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Charles Francis Jr. was an Adams who spent his life refusing to conform. Edward Kirkland, professor emeritus of American history at Bowdoin College, deftly exposes the reasons why. He concludes that while Adams is little remembered today, he was the most brilliant Adams of a generation in which the family's genius flowered. However, his superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like...
...smothered Dartmouth, 10 to 1 and 3 to 3, before vacation, and little Bowdoin upended the Indians three days after helplessly succumbing to Harvard at the season's start...
...Engineers have compiled a 7-3 record to date, defeating Wesleyan, Brandeis, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Union, RPI, and Hope (Mich.). They have lost to Union, Trinity, and DePauw...
Short Haul. Athletes suddenly airlifted from low to high altitude can perform as well as usual in brief events that require only short bursts of maximum exertion. "A trained athlete can run the 100 meters in ten seconds practically without breathing," explains Dr. Daniel F. Hanley of Bowdoin College, chief of the U.S. medical team at the Little Olympics. "You just can't build up any oxygen debt* in ten seconds. And there's no problem at 200 meters or even...
Coach Cooney Weiland has shaken up his young but quickly maturing team once again in his effort to conjure up the scoring punch that has waned since the nine-goal output against Bowdoin two weeks...