awarded the future President of the Confederacy an honorary degree. The Jefferson Davis Award was established in 1972 following a donation from the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was given to students excelling in legal studies. The award was discontinued in 2015, with the college president citing it as inappropriate because it honored someone "whose mission was to preserve and institutionalize slavery".
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Although Bowdoin's Medical School of Maine closed in 1921, it produced notable graduates including Augustus Stinchfield, who received his M.D. in 1868 and became one of the co-founders of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1877, the college graduated Charles Morse, the American banker who established a near-monopoly of the ice business in New York, which contributed to the financial Panic of 1907.
The college educated and graduated Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. Peary named Bowdoin Fjord and Bowdoin Glacier after …
