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...Smith declined the appointment of President Coolidge as U. S. Commissioner of Education. He has always been an objector to politics in education, and has led drives against slang and immoral movies. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Maine, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Rhode Island State, and Norwich University...
...went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show of 1913 and in the excitement married a big, handsome Gerbookseller. While his 20-year-old son goes to Bowdoin College to prepare for production work in the Cinema, Father Pach indiscriminately helps struggling young artists, paints steadily and with his earnings buys a few fine pictures by his friends...
...annual award of Bowdoin prizes to students in Harvard University for excellence in English composition was announced yesterday as follows...
Richard Samuel Salant '35, of New York City, has been awarded the first prize in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing, it was learned last night. The award carries a stipend...
...Bowdoin Prize was started at Harvard by the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin, of the Class of 1745, which was increased by George Sullivan Bowdoin in 1901. Nine prizes are awarded to students resident at the University, five open for competition only to undergraduates who do not hold a degree. Three of these prizes are offered for essays, two for translation into Greek and Latin...