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Charles Benjamin Merrill kept this diary from April 14, 1844-July 22, 1847 while he was a student at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and during vacations at home in Portland, Maine. Entries refer to lectures and teachers; sermons, often mentioning names of preachers; fraternity activities; social life; part time library work; sports; concerts; weather conditions; trips to Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Hanover, and other locations; commencement exercises; politics, including a mention of President James K. Polk's visit to Portland on July 2, 1847; and other topics less