{"id":1138,"date":"2023-12-04T20:36:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/?page_id=1138"},"modified":"2024-03-20T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:52:06","slug":"president-william-allen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/rate-my-professors\/president-william-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"President William Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-768x1211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-974x1536.jpg 974w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-1299x2048.jpg 1299w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/WilliamAllen-scaled.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u2b50  Complete Dud<br><br><em>Our President is a short, thick little lump of a man, with no talents, and, as I have been told, no extraordinary learning.  He is quite an inoffensive little animal, and causes me no trouble except to put my hand to my hat when I meet him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne to his sister,  October 28, 1821.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2b50\u2b50  Uninspiring<br><br><em>He was industrious and conscientious; but his manner was precise and formal, instead of being dignified; and he inspired the average student with little respect or esteem. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horatio Bridge, <em>Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne <\/em>(1893)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2b50\u2b50  By no means brilliant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pres. Allen is a pretty good, but by no means a brilliant scholar. The students say he is fond of that which the apostle says is the root of all evil.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gorham Deane to his brother, Nov. 10, 1821<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2b50 Complete Dud Our President is a short, thick little lump of a man, with no talents, and, as I have been told, no extraordinary learning. He is quite an inoffensive little animal, and causes me no trouble except to put my hand to my hat when I meet him. Nathaniel Hawthorne to his sister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1138","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1138\/revisions\/1349"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}