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Lectures on Leave. The son of an Episcopal minister, Forbes started his first museum in his own attic in Stamford, Conn., often trotted over to ask the advice of his famed neighbor, Naturalist William T. Hornaday. He studied zoology and ornithology at the State University of Iowa and Bowdoin College, later became curator of a special natural history collection in Stamford. While serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant in Alabama, he carried on his work. On days off, he managed to raise enough money for a museum in Geneva, Ala., spent his leaves lecturing and showing movies in schools...
James S. Coles, Bowdoin President, termed the idea "a very fine suggestion. I think the colleges, particularly New England colleges should take a position of leadership. It's very encouraging that colleges are talking about the problem and studying it," Coles said. "It's a good thing to adjust our scholarship resources to do the most good...
Besides Harvard, Wesleyan, Amherst, Brown, and Bowdoin, the New England College group includes Dartmouth, Middlebury, Colby, Williams, Tufts, Clark, Vermont, Yale, and Trinity. Yale president A. Whitney Griswold was unavailable for comment last night
Leading nature hikes at summer camps helped Kinsey to pay his way through Maine's Bowdoin College, where he majored in biology and zoology. He had studied the piano since he was five, and at the Zeta Psi fraternity house he loved to play Beethoven or Chopin with tumultuous Paderewski-like tossing of his blond mane...
First prize winner in the Bowdoin Awards is Ivan Nabokoff '53. Nabokoff gets $500 for his essay, "Alms for Oblivion: John Marston's Dutch Courtezan and the Satiric Drama...