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{"id":32902572,"title":"Tales of Bowdoin — Mills '72","handle":"tales-of-bowdoin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSome Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCollected by John Clair Minot, class of 1896, and Donald Francis Snow, class of 1901\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Preface by Barry Mills '72,\u003cbr\u003e 14th President of Bowdoin College\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis classic volume contains stories of student life in the late 19th Century at one of America's oldest colleges, Bowdoin College.  Published in 1901, the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read about famous American professors and student pranks and prejudices, about athletics and academics as they once existed.  Not only are these fascinating and often amusing portraits of student life, but they also contain scenes of Maine life more than 100 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Well illustrated, these stories include writings of Bowdoin presidents William DeW. Hyde and Kenneth C.M. Sills and by U.S. House Speaker Thomas B. Reed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition features a preface by Barry Mills, 14th president of Bowdoin College.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback, with black and white illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscounts are not available on this item.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-03-15T16:36:18-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:51:04-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Bowdoin Books","History"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77651232,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA168-Mills","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tales of Bowdoin — Mills '72","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":14,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780982044582","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba168-mills-bowdoin.jpg?v=1612655064"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba168-mills-bowdoin.jpg?v=1612655064","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Tales of Bowdoin with new preface by Barry Mills '72","id":7407644901465,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba168-mills-bowdoin.jpg?v=1612655064"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba168-mills-bowdoin.jpg?v=1612655064","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSome Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCollected by John Clair Minot, class of 1896, and Donald Francis Snow, class of 1901\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Preface by Barry Mills '72,\u003cbr\u003e 14th President of Bowdoin College\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis classic volume contains stories of student life in the late 19th Century at one of America's oldest colleges, Bowdoin College.  Published in 1901, the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read about famous American professors and student pranks and prejudices, about athletics and academics as they once existed.  Not only are these fascinating and often amusing portraits of student life, but they also contain scenes of Maine life more than 100 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Well illustrated, these stories include writings of Bowdoin presidents William DeW. Hyde and Kenneth C.M. Sills and by U.S. House Speaker Thomas B. Reed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition features a preface by Barry Mills, 14th president of Bowdoin College.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback, with black and white illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscounts are not available on this item.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
Tales of Bowdoin with new preface by Barry Mills '72

Tales of Bowdoin — Mills '72

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Some Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present Collected by John Clair Minot, class of 1896, and Donald Francis Snow, class of 1901 New Preface by Barry Mills '72, 14th President of Bowdoin College This classic volume contains stories of student life in the late 19th Century at one of America's oldest colleg...


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{"id":366715273,"title":"Haunted Bowdoin College","handle":"haunted-bowdoin-college","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Francis\u003cbr\u003eSenior Interactive Developer, Bowdoin Information Technology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBowdoin College boasts two centuries in higher education, and that rich history is laden with curious tales and ghostly happenings.  Eerie legends about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua Chamberlain, and other distinguished graduates are still whispered in the halls of their alma mater.  A dungeon complete with skulls and skeletons hidden beneath Appleton Hall plays to society's darkest fears about secret college societies.  The many untimely deaths at Hubbard Hall lend credence to its haunted reputation.  Misfortunes of Coleman Hall residents might have a connection with the building's site atop the remnants of the long-closed Medical School of Maine.  Author David Francis reveals Bowdoin's spooky and maybe even ghostly history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-06T16:46:05-04:00","created_at":"2014-09-15T16:37:29-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Books"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":1999,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1999,"compare_at_price_min":1999,"compare_at_price_max":1999,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":943217713,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF231-Francis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Haunted Bowdoin College","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1999,"inventory_quantity":14,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781626196100","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf231-francis-haunted.jpg?v=1614894203"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf231-francis-haunted.jpg?v=1614894203","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Haunted Bowdoin College by David Francis","id":20243731087449,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf231-francis-haunted.jpg?v=1614894203"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf231-francis-haunted.jpg?v=1614894203","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Francis\u003cbr\u003eSenior Interactive Developer, Bowdoin Information Technology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBowdoin College boasts two centuries in higher education, and that rich history is laden with curious tales and ghostly happenings.  Eerie legends about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua Chamberlain, and other distinguished graduates are still whispered in the halls of their alma mater.  A dungeon complete with skulls and skeletons hidden beneath Appleton Hall plays to society's darkest fears about secret college societies.  The many untimely deaths at Hubbard Hall lend credence to its haunted reputation.  Misfortunes of Coleman Hall residents might have a connection with the building's site atop the remnants of the long-closed Medical School of Maine.  Author David Francis reveals Bowdoin's spooky and maybe even ghostly history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
Haunted Bowdoin College by David Francis

