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The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive
Date: 1882-01-01
Creator: Nehemiah Cleaveland, Alpheus S. Packard
Access: Open access
- The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive (1882), by Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus S. Packard, provides encyclopedic biographical sketches of Bowdoin presidents and graduates for most of the nineteenth century, along with engraved portraits for many of them.
A Small College in Maine
Date: 1993-01-01
Creator: Charles C Calhoun
Access: Open access
- A Small College in Maine (1993), by Charles Calhoun and published in conjunction with Bowdoin’s bicentenary, provides a readable, illustrated history of the College. Calhoun cites numerous primary resources that are helpful for further historical inquiry.
General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine: A Biographical Record of Alumni and Officers, 1794-1950
Date: 1950-01-01
Access: Open access
- General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine: A Biographical Record of Alumni and Officers, 1794-1950 (1950) provides a complete and comprehensive biographical record of all of Bowdoin’s students, faculty, and administrative officers from the founding of the College in 1794 through 1950.
The Best and the Brightest?: Race, Class, and Merit in America's Elite Colleges
Date: 2017-05-01
Creator: Walter Chacon
Access: Open access
The History of Bowdoin College
Date: 1927-01-01
Creator: Louis Clinton Hatch
Access: Open access
- The History of Bowdoin College (1927), by Louis Clinton Hatch, is the most detailed history of the College for the period from the College’s founding in 1794 until 1927. It is especially useful in documenting College traditions and curricular developments, and tangentially in recording social life in Brunswick.
Investigating the Effects of Student Debt on Career Outcomes: An Empirical Approach
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Gideon Moore
Access: Open access
- High student debt has been hypothesized to affect career choice, causing students to desire stable, high paying jobs. To test this hypothesis, I rely on plausibly exogenous variation in debt due to a federal policy shift. In the summer of 2007, the Higher Education Reconciliation Act (or HERA) expanded the cap for federally subsidized student loans. I examine how variation in debt affects career choice and eventual salary of students using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult Cohort of students who were of college age during the implementation of the policy. I find that student debt has no impact on salary two years after graduation; however, it does seem to shift students’ career choices, leading some to avoid careers in public service industries such as teaching and social work.
The Legacy of James Bowdoin III
Date: 1994-01-01
Access: Open access
- The Legacy of James Bowdoin III (1994) was published to accompany a major year-long series of exhibitions and programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of Bowdoin College. It includes essays by Kenneth E. Carpenter, Linda J. Docherty, Arthur M. Hussey, Clifton C. Olds, Richard H. Saunders, Susan E. Wegner.
Religion at Bowdoin College: A History
Date: 1981-01-01
Creator: Ernst Christian Helmreich
Access: Open access
- Religion at Bowdoin College: A History (1981), by Ernst Christian Helmreich, considers how people at Bowdoin have perceived religion, how they have felt religion should or should not be realized at the College, and how those views changed over the years.
Named Professorships at Bowdoin College
Date: 1976-01-01
Access: Open access
- Named Professorships at Bowdoin College (1976) is a study of the named professorial chairs and other endowed funds designated directly for faculty support.