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Percentage of graduates on Facebook who are fans of their college:
| Bowdoin | 44% |
| Williams | 39% |
| Trinity | 38% |
| Amherst: | 37% |
| Carleton | 35% |
| Davidson | 33% |
| Bates: | 32% |
| Middlebury | 27% |
| Hamilton | 27% |
| Oberlin | 25% |
| Haverford | 24% |
| Wellesley | 24% |
| Wesleyan | 23% |
| Vassar | 21% |
| Swarthmore | 20% |
| Colby | 17% |
Check out the LIFE magazine photo archive on Google for Bowdoin photos from the 1950s.
The merits of a liberal arts education and the book A True Liberal Arts Education (China Publishing Group, 2009), written by Yongfang Chen ’10 for college-bound students in his native China, are the subject of an article on The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog.
Bowdoin’s Associate Director of Student Aid Gary Weaver joined representatives from Maine Education Services and the Finance Authority of Maine to discuss college affordability and to answer listener questions during MPBN’s On the Line program.
Bowdoin Obituaries
Rudalevige in Washington Post: What Did Founding Fathers Think of the Press?