Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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IO AMIIERST COLLEGE OLIO. TI-IE FACULTY. What the great do, thc loss will prattlc of. AVA HE OLIO wishes to pay its respects to the Faculty as a whole, because its respectable members form a numerical 'ft majority. We cannot suppose the Faculty to have called on THE OLIO, because the Faculty does n't know till afterwards who THE OL1o is! But Tins OL1o knows the Faculty, root and branch, inside and out, intellectually, spiritually, and politically. About' the political Faculty we have somewhat to say. The essential power which the body uses as a body is policy. VVhen delinquents are to be spurred up to begin a new year squarely, the policy of the Faculty shines forth in all its honorable brightness. But when the Faculty fails, for evidently selfish reasons, to warn incoming classes that they will have to be gentlemen or be tired, the policy of the Faculty presents a sneaking, detestable phase of meanness. And this is not the first time that students have pleaded for a fair statement in the catalogue, that membership of Amherst College depends not less on a refusal to engage in cane-rushes than on satisfactory attainments in the field of intellect. Faculty, if you must have a policy, let that be the honest treatment of your students. We had not wished to specialize complaint against either men or actions 5 but when we see the remains of the specimen Eighty- Eight nearly annihilated in their Latin room, sitting in pseudo- state over the same class in Philosophyg when we have to counsel Ninety that their Greek man has his father's talent for circumnavi- gation without his brains, when we see in whiskers and spectacles

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AMI-IERST COLLEGE OLIO. MARSHALL HENSHAW, D.D., LL.D., '45, LC'L'flH'L'l' an lvizllmrl 1'h17ax0jbhy. Aman more sinned against than shining. FREDERICK A. BANCROFT, PH.D., '82, Lcrflnw' an AIl1L'1'lQ'llll llllvlwjf. LEVI H. ELWELL, M.A., '75, l11.rfrm'lnr in Gfwk amz' .SiIllJ'A'l'l'f. G. GILBERT POND, M.A., '81, lu.r!rm'l0r in ChL'llllIVfIj'. HIRAM I-I. SEELYE, M.A., M.D., '79, lu.rfr11rlw' in l'hy.virnl l:'a'1rml1'f111. E. LINCOLN WOOD, M.A., '84, lllxfrmrlua' in Lnlffl. CHARLES A. TUTTLE, Pl-LD., '83, fll.ff7'lIt'f01' in l'v!171'ca! l2'f0ll0lIIj', aim' fllfL'1'NlIfl'0lllI! Law. WILLIAM SEELYE, M.A., '79, lll.I'fl'lll'flU' in G'1'cul'. JOSEPH O. THOMPSON, M.A., '84, l1'?rl'K'ur ln.r!1'm'!w' in fMrMw1ml1k.f, aim' .S'crn'!r11jf ry' Mc Kiraly WALTER F. WILLCOX, LL.B., '84, lm-l1'11fl01' in Ph17a.r0j1hy. EDWARD B. MARSH, M.A., '76, A'qg'livl1'r11'. This is the most unkindcst cut of nil. TI-IE LIBRARY. WILLIAM I. FLETCHER, M.A. Oli: L1'lu'1z1'1im. In his duty prompt to every call. EDWARD DICKINSON, A.r.v11rIanf L1'6m1'121l1.

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AMIIERST COLLEGE OLIO. XI and smile and affectation and conceit, that semblance of man in the Freshman Latin roomg we, staid, just and conservative OLIO Board, rise together and demand a change. Not all the spirits of our Amherst Faculty are lacking a deep sense of generous pleasure in the interests of the boys. Here and there an old heart grows tender somewhat towards the younger onesg and signs of kindly sympathy glow brightly in them both. And though from some of them we can only look for mental frictions, and the gain that comes to the diamond by its lossg from others we receivea measure of the stature of their perfect man- hood. These, and they are not few, we thank most gratefully. C