Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin College Catalogues 1-1-1890 Bowdoin College Catalogue (1889-1890) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/course-catalogues Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin College Catalogue (1889-1890)" (1890). Bowdoin College Catalogues. 135. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/course-catalogues/135 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bowdoin College Catalogues by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. EIGHTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF BOWLOIN" COLLEGE FOE THE ACADEMICAL YEAE 1889-90. BRUNSWICK, MAINE. : CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS AND STUDENTS OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE AND THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF MAINE. FOB, THE YEAK 1889-90. BEUNSWICK MDCCCLXXXIX Bowloin College was incorporated by the General Court of Massachu- setts, upon the joint petition of the Association of Ministers and the Court of Sessions, of Cumberland County. The act of incorporation was signed by Governor Samuel Adams, June 24, 1794. The College was named in honor of James Bowdoin, a graduate of Har- vard in 1745, a delegate to the first Congress in Philadelphia, the President of the Convention which adopted the Constitution of Massachusetts, and subsequently Governor of the State. In addition to bis civil honors he was a member of various foreign societies, the first President of the Boston Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a valued friend and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin. The earliest patron of the College was the Hon. James Bowdoin, son of the Governor.