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Scope and Content Note From the Series:

The Garnet has been the student literary magazine of Bates College since 1922, having been continuously published since then. Also found in this series are two one-off publications with the same title, published in 1879 and 1890. These two items were not literary magazines like the current "Garnet," but were more like yearbooks, with material geared more to entertainment and humor.

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

The Garnet has been the student literary magazine of Bates College since 1922, having been continuously published since then. Also found in this series are two one-off publications with the same title, published in 1879 and 1890. These two items were not literary magazines like the current "Garnet," but were more like yearbooks, with material geared more to entertainment and humor.

Scope and Content Note From the Series: Contains issues of the Bates Student, the campus newspaper. First published in 1873, the Student more closely resembled a literary magazine -- with campus news sprinkled throughout -- in both size and format, than a traditional newspaper. It was not until 1921 that the format changed to its current mode, even though the size, content, and rate of publication has changed through the years. The issues are arranged chronologically, and some runs of issues are incomplete. The various...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: The first yearbook of student photographs at Bates was published in 1870. Subsequent issues became known simply as the "Photo Book." In 1900, the format expanded to include photographs of the college buildings and landscape, and of student activities and clubs, and began to include textual descriptions of campus life. The name "The Mirror" was first used for the yearbook issue of 1909. Copies of The Mirror can be found in the Archives reading room. This series is broken down into three...

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series contains issues for various short-lived student publications. Some items are publications from student groups, while most are one-off or short-term publications. The folders are arranged alphabetically by publication title.