• 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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    Agricultural College. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley. UMass Amherst has the largest...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Holyoke College and Smith College are part of the Five College Consortium with Amherst College, Hampshire College, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Wellesley...
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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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    Emily Dickinson (category Writers from Amherst, Massachusetts)
    Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years...
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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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    Zephaniah Swift Moore (category Presidents of Amherst College)
    found Amherst, taking some of the faculty and 15 students with him. The rumor that Williams College library books were also taken to Amherst College was...
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    the United States: Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts...
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    The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education is a college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Began in 1906 as the Department of...
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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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    William Austin Dickinson (category Amherst College alumni)
    Emily Dickinson. After graduating from both Williston Seminary and Amherst College, Dickinson taught briefly before pursuing a legal education. He attended...
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    Rowland Abiodun (category Amherst College faculty)
    Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. He earned his B.A. in Fine Arts in 1965 from Ahmadu...
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