All Items 3 Collection 2 Archives & Special Collections 3 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Contributor 7 Amherst College. Athenian Society 3 Amherst College 2 Amherst College. Alexandrian Society 1 Amherst College. Social Union Society 1 Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887 1 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1 Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988 1 show more 2 show fewer Location 2 Amherst 2 Massachusetts 2 Topic 11 Societies, etc. 2 Archives 1 College discipline 1 College students' writings, American 1 Curricula 1 Discipline 1 Faculty 1 Finance 1 History 1 Knowledge and learning 1 Students 1 show more 6 show fewer Part Of 3 Dean of the Faculty Records. Public Minutes 1 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Sidney Brooks (AC 1841) Papers 1 Genre 4 Administrative records 1 Essays 1 Notebooks 1 Souvenir programs 1 Subject 14 Amherst College. Athenian Society 3 Amherst College – Societies, etc. 2 Amherst College – Curricula 1 Amherst College – Faculty 1 Amherst College – Finance 1 Amherst College – History 1 Amherst College – Students 1 Amherst College – Students – Discipline 1 Amherst College. Alexandrian Society 1 Amherst College. Social Union Society 1 Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887 – Knowledge and learning 1 College discipline – Massachusetts – Amherst 1 College students' writings, American – Massachusetts – Amherst 1 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 – Archives 1 show more 9 show fewer 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 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 Program of the Exhibition of the Eclectic Society Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Program of the Eclectic Society Exhibition held at Amherst College on the 26th of November 1850, with Dickinson's handwritten notes. Includes Jay Leyda's typed transcription of the notes. Program of the Exhibition of the Eclectic Society
