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Undergraduate Colleges /
Amherst College |
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Amherst trivia |
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- The first black student to attend Amherst College, Edward Jones, was in the class of 1826. He was later a missionary to Sierra Leone.
- The Amherst Alumni Society was founded in July 1842.
- Amherst records one of the first uses of Latin honors of any American
college, dating back to 1881. Contemporaneous writings stated that the system was new.
- An asteroid, 516
Amherstia, is named after Amherst College. The name was given by its discoverer, Raymond Smith Dugan in honor of his alma mater.
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| Edgar Allan Poe attended West Point. |
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