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Young college instructors are sometimes timid, but few are so timid as Kenneth C. M. Sills was. In his Latin class at Bowdoin College, he sometimes chewed his handkerchief to shreds. By the time he acquired a nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever...
...Though Bowdoin's endowment has risen from $2,000,000 to $9,000,000 since Casey took office, he has never even considered marble halls. He prefers to keep Bowdoin to its traditions-compact and personal, with a faculty of first-rate teachers rather than scholars...
Three students hit the jackpot in the University's store of prizes, netting over $1000 for winning essays in the annual Bowdoin contest, it was announced yesterday...
...Bowdoin Prize...
...Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduates in the Classics was presented to Francis J. Di Mento '48 of Brighton for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Lard Charnwood's "Abraham Lincoln...