Item 11466 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Peucinian Society medal, Brunswick, ca. 1822
- Item 11466 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Peucinian Society medal, Brunswick, ca. 1822
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- Item 11466
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Image Info On November 22, 1805, eight Bowdoin College students met and formed the Philomathian Society. A few months later the name was changed to the Peucinian Society and took its motto: Pinos loquentes semper habemus (We always have the whispering pines).
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The Society continued until 1879. This medal shows the motto (abbreviated) and H.W.L. It belonged to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who was associated with Bowdoin College from 1822-1834, at first as a student and then as a professor.
