Bowdoin prize
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The Bowdoin Prize is a prestigious award given annually to Harvard University undergraduate and graduate students. It is considered among the highest academic commendations the University can bestow upon a student. From the income of the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin, prizes are offered to students at the University in Graduate and Undergraduate categories for Essays in the English Language, Essays in the Natural Sciences, Compositions in Greek, and Compositions in Latin. Each winner of a Bowdoin Prize receives, in addition to a sum of money, a medal, a certificate, and his or her name printed in the Commencement Program.[1]
The award has been given annually since 1790, and its past winners include:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820 and 1821, essayist and poet
- Charles Sumner, 1830 and 1832, statesman
- Edward Everett Hale, 1838 and 1839, writer
- Charles L. Flint, 1848, lawyer, education advocate, first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture
- Horatio Alger, Jr., 1851, writer
- Henry Adams, 1858, historian
- George Lyman Kittredge, 1882, scholar and educator
- R. Nathaniel Dett, 1921, composer
- Nathan Pusey, 1934, president of Harvard
- Henri Dorra, 1949, art historian
- John Updike, 1954, writer
- John Glover Roberts, Jr., 1976, Chief Justice of the United States
