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Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine. The college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates College and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. Between the years 1821 and 1921, Bowdoin operated a medical school called the "Medical School of Maine." The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a 118-acre (48 ha) coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a 200-acre (81 ha) scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Authors educated at Bowdoin College 661
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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Edward J. McCluskey
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Whitney Rice
Alonzo Garcelon
Frederick Stevens
Alfred Kinsey
Robert Peary
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Ed Lee
Paul Adelstein
Francis Robbins Upton
Richard H. Vose
Thomas Andrews
George J. Mitchell
James B. Longley
Percival Proctor Baxter
Frederick Robie
John Fairfield
Alpheus Felch
George Evans
William G. Crosby
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Fred Ahern
Stephen A. Douglas
Henry Gardner
Wallace H. White
William P. Frye
Douglas Kennedy
Amos L. Allen
Christopher R. Hill
Ezra Abbot
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