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| Bowdoin College |
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| at Brunswick, Maine; coeducational; chartered 1794, opened 1802, named for James Bowdoin. One of the nations older colleges, its alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Franklin Pierce. |
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