Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...presided, but made no address, and the Rev. Dr. R. R. Meredith opened the conference with prayer. The president of Princeton made a brief address and was followed by Professor Fisher of Yale, who spoke of "College Education and the Opportunities and Obligations Resulting from it." President Gates of Amherst came next with "College Men as Leaders" for his theme. Then President Raymond of Wesleyan spoke of "The Philosophy of Method," and President Andrews of Brown University on "The Moral and Religious Value of Higher Education." President Eliot, as has been stated before, was unable to be present. A letter...
...gilt cross over the entrance to the College Library, said to be a trophy from the siege of Strasburg, was really taken by Amherst of the English Colonial army from the fortress of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, in 1758, during the French and Indian...
Early in January there will be a meeting of alumni of Harvard, Yale, Brown, Williams, Amherst and Dartmouth, to organize a university club in Boston...
...Kemmerer '93 has been elected manager of the Amherst eleven for next year...
There are in the three professional schools, 29 men from Yale, 22 from Brown, 18 from Amherst,13 from Williams, 7 from the Universities of Michigan and California, 6 from the University of Pennsylvania, and 4 from Princeton and Cornell. The following table shows the numbers of graduates from other colleges for the past three years...