Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private human sciences school situated in the seaside Maine town of Brunswick. Established in 1794, the school at present enlists 1,839 understudies, and has been coeducational since 1971. Bowdoin offers 33 majors and four extra minors, and has a student–faculty proportion of 9:1. Outstanding graduated class incorporate Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Brackett Reed, Franklin Pierce, and Joshua Chamberlain. 

Bowdoin is reliably positioned as one of the main 10 human sciences universities in the US, and was tied with Pomona as the fifth-best aesthetic sciences school in the U.S. in the 2015 U.S. News and World Report rankings. 

Bowdoin is situated on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, 12 miles (19 km) north of Freeport, Maine, and 28 miles (45 km) north of Portland, Maine. Notwithstanding its Brunswick grounds, Bowdoin additionally possesses a 118-section of land (478,000 m²) waterfront contemplates focus on Orr's Island and a 200-section of land (809,000 m²) exploratory field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. 

Substance 

1 History 

1.1 Founding and nineteenth century 

1.2 Twentieth century 

1.3 Recent advancements 

2 Academics 

2.1 Rankings 

2.2 Admissions 

3 Student life 

4 Postgraduate situation 

5 Student associations 

5.1 Media and distributions 

5.2 A cappella 

5.3 Other 

6 Environmental record 

6.1 Commitment to activity on environmental change 

6.2 Energy profile 

6.3 Energy ventures 

7 Campus 

8 Athletics 

8.1 Facilities 

9 Sustainability 

10 Bowdoin graduated class 

11 Bowdoin in writing and film 

12 Presidents of Bowdoin 

13 References 

14 Further perusing 

15 External connections 

History 

Establishing and nineteenth century 

Bowdoin College, around 1845. Lithograph by Fitz Hugh Lane 

Bowdoin College was sanctioned in 1794 by Governor Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then an area, and was named for previous Massachusetts representative James Bowdoin, whose child James Bowdoin III was an early advocate. At the season of its establishing, it was the easternmost school in the United States. It is imagined that the Bowdoin seal, made in 1798 by Joseph Callender, was a sun since it was the main school in the United States to see the dawn. 

Bowdoin made its mark in the 1820s, 10 years in which Maine turned into a free state as a consequence of the Missouri Compromise and the school graduated some of its most well known graduated class, including future United States President Franklin Pierce, class of 1824, and scholars Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of whom graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1825. 

Bowdoin College Chapel, 2014 

From its establishing, Bowdoin delighted in a notoriety for scholarly meticulousness, and "cooked to a great extent to the tip top from the condition of Maine." During the primary portion of the nineteenth century, Bowdoin got to be known for its "demanding" confirmations necessities, which included, in 1854, an endorsement of "good character" and in addition information of Latin and Ancient Greek, topography, variable based math and the real works of Cicero, Xenophon, Virgil and Homer. 

Bowdoin's associations with the Civil War have offered ascend to a jest that the war "started and finished" in Brunswick. Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who began this enormous war", began keeping in touch with her powerful abolitionist subjection novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall while her spouse was instructing at the College, and Brigadier General (and Brevet Major General) Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin graduate and educator, was in charge of getting the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in 1865. Chamberlain, a Medal of Honor beneficiary who later served as legislative head of Maine, aide general of Maine, and president of Bowdoin, separated himself at Gettysburg, where he drove the twentieth Maine in its valiant guard of Little Round Top. 

The school has other Civil War ties also: Major General Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850, drove the Freedmen's Bureau after the war and later established Howard University; Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837, was in charge of the arrangement of the 54th Massachusetts; and William P. Fessenden 1823 and Hugh McCulloch 1827 both served as Secretary of the Treasury amid the Lincoln Administration. After the war, Bowdoin battled that a higher rate of its graduated class battled in the war than that of whatever other school in the North—and not just for the Union. Truth be told, Confederate President Jefferson Davis held a privileged degree from Bowdoin, which he got while United States Secretary of War in 1858. President Ulysses S. Gift, as well, was given a privileged degree from the school in 1865. By and large, seventeen Bowdoin graduated class accomplished the rank of brigadier general amid the Civil War, including James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden; Ellis Spear, class of 1858, who served as Chamberlain's second-in-charge at Gettysburg; and Charles Hamlin, class of 1857, child of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. 

