{"id":147,"date":"2013-09-19T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/a-world-of-objects\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-02-02T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:18:42","slug":"nathaniel-hawthornes-copy-of-the-laws-of-bowdoin-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/nathaniel-hawthornes-copy-of-the-laws-of-bowdoin-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s copy of the Laws of Bowdoin College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_148\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 \" alt=\"Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s copy of the Laws of Bowdoin College Brunswick:  Printed by Joseph Griffin, 1824. The George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &amp; Archives, Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection, Gift: In memory of Edward A. Noyes by Sidney Webb Noyes. \" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-291x450.jpg 291w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-517x800.jpg 517w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy-250x386.jpg 250w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/files\/2013\/09\/laws-front-pagelorescopy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s copy of the Laws of Bowdoin College<br \/>Brunswick: Printed by Joseph Griffin, 1824.<br \/>The George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &amp; Archives, Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection, Gift: In memory of Edward A. Noyes by Sidney Webb Noyes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Laws of Bowdoin College were published for two purposes: to publicize the rules and regulations for administering the College, and to convey to students how they were expected to conduct themselves within the College community. As such, the Laws served both as a summary of the College by-laws and as a student handbook.<\/p>\n<p>Although surnamed \u201cHathorne\u201d throughout his youth and college days, these doodlings show that American author and 1825 Bowdoin graduate Nathaniel Hawthorne was already considering other spelling forms. Whether he ultimately added the \u201cw\u201d to insure the soft \u201ca\u201d pronunciation or to return to an ancient form of the family name\u2014as he later claimed\u2014has never been proved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laws of Bowdoin College were published for two purposes: to publicize the rules and regulations for administering the College, and to convey to students how they were expected to conduct themselves within the College community. As such, the Laws served both as a summary of the College by-laws and as a student handbook. 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