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The collection is titled "Sober Consent of the Heart. The Bowdoin College Chapel Messages of its First President, Joseph McKeen, D.D., Delivered 1802-1806". It was compiled and edited by Robert B. Gregory. [4] The "Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center" was established off of the Bowdoin College campus by the Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin.
Bowdoin College (/ ˈ b oʊ d ɪ n / ⓘ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine.Chartered in 1794, the college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine.
Bowdoin is a stronger, more humane place because of his service.” [6] The Bowdoin College Swimming Pool was renamed the LeRoy Greason Pool in his memory. The pool has hosted NESCAC and NCAA Championship events, and Olympic swimmers have trained along its sixteen 25-yard deep-water lanes.
Coles became president of Bowdoin in 1952 and served until 1968. Coles was the first president to build dormitories for seniors and saw the sizes of his student body, faculty, and campus grow dramatically. Notably, the Coles Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Maine, was built during his tenure.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1852, Bowdoin College professor (1855–62), Civil War brigadier general, Medal of Honor recipient, Maine governor (1867–71), and president of Bowdoin College (1871–83) Michael J. Connor 1980, USN Vice Admiral, Commander, Submarine Forces (2012–2015) Abraham Eustis 1806 (M.A.), officer during the War of 1812
Glaude began his teaching career at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He chaired the department of religion at the college. He joined the faculty of Princeton University. He is a distinguished professor of African American Studies at Princeton.
When Howell became the college's tenth president in 1968 at age 32, he was one of the youngest university presidents in the nation. Under his nine-year presidency, Bowdoin became a co-ed institution (1971), expanded its enrollment from 950 students to 1,350, founded its computing center, established Maine's first African-American center, developed African-American studies and 12-college ...
He enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1949 with plans to join the ministry [3] and graduated cum laude in 1953 with high honors in history and is a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.