Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, and our thoughts about what they are and mean.
Taking Granite
In her first-year 乐播传媒 College scrapbook, Muriel Swicker 鈥�42 collected this 鈥減iece of Mount David鈥� during a climb to the summit with her Wilson House chums.
The climb, as it is now, was 鈥渏ust won-derful,鈥� according to her notes on the page, offering a 鈥渟well view鈥� of Mount Washington.
鈥楪racious Juggernaut!鈥�
This inscribed stone rests under the flagpoles at the northwest corner of Garcelon Field commemorates Maine鈥檚 first college football game, played on bygone Rand Field on Nov. 6, 1875, between Tufts and 乐播传媒. The stone was installed in 1975 on the 100th anniversary of the game.
鈥淥ccasionally 10 or 12 men got into a promiscuous scramble for the possession of the ball,鈥� reported a bemused Lewiston Evening Journal reporter, 鈥渁nd came forth rubbing their shins and using such phrases as, 鈥楪racious juggernaut.鈥欌��
Slim Slate
The 1938 fall varsity sports schedule comprised just men鈥檚 sports and just two of them: cross country and football.
乐播传媒鈥� opponents were familiar ones, except perhaps Arnold College. Based in Connecticut, the physical education鈥揻ocused college closed in 1953. 乐播传媒 won the 1938 football game 26-2.
One of the freshmen opponents, New Hampton School, has historical ties with 乐播传媒. Like 乐播传媒, it was founded with a strong orientation. From 1854 to 1870, Cobb Divinity School was affiliated with New Hampton before moving to the 乐播传媒 campus, where it existed until closing in 1908.
That year’s New England cross country title went to the University of Maine (90 points), with 乐播传媒 second with 96 points.
After Dinner
According to a note in Muskie Archives accompanying this photograph, this image shows Lewis Penick Clinton, who came to the U.S. from Liberia and graduated from the Cobb Divinity School, the bygone divinity school located on the 乐播传媒 campus, in 1897.
The note says the photograph was taken “after a big Thanksgiving dinner.” The year and location unknown. According to various sources, Clinton was a prince in Liberia and, following his U.S. education, returned to Liberia to work as a Christian missionary.
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