Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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ctive 66Lord Jeffery Amherst was a soldier of the King, and he came from across the sea l . . . the spirit of a famous general lives on in song . . . the French and Indians are gone now, but Lord Jeff endures . . . a town takes his name and gives it to a col- lege . . . our first tradition . . . but not our last . . . Sabrina . . . our late first lady . . . no other college monument has changed hands so much . . . in the past the odd and even classes vied for her attentions . . . she's even been around the world via airplane, steamship, and horsedrawn carriage . . . no one could keep her hidden for long, until the Admin- istration stepped in . . . a monument now gone, somewhere . . . nobody seems to know where, or care very much . . . student apathy resulting from the action of forces beyond our control . . . has tradition lost its meaning? . . . the natural result of language divorced from experience . . . but there are still some phenomena which characterize every Amherst year . . . not exactly 'ctraditionalf' but yet perennial . . . Orientation . . . confused frosh and confident seniors . . . Homecoming Weekend and our Little Three rivals . . . Mardi Gras . . . our distaff counterparts-a welcome relief from a mas- culine environment . . . the pre- and post-Christmas vacation slumps . . . the usual student-Administra- tion quarrels . . . rather tame this year . . . undesir- ing ' and the plight of Under:-1 Cheever, child of scorn . . . a fiery student reaction . . . soon doused 66 Underachievers. .,' 4137 ,JR ,I -f:,,,5.,:1'MA:it ,fxa ,, N M44 .A -', , ,-13 ' ,'- .K Y ' ' H '-, '-fa -M',...' .' . f- . N ,V ,. .4 gl, , ,f , .I nm. X , . 1 . , .-., Y Lord Jeif, a Thomas Gainsborough original. , W f ,.L.n.,. Q.. f ji Sabrina came back in a new form this year.

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A necessity of fraternity living. by the all-too-rapid approach of first semester finals . . . winter doldrums accompany the new term . . . Houseparties . . . a bacchalian interlude . . . Rush- ing . . . a four-day hell . . . nobody likes it, but everybody does it . . . new pledges and old prob- lems . . . Spring Vacation . . . some go to Florida and some go home . . . tanned bodies return to a green campus . . . the beauty of an Amherst spring . . . a new sport-outdoor studying . . . Prom Weekend . . . the all-college formal, Block Party, and Fiji . . . the party ends, the grind begins . . . second semester finals and the mad rush for home . . . hurried farewells to the friends made during our college year . . . Commencement and the return of-'Ltraditionn . . . alumni parade, Senior Sing, and uthe chalice . . . pomp and circumstance, gowns and glory . . . '6Oh Amherst, brave Amherst, 'twas a name known to fame in days of yore! In Memoriam THOMAS CUSHING ESTY, '93 B.A., Amherst 1893g M.A., Amherst 18975 LL.D. Amherst 1951. Walker Professor of Mathematics. Secretary of the Faculty, 1915-1920. Dean of the College, 1922-1929. Member of Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon. HERBERT GALE JOHNSON, '16 B.A., Amherst 1916. Comptroller of the College since 1933. DAVID CALDWELL GRAHAME B.Ch.E., University of Minnesota 1935g Ph.D., Uni- versity of California, 1937. Professor of Chemistry. Guggenheim Fellow. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Sigma Xi. PETER BURNETT HOWE, '60 Resident of Verona, New Jersey. Editor of the Literary Magazine. Selectman of the town of Amherst. Awarded the Corbin Prize for outstanding original Member of Delta Tau Delta. DONALD COPE MCKAY poetry. A.B., Stanford 1926g M.A., Harvard 19279 Ph.D., Harvard 1932. Anson D. Morse Professor of History Member of Phi Beta Kappa and Los Acros.