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Page 18 text:
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Levi Stockbridge, memorialized in Stockbridge Hall, in the Stockbridge House, in Stockbi-idge Road and in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, is still a living presence. Studying his brother ' s college assignments and conducting experiments with fertilizer on his North Hadley farm, he was to give the practical instruction upon this campus for many years and to become a college president although he had never been a college student. When the college was going through its greatest crisis in 1879, Levi Stockbridge subsidized it from his own leather wallet, replying to a banker friend who sought to dissuade him, Oh, I ' m not afraid. Never you worry. I tell you this college is going to be a great success. ' 14
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Colonel William S. Clark, (•lu-onologicvally third ptesidmt, but the first to have any students; reported dead in the Civil War, but reappearing in time to answer the family ' s request for his body witbf the message — ' Will l)ring my body with me when I come home ; staging in 1871 a spectacular commencement for twenty-seven grad- uates with the platform of Amherst ' s College Hall crowded with local and national dignitaries; harnessing a growing sr{uash and demonstrat- ing, thereby, tliat in the process of expansion it coidd lift a weight ol ' two and one-half tons; during a Sabbatical leave organizing in Japan what has now ccnne to be Hokkaido Imperial University, :— this was Clark. As dui ' ing tlie Civil War, his spirit still survives.. ... . .... 13
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Paul Ansel Cliadboiinie. twice president of this institiilion. Doc- tor of Medicine. Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Divinity, but a si)ccia]isl in natural science; a pioneer president of the I ' niversity of AVisconsin and Mark Hopkins chosen successor at Williams; and, ultimately, the man who in a few months re-estal)lished our Alma Mater upon Beacon Hill and, thus, also in Amherst! Chadbourne ' s death was a spectacular psychological adventm-e and was reported thus, in detail, in the New Yoi-k newspapers. His spirit hovers about the Chapel, the immediate monument to his statecraft 15
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