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Kenneth Sills 1901, president of Bowdoin College (1918–52) Asa S. Knowles 1930, president of the University of Toledo and Northeastern University, and namesake of the building which houses the Northeastern School of Law. Lawrence Lee Pelletier 1936, president of Allegheny College, and namesake of the school's library.
Bowdoin College (/ ˈ b oʊ d ɪ n / ⓘ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University ...
Brad Anderson (director) John Anderson (Maine politician) John C. Anderson (lawyer) Rufus Anderson. Wendell Abraham Anderson. Amy Andreotti. John Albion Andrew. Thomas Andrews (American politician) Richard Andrias.
Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest.Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set the presidents apart from the general population, and presidents have held degrees even though it was quite rare and unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
Bowdoin College fielded an official varsity football team for the first time in 1899, losing to Tufts 8–4 in its first game. Bowdoin football achieved its first win in the following game in a 42–0 win over the Boston Latin School. [10] The Polar Bears' most prominent current football rivals are in-state NESCAC foes Bates and Colby.
Haldane then attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. [4] He was captain of the football team, served as president of the student council, [5] [6] and was voted most popular senior in 1940. [7] He also played amateur baseball as a catcher in a summer league operating in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Bowdoin College alumni (2 C, 499 P) Bowdoin Polar Bears athletic directors (1 P) C. Bowdoin Polar Bears coaches (7 C) F. Bowdoin College faculty (73 P) P.
Osher was born to a Jewish family [1] and raised in Biddeford, Maine. [2] In 1948, he graduated with a B.A. from Bowdoin College. [3] He spent his early years in southern Maine, owning and running a large hardware store on Main Street in Biddeford as well as a big summer amusement park called Palace Playland in nearby Old Orchard Beach.