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A college classmate of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow summed up the Portland boy's character in one sentence: "It appeared easy for him to avoid the unworthy." Born in 1807, of Mayflower stock that had distinguished itself for bravery and uprightness, the youth was graduated from Bowdoin at eighteen.
Dinks, and she feared her influence upon Alfred. Poor Mr. Dinks! he was at that moment smoking a cigar upon the forward deck of the Chancellor Livingston steamer, that plied between New York and Providence. Mr. Bowdoin Beacon sat by his side. "She's a real good girl, and pretty, and rich, though she is my cousin, Bowdoin. So why don't you?" Mr.
Why, you said you would not proceed while Mr. McMurtagh was ill." "McMurtagh will never come back to the bank," said old Mr. Bowdoin gravely. "Dear me, I hope he is not dead?" "No, but he will retire; on a pension, of course. Then his granddaughter has quite a little fortune." "His granddaughter a fortune?" "Certainly Miss Sarah McMurtagh," gasped Mr. Bowdoin. He could not say "St.
"Haven't I a copy of the verses you addressed to Miss Sally White when you were rusticated under Parson White at Clapboardtrees?" An allusion to Miss White always tickled the old gentleman; and father and son parted in high good humor. Only, Mr. James thought wise to inform Mrs. Harleston Bowdoin of what had happened. And some days after, Mr.
His father had entered Bowdoin at that age, but the requirements at Harvard were much more severe than at Bowdoin; enough to make a difference of at least one year in the age of the applicant.
Well, remember me to Mr. James!" Ah, the marvelous power of kindliness that will give even an old merchant the perception of a woman, the tact of a diplomat! Bowdoin, while the other three girls filled the seat in front, and Harley held the reins upon the box, a process Mr. Bowdoin affected not to see.
His juvenility prevented him from entering those universities, and so, in 1909, we find him a freshman at historic Bowdoin College. In 1913 he graduated with highest honours, and immediately afterward followed Professor Bradlough to Berkeley, California. The one friend that Emil Gluck discovered in all his life was Professor Bradlough.
"By Heaven, I should like to see them do it!" cried our old friend in a loud whisper, if the term can be used. "Sheriff Clark, do you know those fellows are all miserable loafers?" "They are federal officers, sir; I can do nothing," whispered back that gorgeous official. "Humph!" returned Mr. Bowdoin. "How about state rights?
The legislature, overawed by the troops, removed to Salem, and then chose five men as delegates to the General Congress about to assemble in Philadelphia. John Adams was one of these delegates, and associated with him were Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, James Bowdoin, and Robert Treat Paine.
"Dear me! not afraid of anything!" Mr. Bowdoin chuckled. "Now I'm afraid of Mrs. Harleston Bowdoin! Do you mean to say you'd walk into into a bank all alone?" "Yes, sir, if I had business there." "Business! here's business for you!" and the old gentleman, still chuckling, scratched off a check.
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