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...others are president Frederick F. Sills of Bowdoin College; president Mildred McAfee Herton of Wollesley College; Dean Merriam Thronton of Spring field College; Mrs. Carl Meinkae, dean of Colby Junior College; and the Very Reverend John Wright, auxiliary bishop of Boston...
Chosen on the basis of their grade in these trials and the regularity of their attendance at rehearsals, the successful choralists will also travel to Bowdoin on December 4. Two days later they will join the Bowdoin Glee Club in a concert at Portland, Maine...
Madeira & Marriage. At Bowdoin College Hawthorne solemnly bet his friend Jonathan Cilley a barrel of Madeira wine that he, Hawthorne, would be unmarried twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...
Harvard 8, Bowdoin...
...with his trustees. They even forgave him when he ran for Senator on the Democratic ticket ("That's not really being in politics in Maine," he explains). But two years from now, he will give the trustees their first real problem: Casey will be 70, an age when Bowdoin presidents retire...