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...While at Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Longfellow's, Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom...
...Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, when I slapped my thigh in appreciation, as described...
Congressman White, 49, was born in Maine, graduated from famed Bowdoin* college, went promptly to Washington as a political clerk. Outside of Maine and the District of Columbia he has never earned a nickel; result: he is a skillful legislator...
...University fencing team humbled Bowdoin 11 to 2 and the Freshmen triumphed over English High 5 to 4 Saturday in the fencing room at Hemenway Gymnasium...
...wrestling match is scheduled with Penn State tomorrow, and a fencing meet with Bowdoin on the same day. The fencing team will then face West Point there on February...