Comments on: Whispering Pines: Please Hand in Your Blue Books http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/12/whispering-pines-please-hand-in-your-blue-books/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 By: Bob Evans http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/12/whispering-pines-please-hand-in-your-blue-books/comment-page-1/#comment-120922 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:22:35 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=142763#comment-120922 John,

Thanks for the trivia! Here’s wishing you a blessed Christmas, Christmastide, and the most joy-filled New Year!

We’re still hoping you decide to visit us in Asheville!!!

]]> By: Emmett Lyne http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/12/whispering-pines-please-hand-in-your-blue-books/comment-page-1/#comment-120910 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:46:07 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=142763#comment-120910 Great test, but I flunked! Thank you, John.

]]> By: PAUL I KAROFSKY http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/12/whispering-pines-please-hand-in-your-blue-books/comment-page-1/#comment-120907 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:09 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=142763#comment-120907 Hi John,
Great quiz. Indeed the most difficult. You might consider adding one more question the next time you do this.
“In what year did Bowdoin grant the first dual major?”
Answer: “1964, to Paul Karofsky ’66 in Religion and Philosophy (also the first Religion major; the only was it would be granted, was if I majored in Philosophy as well.)

]]> By: John Cross http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/12/whispering-pines-please-hand-in-your-blue-books/comment-page-1/#comment-120901 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:46:02 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=142763#comment-120901 The answer to number 12 is “d”, not “a” (d. the College privy/outhouse in the days before indoor plumbing). My apologies for the typo!

John

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