* On October 4, 1906, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 10 – 0 " in a hard-fought contest that was featured by a newfangled and daring forward pass that Crimson worked in the closing minutes of play.

The first president of Reed ( 1910 – 1919 ) was William Trufant Foster, a former professor at Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine.

He was also a member of the Theta chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon while at Bowdoin, and the flag of DKE was one of the five flags that he took with him to the North Pole.

Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his alma mater, Bowdoin College.

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre, published under the auspices of the Boston town meeting, was principally written by James Bowdoin, a member of the governor's council and a vocal opponent of British colonial policy.

It was named for the treasurer of Bowdoin College, John Abbot.

When Bowdoin ( a perennial loser to Hancock in earlier elections ) was elected governor that year, matters became more severe.

He attended The Foote School, Hopkins School, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and finally Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

At the time, Harriet had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching.

Her husband was teaching theology at nearby Bowdoin College, and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication.

“ On these occasions ,” Chamberlain noted, “ a chosen circle of friends, mostly young, were favored with the freedom of her house, the rallying point being, however, the reading before publication, of the successive chapters of her Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, and the frank discussion of them .” In 2001 Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house.

In 2009, Colby was ranked the 9th best liberal arts college by Kiplinger, ahead of Maine rivals Bowdoin and Bates, 20th best college / university by Forbes, ranking it 3rd in the NESCAC, and 21st best liberal arts college in the U. S. News & World Report rankings.

Dole was named after his uncle, Sandford K. Ballard who was a classmate of his father's at Bowdoin College ( and brother of his mother ) who died in 1841.

Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by Governor Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a district, and was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor.

Bowdoin's opposition to British policies continued during the Hutchinson administration, and when letters by Hutchinson were published to outrage similar to the Bernard letters affair, Bowdoin again penned works highly critical of the governor and calling for his removal.

In 1871, he was appointed president of Bowdoin and remained in that position until 1883, when he was forced to resign due to ill health from his war wounds.

John Hancock ( British mezzotint, 1775 ) was a perennial opponent of Bowdoin in matters political and personal.

Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.

( Bowdoin was responsible for having the device rescued when Pope's house caught fire in 1787.

He was professor of intellectual and moral philosophy at Bowdoin College from 1879 to 1881, and Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale University from 1881 until 1901, when he took charge of the graduate department of philosophy and psychology ; he became professor emeritus in 1905.

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

** Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the American Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine ( d. 1914 )

* November 6 – James Bowdoin, American Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1726 )

* August 7 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician ( d. 1790 )

In 2006, Bowdoin was named a " Top Producer of Fulbright Awards for American Students " by the Institute of International Education.

He named it in honor of George S. Bowdoin, a donor and trustee to the American Museum of Natural History.

Election to the Academy is considered one of the nation ’ s highest honors since its founding during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin and other scholar-patriots who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution.

James Bowdoin II ( August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790 ) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

James Bowdoin III ( September 22, 1752 – October 11, 1811 ) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.

The note has been digitized and is available for viewing in the Library of Congress American Memories Collection, indexed as " Hackley and Bowdoin, no date, wool samples ".

In 1837, due to Ladd's influence and against the arguments of other members, including the president of Bowdoin College, the constitution of the American Peace Society was amended to declare that all war was contrary to the Christian Gospel.

James Bowdoin, who later became the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Science, fulfilled the intelligence mission, providing detailed plans of Halifax harbor, including specific military works and even water depths.

Also owning works by Hunt are New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Musée d ' Orsay in Paris, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the Addison Gallery of American Art at Hunt's alma mater Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire, the Harvard University Art Museums, Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and many others.

* Parker Cleaveland ( 1795 ), professor of mineralogy at Bowdoin College, leading early American authority on this subject known the " Father of American Mineralogy "

The gubernatorial race that year was dominated by Bowdoin, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing ( who was widely viewed as a standin for Hancock but lacked his charisma ), and Revolutionary War General Benjamin Lincoln.

In fact, Confederate President Jefferson Davis held an honorary degree from Bowdoin, which he received while United States Secretary of War in 1858.

He then graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was an active member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, and trained at Cornell Medical School before becoming a physician for the United States Army during the Korean War.

Novalee learns from Sister Husband and her boyfriend that Forney dropped out of Bowdoin College in Maine and wanted to be a history teacher before he had to leave school.

Bowdoin also phased out fraternities in the late 1990s, replacing them with a system of college-owned social houses.

He returned to America in 1840, was a tutor for a few months ( 1840-1841 ) at Bowdoin, and in 1842, shut out from any better place by distrust of his German training and by his frank opposition to Unitarianism, he became pastor of the Congregational Church of West Amesbury ( now Merrimac ), Massachusetts.

He then promptly enlisted unbeknownst to those at Bowdoin and his family.

His son James III donated lands from the family estate in Brunswick, Maine, as well as funds and books, to establish Bowdoin College in his honor.