Stories about "Lost and Found"
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26 items (plus two from Commons) in the Bates library’s lost and found on June 26, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:38 pm
As the days get warmer, the learners at Bates get younger and older. And what they have in common with Bates students? They lose things.
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42 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Feb. 8, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024 12:37 pm
Just how did a rabies dog tag from Andover, Mass., find its way into the Lost and Found cubby in Ladd Library?
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Ladd Library Lost & Found: October 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023 2:40 pm
As we were setting out items for this edition of Ladd Library Lost & Found, retired math professor Bonnie Shulman stopped by because a venerable Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus calculator caught her eye.
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38 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Jan. 11, 2023
Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:26 am
Tea, toothpase, and a formal bow tie: Unfound items awaiting their losers — hmm, that didn't sound right — on the first day of the winter semester here on campus.
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19 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Dec. 6, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 2:34 pm
It’s finals week, and we think students are foregoing routine tasks like…
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18 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Sept. 29, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:48 pm
A warm stretch of early fall weather here on campus might explain a couple things about the status of Ladd Library Lost and Found on Sept. 29.
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19 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on May 10, 2021
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:51 pm
As we were setting out items for Library Lost and Found, Elliott Vahey ’23 stopped by. And pointed. “That’s my bike lock key!”
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18 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 11:30 am
Much has changed during the pandemic. What hasn't: Students still lose things in Ladd Library.
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The case of the missing buds in the Library’s Lost & Found, March 11, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:49 pm
“I think I’m on the phone with someone’s mom,” said a wide-eyed Jaimin Keliihoomalu ’21 of Kapolei, Hawaii, thus beginning the case of the lost Bluetooth ear buds.
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18 items in the library’s Lost & Found on Dec. 13, 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019 12:07 pm
Lip balm, computer glasses, hoop earrings, transgender pride button, New England Patriots water bottle, and more.