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sign up today—it's free! On This Day1798 — Boards approve a 50-foot by 40-foot, three-story building, which would be finished in 1802 and be named Massachusetts Hall. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. |  Three war memorials stand in a direct line on the campus of Bowdoin College. From Memorial Hall, to the Memorial Flagpole, to the World War II, Korea, and Vietnam monument, each has a distinct history and each focuses attention on the heroism and resolve of those from this small college in Maine who served in America’s armed forces.
 It’s a time for celebration and a certain amount of relief as members of the Class of 2010 earn their undergraduate degrees at colleges and universities across America, and families see the last of those steep tuition bills. Has all the work and sacrifice been worth it?
 Some golfers drive a cart to play 18 holes; others prefer to walk it. But neither option is going to cut it at the world’s longest golf course, a par 72 behemoth where some holes are separated by 50 miles! No wonder Mark Twain called golf “a good walk spoiled.”
 A pair of current exhibitions at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art—”Learning to Paint: American Artists and European Art, 1876-1893″ and “Methods for Modernism: Form and Color in American Art, 1900 to 1925″—have earned positive reviews in the Portland Press Herald.
 The 2000 U.S. presidential election—the contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore—was the first time the Library of Congress archived Web content. A decade later, the Library employs a full-time staff to save those things online that merit preservation for future generations. Here are five that make the cut. Like every single tweet from every single Twitter user on the planet.
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Three war memorials stand in a direct line on the campus of Bowdoin College. From Memorial Hall, to the Memorial Flagpole, to the World War II, Korea, and Vietnam monument, each has a distinct history and each focuses attention on the heroism and resolve of those from this small college in Maine who served in America’s armed forces.
