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Show Preferred Apples to a College. About a century ago, when the commissioners com-missioners who had in charge the selection selec-tion of a site for Bowdoin college were ' attending to this duty, they pitched npon New Gloucester, Me., as combining more advantages than any other place they had visited, bnt the owner of tho land refused to part with it if it was to be used as the site of a college, though willing enough to sell it if it vraa to bs put to any other use. The reason that he gave was that the students wonld steal the apples in an orchard in which he took great pride. So it seems that this is the reason why New Gloucester is noted for its apples rather than as being the seat of Bowdoin college. Portland Transcript |