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sign up today—it's free! On This Day1909 — 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. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | 
Joshua Chamberlain, Medal of Honor-winning hero of Gettysburg, governor of Maine and president of the College, is now emblazoned on a what-could-be-cooler-or-more-vintage T-shirt. “Chamberlain is the quintessential Mainer,” says the shirt’s creator, Jeff Lauzier, president of Loyal Citizen Clothing. ”A hard working, soft spoken man of God and man of honor. He did what he did because it was right, not for recognition. This is our way of paying homage to him for his ideals and for his exuding what being a Mainer is all about.” The Chamberlain shirts are sold through several stores including Joseph’s of Portland, whose proprietor, Joe Redman ’70, is part of a Bowdoin legacy that includes father Charles Redman Jr. ’42, uncle Mac Redman ’34 and brother Charles Redman III ’73. More about the Chamberlain T-shirts here. 
During the War of 1812, a six-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825, witnessed a sea battle between the British Boxer and the USS Enterprise off of the coast of Portland that he would later immortalize, along with the two young captains who died in the fight, in his poem, “My Lost Youth.” A new book by David Hanna, Knights of the Sea, dives into the history of that famous battle. 
English can be a difficult language to learn, with seemingly no rhyme nor reason to myriad pronunciations. The British website The Poke offers a poem that rivals the tongue twisters of America’s Dr. Seuss with the challenge, “If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90 percent of the native English speakers in the world.” The State Department’s Foreign Service Institute compiles approximate learning expectations for its professional staff. Of the 63 languages analyzed, finds the five most difficult to learn to be Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. 
More than a third of the way through January, Brunswick and most of the rest of Maine are just now getting the first “real” snowstorm of the season (those one-to-three-inch “dustings” don’t really count for the hardiest of Mainers). Still, the first big snow event of the year, no matter when or where it falls, tends to give motorists a crash course in winter driving. Winter driving school instructor Mark Cox suggests five ways to stay safe while driving in snow. | Bowdoin Athletics 2/19/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at 6th/11 NESCAC Championship (Wesleyan) | Recap2/17/2012 Men's Track & Field at 5th/24 New England Division III's (Springfield) | Recap2/17/2012 Nordic Skiing at 10th/13 Williams Carnival (Prospect Mtn.) | Recap2/17/2012 Women's Track & Field at 3rd/22 New England Division III's (Smith) | Recap 2/24/2012 Men's Track & Field at Open New England's (BU) 2/24/2012 Nordic Skiing at Middlebury Carnival/EISA (Rikert Touring Ctr.) 2/24/2012 Women's Track & Field at Open New England's (BU) 2/24/2012 Women's Squash Wellesley at Bowdoin 2/25/2012 Nordic Skiing at Middlebury Carnival/EISA (Rikert Touring Ctr.) 2/25/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at TBA 2/26/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at TBA |
