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William Belcher Whitney scrapbook, 1883 to 1885

Whitney, William Belcher, 1866-1936

William B. Whitney scrapbook containing items collected during his freshman and sophomore years at Amherst College. Formats of the contents vary from printed materials (such as invitations, programs, tickets, receipts, clippings, and schedules) to handwritten materials (like letters and course notes) to other ephemera (such as flowers, fabric, billiard cloth, ribbons, and cigarette packets). Whitney has written annotations adjacent to some included items. Materials provide glimpses into student life at Amherst College. Some items pertain to student groups like the Social Union, Alexandria, Athenæ, Glee Club, or the College chapter (Sigma) of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Other materials relate to academics, personal finances, physical statistics, or to local and college events such as Mountain Day, lecture courses, athletic competitions, commencement, and musical performances. Some included items are from or pertain to students of Smith College and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

William Belcher Whitney scrapbook, 1883 to 1885
Harrison Otis Howland letter to Justin Perkins, 1838 February 22

Howland, Harrison O., 1813-1872

Harrison O. Howland letter to Justin Perkins in which Howland writes as secretary of the (Amherst College) association of Friends. He states the original and continued object of the society "to excite and perpetuate a missionary spirits in our hearts & in the hearts of those with whom we associate." He writes regarding their feeling that this object would be promoted by correspondence with missionaries and asks Perkins to write them something that will increase interest and be of value in directing their course. He also asks particular questions relevant to students interested in becoming missionaries and updates Perkins on the current status of the society. The letter is on stationery that includes a printed lithograph of Amherst College by Moore's Lithography in Boston and signed "H.G. Van Lennep" (presumed to be Henry J. Van Lennep).

Harrison Otis Howland letter to Justin Perkins, 1838 February 22
Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1825 February 7 to 1827 October 17

Amherst College

A faculty administrative records book documenting faculty votes, appointments and departures, resolutions, and committee decisions from the second term of the 1824-1825 academic year to the fourth week of the first term of the 1827-1828 academic year. Content relates to a variety of subjects, such as: campus business, college grounds and buildings, Commencement, rules, the curriculum, religious services, student societies, admissions, exhibitions, student petitions, disciplinary cases, student appointments, and examinations.

Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1825 February 7 to 1827 October 17
Amherst College. Records of the faculty. Commencing with the Collegiate year, 1827-8

Amherst College

A faculty administrative records book documenting faculty votes, resolutions, meeting minutes, committee reports, and decisions from the first term of the 1827-1828 academic year to the tenth week of the first term of the 1833-1834 academic year. Content relates to a variety of subjects, such as: campus business, college grounds and buildings, Commencement, rules, the curriculum, religious services, student societies, exhibitions, student petitions, disciplinary cases, student appointments, and examinations.

Amherst College. Records of the faculty. Commencing with the Collegiate year, 1827-8
Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1882 March 15 to 1894 December 18

Amherst College

A faculty administrative records book documenting faculty meeting minutes including votes, resolutions, and committee reports from March 15, 1882 to December 18, 1894. Content relates to a variety of subjects, such as: campus business, college grounds and buildings, Commencement, rules, the curriculum, athletics, religious services, student societies, exhibitions, student petitions, disciplinary cases, student appointments, and examinations. Accompanying this volume are three related loose inserts.

Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1882 March 15 to 1894 December 18
Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1826 to 1842

Amherst College

An administrative records book with an initial note by Edward Hitchcock, Jr. stating "at the burning of Walker Hall in 1881 the five or six volumes of strictly Faculty Records were destroyed. The makeup of this volume is a gathering of papers preserved on the files of the Secretary of the Faculty. 1827-1842." Included are documents arranged in six sections, each covering varying topics: the House of Students (also called Commonwealth of the College); the Athenian, Alexandrian, and Social Union student literary societies; student disciplinary cases; legal proceedings relating to James C. Stuart v. Theodate Corson; faculty papers, and undated papers relating to student expenses and the faculty. Among the records are student petitions, student confessions, faculty resolutions and responses, curriculum plans, committee reports, statistics on courses, student society assignments, acts, and regulations.

Amherst College faculty administrative records book, 1826 to 1842
Records of the faculty of Amherst College, Dec. 25th 1833. Vol. 2nd

Amherst College

A faculty administrative records book documenting faculty votes, resolutions, meeting minutes, committee reports, and decisions from the tenth week of the first term of the 1833-1834 academic year to April 1, 1846. Content relates to a variety of subjects, such as: campus business, college grounds and buildings, Commencement, rules, the curriculum, religious services, student societies, exhibitions, student petitions, disciplinary cases, student appointments, and examinations.

