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Bowdoin’s literary past holds an abundance of hauntings. Some of these ghosts are simply due to Bowdoin’s location—an old, remote college where the sun sets early and the woods cover most of the state. The College also has a collection …
Though often laughed off or dismissed as quirks, superstitions have the power to connect people across cultures and generations. These traditions are carried through stories and often unnoticed daily practices. Many Bowdoin students bring their superstitions with them to campus, …
On Friday the 13th, 1953, Bowdoin sociology professor Dr. Isa Reiss gathered students and faculty in the Chapel to deliver a talk entitled “Superstitions.” According to the Orient coverage of the speech from November 18, 1953, Reiss explained common superstitions, …
Students in the first-year writing seminar “Don Quixote Now,” have compiled the following texts engaging with the work of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. These texts have emerged from a shared curiosity about Cervantes’ worldview and from the joys, challenges …
While founded in 1794, it took over seventy years for the college to found its first varsity athletic team—the baseball team, established in 1867. Three decades later, the football team played its first season in 1899. From 1794 to the …
A myth is defined as an exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing. In this digital age, most popular pictures are heavily edited with filters or physical enhancements of the people in them. Artificial intelligence can create pictures …
When I was a kid, there were many things I was scared of. Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) was one of them—my mom tells the story of me coming downstairs crying because I thought the dinosaurs were going to eat …
I pulled back the curtain too far
while I was trying to make sense
of the way memories sit on my tongue,
trying to sew together the frothing water
I used to wade into,
trying to sort through the separating …
Far above the quilted covers of the artisan markets and the terracotta roofs of the merchant houses, beyond the skyward sprawl of the noble towers and the king’s gleaming penthouse, and higher still than the church’s iron steeples which reach …
We all know that Halloween is the scariest time of the year—at least according to the stories from folklore. Many practices around this holiday originate from traditional beliefs about the barrier between the living and the dead being at its …
