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Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a scientific field station on Kent Island (New Brunswick), Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. 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 List of Bowdoin College people, alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. History Founding and 19th century Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberlin Group
The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, led by a board elected from its members' libraries' directors. The group evolved from meetings of college presidents in 1985 and 1986 at Oberlin College. , it has 80 members. Its activities include facilitating interlibrary loans and other collaboration. History The first meeting of the Oberlin Group was held at Oberlin College in November 1986. Their initial shared cause was getting more funding for their college libraries. During the 1990s the group finalized an interlibrary loan agreement. Activities Membership # Agnes Scott College (GA) #Albion College (MI) # Allegheny College (PA) #Alma College (MI) #Amherst College (MA) # Augustana College (IL) # Austin College (TX) #Bard College (NY) #Barnard College (NY) #Bates College (ME) # Beloit College (WI) # Berea College (KY) #Bowdoin College (ME) #Bryn Mawr College (PA) #Bucknell University (PA) #Carleton College (MN) # Claremont McKenna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bowdoin College People
This list is of notable people associated with Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. This list includes alumni, faculty, and honorary degree recipients. Presidents of Bowdoin #Joseph McKeen (1802–07) #Jesse Appleton (1807–19) #William Allen (biographer), William Allen (1820–39) #Leonard Woods (college president), Leonard Woods (1839–66) #Samuel Harris (theologist), Samuel Harris (1867–71) #Joshua Chamberlain (1871–83) #William DeWitt Hyde (1885–1917) #Kenneth C.M. Sills (1918–52) #James S. Coles (1952–67) #Roger Howell, Jr. (1969–78) #Willard F. Enteman (1978–80) #A. LeRoy Greason (1981–90) #Robert H. Edwards, Robert Hazard Edwards (1990–2001) #Barry Mills (college president), Barry Mills (2001–2015) #Clayton Rose (2015–2023) #Safa Zaki (2023–present) Distinguished graduates Arts and letters :''Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.'' Literature and poetry *Seba Smith 1818, humorist, creator of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North Pole in April 1909, having led the first expedition to have claimed this achievement, although it is now considered unlikely that he actually reached the Pole. Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, but, following his father's death at a young age, was raised in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He attended Bowdoin College, then joined the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as a draftsman. He enlisted in the navy in 1881 as a civil engineer. In 1885, he was made chief of surveying for the Nicaragua Canal, which was never built. He visited the Arctic for the first time in 1886, making an unsuccessful attempt to cross Greenland by dogsled. In the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892, he was muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polar Bear
The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can Hybrid (biology), interbreed. The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear and land carnivore, with adult males weighing . The species is sexually dimorphic, as adult females are much smaller. The polar bear is white- or yellowish-furred with black skin and a thick layer of fat. It is more slender than the brown bear, with a narrower skull, longer neck and lower shoulder hump. Its teeth are sharper and more adapted to cutting meat. The paws are large and allow the bear to walk on ice and paddle in the water. Polar bears are both terrestrial and Pagophily, pagophilic (ice-living) and are considered marine mammals because of their dependence on marine ecosystems. They prefer the annual sea ice but live on land when the ice melts in the summer. They are mostly carnivorous and specialized for preying on pinniped, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, United States. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner Colby saw the institution renamed again to Colby University before settling on its current title, reflecting its liberal arts college curriculum, in 1899. Approximately 2,000 students from more than 60 countries are enrolled annually. The college offers 54 major fields of study and 30 minors. Located in central Maine, the 714-acre Neo-Georgian campus sits atop Mayflower Hill and overlooks downtown Waterville and the Kennebec River Valley. Along with fellow Maine institutions Bates College and Bowdoin College, Colby competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium. History 19th century On February 27, 1813, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, led by Baptists, adopted a petit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bates College
Bates College () is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island (Maine), Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay. With an annual enrollment of approximately 1,800 students, it is the smallest college in its athletic conference. The college was founded in 1855, by abolitionist statesman Oren Burbank Cheney and textile tycoon Benjamin Bates IV, Benjamin Bates. It became the first List of earliest coeducational colleges and universities in the United States, coeducational college in New England and the List of colleges and universities in Maine, third-oldest college in Maine, after Bowdoin College, Bowdoin and Colby College. Bates provides undergraduate instruction in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletic Conference
