Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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AMHERST OLIO. department has been added. Four of our professors have visited foreign lands during the past 'year-one on a mission, despite his modest depreciation, hardly second to any since the Pauline journeys. All have returned 'save one who is still abroad collecting works of art for a college gallery. His assiduous efforts to establish this are gratefully ac- knowledged, as are also the generous gifts to the same end by a benefactor of the college. We confidently expect before long to see Alumni Hall robbed of its present grim associa- tions as the place of examination, and transformed into the much desired Art Gallery. . The College Church was dedicated and occupied for wor- ship during the last year. Its fine organ and responsive service together with the beauty of its architecture and adornment add to the pleasure and impressiveness of our devotion. The enterprises of the students have been conducted during the past year with our customary spirit and ability. Our suc- ces at Springfield was not equal to last year's, but we firmly believe it was not far less. Our university crew in conse- quence of an accident to their shell were obliged to row in a boat to which they were net accustomed and which was built for another crew. Yet at the last point in the regatta at which the positions of the crews are known. one-half' mile from the finish. Amherst was reported second. Our men were quiet and reserved while their position was so deliberately discussed at Springfield, but we think that a majority of the same crew will pull with all the more indomitable grit at the next regatta. Our Freshman crew took the second posi- tion in their race. The Editors would return thanks to Professor Snell and to tl1e Secretaries of the various organizations mentioned in the Omo for courtesies extended to them. Special thanks should also be 'tendered to Messrs. Hamlin and Hosmer of '75 for the original designs illustrating the Ol.IlJ,XVlllCl1 are printed in fac simile. Compiling these pages has awakened in us a feeling of stronger attachment to our fellow students and to the col- lege. May the reader receive and foster the same feeling of attaehmentg and may the college enjoy many years of progress as marked and success as noble as the last.

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Eciz'iaz'z'aZ. --+m+- i year. To tliose who read aright they throw wide open U the living heart of the college. Many will find written here a pleasant chapter of their own history, many will be reminded of scenes amid these halls in which they once bore a part, and many after us, enjoying the same Arcadian lite, will scan these pages with interest. We send them forth dedicated to all who thrill with fond aifection at the words Et ego in .fl ml1er'.wlz7mz.wf. Again the college doors have opened and another class has gone out into the world. .Let our first words regretfully bid farewell to '73 and bear a willing tribute to her worth. The year has been one of progress scarcely equaled in the history of the college. The Freshman Class has entered nearly one-fourth more men than the largest preceding class, among them three colored- men. Additions have also been made to each of the other classes. While the number of students is increased, changes have also occurred in the Faculty. A professorsliip of History, long battled for by the students, is established and filled to their great satisfaction. The chair of Oratory and English Literature l1as become vacant. An instructor in the EnglQh NED 1 ECCJRL7El3 within these pages are the annals of another

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