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Prizes
Sewall Latin Prize
The Sewall Latin Prize (since1879), given by Jotham Bradbury Sewall, class of 1848, S.T.D. 1902, who was fomerly the Professor of Greek at Bowdoin. The Prize is awarded annually to the member of the sophomore class who sustains the best examination in Latin.
Notable awardees include:
Kenneth C.M. Sills, class of 1901, Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature ,Dean of Bowdoin College, and President of the College from 1918 to 1952.
Robert P. Tristram Coffin, class of 1915, poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. While teaching at Wells College and Bowdoin College, Coffin wrote thirty-seven books -- poems, novels, biographies, and essays. His Strange Holiness won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1935.
Nathan Dane, class of 1937, Professor of Classics at Bowdoin from1946 to 1979.
Harlan Berkley Peabody, class of 1950, author of The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally through Hesiod's Works and Days.
William S.Cohen, class of 1962, U.S. Senator from 1979 to 1997 and U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1997 to the present.
Joseph A. Farrell, class of 1977, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.