Word: bowdoin
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...Indians living there. He was in command of the Crocker Land expedition to the Polar Regions which took place from 1913-17. In all his travels he has covered 10,000 miles with dog team in company with Polar Eskimos. Mr. MacMillan will also be in command of the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition which will take place next year...
...MacMillan was born in Province-town in 1874, and attended Bowdoin College, from where he received his A. B. degree in 1898. For several years he was a school teacher, being principal of the Levi Hall High School of North Gorham, Me., from 1898-1900. He was head of the Classical Department of the Swarthmore Preparatory School from 1900 to 1903 and an instructor at Worcester Academy from 1903 to 1908. During the years of 1910-11 and 1912-13 he studied in the Graduate Schools of the University...
Announcement has been made by the committee in charge that the competition for the Bowdoin Prizes for 1919-20 is now open to all resident students of the University. These prizes are of two groups, the first of which are awarded for dissertations in English, and the second for dissertations in Greek and Latin. Each of these classes are subdivided so that those who hold degrees will be judged and awarded prizes distinct from these which are given undergraduates. The competitions close on April 1, 1920, and on that date all essays and translations must have been handed...
Essays offered in competition for these prizes may be on any subject approved by the Chairman of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. Theses that form part of the regular work in an elective course may be offered in competition, with the consent of the instructor in the course, or, subject to such consent, may be rewritten for the prize competition...
...founder of these prizes. James Bowdoin, graduated from the University in 1745. He was a member from 1757 to 1774 of His Majesty's Council for the Province, and was active there as an opponent of the ministry. He was president of the convention which framed the Constitution of the Commonwealth in 1779 80, and was Governor of Massachusetts from 1785 to 1787. Governor Rowdoin bequeathed 400 pounds, the interest which was to be used for these prizes. In 1901 George S. Rowdoin of New York give $15.000 to be added to the practice of the formers bequest...