Renewing Bates' 'cherished place' | Lewiston Sun Journal
To greet with praise the listening skies. — From an ode by Mabel S. Merrill, an 1891 Bates College graduate, sung during the dedication of the chapel in 1914. LEWISTON — On a chilly November afternoon in 1912, Bates President George Colby Chase dedicated the cornerstone of what would become the college’s chapel. A small section of the large window facing the congregation. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal He told the audience of students, professors and residents that “eminent and skillful architects” had designed an English Collegiate Gothic-style chapel that would be “commodious, be...
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