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...National (assets: $694,000,000), celebrated a sesquicentennial. In 1903 First National merged with the Massachusetts Bank which was founded in 1784 by six bewigged gentlemen-patriots who, admitting that banking was "quite novel to them all," wrote to the Bank of North America in Philadelphia for advice. James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts during Shays' Rebellion, was first president, Paul Revere an early depositor. Unlike Manhattan's Bank of New York & Trust Co. which has merged only once in 150 years, First National has absorbed through seven mergers the businesses of 46 banks since acquiring Massachusetts Bank, is today ninth...
Forty students of high rank in their respective colleges applied for the fellowship. Among the institutions represented were Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wisconsin, Duke, Antioch, Oberlin, Columbia, Cornell, Wesleyan, and the U. S. Naval Academy. Fifteen applicants were from Harvard...
Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34 of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Meyer Howard Abrams '34 of Long Branch, New Jersey, have been respectively awarded the first and second prizes in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing. The awards carry stipends of $500 and $300 each. Boorstin's subject was "The Unspoken Laminations on History with Illustrations from Gibbon," while Abrams wrote on "The Effect of Opium and Other Drugs on English Literature...
There is a third prize of $100, the winner of which has not been announced. The prizes are taken from the interest of a fund created by Governor James Bowdoin in 1745 and increased in 1901 by George Sullivan Bowdoin...
Included in the roster of colleges represented in the 1930 meet and who may be expected to enter their pride and joys in next year's contest in addition to Harvard, are: M.I.T., Northwestern, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, Michigan, Princeton, Rutgers, Bowdoin, N.Y.U., Fordham, Amherst, Springfield, Syracuse, and McGill...