Records of the faculty of Amherst College, Dec. 25th 1833. Vol. 2nd
Records of the faculty of Amherst College. From April 8th, 1846 to Nov. 23rd, 1866, Vol. 3

Amherst College

A faculty administrative records book documenting faculty votes, resolutions, meeting minutes, committee reports, and decisions from April 8, 1846 to November 23, 1866. Content relates to a variety of subjects, such as: campus business, college grounds and buildings, Commencement, rules, the curriculum, religious services, student societies, exhibitions, student petitions, disciplinary cases, student appointments, and examinations. Accompanying this volume is a related loose insert.

Records of the faculty of Amherst College. From April 8th, 1846 to Nov. 23rd, 1866, Vol. 3
La critique, 1829 November 18

Amherst College

Volume 1 Number 2 of La Critique, a handwritten periodical with issues dated from 1829 to 1830. Entries included were reviews addressed to the editor. Reviews related to student life and experiences such as a contributor's first time observing a New England Thanksgiving, a contributor's thoughts on an article in the Hampshire Sentinel about the College, and contributors' reflections on college events, studies, exercises and societies. The contributors and editors of La Critique may have been in the Alexandrian Society. The Athenian Society and the Social Union are also mentioned in an issue.

La critique, 1829 November 18
La critique, 1830 February 10

Amherst College

Volume 1 Number 5 of La Critique, a handwritten periodical with issues dated from 1829 to 1830. Entries included were reviews addressed to the editor. Reviews related to student life and experiences such as a contributor's first time observing a New England Thanksgiving, a contributor's thoughts on an article in the Hampshire Sentinel about the College, and contributors' reflections on college events, studies, exercises and societies. The contributors and editors of La Critique may have been in the Alexandrian Society. The Athenian Society and the Social Union are also mentioned in an issue.

La critique, 1830 February 10
La critique, 1829 December 9

Amherst College

Volume 1 Number 4 of La Critique, a handwritten periodical with issues dated from 1829 to 1830. Entries included were reviews addressed to the editor. Reviews related to student life and experiences such as a contributor's first time observing a New England Thanksgiving, a contributor's thoughts on an article in the Hampshire Sentinel about the College, and contributors' reflections on college events, studies, exercises and societies. The contributors and editors of La Critique may have been in the Alexandrian Society. The Athenian Society and the Social Union are also mentioned in an issue.

La critique, 1829 December 9
La critique, 1829 December 2

Amherst College

Volume 1 Number 3 of La Critique, a handwritten periodical with issues dated from 1829 to 1830. Entries included were reviews addressed to the editor. Reviews related to student life and experiences such as a contributor's first time observing a New England Thanksgiving, a contributor's thoughts on an article in the Hampshire Sentinel about the College, and contributors' reflections on college events, studies, exercises and societies. The contributors and editors of La Critique may have been in the Alexandrian Society. The Athenian Society and the Social Union are also mentioned in an issue.

La critique, 1829 December 2
La critique

Amherst College

A document presumed to be a page from an issue of La Critique, a handwritten periodical with issues dated from 1829 to 1830. Entries included were reviews addressed to the editor. Reviews related to student life and experiences such as a contributor's first time observing a New England Thanksgiving, a contributor's thoughts on an article in the Hampshire Sentinel about the College, and contributors' reflections on college events, studies, exercises and societies. The contributors and editors of La Critique may have been in the Alexandrian Society. The Athenian Society and the Social Union are also mentioned in an issue.

La critique
College story club, 1938 April 20

Amherst College

The April 20, 1938 issue of College Story Club, a literary magazine produced by the College Story Club, an organization of writers from Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Amherst College. The publication contains one short story by a representative from each of three schools. Though this issue states "published by-monthly," it is unknown if the magazine or the organization continued after this issue.

College story club, 1938 April 20
Alexandrian eclectic review, 1831 March 23

Amherst College. Alexandrian Society

The Alexandrian Eclectic Review, a document presumably produced by the Alexandrian Society of Amherst College. This issue is noted as Volume 1, Number 4, though it is unknown if the Alexandrian Eclectic Review was actually issued as a periodical. In the document's introductory text, it is noted as a journal with the object to "unite the hands of our literary brethren." Three entries are included in the issue: "A Ghost" briefly discusses a spirit that has appeared at the College, "What I like and what I don't like" discusses actions of members of the Society or general Society happenings that the author likes or dislikes, and "Nota Bene" provides a humorous notice of a supposed upcoming experiment illustrating the bleaching properties of chlorine. The Athenian and S. Union (Social Union) libraries are mentioned in "What I like and what I don't like."

