If you support Bowdoin athletics, you know that competition in the NESCAC gets fiercer every year. Many colleges in the league have invested in new, state-of-the art facilities to gain an edge on their rivals. Bowdoin has recently upgraded its football field, stadium, and outdoor track, but the playing fields around Farley fieldhouse remain basically […]
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X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet
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X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet
It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful.
Credit.Illustration by Hayley Wall
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on my parents’ white bookshelves. At night, my siblings and I would gather on my littlest sister’s bed while one of my parents read to us. Once I learned to read, I took to raising myself up on my tiptoes to borrow that book and carrying it to the nubbly lime green couch in the playroom.