Stories about "Annual events"
Noted liberation theologist to speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 10, 2000 3:06 pm
Philosopher, educator and minister William R. Jones will deliver the keynote address, "Beyond Hate Language: The Oppressor's Ploy or Pathology of the Oppressed?," for the 2000 Bates College Martin Luther King Day Jr. celebration.
Award winning biographer of mathematicians to speak
Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:00 am
Constance Reid, author of "A Long Way from Euclid" and "From Zero to Infinity," will discuss "Captured by Mathematics" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture, and admission is free.
Area students to graduate from Bates
Wednesday, June 2, 1999 12:00 am
Two area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 133rd commencement exercises Monday, May 31 in an outdoor ceremony on the main campus quadrangle. Richard C. Holbrooke, career diplomat and chief negotiator for the 1995 Dayton peace accord that served to suspend ethnic cleansing and warfare in Bosnia, received an honorary doctorate of laws and delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 2,500 at the ceremonies in front of historic Coram Library. Beneath sunny skies, Bates President Donald W. Harward conferred bachelor's degrees on 417 graduates.
MLK Day 1999: John Edgar Wideman and ‘Looking for Emmett Till’
Monday, January 18, 1999 3:17 pm
Author John Edgar Wideman's talk was about an image and a name — literal and metaphorical — that stays in Wideman's mind. That of Emmett Till.
AACU president to speak at convocation
Thursday, August 27, 1998 3:31 pm
Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), will discuss "Liberal Learning and the Engaged Academy" during convocation celebrating the 144th academic year at Bates College Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. on Coram Library quadrangle.
Bates celebrates homecoming weekend September 19-21
Friday, September 5, 1997 2:23 pm
Bates College will celebrate "Back to Bates" homecoming Sept. 19 - Sunday, Sept. 21 with many on-campus events for students, alumni and Bates employees.
Environment keys parents and families weekend
Tuesday, October 1, 1996 10:26 am
"The Bates Environment" is the keynote for Bates College's annual Parents and Families Weekend Oct. 4-6, as the college celebrates its new program in environmental studies and focuses on the human and natural ecology of the campus.
Class of 2000 arrives
Thursday, August 29, 1996 10:42 am
Some remarkable young people -- including an inventor, artists and unusual athletes -- are entering the class of 2000, college officials say. Bates begins the new academic year with some 1,694 students. That number includes 493 first-year students and eight transfers, according to dean of admissions Wylie Mitchell.
Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series to be held
Tuesday, June 18, 1996 11:22 am
The Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series will present five Thursday evening musical performances on the open-air terrace overlooking Lake Andrews behind the Olin Arts Center. All concerts begin at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Gulbrandsen receives honorary degree
Thursday, June 6, 1996 12:00 am
Longtime Wellesley resident Natalie Webber Gulbrandsen was one of four distinguished recipients of honorary degrees at the 130th commencement of Bates College on May 27.