Author: Louis Clinton HatchPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The History of Bowdoin College
Class of 1850
Author: Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1850Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Religion at Bowdoin College
Author: Ernst Christian HelmreichPublisher: College of
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, Oct. 1, 1847
Author: Bowdoin CollegePublisher:
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Category : Educational fund raising
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Practice for Life
Author: Lee CubaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972406
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
From the day they arrive on campus, college students spend four years—or sometimes more—making decisions that shape every aspect of their academic and social lives. Whether choosing a major or a roommate, some students embrace decision-making as an opportunity for growth, while others seek to minimize challenges and avoid risk. Practice for Life builds a compelling case that a liberal arts education offers students a complex, valuable process of self-creation, one that begins in college but continues far beyond graduation. Sifting data from a five-year study that followed over two hundred students at seven New England liberal arts colleges, the authors uncover what drives undergraduates to become engaged with their education. They found that students do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end but as a continuous series of new beginnings. They start and restart college many times, owing to the rhythms of the academic calendar, the vagaries of student housing allocation, and other factors. This dynamic has drawbacks as well as advantages. Not only students but also parents and faculty place enormous weight on some decisions, such as declaring a major, while overlooking the small but significant choices that shape students' daily experience. For most undergraduates, deep engagement with their college education is at best episodic rather than sustained. Yet these disruptions in engagement provide students with abundant opportunities for reflection and course-correction as they learn to navigate the future uncertainties of adult life.
Brunswick and Bowdoin College
Author: Elizabeth Huntoon CoursenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738562377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Main Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been inextricably linked to the town of Brunswick for more than 200 years. Brunswick and Bowdoin College features vintage postcard views dating from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, providing an extraordinary visual reference for a time of enormous technological and social change, when Main Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare, stables were supplanted by garages, buildings were constructed and razed, and merchants came and went.
The Disembodied Spirit
Author: Alison FerrisPublisher:
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Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Translating the World
Author: Birgit TautzPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271080515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar. German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world. A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.
An Institute of Modern Literature at Bowdoin College
Author: Bowdoin College. Institute of Modern LiteraturePublisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Author: Bowdoin College