Posted on 10/22/2015 5:54:06 PM PDT by Rebeleye
Bowdoin College will no longer bestow the Jefferson Davis Award... 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... The entire current value of the endowed fund will be returned to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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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.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an organization of descendants of Confederate soldiers devoted to, among other goals, honoring the memory of those who served the Confederate states, to collect and preserve the material necessary for “a truthful history of the war … and to protect, preserve and mark the places made historic by Confederate valor.”
“It is inappropriate for Bowdoin College to bestow an annual award that continues to honor a man whose mission was to preserve and institutionalize slavery,” Rose said in the release.
The entire current value of the endowed fund will be returned to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The college also will place an “interpretive panel” in Memorial Hall to “more generally” explain Bowdoin’s connections to the Civil War, which include alumni such as Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. It also will provide information about Davis, 16 Bowdoin graduates and two graduates of the Medical School of Maine who served in the Confederacy.
In place of the former Jefferson Davis Award, a new award honoring late Bowdoin College professor Richard E. Morgan, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional Law, will recognize the same accomplishment in constitutional law. Morgan died in November 2014.
“While I did not have the privilege of knowing Professor Morgan, his national reputation as a scholar of the institutions and principles central to American government and society make it wholly appropriate that we honor him and his lifelong accomplishments with this annual award,” Rose wrote in a separate news release.
America Rewriting History - One liberal college at a time.
While we are at judging people for actions in the past, let’s reconsider the criminality of Martin Luther King, Jr. and begin to remove his name as his memory definitely deserves to be stained with the truth.
Why are the flower of Southern womanhood giving money to a Yankee college, anyway? This is *good* news.
“Don’t throw away your Confederate money, boys, the South shall rise again!”
UDC could refuse the money.
Am I correct in remembering that Abraham Lincoln twice took the presidential oath of office which states: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”?
At the time Lincoln took the oath, did the U. S. Constitution include slavery?
They should get serious in New Brunswick and name the scholarship for Susan Collins.
Bowdoin College is where Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain a hero of Gettysburg taught and was president of; he IS Bowdoin and Bowdoin is Chamberlain so the whole thing was odd to begin with. There must be an interesting back story to how this scholarship came about.
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