1909 — Commander Robert Peary, Class of 1877, and his party depart the USS Roosevelt to make the remainder of the journey to the North Pole by dogsled.
Comedian Hari Kondabolu ’04, who was the cover story subject of last summer’s Bowdoin magazine, recently embarked on a comedy tour of India with two other Indian-American comics.
The U.S. State Department is sponsoring the three-week, seven-city tour called “Make Chai, Not War,” and NPR’s All Things Considered featured Hari and his comedic compatriots this week.
Hari Kondabolu, from Queens, N.Y., is edgy and cerebral. One of his jokes likens a bad relationship with an aggressive English woman to the British colonization of India.
Women’s Basketball — Jill Henrikson scored a game-high 21 points to lead the women’s basketball team to a 57-50 win over Hamilton College in a NESCAC game at Hamilton’s Margaret Bundy Scott Field House Jan. 6.
Men’s Basketball — Will Hanley scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the men’s basketball team to a 74-61 win over Hamilton College in a NESCAC game at Hamilton’s Margaret Bundy Scott Field House Jan. 6.
Women’s Ice Hockey — The women’s ice hockey team extended its season-high winning streak to three games with a 3-2 win over Connecticut College Friday evening.
One of the hottest new shows on television focused recently on the heroics of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Bowdoin Class of 1852). “Homeland” is the story of Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody, who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Mathison, a driven—and possibly unstable—CIA officer who suspects Brody might be plotting an attack on America. The Showtime series, which has been nominated for three Golden Globe awards, recently completed its first season and has been renewed for a second. In season one’s penultimate episode, Brody takes his wife and two teenage children to the battlefield at Gettysburg, where he describes Chamberlain’s leadership at Little Round Top. Later at the motel, Brody urges his son to be “brave and daring” in life, just like the leader of the 20th Maine.
