Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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ibedicafion gown? .fgfgindon Professor Geoffroy Atkinson '13, for thirty-six years has been a teacher of Romance Languages in his Alma Mater, and during two world wars has served his country. Fearlessly honest, he has always set for his students and for himself the highest standards of scholarship. His numerous books on voy- age literature have earned him the highest reputation as an historian of ideas, and that reputation has been confirmed by his recent studies of Balzac. A poet himself, he has translated Francois Villon. His originality and his wit have stimulated generations of Amherst men to think straight. To Professor Atkinson this issue of the OLIO is respectfully dedicated. 3

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fqfefsicfenlf '-.f v L 640,745 mage? 604 CHARLES WOOLSEY COLE, Presidenh A.B., Amherst 19275 M.A., Columbia 19285 Ph.D., Columbia 19315 LL.D., iHon.l, Wagner 19465 LL.D., iHon.l, Williams 19465 LL.D., lHon.l, Wesleyan 19465 Litt. D., lHon.i, Hamilton 19485 Sc.D., iHon.l, Clarkson 19485 L.H.D. ll'lon.i, University of Massachusetts 19515 LL.D. iHon.i, A.l.C. 19525 L.H.D. lHon.l, Trinity 19535 Delta Kappa Epsilon5 Phi Beta Kappa5 Delta Sigma Rho5 Eleven years as President. The OLIO, published each year, serves a number of pur- poses. At first it gives pleasure by catching and fixing in print and pictures familiar scenes and faces. Then it becomes an historical record of a college year and may be referred to in order to check a memory. Eventually it becomes a nos- talgic delight, for in its pages an alumnus can recapture for a moment the atmosphere of his undergraduate days and even the golden haze, grown more golden with the passing years. The OLIO seldom reflects adequately the central academic concerns of the College, the classroom, the stacks of the Library, the laboratories, the hour tests, the honors theses, the long conferences with faculty members. But for the rest it preserves and immortalizes many of the distinctive qualities of life at Amherst College. Charles W. Cole

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Now that the Mead Fine Arts Building has been completed, the question of the spire is still a matter on which members of the Board and of the alumni body disagreef' Pres. Stanley King Amherst, to each one of us in a differ- ent way, is greater than the sum of its parts. We will take from Amherst what we will . , . perhaps these pic- torial and verbal impressions may cast some new lights on four years at Amherst, and may give a sense of the way things have changed, and have not changed, in both the distant and the immediate past. Our impressions in the large part are formed by these various buildings and monu- ments which mold, to a great extent, our lives at Amherst, and which are often neglected in the weekly round of classes, athletics, and social ac- tivities. Mead and Stearns Tower . . . Dr. Morgan and the Stoa . . . what does T he college library was contained in a single bookcase six feet wide located in the north entry of South. The books numbered nearly seven hundred volumesf' Pres. Stanley King