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Gomes Chapel, loosely modeled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Bates is in a former mill town, Lewiston, which has a large French Canadian ethnic presence due to migration from Quebec in the 19th century. The college is known for cultural strains with the town, with townspeople describing Bates as a "leafy oasis of privilege."
The Gomes Chapel, named after Peter J. Gomes, chaplain of Harvard University and Bates class of 1965. The chapel is modeled after King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Plaque on Hathorn Hall designating September 1, 1857 as the opening of the Maine State Seminary and August 23, 1863, as the opening of Bates College.
College Incumbent Title Appointed Christ's: The Lord McDonald of Salford: Master: 2022 [1] Churchill: Sharon Peacock: Master 2024 [2] Clare: Loretta Minghella: Master: 2021 [3] Clare Hall: C. Alan Short: President 2020 [4] Corpus Christi: Christopher Kelly: Master: 2018 [5] Darwin: Mike Rands: Master: 2020 [6] Downing: Graham Virgo: Master ...
As of 2015, there are 24,000 Bates College alumni. [2] Affiliates of the college include 86 Fulbright Scholars, [3] 22 Watson Fellows, [4] and 5 Rhodes Scholars. [5] As of November 2018, the college counts 12 members of the United States Congress–2 Senators and 10 members of the House of Representatives–among its alumni
The traditions of Bates College include the activities, songs, and academic regalia of Bates College, a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. They are well known on campus and nationally as an embedded component of the student life at the college and its history .
Among the Little Ivies are the "Little Three", a term used by Amherst College, Wesleyan University and Williams College, and "Maine Big Three", a term used by Bates College, Bowdoin College, and Colby College. The term is inspired by the "Big Three" Ivy League athletic rivalry between Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. [11] [12]
The Brooks Quimby Debate Council (BQDC) is a debate society in Lewiston, Maine, primarily comprising students from Bates College.The society, known for participating in British and American Parliamentary debate styles, competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the World Universities Debating Championship.
The school and its library were removed to Lewiston in 1870 and became a graduate school (known as Bates Theological Seminary until 1888) of Bates College. In 1888, it was renamed Cobb Divinity School in honor of Jonathan Leavitt Haskell Cobb (1824-1897), a prominent businessman at the Bates Mill in Lewiston who had donated $25,000 to the ...