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Amherst College ( / ˈæmərst / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. 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]
Amherst Academy. As a schoolgirl, Emily Dickinson wrote cheerfully to her friend Abiah Root, “We have a very fine school. There are 63 scholars. I have four studies. They are Philosophy, Geology, Latin, and Botany. How large they sound, don’t they?
Learn about the private academy where Emily Dickinson studied from 1840 to 1847, and how it influenced her education and poetry. Explore the curriculum, teachers, and history of Amherst Academy, founded by her grandfather and Noah Webster.
Amherst Academy. The first mass of Puritans had arrived in Massachusetts by 1630, and soon afterward, they began passing laws for education. To Puritans, learning to read meant reading the Bible, which saved a soul, and in 1648, the Massachusetts General Court passed its third education law.
Emily Dickinson attended Amherst Academy in her Massachusetts hometown. She showed prodigious talent in composition and excelled in Latin and the sciences. A botany class inspired her to assemble an herbarium containing many pressed plants identified in Latin.
A fter completing her schooling at Amherst Academy, Emily Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847-1848. Founded ten years before, the seminary was located eleven miles south of Amherst in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
The history of Amherst College is tied so closely to the history of Amherst Academy, which predated Amherst’s founding by just six years. Materials related to Amherst Academy were incorporated into this collection.
