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<p>I heard that Bowdoin refused an offer to be in the ivy league. just thought id get that message across to you guys.</p>

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<p><a href="http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2006-04-28&section=3&id=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2006-04-28&section=3&id=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Sounds like Bowdoin doesn't know that.
There's a quote in the article about rejecting/being rejected by the Ivy League never happened, and the idea is, and I quote, "ludicrous."</p>

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<p>i actually think i've read that it was colgate that turned down the offer...as well as one other school I can not remember.</p>

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<p>In one of these threads, someone posted an article in the Dartmouth paper from three years ago saying that Colgate was considering membership to the Ivy League, but dropped out before it was finalized. </p>

<p>I've also read somewhere here that it was down to Colgate and Brown (who were traditional football rivals playing each other the last game of the season every year from the 1910s to the 1960s), but was decided that they didn't want three schools from NY state. I've never seen any evidence anywhere else corroborating this explanation.</p>

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<p>Ivies Weekend comes from planting ivies, but there are people who enjoy spreading the rumor that Bowdoin could have once maybe been part of the Ivy League.</p>

<p>From what I've read, only Colgate and Rutgers were approached about the Ivy League. Rutgers refused to become partially private like Cornell, and I don't remember why Colgate declined/was declined.</p>

<p>However, prior to dumping the law school and med school in the 1920's, Bowdoin was more often clumped with Dartmouth than Williams or Amherst. If one were to extrapolate, it wouldnt be hard to imagine a scenerio where Bowdoin would have been part of the league hard we not become solely a liberal arts college.</p>

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<p>Had they (Bowdoin) done so, I would definitely committed. Unfortunately, they were not smart enough to do so.</p>

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<p>ivy is a football legue.. so what.. bowdoin will not become any better if its ivy u know</p>

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<p>So, Bowdoin had a law and med school in the 1920's? How big were they, considering that their undergrad classes were less than 400 people until the last decade?</p>

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<p>Not large at all (this is just assumption as I don't have any actual numbers). The old med school building (Adams Hall) still exists, and its basement is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of the cadavers kept there</p>