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Stanley King, Class of 1903, President, 1932-1946. “I see in the four years of college an opportunity for young men to live here and now as young citizens, in contact with the best knowledge man has been able to discover and in intimate association with their fellows and the faculty.”.
The first (and so far only) Amherst graduate to serve as president of the United States was Calvin Coolidge, Class of 1895. The poet Robert Frost, arguably the College’s best-known faculty member, arrived at Amherst in 1916 and taught here intermittently for more than 40 years.
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Julius Hawley Seelye (AC 1849), clergyman and biblical scholar, begins term as fifth president (1876-90). The first alumnus to serve as president, Seelye introduces "The Amherst System," a then-revolutionary concept of allowing students to govern their own affairs and decide on disciplinary methods.
Zephaniah Swift Moore Inauguration as First President. Sept. 18, 1821: At the town’s First Parish meetinghouse, Zephaniah Swift Moore is inaugurated as the first president of Amherst College.
Amherst’s historical “firsts” include the world’s first intercollegiate baseball game, the country’s first collegiate athletics program and the nation’s first undergraduate neuroscience program. The first (and so far only) Amherst graduate to serve as president of the United States was Calvin Coolidge, Class of 1895.
