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Bates College (/ b eɪ t s /) [7] is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, United States. Anchored by the Historic Quad , the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the " Bates-Morse Mountain " near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay .
This is a list of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada that field squash as a varsity sport or a club sport and are members of the College Squash Association (CSA). There will be 34 varsity programs and 30 club teams for the 2023–24 season.
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.
Oct. 31—LEWISTON — Maria Femia played the hero for Bates College, which honored its host city before the game, then knocked off its biggest rival in a 2-1, double-overtime victory over Bowdoin ...
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
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]
Bates along with Bowdoin and Colby College share multiple traditions and rivalries that comprise the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (informally known as the CBB). The college's most famous tradition is Newman Day , which received national attention when Paul Newman –the namesake of the tradition–publicly denounced it, asking the then ...
Thomas Hedley Reynolds (November 23, 1920 – September 22, 2009) was an American historian and university professor who served as the fifth President of Bates College from March 1967 to November 1989.