Twentieth century 

Bowdoin was likewise the Medical School of Maine from 1821 to 1921 

Despite the fact that Bowdoin's Medical School of Maine shut its entryways in 1921, the College is as of now known for its especially solid projects in the normal sciences. One distinguished graduate was Dr. Augustus Stinchfield, who got his M.D. in 1868 and went ahead to end up one of the fellow benefactors of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was requested that join the two Mayo siblings' private therapeutic practice in 1892. In 1915, the remaining accomplices in the then private practice grasped the making of the non-benefit Mayo Clinic. While maybe Bowdoin's better-known former student in the sciences is the questionable entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's notoriety around there was established in vast part by the Arctic investigations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. 

Perspective of the grounds from Coles Tower (developed as the "Senior Center"), the second tallest working in Maine 

Peary drove the main effective undertaking toward the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, an individual from Peary's group, got to be celebrated in his own all right investigated Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the boat Bowdoin somewhere around 1908 and 1954. Bowdoin's Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum respects the two travelers, and the College's mascot, the Polar Bear, was picked in 1913 to respect MacMillan, who gave an especially extensive example to his institute of matriculation in 1917. 

Following in the strides of President Pierce and House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed, class of 1860, a few twentieth century Bowdoin graduates have expected unmistakable positions in national government while speaking to the Pine Tree State. Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944–1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947–1949; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 preceding accepting an unmistakable part in the Northern Ireland peace process; and William Cohen, class of 1962, put in a quarter century in the House and Senate before being designated Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Maine's First Congressional District has been dedicated the "Bowdoin seat" as a result of its long occupation by alumni of the College. A sum of eleven Bowdoin graduates have rose to the Maine governorship, and three alumni of the College as of now sit on the state's most astounding court. 

In the course of the most recent a very long while, Bowdoin College has modernized drastically. In 1970, it got to be one of an exceptionally set number of specific schools to make the SAT discretionary in the confirmations process, and in 1971, after almost 180 years as a little men's school, Bowdoin conceded its top notch of ladies. Bowdoin likewise eliminated societies in the late 1990s, supplanting them with an arrangement of school claimed social houses. 

Late advancements 

$20.8 million remodels of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (inherent 1894), finished in 2007 

In 2001, Barry Mills, class of 1972, was selected as the fifth former student president of the College. 

On January 18, 2008, Bowdoin declared that it would be disposing of advances for all new and current understudies getting money related guide, supplanting those advances with gifts starting with the 2008–2009 scholarly year. President Mills expressed, "Some see a bringing in such indispensable yet regularly low paying fields, for example, educating or social work. With noteworthy obligation at graduation, a few understudies will without a doubt be compelled to settle on vocation or instruction decisions not on the premise of their gifts, hobbies, and guarantee in a specific field, yet rather on their ability to reimburse understudy credits. As an establishment committed to the benefit of all, Bowdoin must consider the reasonableness of such an outcome." 

In February 2009, after a $10 million gift by Subway Sandwiches fellow benefactor and former student Peter Buck, class of 1952, the school finished a $250-million capital battle. Moreover, the school has additionally as of late finished real development ventures on the grounds, including a critical remodel of the school's craft exhibition hall and another wellness focus named after Peter Buck. 

Scholastics 

Bowdoin's original Hubbard Hall, once the College's library 

Rankings 

College rankings 

National 

Forbes 14 

Worldwide 

Aesthetic sciences universities 

U.S. News and World Report 5 

Bowdoin is reliably positioned among the main ten aesthetic sciences universities in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. In the 2014 release of the rankings, Bowdoin positions fourth.In 2006, Newsweek depicted Bowdoin as "Another Ivy", one of various tip top schools and colleges outside of the Ivy League.[15] Bowdoin is likewise part of the SAT discretionary development for undergrad confirmation. Admission to Bowdoin has been considered "most particular" by U.S. News, and the school has an acknowledgment rate of 14.5%. Bowdoin was the principal school to be named "School of the Year" by College Prowler. 

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