February 2, 2001
Volume CXXXII, Number 14

    At the first Common Hour of the semester, the Bowdoin community revived its collective spirit at Pickard Theater, where Assistant Professor of Education Nancy Jennings spoke.
   The seats were filled with faculty and staff members and students, who were eager to hear the speech of the Karofsky prize-winner, one of the most popular professors at Bowdoin.

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Two Years Beneath the Pines
By LUDWIG RANG, ALUMNUS CONTRIBUTOR

    LONDON-Some time in April, spring at last came to still-wintry Maine. Suddenly, as one walked across campus, "there was a song in every heart, a cheer on every face, and a spring in every step," as Mark Twain put it in the opening of the whitewashing scene in Tom Sawyer.

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O.O. Howard: The Last March Among Friends
By KID WONGSRICHANALAI, STAFF WRITER

    Oliver Howard had certainly come a long way by 1864. From a young student at Bowdoin and then at West Point, he had grown as a man and as a believer in the Creator of all things.
   When the Civil War began, he was a colonel. Now, four years later, he was a major general in command of one of the nation's most venerable veteran armies.

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