{"id":153603,"date":"2023-05-12T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=153603"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:27:16","slug":"10-new-catfacts-the-bates-trivia-edition-about-bates-college-ultimate-risque-dancing-and-yagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/12\/10-new-catfacts-the-bates-trivia-edition-about-bates-college-ultimate-risque-dancing-and-yagging\/","title":{"rendered":"10 new CatFacts (the Bates trivia edition) about Ultimate, risqu\u00e9 dancing, and yagging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This edition of CatFacts<\/em>, our second, <\/em>tilts toward the trivial. But where else are you going to learn what \u201cyagging\u201d is? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Need a Hug?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This is a followup to a CatFact in the last edition reporting that until 1922<\/a>, campus dances were prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just after Bates approved campus dances for the first time, Dean of Men and Professor of Biology Fred Pomeroy told the male students that Bates would not allow the \u201ctype of dancing at downtown dance halls\u201d and that dancing was \u201cnot an excuse to hug a girl.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proprietors of Lewiston dance halls, offended by the insinusation of “indecent dancing” in their establishments, said that the dean was clueless about modern dancing, saying that it was impossible for a couple to both hug and keep time with the day’s fast-paced dances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimate Decision<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In October 1977, the Bates Department of Athletics refused to approve a new club sport: ultimate, the disc sport. <\/em>One reason: There was \u201cconfusion as to just when the ultimate season is,\u201d according to The Bates Student<\/em>. (Bates now has men\u2019s and women\u2019s club ultimate teams.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheer Up<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“Yagging” was a 1890s phenomenon, where student spectators at Bates games created a \u201cperfect bedlam of noise,\u201d according to The Bates Student<\/em> in May 1894, featuring \u201cfrantic shouting and singing,\u201d near-constant chanting, plus the \u201cblowing of horns, waving of canes, hats, and flags.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper said that the tumult was more than annoying: It created a \u201cpoorer exhibit of athletic ability because for everyone it requires more nerve power to withstand such a continual strain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How About Dem Apples?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In November 1907, newspapers around the country reported a good deed by seven female Bates students: They helped a local farmer pick his apples \u2014 67 barrels in six hours \u2014 before a killing frost. The farmer\u2019s daughter, Grace Harlow, Class of 1910, was one of the Bates students. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Grace Harlow, Class of 1910, made national news with her Bates friends by saving her father’s apple crop in 1907.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Marysville<\/em> (Ohio) Journal-Tribune<\/em> noted that the women \u201cdonned short skirts [and] put on leather leggings\u201d then climbed all the trees to get the job done. \u201cMr. Harlow declares he will employ the girls next fall,\u201d the paper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m Here for an Argument <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In 1948\u201349, Bates defeated 10 other colleges, including the University of Alabama, Wake Forest, and Texas Christian in the National Recorded Debate, where colleges recorded their arguments, presumably on wire recording devices<\/a>, that were sent to opponents, who then recorded counter-arguments. All the records were then sent to judges around the country for ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u200bThink It Over<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In the late 1960s, consumption of coffee had sunk to historic lows, prompting a national ad campaign, including ads in The Bates Student, <\/em>aimed at the college crowd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed by McCann-Erickson (the ad firm that came across poorly in Mad Men<\/em>), the print campaign was called \u201cThe Think Drink.\u201d It tried to crack wise by posing a college-life situation, then offered this tagline: \u201cThink it over, over coffee.\u201d Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou keep flunking your best subject?\u201d
Think it over, over coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour adviser asks you for advice?\u201d
Think it over, over coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour last check from home just bounced?\u201d
Think it over, over coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Your psychology professor lives with his mother?\u201d
Think it over, over coffee.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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This McCann-Erickson ad appeared in The Bates Student<\/em> on April 9, 1969.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Spare Change<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1990s, Bates offered access to online content through Gopher, which predated the World Wide Web. A campus-wide email in September 1994 announced that that content found on the campus Gopher server might \u201cchange without notice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowled Them Over <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Two different Bates teams went undefeated in the GE College Bowl<\/em> television quiz show in the spring and fall 1961. They defeated Muhlenberg, George Washington, Brandeis, Trinity (Texas), Macalester, North Dakota\u2013Grand Forks, and Wheaton (Massachusetts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the spring 1961 Bates team that appeared on GE College Bowl television show: Alan Schwartz \u201961, George Drury \u201961, Casimir Kolaski \u201964, and Steve Wardwell \u201961. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Getting to Work<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When Bates purchased land near Russell Street to expand Garcelon Field in the 1930s, the project moved rapidly forward “with requisite speed\u201d in part because it was the Great Depression, and the project was intended \u201cto aid the unemployed,” said the Bates Alumnus<\/em> of February 1932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advanced Degree<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The oldest person to receive a Bates degree is 83-year-old Francena Stanton White Morrell, who received hers in 1931, by vote of the Bates trustees. Initially a member of the Class of 1867 \u2014 Bates’ first college class \u2014 she left before graduation, as did all seven women in that first class, in part due to the chilly reception from male students. <\/p>\n\n\n

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In 1931, 83-year-old Francena Stanton White Morrell, received her Bates degree by a vote of the Bates trustees. She had been a member of the first college class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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