Bowdoin College drops award honoring Confederate president

BDN Staff ^ | Oct. 22, 2015 | By Beth Brogan,

[bob_denard]

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College will no longer bestow the Jefferson Davis Award, after the college’s board of trustees voted to approve President Clayton Rose’s proposal to end the practice.

The annual cash award to a student of government and legal studies who excels in constitutional law was named for the Confederate president. It was established in 1972 with an endowed gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, according to a news release from the college. In 1858, Davis received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College.

[jsanders2001]

When will the insanity end?

[circlecity]

What would Joshua Chamberlain do?

[LeoWindhorse]

a Whitworth should have picked him off

[wideawake]

Why would the UDC endow such a scholarship (in 1972?) at Bowdoin College in Yankee Maine - home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - unless they were deliberately thumbing their nose at the man who helped break the back of the Confederacy by honoring Constitutional law incompetent Jefferson Davis in Chamberlain's backyard.

It seems more like a weird practical joke than a scholarship.

[TYVets]

The Jefferson Davis Award has been replaced by The Michael Moore Award.

A classy move there people (/s)

[wideawake]

A thousand Whitworths had a thousand chances, but he was too tough for any turncoat surrender monkey to kill.

[vetvetdoug]

Are they going to give the money back to the UDC or just randomly eliminate the endowment’s name and keep the money?

[RobbyS]

Certainly not this.Chamberlain had class.

[RobbyS]

You need to read up on Chamberlain. He had great respect for the Confederates he fought.

[Timber Rattler]

It said in the article that they were giving the money back.

[Ohioan]

Obviously, it was intended as a gesture of good will. Most of us wanted to end the bitterness that grew out of the War and the criminal Reconstruction era. After the War with Spain, where both the North & South came together as Americans, once more; we entered an era or mutual or reciprocal respect.

That the contemporary Left has succeeded in torpedoing mutual respect, is one of the most disgusting--and stupid--aspects of what passes for contemporary American culture. The UDC are a highly principled group; and they should get their funds back, after this mockery of good will.

And your insult as to Jefferson Davis' competence seems more intended to offend, than to have any other purpose.

[SunkenCiv]

JLC was a professor at Bowdoin College before and after the war:

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• Gettysburg College, Bias In Academia & Scholarship [2012]
• Remembering the Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 [2012]
• The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 [2011]
• Original 1861 Civil War Cavalry Guidon / American Flag [2010]
• The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 [2010]
• The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 [2010]
• Happy 234th birthday America! [2010]
• Remembering the Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 [2009]
• This Day In History -- Civil War July 2, 1863 The second day of battle at Gettysburg [2007]
• Joshua Chamberlain & Providence Question [2006]
• Bowdoin College Student Elected Maine Republican Party Vice Chairman [2005]
• Last full measure [2005]
• The FReeper Foxhole Revisits Little Round Top -- Gettysburg (7/2/1863) -- June 24th, 2005 [2005]
• Neither Fools Nor Cowards(Excellent read) [2005]
• Vernon Robinson the "wrong kind" of black speaker at Bowdoin College? [2005]
• The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Colonel Joshua Chamberlain -- May 17th, 2004 [2004]
• The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Little Round Top -- Gettysburg (7/2/1863) -- Nov 6th, 2003 [2003]
• Maine's Congressman Mike Michaud, a man of courage. [2003]
• Hometown hero, at last Hometown Hero; Maine community gives Civil War general his due [2003]
• Movie reviewer offers critique of 'Gods and Generals' [2003]
• A deeply religious movie about war: Kinsolving on his role as Gen. Barksdale in 'Gods & Generals' [2003]
• Historian discusses 'Gods and Generals' [2003]
• Chamberlain Statue Nearing Completion in Brunswick, Maine [2002]

[wideawake]

He had great respect for the Confederates he fought.

His famous magnanimity to the defeated probably didn't have much bearing on what happened in 1972.

I wonder if the original documents governing that scholarship are available?

[nickcarraway]

Why would a college in Maine bestow such and award anyway? Last time I checked Maine is the most Yankee, least Southern state there is. Was there a Down East Confederacy that I don’t know about?

[vetvetdoug]

Clayton Rose, the President of Bowdoin, is a liberal that matriculated at Chicago University and Harvard before he took the charge at Bowdoin. He’s one of the liberal apologists toward blacks that the left embraces. I would not doubt that he’s close to Obama in some fashion.

[Psalm 144]

“When will the insanity end?”

Hard to say. It all started with Vortigern’s decision to hire pagan Saxon reivers.

[SunkenCiv]

As a liberal and probable lifelong Demwit, he should be apologizing to blacks, and to everyone else.

[wardaddy]

The civil war was from the victors perspective about preserving the union

For NeoCons here it’s about race

And it’s personal usually but they never admit that

They are cowards

They say nothing about who they are

And they lie

You’re dealing with one now

One that lies about her past

[DoodleDawg]

The annual cash award to a student of government and legal studies who excels in constitutional law was named for the Confederate president.

Oh the irony.