Haunted Bowdoin College

$19.99

By David FrancisSenior Interactive Developer, Bowdoin Information Technology Bowdoin College boasts two centuries in higher education, and that rich history is laden with curious tales and ghostly happenings.  Eerie legends about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua Chamberlain, and other distinguished graduates are still whis...


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{"id":32898902,"title":"Brunswick and Bowdoin College","handle":"brunswick-and-bowdoin-college","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Maine Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been inextricably linked to the town of Brunswick for more than 200 years. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College\u003c\/span\u003e features vintage postcard views dating from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, providing an extraordinary visual reference for a time of enormous technological and social change, when Maine Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare, stables were supplanted by garages, buildings were constructed and razed, and merchants came and went.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen, an avid postcard collector, grew up in Brunswick in the 1960s. The first acquisition in her extensive Brunswick and Bowdoin collection, a printed view of early-1900s Maine Street, was purchased nearly 30 years ago and is included in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:30:58-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:42-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Books","History"],"price":2499,"price_min":2499,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640932,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBI148-Coursen","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Brunswick and Bowdoin College","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0738562378","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Postcard History Series: Brunswick and Bowdoin College by Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen","id":1468072025,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Maine Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been inextricably linked to the town of Brunswick for more than 200 years. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College\u003c\/span\u003e features vintage postcard views dating from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, providing an extraordinary visual reference for a time of enormous technological and social change, when Maine Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare, stables were supplanted by garages, buildings were constructed and razed, and merchants came and went.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen, an avid postcard collector, grew up in Brunswick in the 1960s. The first acquisition in her extensive Brunswick and Bowdoin collection, a printed view of early-1900s Maine Street, was purchased nearly 30 years ago and is included in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}
Postcard History Series: Brunswick and Bowdoin College by Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen

Brunswick and Bowdoin College

$24.99

By Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Maine Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been...


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{"id":7528014938201,"title":"Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24","handle":"birds-of-bowdoin-dow-24","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Cora Dow, Class of 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated guide to the birds that can be seen on the Bowdoin College campus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArticle: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/local-guide-visual-arts-major-creates-illustrated-book-of-birds.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bowdoin Local Guide: Student Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eStudent Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-05-09T17:04:40-04:00","created_at":"2024-03-13T11:49:50-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Bowdoin Books","Non-Fiction"],"price":1400,"price_min":1400,"price_max":1400,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1400,"compare_at_price_min":1400,"compare_at_price_max":1400,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40996442210393,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA439-Dow","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1400,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":1400,"inventory_quantity":10,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"BOWBIRDS","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba439-dow-birds.jpg?v=1710349396"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba439-dow-birds.jpg?v=1710349396","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Birds of Bowdoin by Cora Dow '24","id":24847117451353,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba439-dow-birds.jpg?v=1710349396"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba439-dow-birds.jpg?v=1710349396","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBy Cora Dow, Class of 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated guide to the birds that can be seen on the Bowdoin College campus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArticle: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/local-guide-visual-arts-major-creates-illustrated-book-of-birds.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bowdoin Local Guide: Student Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eStudent Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
Birds of Bowdoin by Cora Dow '24

Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24

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By Cora Dow, Class of 2024 A beautifully illustrated guide to the birds that can be seen on the Bowdoin College campus. Article: Student Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds


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