100 years ago: 1918

Although the German newspapers are not satisfied with President Wilson’s latest note many of them say that it means progress towards peace. This feeling was reflected in operations yesterday in the Berlin stock exchange. The Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin, however, apparently does not look for an early ending of the war This newspaper which hitherto has refrained from opposing President Wilson’s demand advocates for an end to the war.

50 years ago: 1968

Miss Marilyn Caps and Miss Tella Byerley, Bates College students, addressed members of the Association of Universalist Unitarian Women when they met recently at the First Universalist Church. The girls spoke on their experiences in the ghettoes of New York where they taught while attending the Union Theological Seminary. Miss Caps worked at the Union Settlement, teaching piano to children age 3 and older, as well as to the elderly. There were more Puerto Ricans than Negroes in her classes, she said. Miss Byerley taught at the James Weldon Johnson Community Center Library, also in East Harlem, holding classes reading for the Golden Agers and for children. They found the people warm and friendly but were appalled at their living conditions.

25 years ago: 1993

Bates College has scheduled its second annual Basketball Mini-Camp for boys and girls in grades four through nine. The first camp will take place on Sunday, Nov. 14, and the second one on Sunday, Dec. 12. Admission is free. Participants are simply asked to donate one or two articles of winter clothing, which will be donated to a local shelter. The camps are designed to expose children to the fundamentals of the game of basketball. Emphasis will be placed on developing individual and team skills for the beginning to the intermediate level player.

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