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Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors. The museum is located in the Beneski Earth Sciences Building, completed in 2006. It is a member of Museums10.
Dipson Theatres, Inc. began in 1939 in Batavia, NY.. In 1939 Nikitas Dipson also moved into the Buffalo, NY region, acquiring three theaters Michael Shea operated but on which he had not renewed the leases: the Century, a downtown first run theater, the Bailey, a neighborhood theater, and the Riviera, a suburban theater and one on which Shea declined an offer: the Ridge, another suburban theater.
The field during the 2014 Biggest Little Game in America between Amherst and Williams. Pratt Field at Lehrman Stadium is the football field of Amherst College, constructed in 1891. Considered the third-oldest college NCAA football site in the nation, the field was renovated in 2015 to include a new field house, track, and a shifted playing field.
Finally, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass incorporated the Four College Consortium, which became the Five College Consortium when Hampshire College was founded in 1965, and, in 1970, admitted its inaugural class. [3] The five colleges operate both as independent entities as well as mutually dependent institutions.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system , and was founded in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College .
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A streetcar for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway crosses Amherst Center, in front of the town hall, c. 1903.. The earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont, and Chickwalopp. [7]