An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams which play competitively against each other in a sports league. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller Division (sport), divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. Conferences often, but not always, include teams from a common geographic region. Australian rules football The AFL Women's competition used a non-geographic conference system in 2019 AFL Women's season, 2019 and 2020 AFL Women's season, 2020. The league was divided into two conferences, based on ladder position in the previous season. Not every team could play each other due to the limited number of rounds, so conferences were introduced so that teams were only measured against the teams they played. The system was controversial because it allowed some weak teams to make finals, and strong teams from the other conference missed out on finals. It was because of this that the conference system was removed for the 2021 AFL Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy () is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its tidal range is the highest in the world. The bay was named ''Bakudabakek'' by the indigenous Mi'kmaq and Passamaquoddy groups, meaning "open way". The Wolastoqiyik peoples named it ''Wekwabegituk'', meaning "waves at the head of the bay". The name "Fundy" has been speculated to have derived from the French word ("split") or ("head of the bay"). Some individuals have disputed this, including William Francis Ganong, who suggested that the name likely derived from Portuguese origin instead, specifically regarding João Álvares Fagundes, who may have referred to the bay as ("Great Bay") and nearby waters as ("deep river"). Hydrology Tides The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about ; the average tidal range worldwide is only . Some tides are higher than others, depending on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Island (New Brunswick)
Kent Island is an island located from Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. It is the outermost island of the Grand Manan archipelago in Charlotte County off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. More than 200 bird species have been identified on the island, with at least fifty species nesting. It is owned by Bowdoin College and is the site of the Bowdoin Scientific Station. As of 2023 over 220 scientific papers had been published as a result of research carried on at the research station. Notable topics, resulting in exceptionally long datasets, include the Leach's storm petrel, the herring gull, and the Savannah sparrow, as well as fog research collected over a period of sixty years. Settlement and early history Abenaki people regularly visited Kent island to hunt seals, but there were no permanent inhabitants until the arrival in 1799 of John Kent, a British settler, with his wife Susanna. They had eight children, three of whom were born on the island. Kent cleared the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orr's Island
Orr's Island is an island in Casco Bay and the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The island is within the town of Harpswell, Maine, United States. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived briefly on Orr's Island, and used it as the inspiration and setting for her 1861 novel ''The Pearl of Orr's Island''. Geography Orr's Island forms an archipelago with narrow channels separating it from Sebascodegan Island to the north and Bailey Island to the south, along with other smaller islands nearby. With much of its length flanked by Harpswell Sound and Gun Point Cove, Orr's Island is connected to Bailey Island by the Bailey Island Bridge, also known as the Cribstone Bridge, and to Sebascodegan Island by the Orr's Island Bridge. Known alternatively as Great Island, Sebascodegan Island has bridges connecting the three islands to mainland Harpswell to the west and Brunswick to the north. Demographics As of 2010, Orr's Island had an estimated population of 539 people. 48.8% of the popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androscoggin River
The Androscoggin River (Abenaki: ''Ammoscongon'') is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England. It is U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data''The National Map'', accessed June 30, 2011 long and joins the Kennebec River at Merrymeeting Bay in Maine before its water empties into the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean. Its drainage basin is in area. The name "Androscoggin" comes from the Eastern Abenaki term ''Ammoscongon'', which referred to the entire portion of the river north of the Great Falls in Lewiston, Maine. The Anglicization of the Abenaki term is likely an analogical contamination with the colonial governor Edmund Andros. History There were several ancient names for the river. The Androscoggin was known as ''Pejepscook'' from Merrymeeting Bay to the Great Falls, with its namesake deriving from an anglicization of the section of river from the Great Falls northward. According to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
