Stories about "Oren Cheney"
![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)
Transformative: The Bates Mission Statement at age 10
Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:09 pm
Even as COVID-19 puts it to the test, the 2010 mission statement is a cultural touchstone for Bates.
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Beyond ‘founded by abolitionists’: Students and faculty undertake a more inclusive examination of Bates’ founding story
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:07 pm
Ongoing research by Bates faculty and students into the college’s early connection to the U.S. slave economy seeks to add long-silenced voices to the college’s founding narrative.
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Tales of wayward trustees and lost telegrams from Bates’ founding trustee meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:38 pm
When you're launching a new college, as Oren Cheney was doing on this day in 1855, you sweat the details, you don’t suffer fools, and you watch your money.
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Convocation 2018 remarks: Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall
Friday, September 7, 2018 10:24 am
Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall explores Bates’ complicated early history and its implications for us
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A brief history of Frederick Douglass, Oren Cheney, and Bates
Friday, February 16, 2018 2:35 pm
Bates founder Oren Cheney and the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass were friends and giants in their worlds.
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Facts, firsts, and fictions from 150 (or more?) Commencements
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:23 pm
The first Bates Commencement was in 1867, making this year's event the 150th in college history. Or have there been more? If so, why?