• Amherst College (/ˈæmərst/ AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College...
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    The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is the flagship campus...
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    town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. Amherst has three census-designated...
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    Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces...
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    some notable people affiliated with Amherst College. Edward Jones 1826, Principal of forerunner of Fourah Bay College, Africa (the predecessor of the University...
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    institutions are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University...
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    William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst GCH PC (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General...
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    Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, totaling approximately...
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  • Buffalo Amherst, Ohio Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio Amherst, South Dakota Amherst, Texas Amherst, Virginia Amherst County, Virginia Amherst (town)...
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  • 2009. Brown played college football at Brown University as a fullback. He began his career as a tight ends coach at Amherst College in 2002 and has also...
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  • Amherst College Press, founded in 2014, is a new university press (NUP) sponsored by Amherst College, Massachusetts that specializes in open-access monographs...
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  • four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Together...
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  • The Amherst Mammoths represent Amherst College of Amherst, Massachusetts in the sport of college football. The football team is coached by E. J. Mills...
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  • of Amherst College, college historian William Seymour Tyler traced Amherst's system of Latin honors to 1881, and attributed it to Amherst College president...
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    Little Ivies (category New England Small College Athletic Conference)
    by Amherst College, Wesleyan University and Williams College, and "Maine Big Three", a term used by Bates College, Bowdoin College, and Colby College. The...
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    Stephen Collins (category Amherst College alumni)
    Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating cum laude. While at Amherst, he played bass guitar in a number of bands...
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    Octagon at Amherst College was the first natural history museum and observatory on campus. Edward Hitchcock (President of Amherst College in 1845) hired...
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    Award nomination for Outstanding Game Show Host. Higgins attended Amherst College, graduating in 1985 and was a member of the a cappella group the Zumbyes...
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    Wayback Machine finding aid at Amherst College Obituary for the 5th (and final) Earl Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, 5th Earl Amherst, who died without issue...
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    legal correspondent. Jarrett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University. Jarrett joined CNN...
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  • a united team of women could match the success of nearby men's colleges like Amherst and Williams. The curriculum allowed women to study subjects like...
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    David Foster Wallace (category Amherst College alumni)
    in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. After struggling with depression...
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    Dan Brown (category Amherst College alumni)
    from Phillips Exeter, Brown attended Amherst College where he double majored in English and Spanish. At Amherst, he was initiated into the Psi Upsilon...
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    William S. Clark (category Amherst College alumni)
    Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and obtained a doctorate in chemistry...
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  • college to Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1821, the president of the college, Zephaniah Swift Moore, who had accepted his position believing the college would...
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    MrBallen (category University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts alumni)
    2006. That year, he attended UMass Amherst for one semester before dropping out. He later returned to UMass Amherst and graduated with a bachelor's degree...
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    The Amherst College Glee Club, founded in 1865, is an SATB vocal ensemble, and one of the oldest continuous student organizations at Amherst College. It...
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    Zach Cherry was born in 1987. He attended Princeton Day School and Amherst College. He began taking improv lessons in 2011, and was placed on a house...
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  • professors who attended Amherst (or Wesleyan) as an undergraduate are not presented with a second degree. In 2024, Amherst College President Michael A. Elliott...
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  • Valley: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst; students of each college are allowed to attend...
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