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Description:
This is a list of some notable people affiliated with
Amherst College
.
Notable alumni
College founders and presidents
Edward Jones
1826,
Principal
of forerunner of
Fourah Bay College
(the predecessor of the
University of Sierra Leone
) (Africa)
Patrick Hues Mell
1833,
Chancellor
of the
University of Georgia
Benjamin M. Palmer
ex 1836, founder of predecessor of
Rhodes College
Edward Duffield Neill
1842, first Chancellor,
University of Minnesota
, 1858–1861; founder, first president, and professor,
Macalester College
Edward Joseph Cornish 1845, president of
Jefferson College
William S. Clark
1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
), co-founder of
Sapporo Agricultural College
(now
Hokkaido University
) in
Japan
Julius Hawley Seelye
1849, fifth president of
Amherst College
(implemented the
Latin honors
system)
Reverend
Daniel Bliss
1852, founder and president of
American University of Beirut
(1866–1902)
Reverend George Dana Pepper 1857, president of
Colby College
Henry Martin Tupper 1859, founder of
Shaw University
Francis Amasa Walker
1860, third president of
MIT
(1881–1897)
George Harris
1866, seventh......
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