Amherst College

an influential New England college at Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened as an academy December, 1814. The college was opened in 1821. Among the distinguished educators connected with its development, Edward Hitchcock, the geologist, and President J. H. Seelye may be named. The Amherst museums contain one of the richest collections of fossils and Indian relics in the world. The number of graduates has passed the 4,000 mark. The annual enrollment of students is between 400 and 500. There are about forty members of the faculty. Library, 75,000 volumes; annual income, about $110,000.