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Peucinian Society
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The Peucinian Society was a literary society at Bowdoin College in the 1800s. Formed November 22, 1805 as The Philomathian Society, the name was changed the following year. Membership dues were used to create a library of books. In 1880, the libraries of the Peucinian Society and its former rival, the Athenian Society, were merged and the Peucinian Society was considered defunct. Famous alumni * Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero and Governor of Maine * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet * Franklin Pierce, 14th President * Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
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