Word: amhersts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst will hold entrance examinations, on June 20, at Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis...
...Amherst will this year graduate seventy-five men. Of this number 42 are Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 22 Independents; 49 believe in total abstinence; 34 dance, 34 smoke, 10 chew, and 56 play cards; 13 are devoted to Political Economy, 11 to Philosophy, and I to the study of human nature; 7 are engaged, 4 "won't tell," while the remainder are still untrammelled...
...large number who assembled on Wednesday to see the game between Amherst and our Nine found the game much too one-sided to make it especially interesting or intensely exciting. Still the fine fielding of our Nine and their especially heavy batting made the game at times very lively. Tyng and Leeds excelled both at the bat and in the field. The following score reveals the details...
...AMHERST...
...Every college has a distinct individuality which impresses itself upon its college literature. Thus Princeton is noted for its blue-blooded Presbyterianism and 'codfish' aristocracy; Harvard for its Cockneyisms; Yale for its sports and fast people; Columbia for its apish English manners; Dartmouth for its country 'greenhorns'; Amherst for its shrewd Yankees; Trinity for its ancient church foundations; Union for its old Knickerbocker aristocracy; Hamilton for Western 'shoddy'; and Cornell for its progressiveness...