Author: Wilson, Douglas, edited and with several selections by,
Title: Passages of Time: narratives in the history of Amherst College.
Description: np, Amherst College Press, (2007). VG in VG DJ. Editor Wilson worked for 27 years in the publications office of Amherst, retiring in 2002. Most of the selections in this. anthology are narrative chapters of Amherst history from earliest days to recent time. They take the reader chronologically from the 1820s when students learned the rudiments of "Vulgar Arithmetic" up to a 1990 colloquium on quantum mechanics. Student anti-slavery efforts, Civil War casualties, college dealing with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, baseball glories, faculty deliberations, and a black student's sensitive view of his undergraduate experience in the 1970s. Each sectopm is opened with the editor's short introduction.

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