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1878 — President Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is the orator for the 46th annual Alpha Delta Phi Convention in Middletown, Conn.

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Field Hockey: Senior Brooke Phinney recorded nine points to lead the Bowdoin field hockey team over the Connecticut College Camels 7-0 on Saturday afternoon.

Football: The Amherst College football team rallied from a halftime deficit to defeat Bowdoin on Saturday, 22-10.

Women’s Rugby: The Bowdoin College women’s rugby team celebrated Family Weekend with a decisive 31-5 triumph over Tufts University. The victory improves the Polar Bears to 6-0 (3-0 NESCRC) this fall.

Men’s Soccer: The Bowdoin and Connecticut College men’s soccer teams played to a scoreless draw at Pickard Field on Saturday afternoon.

Women’s Soccer: Bowdoin’s Molly Popolizio scored twice, including the game-winning goal in the second half, to lift the Polar Bear women’s soccer team to an entertaining 3-2 win over Connecticut College on Saturday afternoon.

Volleyball: The Connecticut College women’s volleyball team dealt Bowdoin its first home loss since 2007 in a 3-0 victory at Morrell Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.

 

Going, Going, Gone: 10 Brands That May Disappear in 2013 (Market Watch)

If innovation, financing, and efficiency are what drive success in business, they can also send a well-known brand over the cliff. The folks at 24/7 Wall St. have been wrong before—Kellogg’s Corn Pops are still filling cereal bowls across America—but their newest list of doomed brands includes some names that may surprise you.

Video: ‘Fifty Shades of Maine’ (NBC News)

Once known as “the town that paper made,” East Millinocket, Maine, like many other manufacturing communities throughout the country, had fallen on hard times. But things began to heat up again as Great Northern Paper restarted its mill to produce the red hot novel Fifty Shades of Grey, and its two sequels, for Random House.

Winslow Homer Studio Opens to Public (Wall Street Journal)

Winslow Homer, 1867

Winslow Homer in Paris, 1867, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. A gift to the College from the Homer family.

 

Fans of Winslow Homer can now experience some of the same views that inspired the famed American lanscape painter. After a years-long, multi-million-dollar restoration by the Portland Museum of Art, Homer’s Maine studio on Prouts Neck has opened to the public.

For more on Homer, see The Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s extensive Homer collection.