Amherst College

Amherst Academy (Listeni/ˈæmərst/ a-mərst) is a clandestine advanced arts academy amid in Amherst, Massachusetts, Affiliated States. Amherst is an alone undergraduate four-year institutionand enrolled 1,792 acceptance in the abatement of 2014. Acceptance accept courses from 38 above programs in an almighty accessible curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the additional best advanced arts academy in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and ranked tenth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes.
Founded in 1821 as an attack to backpack Williams Academy by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in Massachusetts. Amherst was accustomed as, and remained, a men's academy until acceptable coeducational in 1975.
Amherst has historically had abutting relationships and rivalries with Williams Academy and Wesleyan University which anatomy the Little Three colleges. It is aswell a affiliate of the Five Academy Consortium.

History
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Amherst Academy Main Quad
Founded in 1821, Amherst Academy developed out of the accessory academy Amherst Academy. The academy was originally appropriate as an another to Williams College, which was disturbing to break open. Although Williams remained open, Amherst was formed and diverged from its Williams roots into an alone institution.

Amherst Academy
In 1812, funds were aloft in Amherst for a accessory school, Amherst Academy; it opened December 1814. The academy was called afterwards the town, which in about-face had been called afterwards Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a adept from the Seven Years' War and afterwards advantageous accustomed of the British armament in North America. On November 18, 1817, a activity was adopted at the Academy to accession funds for the chargeless apprenticeship of "indigent adolescent men of able talents and hopeful piety, who shall apparent a admiration to admission a advanced apprenticeship with a sole appearance to the Christian ministry." This appropriate a abundant investment from benefactors.

During the fundraising for the project, it became bright that afterwards beyond designs, it would be absurd to accession acceptable funds. This led the lath administering the activity to achieve that a new academy should be created. On August 18, 1818, the Amherst Academy lath of advisers accustomed this cessation and began architecture a new college.

Williams Academy alteration debate
According to William Tyler, an Amherst historian:
As aboriginal as 1815, six years afore the aperture of Amherst College, the catechism of relocating Williams Academy to some added axial allotment of Massachusetts was agitated a allotment of its accompany and in its lath of trustees. At that time Williams Academy had two barrio and fifty-eight students, with two advisers and two tutors. The library independent fourteen hundred volumes. The funds were bargain and the assets fell abbreviate of the expenditures. Many of the accompany and supporters of the academy were absolutely abiding that it could not be abiding in its present location. The arch arena of this alignment was the acute adversity of the admission to it.

At the aforementioned affair of the lath of advisers at which Professor Moore was adopted admiral of Williams College, May 2, 1815, Dr. Packard of Shelburne alien the afterward motion: "That a lath of six bodies be appointed to yield into appliance the abatement of the academy to some added allotment of the Commonwealth, to accomplish all all-important inquiries which accept a address on the subject, and address at the next meeting." The motion was adopted, and at the next affair of the lath in September, the lath appear that "a abatement of Williams Academy from Williamstown is adverse at the present time, and beneath absolute circumstances."

But the catechism of abatement appropriately aloft in the lath of advisers and appropriately negatived alone "at the present time and beneath absolute circumstances," connected to be agitated. And at a affair on November 10, 1818, afflicted added or beneath absolutely by the activity of the Franklin County Association of Congregational Ministers, and the Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers in Amherst, the lath of advisers bound that it was expedient to abolish the academy on assertive conditions. Admiral Moore advocated the removal, and even bidding his purpose to abandon the appointment of admiral unless it could be effected, inasmuch as if he accustomed the admiral he had no abstraction that the academy was to abide at Williamstown, but was accustomed to apprehend that it would be removed to Hampshire County. Nine out of twelve of the advisers voted for the resolutions, which were as follows:

"Resolved, that it is expedient to abolish Williams Academy to some added axial allotment of the State whenever acceptable funds can be acquired to acquit the all-important costs incurred and the losses abiding by removal, and to defended the abundance of the college, and if a fair anticipation shall be presented of accepting for the academy the affiliated abutment and advocacy of the accompany of abstract and adoration in the western allotment of the Commonwealth, and if the Accustomed Court shall accord their acceptance to the measure."

In November, 1819, the advisers of Williams Academy voted to address the Legislature for permission to abolish the academy to Northampton. To this application, Mr. Webster says, "the advisers of Amherst Academy fabricated no action and took no measures to defeat it." In February, 1820, the address was laid afore the Legislature. The lath from both houses, to whom it was referred, afterwards a accurate assay of the accomplished subject, appear that it was neither allowable nor expedient to abolish the college, and the Legislature, demography the aforementioned view, alone the petition. ... Appropriately the continued and agitative altercation affecting the abatement of Williams Academy and the area of a academy in some added axial boondocks of old Hampshire County at breadth came to an end, and the alienated parties now directed all their energies to architecture up the institutions of their choice.