History of the Class of 1876 : Bowdoin College, Issued for the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Class, July 12, 1872-July 12, 1893 (Classic Reprint).cUnknown Author
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Old Bowdoin, we love to look back, as the years roll on, to those happy days of youthful enthusiasm when we were preparing to start out in our various paths in that great broad world before us, while yet we were enjoying freedom and play and the protection and solicitude of parents and teachers, under whose care we were. No doubt, in the years of struggle and independent work since then, there may have been those who would gladly have been under the authority and guidance of men interested in their welfare; but we must thank our Alma Mater for the wisdom and the good influence we received within her walls as well as the experiences and the pleasant memories growing out of the social life which we lived.
It was a period of four years, in which we lived as one great family bound together by the ties of class and society attachment and the bond of one common object and goal for which we were all striving; and when we sit down, after our days work, with our families and rest in the quiet enjoyment of home, it is a pleasure to look back over our career in college and also to follow the course of our fellow-classmates with whom we were so closely associated.
We think of the many little incidents with which we were connected, of the frolics and of the work, and then we think of the college, and compare it with others; and after our experience in the world we wonder whether it was any better or as good as other colleges. Of course we ourselves love it because it is our Alma Mater; but, looking at it impartially, the most of us would probably confess that old Bowdoin furnishes as much instruction as any ordinary young man could grasp in four years, and he who could learn all Bowdoin's Faculty could teach him in that time and then yearn for more would be such a prodigy we could hardly expect him to outlive the age of Alexander the Great.
Small colleges have some drawbacks, but they have also many advantages over the large colleges, and especially those in or near large cities. In the first place, the classes are smaller and the students have the personal care and interest of the professors themselves from the beginning of the Freshman year, instead of having a large part of their instruction from tutors.
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