It truly is a Great Day to be a Bobcat. On this day in 1855, the charter for the Maine State Seminary, which would soon become Bates College, was signed!
The little barque, Maine State Seminary, came safely into port... The voyage was long the weather stormy the freight heavy but she came safely in. Bates College founder, Oren Cheney
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