Bowdoin College
Missing image Bowdoin_seal.jpg Seal of Bowdoin College
Motto	Ut Aquila Versus Coelum (As an eagle towards the sky.)
Established	June 24, 1794
School type	Private
President	Barry Mills
Location	Brunswick, Maine, USA
Campus	Suburban
Enrollment	1,647 undergraduate, 0 graduate
Faculty	181
Mascot	Polar Bear
Athletics	30 varsity teams, 6 club teams
Homepage	www.bowdoin.edu

Bowdoin College is a liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is intimately connected with the American Civil War. Some have said the war began and ended in Brunswick, as Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin while her husband was teaching at Bowdoin, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and alumnus and later president of the college, was responsible for receiving the surrender of the Confererate army at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

In 1970, the institution stopped requiring SAT scores for admission. In 1971, the first coeducational class matriculated. Just a few years ago the school received national recognition for converting the long-standing fraternities system to "the social house system," under which incoming freshmen are automatically assigned a house affiliation.

Roughly 1,600 students attend Bowdoin College, nestled in the pine trees of Maine. They study hard during the week and on the weekends enjoy supporting Bowdoin athletic teams, especially against rivals Bates College and Colby College. Activist groups are beginning to gain momentum in light of the rapidly changing world situation, and publications such as Ritalin, a controversial humor magazine; Naked, an opinion/literature mag; and the Disorient and the Patriot, respectively the liberal and conservative newspapers, are reflections of the ever-broadening student perspective. The Bowdoin Orient is the main student newspaper and is the largest one on campus; it claims to be the "oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States." Brunswick doesn't offer a bustling night life for students under 21, but the larger city of Portland is just a half hour away.

The Bowdoin Dining Services has a high reputation, and was rated the best college food service in the country by the Princeton Review in 2003.

Among several well-rated departments, Government, Economics, Biology and Environmental Studies stand out as excellent.

Alumni

• Ralph Owen Brewster, congressman
• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War General (later President of the college)
• Kenneth Chenault, American Express CEO
• William Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton
• Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States of America
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist
• Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher
• Lawrence Lindsey, former economic adviser to President George W. Bush
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
• George J. Mitchell, former Senate Democratic Leader
• Robert E. Peary, Arctic Explorer
• Franklin Pierce, President
• John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist
• Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic gold medalist
• Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, congressman

External link

• Bowdoin College (http://www.bowdoin.edu/)
• The Bowdoin Orient (student newspaper) (http://orient.bowdoin.edu/)
• The Princeton Review of Bowdoin College  (http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfo.asp?listing=1024068&LTID=1)

de:Bowdoin College zh:鲍登大学