Kenneth Charles Morton Sills (December 5, 1879 – November 15, 1954)[1] was the eighth president of Bowdoin College and the third to be an alumnus.

[2] After working at Columbia for a brief period of time, Sills returned to teach at Bowdoin in 1906, where he soon became dean.

After a failed run for the United States Senate as a democrat in 1916, Sills became president of Bowdoin in 1918.

In the early 1930s, Sills was recruited by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to commission a study on how the Bay of Fundy tides could harness electrical power and, from 1939 to 1941, he served as chairman of the board for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Nevertheless, a published poet, he is perhaps best known today for having written the school's Alma Mater, "Rise, Sons of Bowdoin" which continues to be sung today more than fifty years after it was originally written.