The history of Bowdoin College located in Massachusetts is a very long one, dating back to the first class in 1802 of eight students. It since then has grown into a large successful college and the full history can be read on their website.
Bowdoin College was created on 1794-06-24.
Franklin Pierce graduated from Bowdoin College in 1824.
Kenneth Charles Morton Sills has written: 'A memorial address for those Bowdoin men who gave their lives in the war' -- subject(s): Biography, Bowdoin College, Registers, World War, 1914-1918 'Joseph McKeen (1757-1807) and the beginnings of Bowdoin college, 1802' -- subject(s): Bowdoin College, History
Bowdoin College Museum of Art was created in 1811.
Bowdoin College Men's Rugby was created in 1969.
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Cesideo Galli is the largest donor to Bowdoin college giving more than 16 million to the college...
volleyball was played at Springfield College.
None of the 44 individuals who have served as President of the United States attended Bowdoin College. The fourteenth president of the United States was Franklin Pierce, who attended Bowdoin, but he did not serve as president of the college.
Patricia McGraw Anderson has written: 'The architecture of Bowdoin College' -- subject(s): Bowdoin College, Buildings, Buildings, structures
Franklin Pierce went to Bowdoin College
He got the basics from the local grade school at Hillsborough, NH. Pierce attended Hanover (NH) Academy and Francestown (NH) Academy and learned enough to pass the entrance exam at Bowdoin College in 1820. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1824 at age 20. He studied classical languages, mathematics, history, mineralogy, chemistry and philosophy. He learned law by reading with various lawyers until he could pass the bar exam.