[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 189 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 189

  Congratulating Bowdoin College on the occasion of its bicentennial 
                              anniversary.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 11 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

   Mr. Mitchell (for himself and Mr. Cohen) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Congratulating Bowdoin College on the occasion of its bicentennial 
                              anniversary.

Whereas Bowdoin College was established in 1794 by the General Court of the 
        Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the first college in the District of 
        Maine;
Whereas, since 1802, Bowdoin College has educated students from Maine, the rest 
        of the Nation, and many foreign countries on the principle that: 
        ``literary institutions are founded and endowed for the common good and 
        not for the private advantage of those who resort to them for 
        education'';
Whereas alumni of Bowdoin College have included 1 President of the United 
        States, 16 Members of the Senate, 42 Members of the House of 
        Representatives, 2 Supreme Court Justices, and many other public 
        officials;
Whereas other distinguished alumni of Bowdoin College have included authors 
        Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Civil War hero and 
        the Governor of Maine Joshua Chamberlain, Arctic explorer Admiral Robert 
        E. Peary, and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson; and
Whereas Bowdoin College is consistently named one of the Nation's most 
        outstanding liberal arts colleges: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) recognizes the contributions made by Bowdoin College to 
        the State of Maine and the Nation over the past 200 years;
            (2) extends heartiest congratulations to the students, 
        alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators of this great 
        institution of higher learning on the occasion of its 
        bicentennial anniversary; and
            (3) offers best wishes for the continued success of Bowdoin 
        College in the future.

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