Application for Class of 2012 is out!

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Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:57:34 +0000

They choose the coolest quotes for the essay.

1) “The world as revealed by science is far more beautiful, and far more interesting, than we had any right to expect. Science is valuable
because of the view of the universe that it gives.”
George Greenstein, Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy, Amherst College
2) “Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
Attributed to Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist and poet
3) “It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest…unless the
graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compas-
sion…then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”
John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963
4) “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
From The Principles of Psychology (1890) by William James
5) “Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.”
From Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Differences by Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College
6) “Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”
Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals