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+Amherst College DUrING ITS FIRST HALF CENTURY.  1821-1871.  
+BY W. S. TYLER,  
+OF THE CLASS OF 1830,  
+Williston Professor of the Greek Language and Literature.  
+
+SPRINGFIELD, MASS.:  
+CLARK W. BRYAN AND COMPANY.  
+1873.  
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by  
+
+CLARK W. BRYAN & COMPANY,  
+In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.  
+
+CLARK W. BRYAN AND COMPANY,  
+PRINTERS AND ELECTROTTPEBS,  
+SPRINGFIELD, MASS.  
+TO THE  
+
+To the Alumni at Amherst 
+
+AT WHOSE INSTANCE THIS WORK WAS  
+UNDERTAKEN, AND WHO MUST ALWAYS CHIEFLY MAKE THE  
+HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE,  
+THIS HISTORY OF ITS FIRST HALF CENTURY  
+IS AFFECTIONATELY  
+BY THEIR FRIEND AND BROTHER,  
+THE AUTHOR.  
+
+PREFACE.  
+
+THIS History was a part of the plan for the Semi-Centennial  
+Celebration, and was at first intended to be in readiness for  
+that occasion. The action of the Alumni and of the Trustees  
+on the subject is narrated at the opening of the chapter touch-  
+ing the Jubilee, and may be found at page 595. The failure  
+of the author's health rendered it necessary for him to defer  
+the work for some time, and seek recuperation ; and although  
+by rest, with change of scene, this object was at length suc-  
+cessfully accomplished, yet between the necessity of carefully  
+guarding what was thus gained, and the daily occupation of  
+College duties, he has been able to devote only a short time,  
+two or three hours a day at most, to this extra labor. After  
+the work of preparation was substantially done, unexpected  
+delays, which need not be detailed, arose in regard to the pub-  
+lication.  
+
+Prepared at the request of the Alumni and dedicated to them,  
+the History has been written with constant reference to them  
+as its most sympathizing and probably most numerous readers.  
+Some of the best parts of it have been contributed by the  
+Alumni themselves. A circular was sent to each Alumnus,  
+at the outset, requesting him to " photograph for the author's  
+use the College as it was in his day, his own class, any indi-  
+vidual whether officer or student, any scene or event as it ap-  
+
+
+
+letters were received, especially from the Alumni of the earlier  
+classes, and the contents have been freely used, in whole or in  
+part, in form or in substance, as seemed best. The unity and  
+perchance the dignity of history may thus have been somewhat  
+sacrificed. But more than was thus lost, has been gained in  
+variety and life-like reality, in anecdote and dramatic interest,  
+in the twofold and so more impartial and complete view of  
+College life thus presented from the standing point of the stu-  
+dent as well as the professor. All who sent such responses will  
+please accept my thanks, and if any of them wonder why I have  
+not made more direct or more extended use of their contribu-  
+tions, the dimensions to which the History has already grown,  
+may suggest a sufficient explanation.  
+
+It is doubtless generally understood, although a few of my  
+correspondents seem to have been mistaken on this point, that  
+this is a History of the College and not of its graduates. At my  
+instance and the request of the Faculty, Prof. Crowell and Prof.  
+Montague have just commenced the collection of materials for  
+the latter, which will be published as soon as the work can be  
+prepared and a sufficient number of subscribers has been ob-  
+tained. In writing the History of the College, I have thought  
+it proper to relate the early periods with especial fullness, and  
+also to dwell upon the lives of the founders, the fathers and the  
+benefactors of the Institution, for the obvious reason that the  
+actors and witnesses of these events are fast passing away and  
+the sources of information will soon be dried up. The death,  
+since I began to write, of two or three persons to whom I have  
+been indebted for facts of great interest and importance, of which  
+they were the sole repositories, has demonstrated the wisdom of  
+this course. I set out with the purpose of writing biographical  
+sketches only of the deceased. But as I advanced, I found it  
+impossible to adhere to this purpose without doing injustice,  
+
+of plan will doubtless be observed by my readers, and the rea-  
+son, not to say necessity for it, will justify, I hope, the liberty  
+which I have taken in writing so fully and so freely of living  
+Trustees, living officers and living benefactors.  
+
+The illustrations are more numerous than were originally  
+contemplated, and are a clear addition to what was promised in  
+the prospectus. They have been prepared with great care and  
+expense, and will, we are sure, add 'much to the value and in-  
+terest of the volume. We only regret that likenesses of many  
+other officers and benefactors could not be included. The en-  
+graving of President Moore is taken from a portrait in the Col-  
+lege Library; that of President Humphrey from a portrait in  
+the possession of Mrs. James Humphrey of Brooklyn. The  
+others are all taken from photographs of the originals.  
+
+For the biographical sketch beginning on page 575 and the  
+accompanying portrait, I disclaim all responsibility. I found  
+in the letters of loving and grateful pupils not a few intima-  
+tions that the author would hold no unimportant place in the  
+History, if it were impartially written. But I gave no heed nor  
+credence to these suggestions. At length, however, as I was  
+drawing near to the close of the work, the Alumni Committee  
+having previously spied out the land, a surprise party took pos-  
+session of my house and filled those pages with such matter as  
+they saw fit.  
+
+While the book is a History of Amherst College, written at  
+the request of the Alumni and particularly for their reading,  
+it is, at the same time, naturally and almost necessarily, more or  
+less, a history also of Amherst and the neighboring towns, of  
+Hampshire County and the Valley of the Connecticut, espe-  
+cially as they were in those early times when Amherst College  
+was the spontaneous outgrowth of such a soil and such a people,  
+and it is hoped that such a history will be read with interest and  
+
+
+
+In conclusion my thanks are due, and are most cordially given,  
+to the Alumni who first opened to me this grateful opportunity  
+of identifying myself with the history of Alma Mater, to their  
+Committee who have rendered me every assistance in their  
+power, to the Trustees and Faculty who have aided and encour-  
+aged me at every stage of the work, to the publishers who have  
+spared neither pains nor expense to bring out the book and the  
+illustrations in a style worthy of the College and creditable to  
+Western Massachusetts, and above all to the kind Providence  
+that has preserved my life and enabled me to complete a work  
+which others who might have done it better, began but did not  
+live to finish.  
+
+AMHERST COLLEGE, December 26, 1872.  
+
+P.S. Just as the work of electrotyping this History was  
+almost finished and that of printing was about to begin, the plates  
+were destroyed in the great Springfield fire. They have been  
+re-cast with all possible despatch, and now the book goes forth  
+to its readers unchanged yet renewed, to be prized none the  
+less, I trust, because risen like the fabled Phrenix from its own  
+ashes. If the faith and patience of subscribers have been sorely  
+taxed, those of the author have been more severely tried by this  
+delay. But the publishers have been the chief sufferers. And  
+they deserve, what I hope they will receive, not only the sym-  
+pathy but the substantial support and remuneration of the  
+alumni and friends of the College for the indomitable energy  
+and perseverance with which they have done over again their