In 1891, while Amherst College was celebrating its seventieth anniversary, a young Calvin Coolidge arrived on campus for the first time. Most of the young men gathered in this small town in western Massachusetts sought to become teachers or ministers, but this student had come to prepare for a career in law. Later, when he was asked to remember his time at Amherst, Coolidge praised “the strength of its faculty,”... [Purchase this review to continue reading]