Excerpt from The Consecrated Eminence: The Story of the Campus and Buildings of Amherst CollegeGreat Visions are not reserved for saints and seers. A handful of ordinary men in a small town in the Connecticut Valley conceived the grandiose dream of a college to educate young men of hopeful piety who should go forth and carry the message to the world. The magnitude of their dream is attested by the two words they placed on the college seal: Terms Irradient. They have been followed by countless men and women who for a century and a quarter have had the vision and the wis dom to make possible by their gifts the college plant of today.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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