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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. | 
President Barry Mills ’72, with his Ph.D. from Syracuse and Columbia law degree, is adding another feather to his educational cap. Centre College is awarding Mills an honorary degree at the private liberal arts college’s annual Founders Day ceremony January 18 in Danville, Kentucky. President Mills is also to deliver the talk, “Teaching, Learning and Technology,” following a similarly themed address presented at Bowdoin’s 210th Convocation and referenced in an essay Mills wrote for Inside Higher Ed. Continue reading President Mills Gives Annual Founders Day Address at Centre College Olympic marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 spoke at the annual dinner for the Association of Bowdoin Friends Tuesday night at Thorne Hall following a screening of her documentary. The film, There is No Finish Line: The Joan Benoit Samuelson Story, traces Samuelson’s groundbreaking career as a professional runner. Her athletic achievements—she won the gold in the first women’s Olympic marathon—helped transform women’s sports and the sport of running. The film premiered during Homecoming Weekend as part of the Celebration of 40 Years of Women’s Athletics at Bowdoin College. The Association of Bowdoin Friends, founded in 1984, is a group of individuals, mostly from the community, who share an interest in the programs and well-being of the college. The Friends screening of There is No Finish Line: The Joan Benoit Samuelson Story was made possible by the film’s director Erich Lyttle, and producers Geoff Hollister and Sarah Henderson. 
The advent of the railroad changed the way people perceived speed. Photography allowed us to stop time to better observe the world around them, and people taking photographs began viewing the world in terms of what they wanted caught in a frame for perpetuity. Technology has always helped alter consciousness, according to The Atlantic — and now Facebook, evidently, is the latest technology shaping our experience of reality. “Today, we are in danger of developing a “Facebook Eye”: our brains always looking for moments where the ephemeral blur of lived experience might best be translated into a Facebook post; one that will draw the most comments and “likes,” Nathan Jurgenson writes. The danger comes (if it’s really a danger), when we become too preoccupied with posting our lives on Facebook at the sacrifice of living in the here and now. 
Women’s Ice Hockey — Julia Pearl scored twice in the third period, including the game-tying goal with 28 seconds remaining in regulation, as the University of Southern Maine women’s ice hockey team rallied for a 3-3 tie at Bowdoin Tuesday evening. | 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 |
