Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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Standing under the Bates College sign, with your back to the Stanton Elm, you could see Prexy's house, complete with its large sun parlor, so useful when en- tertaining freshmen and seniors, Cheney House with its suicide slope for a front walk, and Mitchell House, commonly called the Goldfish Bowl. Other girls' dorms were located around the corner on Frye Street. These included Frye Street House, Wilson, the Women's Union, Hacker, and Chase. Whittier and Milliken, right across from the bus stop. filled out the roster. The Hobby Shoppe garden formed Milliken's side yard, giving those girls ringside seats for the mayoralty antics of Ali Ben Ander , and Diamond Jim . Further down Campus Avenue was the new Bates infirmary, complete with its picture window and partisan garnet blinds. The infirmary, an addition to and remod- eling of the old men's building, was ready Ye Olde Hobby Shoppe l

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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.

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Carnegie Science Say ah-h and waiting for us when we returned for our senior year. It had many sick yet satisfied inmates as the year progressed and the ilu epidemic played havoc with the educational schedule. The infirmary was so attractively and comfortably fur- nished that it became one of the most popular places on campus, regardless of its uncompromising cleanliness and abso- lute quiet. The view across the campus from the upstairs windows was wonderful. Straight across the quadrangle you could see the college buildings and the students passing between classes. Closer up was Carnegie Science Building, home of all biology, geology, and physics majors. Carnegie was the scene of much ac- tivity during the bienniel science exhibits. The shows and demonstrations gave the rest of the campus an opportunity to see what the science majors had been so in- cessantly talking about. The weather station on the top Hoor, the gem display, the geology profile maps, and, by all means, the Stanton Bird Collection at- tracted earnest crowds of admirers. Biol- ogy and physics were not so strange to most of us, but everyone found the lab displays interesting and worthwhile. Light of the lab 20