{"id":161045,"date":"2024-03-15T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=161045"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:25:28","slug":"from-bates-history-inaugural-keys-and-a-silver-chalice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/15\/from-bates-history-inaugural-keys-and-a-silver-chalice\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bates History: inaugural keys, silver chalice, and a 1908 Rand Hall midnight party"},"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 what they mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Key<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Each new Bates president receives a set of keys, symbolizing the authority of the office, at their installation ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current set was created for the inauguration of Elaine Tuttle Hansen on Oct. 26, 2002. Clayton Spencer received the keys on Oct. 26, 2012, and President Garry W. Jenkins will receive them at his installation ceremony on May 4, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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President Garry W. Jenkins will receive these symbolic keys at his installation ceremony on May 4, 2024. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Hoops Heroines<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Class of 1910 women’s basketball team won the inter-class basketball championship in two of their four years. <\/p>\n\n\n

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This photograph shows the Class of 1910 women’s basketball team. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The team’s stars were Nellie Barker (top left) and Grace Archibald (lower right). In the 1909 title game vs. the sophomores, The Bates Student<\/em> noted how Barker, “not satisfied with a long shot into the basket which she made in the first half, apparently deliberately turned her back to the goal and tossed the ball over her head into the basket.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Archibald made five baskets from the floor in the 18 to 8 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gomes\u2019 Good Life<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This silver chalice by Shreve and Co. belonged to the late Rev. Peter Gomes \u201965. His friends purchased the chalice at his estate auction in 2012<\/a> and donated it to Bates to honor the naming of the Bates chapel in memory of the beloved preacher, author, and Bates alumnus. <\/p>\n\n\n

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This silver chalice by Shreve and Co. belonged to the late Rev. Peter Gomes \u201965.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It is inscribed \u201cGood Life December 2002\u201d (the title and publication date of Gomes\u2019 book about moral traditions) and monogrammed \u201cPJG.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hair Raising<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Edwardian hairstyle for women was the pompadour, a style worn here by Gladys Burgess Spear for her Class of 1906 yearbook portrait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Edwardian hairstyle for women was the pompadour, a style worn here by Gladys Burgess Spear for her Class of 1906 yearbook portrait. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In that era, women rarely wore their hair down, and when they did it was mostly in private. The accompanying photo shows Bates women in such a private moment with their hair down, having a \u201cmidnight party\u201d in Rand Hall in 1908. While it looks like they\u2019re smoking cigarettes, they\u2019re having a midnight snack, probably Welsh rarebit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Held at boarding schools and colleges, food-fueled midnight parties were popular at the time among women. (A midnight party figures in Virginia Woolf’s A Woman’s College from Outside<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A midnight party in Rand Hall in 1908. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bates Bib<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Until the 1960s, first-year Bates students were obliged to wear certain clothing items marking them as freshmen. Men wore black and garnet beanies, whereas women wore green hair bows and bibs, oftentimes adorned with embroidery. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Found in a scrapbook created by late Muriel “Swick” Swicker ’42 for her freshman year is her bib, surrounded by personal commentary on her smock. Her comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • “That’s me!”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Palsie”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Now \u2014 we know who’s who!”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Yes \u2014 ties and caps sure get ’em! (Hope we do some getting)”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Excuse dirt! But \u2014 weren’t bibs made for spilling?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Can I sew?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “So fetching! (especially with silk dresses)”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “It keeps my neck warm!”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Got rather attached to you \u2014 I miss you \u2014 Bib!”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “With my own little hands”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, including a Peter Gomes ’65 chalice and a 1908 midnight party by the women of Rand Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":161444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,7,11012],"tags":[11787],"class_list":["post-161045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-student-life","tag-from-the-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161045"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161461,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161045\/revisions\/161461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}