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...boom. One after another, each campus has announced the total of gifts and bequests received during the year, and the figures are impressive. Harvard has received another $16 million; Yale, another $6,500,000; Princeton, more than $3,000,000; CalTech, $1,926,000. Among the smaller colleges, Bowdoin has $1,918,275; Emory University, almost $2,000,000; Smith college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crisis in the Colleges: Can They Pay Their Way? | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Four college presidents will participate in a symposium on Tuesday evening after a dinner at Dunster House for the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research. All four Kenneth Sills of Bowdoin, James P. Baxter of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts are graduates of the University's Graduate Schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activities Fill Commencement Week | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

...turned up form about 20 which were thrown overboard by Rand and his shipmates on last August 1 while on a cruise with explorer Donald B. MacMillan. In the bottle he put a note requesting that it be returned to him. When the bottle was dropped, the schooner Bowdoin was sailing on a course west from Cape Chidley to Frobisher Bay in Baffin Land. Apparently the bottle drifted south down the coast of Labrador to the Grand Banks, where the Gulf Stream carried it to Scotland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter in Floating Bottle Comes Back to Eliot House via Scotland | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Bowdoin Prizes for Dissertations in English will go to two seniors, a junior, and three students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six in College, GSAS Get Bowdoin Prizes for Outstanding Dissertations | 5/25/1950 | See Source »

Many have said that on paper it doesn't seem possible for the Corporation to operate efficiently, if at all. Its double-board arrangement--with a Board of Overseers in addition to seven men on the Corporation trying to act as a single executive--has been duplicated only at Bowdoin...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Corporation Marks 300th Birthday | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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