{"id":153586,"date":"2023-05-12T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=153586"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:16:33","slug":"from-bates-history-granite-from-mount-david-and-a-prince-from-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/12\/from-bates-history-granite-from-mount-david-and-a-prince-from-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bates history: Granite from Mount David and a prince from Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, and our thoughts about what they are and mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking Granite<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In her first-year Bates College scrapbook, Muriel Swicker \u201942 collected this \u201cpiece of Mount David\u201d during a climb to the summit with her Wilson House chums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climb, as it is now, was \u201cjust won-derful,\u201d according to her notes on the page, offering a \u201cswell view\u201d of Mount Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The late Muriel Swicker ’42 saved this piece of Mount David granite in her Bates scrapbook and recorded her reactions to climbing the campus hill. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Gracious Juggernaut!\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This inscribed stone rests under the flagpoles at the northwest corner of Garcelon Field commemorates Maine\u2019s first college football game, played on bygone Rand Field on Nov. 6, 1875, between Tufts and Bates. The stone was installed in 1975 on the 100th anniversary of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This inscribed stone rests under the flagpoles at the northwest corner of Garcelon Field. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOccasionally 10 or 12 men got into a promiscuous scramble for the possession of the ball,\u201d reported a bemused Lewiston Evening Journal<\/em> reporter, \u201cand came forth rubbing their shins and using such phrases as, \u2018Gracious juggernaut.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slim Slate<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The 1938 fall varsity sports schedule comprised just men\u2019s sports and just two of them: cross country and football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates\u2019 opponents were familiar ones, except perhaps Arnold College. Based in Connecticut, the physical education\u2013focused college closed in 1953. Bates won the 1938 football game 26-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pocket schedule for the 1938 fall sports season featured just two sports, both men’s. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the freshmen opponents, New Hampton School, has historical ties with Bates. Like Bates, it was founded with a strong Freewill Baptist<\/a> orientation. From 1854 to 1870, Cobb Divinity School was affiliated with New Hampton before moving to the Bates campus, where it existed until closing in 1908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year’s New England cross country title went to the University of Maine (90 points), with Bates second with 96 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Dinner<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

According to a note in Muskie Archives accompanying this photograph, this image shows Lewis Penick Clinton, who came to the U.S. from Liberia and graduated from the Cobb Divinity School, the bygone divinity school located on the Bates campus, in 1897.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lewis Penick Clinton relaxes after a Thanksgiving dinner, according to a note in Muskie Archives accompanying this photograph. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The note says the photograph was taken “after a big Thanksgiving dinner.” The year and location unknown. According to various sources, Clinton was a prince in Liberia and, following his U.S. education, returned to Liberia to work as a Christian missionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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