Education: Amherst's Presidency

Their habit of thinking of events as following each other in logical succession, excited the curiosity of some people as to what Calvin Coolidge might do after March 4, 1929, if his "choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst...

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