Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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The chapel, more than any other place on campus served as a calendar for the undergraduates. From hrst convocation to commencement, the students mentally measured the years by the location of their chapel seats. Faculty procession, worship services. history of music, and No announcements -they were all part of chapel. The unity of Bates was focused for us at our initial experience with Last Chapel. Seeing the whole school lined up along the paths was a very impressive moment. They weren't just people, they were the parts of the organic whole, Bates. Across College Street from the chapel was Rand Hall, where the senior girls traditionally live. Behind it rose Mount David, scene of winter skiing. when there 8:35 M.W.F.

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Rand Libbey Forum: the second bell .t ' was snow, and nature-loving when there wasn't. On a clear day you could see Mount Washington from its top, and the sky glow from the forest hres in south- western Maine was visible on those fall evenings in 1947. Crossing the tennis courts and playing field from Mount David, you arrived at Libbey Forum. Libbey meant the most to us as the scene of the Bates Plan core courses: religion, sociology, economics, philosophy, psychology, and, especially. cultural heritage. Music, art, science, what-have-you--Libbey 3 certainly had a well rounded education. The Bates Plan and core courses came in for much criti- cism, but most of us appreciated the op- portunities cultural heritage gave us to become acquainted with fields outside our particular lines. The bus stop at the corner of College Street and Campus Avenue was a vantage point from which to survey the lower half of the campus.