Word: bowdoin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a few points where the Fish letter is wrong. First of all, Fish seems annoyed by the "dismal failure of the 1949 season." It might be germane to point out that the "great" Harvard teams that he played on began their seasons with the following four opponents: 1907: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1908: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1909: Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Maine. The fact that Fish's teams were playing patsies for a month day possibly have had something to do with the fine finishes they staged, or with the reputation of Percy Haughton for fielding polished teams which...
Recently the second award of the undergraduate Bowdoin Prize was increased from...
...some cases entering a contest is not hard. The Bowdoin Prizes with $500 for first place calls for essays of not over 10,000 words on "any subject suitable for treatment in literary form." Students often hand in carbon copies of their honors theses for consideration...
...Bowdoin 19, Bates...
When Robert G. Albion graduated from Bowdoin in 1918, he had to choose between the newspaper business or a stretch at graduate work in history. "I took a look at the old boys in the city room, compared 'em with the professors mellowing at Bowdoin, and off I went to Harvard...