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Bates College
Bates College () is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island (Maine), Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay. With an annual enrollment of approximately 1,800 students, it is the smallest college in its athletic conference. The college was founded in 1855, by abolitionist statesman Oren Burbank Cheney and textile tycoon Benjamin Bates IV, Benjamin Bates. It became the first List of earliest coeducational colleges and universities in the United States, coeducational college in New England and the List of colleges and universities in Maine, third-oldest college in Maine, after Bowdoin College, Bowdoin and Colby College. Bates provides undergraduate instruction in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Colleges And Universities In Maine
The U.S. state of Maine has twenty-nine accredited, degree-granting institutions of higher learning. The state's land-grant university and only research university is the University of Maine in Orono. It is the flagship of the University of Maine System, which also has institutions in Augusta, Portland/Gorham/Lewiston, Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias, and Presque Isle. Maine's public education system also includes the Maine Community College System, comprising seven schools, and the Maine Maritime Academy. The state's three oldest institutions of higher education are Bowdoin College (founded in 1794), Colby College (1813), and Bates College (1855). The three colleges collectively form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium and are ranked among the best colleges in the United States; often placing in the top 10 percent of all liberal arts colleges. The largest institution in the state is the public University of Maine, with 12,231 students. The smallest, with 43 students, is M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association
The Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) is an NCAA skiing-only conference. As the NCAA does not have divisions in skiing, it is composed of NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III schools. Current members * Bates College * Boston College (Alpine only) * Bowdoin College (Nordic only) * Colby College * Colby-Sawyer College (Alpine only) * Dartmouth College *Harvard University * Middlebury College * Plymouth State University (Alpine only) * St. Lawrence University * Saint Michael's College * University of Maine at Presque Isle (Nordic only) *University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ... * University of Vermont * Williams College External links * http://www.eisaskiing.org/index.html * http://donsnotes.com/sports/skiing-college.h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bates College People
This list of notable people associated with Bates College includes Matriculation, matriculating students, Alumnus, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Members of the Bates community are known as "Batesies" or bobcats. This list also includes students of the affiliated Maine State Seminary, Nichols Latin School, and Cobb Divinity School. In 1915, George Colby Chase, the second president of the college, opted that the college include former students (those who did not complete the full four year course of study) as alumni in "appreciation of their loyalty". Throughout its history, Bates has been the #Fictional people, fictional ''alma mater'' of various characters in Culture of the United States, American popular culture. Notable fictional works to feature the college include ''Ally McBeal'' (1997)'', The Sopranos'' (1999), and ''The Simpsons'' (2015). , there are 24,000 Bates College alumni. Affiliates of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Small College Athletic Conference
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division III, Division III comprising sports teams from eleven highly selective liberal arts institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The eleven institutions are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University, Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Williams College. The conference originated with an agreement among Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan and Williams in 1955. In 1971, Bates, Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, and Union College joined on and the NESCAC was officially formed. Union withdrew in 1977 and was replaced by Connecticut College in 1982. NESCAC members maintain some of the largest financial endowments among liberal arts colleges in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium
The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (CBB) is an athletic conference and Consortium, academic consortium between three private Liberal arts college, liberal arts colleges in the U.S. State of Maine. The group consists of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Waterville, Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Lewiston, and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Brunswick. In allusion to the Big Three (colleges), Big Three of the Ivy League, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin are collectively known the "Maine Big Three", a Word play, play on words with the words "Maine" and "main". The school names are ordered by their geographical organization in Maine (north to south). The colleges contest the C-B-B Trophy in three-way football games in the Fall of their respective academic years. As of the 2023–24 season, Bowdoin Polar Bears, Bowdoin leads the conference in wins, with 20; Colby Mules, Colby has 17 and Bates Bobcats, Bates has won 13. Colby holds the record for the longest streak of consecutive win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, United States. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner Colby saw the institution renamed again to Colby University before settling on its current title, reflecting its liberal arts college curriculum, in 1899. Approximately 2,000 students from more than 60 countries are enrolled annually. The college offers 54 major fields of study and 30 minors. Located in central Maine, the 714-acre Neo-Georgian campus sits atop Mayflower Hill and overlooks downtown Waterville and the Kennebec River Valley. Along with fellow Maine institutions Bates College and Bowdoin College, Colby competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium. History 19th century On February 27, 1813, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, led by Baptists, adopted a petit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a scientific field station on Kent Island (New Brunswick), Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. The college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates College and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin List of Bowdoin College people, alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. History Founding and 19th century Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Earliest Coeducational Colleges And Universities In The United States
The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses. Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below. Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century) * Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Coeducational Colleges And Universities In The United States Coed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Bates IV
Benjamin Edward Bates IV (; July 12, 1808 – January 14, 1878) was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was the wealthiest person in Maine from 1850 to 1878. Bates was born to a large family in Mansfield, Massachusetts. He moved to Bristol, Maine, for a working residency at B. T. Loring Company before he created the Davis, Bates & Turner, a craft goods and service firm in the early 1830s. After entering the textile business, he created the Bates Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine, building its first mill in 1850. His company quickly became the largest employer per capita in Maine and the largest in Lewiston for three decades. As the dominant force in the already-extant Lewiston Water Power Company, he also oversaw the creation of the first canal in the city. At the start of the American Civil War, Bates correctly anticipated that the talk of secession in the Southern States would lead to a shortage of cotton. By buying up a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oren Burbank Cheney
Oren Burbank Cheney (December 10, 1816 – December 22, 1903) was an American politician, minister, and statesman who was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the later 19th century. Along with textile tycoon Benjamin Bates, he founded Bates College as the first coeducational college in New England which is widely considered his ''magnum opus.'' Cheney is one of the most extensively covered subjects of Neoabolitionism, for his public denouncement of slavery, involuntary servitude, and advocation for fair and equal representation, egalitarianism, and personal sovereignty. Cheney's main social ideology was that of egalitarianism; he personally voiced his disdain for racial inequality, social elitism, and socioeconomic deprivation regularly, in controversial speeches and articles. He was ordained a minister in his early twenties, became the headmaster at Parsonsfield, Maine, and illegally harbored and transferred slaves to safety during the 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atkins Bay
The Kennebec River (Abenaki: ''Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 30, 2011 natural river within the U.S. state of Maine. It rises in Moosehead Lake in west-central Maine. The East and West Outlets join at Indian Pond and the river flows southward. Harris Station Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the state, was constructed near that confluence. The river is joined at The Forks by its tributary, the Dead River, also called the West Branch. It continues south past the towns of Madison, Skowhegan, the city of Waterville, and the state capital Augusta. At Richmond, it flows into Merrymeeting Bay, a freshwater tidal bay into which also flow the Androscoggin River and five smaller rivers. The Kennebec runs past the shipbuilding center of Bath, and has its mouth at the Gulf of Maine in the Atlantic Ocean. The Southern Kennebec flows below the fall line and do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
