Two guiding ideas suffuse Bowdoin’s mission. The first, from the College of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, defines education in terms of a social vision. “Literary institutions are founded ...

In 1997, the College—by faculty vote—decided it was appropriate ... as James Bowdoin III’s bookplate; and since 1894 in Bowdoin publications. The motto, Ut aquila versus coelum, may be translated, “As ...