The Day of Prayer at Bates was observed yesterday in accordance with the custom now prevalent all through the colleges of the country of making one day in the college year a special day of religious observance.

The morning was occupied in special Christian Association service, participated in by both the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. The meetings were very largely attended and were very helpful to all present.

50 Years Ago, 1956

A safety door jammed on the isolated Manhattan end of the new Lincoln Tunnel tube today and the Hudson River flooded the underground approach. The main tube was not affected.

“It was like a dam breaking,” said Fred Rodrigues, 27, one of three sandhogs who, weighted down with heavy working gear, swam for their lives in the dark surging waters.

A 12-hour flow of river water into the nearly one third of a mile long tunnel section finally was stemmed in late afternoon. A diver, Raymond J. Campbell, 48, working under water in intense cold, forced the safety door shut.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Everybody seemed to like the movie though few were fooled that it wasn’t mostly Hollywood. A new movie was opening at the Lewiston Promenade Mall Twin Cinema. In the crowd that came out of the early show most women worked in schools or hospitals, or didn’t work at all. They couldn’t relate to the show personally.

“9 to 5” is a Hollywood movie that lampoons the office working world. There are all the little miseries of a situation where the women do the work and the male boss takes the credit. Men get “promotion to management” over women and there is sexual innuendo on the job.