Alexandrian eclectic review, 1831 March 23
Sidney Brooks essay on an Athenian Society meeting

Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887

Document in which Sidney Brooks writes regarding a meeting of the Athenian Society at Amherst College. Brooks discusses the arrival of society members and the proceedings of the meeting. In doing so, he offers critiques of orations and mentions several Society members who spoke at the meeting: Allen (Samuel H. Allen), Tenney (Francis V. Tenney), Tyler (Edward G. Tyler), Ely (Richard Ely), and Parker (Samuel J. Parker). Brooks also writes about Charles M. Atkinson and Jonathan Linnell killing a bug, describing the insect as a "Mr. Bug" of the "big bug class of gentry" who interrupted the meeting and broke several rules.

Sidney Brooks essay on an Athenian Society meeting
Copy of Heman Humphrey letter to the Anti-Slavery Society, 1835 January

Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861

A letter written by Heman Humphrey on behalf of and by vote of the faculty to the Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society in Amherst College in which Humphrey responds to the letter from the Anti-Slavery Society to the faculty, dated January 1835 and in Box 1 Folder 48 of this collection. Humphrey states that he shared this communication with the faculty and they were happy to find that it was written in the same excellent spirit as that of the memorial written by the Anti-Slavery Society previously. He writes that though the faculty has the kindest feelings towards every member of the Anti-Slavery Society, they agree with the opinion recently expressed by the student body of the Andover Theological Seminary that in the present agitated state of the public mind, it is inexpedient to keep up any organizations under the name of antislavery or colonization or the like in the literary and theological institutions. Humphrey goes on to explain the reasons for this opinion and responds to the society's objections to the conditions previously suggested to them by the faculty. He states that the Anti-Slavery Society must cease to exist just as the college's American Colonization Society has done already. He again states that they hold the members of the society in the kindest personal regard and are confident in their good principles and judgement. On the back of the letter is a note stating that this is a copy of the communication sent to the society.

Copy of Heman Humphrey letter to the Anti-Slavery Society, 1835 January
William George Howard, David Andrews, and Edward Corrie Pritchett letter to the faculty, 1835 January

Pritchett, Edward Corrie, 1812-1892

Letter from three members of the Anti-Slavery Society to the faculty of Amherst College. Members William George Howard, David Andrews, and Edward Corrie Pritchett write that the society has examined and discussed the conditions that the faculty offered them, presumably referring to the faculty's letter dated November 26, 1834 in Box 1 Folder 48 of this collection. They state that after examination of the specific restrictions which the faculty's letter contained, which they feel deprive the society of all that gives value to any association, the society resolved at the last meeting that their duty as men and Christians forbids them from agreeing to the conditions the faculty submitted. The letter states that Howard, Andrews, and Pritchett, as the undersigned, were appointed to communicate this resolution to the faculty body.

William George Howard, David Andrews, and Edward Corrie Pritchett letter to the faculty, 1835 January
William George Howard, Joseph Haven, Jr., and Leander Thompson letter to the editor of the Evangelist, 1835 January 23

Thompson, Leander, 1812-1896

Letter from members of the Anti-Slavery Society to the editor of the Evangelist. William George Howard, Joseph Haven, Jr., and Leander Thompson write on behalf of the society regarding the January 17, 1835 issue of the Evangelist which included a copy of the memorial the Anti-Slavery Society of Amherst College had addressed to the faculty of Amherst College. They write that they were surprised to see it published and that they regret the accompanying editorial remarks which they feel were calculated to deteriorate the reputation of those they esteem as guardians and friends (the faculty of the College). They go on to say that while they don't wish to impugn the editor, they do feel that the publishing of the letter along with the private views of the gentlemen who forwarded it without the knowledge of any of the society members was unfair and unwarranted. They go on to say that it also is not a fair representation of the current state of facts between the society and the faculty. Thus, on behalf of the Anti-Slavery Society, they write that they respectfully disapprove of the course the newspaper took and they provide a public statement saying that the transmission of the document to the editor was unauthorized and undesired. The document, also called the memorial, discussed in this letter is presumably a copy of the letter in Box 1 Folder 47 of this collection.

William George Howard, Joseph Haven, Jr., and Leander Thompson letter to the editor of the Evangelist, 1835 January 23
Copy of the constitution of the College Choir and faculty report to the choir, 1833 December 3

Bradbury, Elbridge

The constitution of the College Choir as adopted on December 3, 1833. The document is noted as "a true copy" and signed by F.D.P. Stone, actuary. Below this attestation is the faculty committee's report to the College Choir in which the committee writes that the constitution is approved by the faculty, another copy is requested, and fifty dollars will be annually granted to the Choir as long as the constitution is strictly followed and a report is submitted to and approved by the College president. The names of E. Burgess and E. Bradbury are below this report and they are noted as the "Committee on the part of the Faculty." It has been determined that E. Burgess stands for Ebenezer Burgess and E. Bradbury stands for Elbridge Bradbury. The identity of F.D.P. Stone could not be determined.

Copy of the constitution of the College Choir and faculty report to the choir, 1833 December 3