Volume CXXXIII, Number 11 November 30, 2001 f

News briefs

President Emeritus Robert H. Edwards returned to campus this week to speak about the political questions that Pakistan and the United States are asking each other about their roles in the war on terrorism. Edwards, who retired last June after 11 years as Bowdoin's president, has spent years in Pakistan assisting the development of the Agha Khan University in Karachi, a medical and nursing school. He noted that Pakistan's 50-year history has included an intermittent series of foreign relations overtures and snubs from the United States, and suggested that President Pervez Musharraf is walking an extremely delicate line between American and Muslim Pakistani interests. The talk, first in a series, was arranged by Anohka, an assembly of South Asian students.

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The Bowdoin College Library has acquired a collection of nearly 70 published works by and about American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Charles F. Adams, a private collector from Falmouth, donated the collection to the library.
A rare souvenir program from an 1895 literary society dinner celebrating the author is part of the acquisition. The collection contains 14 different editions of Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage, with versions ranging from cheap paperbacks to exquisite limited editions.

First or early editions of most of Crane's works, numerous scholarly editions of his writings, bibliographies and biographies, and a host of collected works are also part of the acquisition. Adams's gift has elevated the library's collections to the level of supporting advanced Crane studies.