http://www.bates.edu/news/2013/01/01/slide-show-looking-back-at-2012-in-photographs/ Fri, 31 May 2013 14:47:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bates.edu/news/2013/01/01/slide-show-looking-back-at-2012-in-photographs/#comment-3645 A Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:00:05 +0000 http://www.bates.edu/news/?p=60729#comment-3645 I’d argue that the knight on the roof of the various buildings around campus is perhaps the most outstanding testament to the concept that “no man is an island entire of itself.” The very fact that that statue made its way onto a location as unattainable by any mere mortal as the roof of Commons must mean that it took a village to raise the child that is the belief that the errant knight was even possible. The movement of such an inanimate object as the knight is clear evidence that solidarity and ingenuity flow through the Bates community like the river Saraswati did through India… before it dried up.

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