about 80 years apart?