He was in high demand as a lecturer, and was frequently invited to lecture at conferences and as a guest lecturer at other universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Dalhousie, Wellesley, Florida State, the Universities of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, and Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston Harbor.

He left New York on 27 March, but his ship, the SS Kristianiafjord, was intercepted by British naval officials in Canada at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he spent a month detained at Amherst, Nova Scotia.

The nation was liberated largely by Canadian troops, with the assistance of the British, American and Polish forces, ( see Operation Market Garden ) and French airborne ( see Operation Amherst ).

" He was later awarded honorary degrees from Amherst College and Clark University.

At the United States Naval Observatory, a radio receiver was lifted 3 kilometers above the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 kilometers, using a " radio-camera " developed by Amherst College and Charles Francis Jenkins.

Williams was first sent to the Navy's Preliminary Ground School at Amherst College for six months of academic instruction in various subjects including math and navigation, where he achieved a 3. 85 grade point average.

By 1815, Williams had only two buildings and 58 students and was in financial trouble, so the board voted to move the college to Amherst, Massachusetts.

Moore died just two years later after founding Amherst, and was succeeded by Heman Humphrey, a trustee of Williams College .< ref >

Coolidge moved from rural Vermont to urban Massachusetts and was educated at elite Amherst College.

Abercrombie was recalled and replaced by Jeffery Amherst, victor at Louisbourg.

The Short Text of the Revelation of Love was finished by 1413, as noted in its introduction in the fifteenth-century Amherst Manuscript, now in the British Library, which named Julian and referred to her as still alive.

Lynn Margulis ( born Lynn Alexander ) ( March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011 ) was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The fort was captured the following year by the British under General Jeffrey Amherst in the 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga.

When Erie County was established in 1821, it consisted of the towns of Amherst, Aurora, Boston, Clarence, Collins, Concord, Eden, Evans, Hamburg, Holland, Sardinia, and Wales.

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst ( d. 1750 ), a Kentish lawyer, and Elizabeth Amherst ( née Kerrill ), Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.

In February 1756 Amherst was appointed commissar to the Hessian forces that had been assembled to defend Hanover as part of the Army of Observation: as it appeared likely a French invasion attempt against Britain itself was imminent, Amherst was ordered in April to arrange the transportation of thousands of the Germans to southern England to bolster Britain's defences.

Amherst was left dispirited by the retreat and by the Convention of Klosterzeven by which Hanover agreed to withdraw from the war: he began to prepare to disband the Hessian troops under his command, only to receive word that the Convention had been repudiated and the Allied force was being reformed.

In 1880 he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Amherst.

Margulis died on November 22, 2011 at home in Amherst, Massachusetts, five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.

On 7 November 1778 the King and Queen visited Amherst at his home, Montreal Park, in Kent and on 24 April 1779 he became colonel of the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.

A long-standing plan of the French had been the concept of an invasion of Great Britain which they hoped would lead to a swift end to the war if it was successful: in 1779 Spain entered the war on the side of France, and the increasingly depleted state of British home forces made an invasion more appealing and Amherst organised Britain's land defences in anticipation of the invasion which never materialised.

North Amherst is also home to a large majority of Amherst middle income families as the main street ( East Pleasant Street ) has many housing developments built off of it.

North Amherst is also home to two cohousing communities: Pioneer Valley and Pine Street Cohousing.

Amherst is home to Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Hodgman State Forest, the Joe English Reservation and Baboosic Lake.

Amherst is home to Clark and Wilkins elementary schools, Amherst Middle School and Souhegan High School.

Northampton, Massachusetts is home to the psychedelic-folk-jam band Lord Jeff, named after Lord Jeffery Amherst, who also named Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Colonel James L. Ralston Armoury in Amherst, Nova Scotia is named in his honour and is the historic home of the Nova Scotia Highlanders Regiment.

Franklin, aged almost 30, married Jane, aged 28, on November 19, 1834, at the home of the bride's maternal grandparents in Amherst, New Hampshire.

He died of heart disease at his home in Amherst in 1886.

The stresses of the scandal ruined Clark's health, and for the last four years of his life, Clark was largely confined to his home in Amherst due to heart disease.

For the next three years, she drove from Mount Vernon to Amherst, Massachusetts, every Monday morning, and returned home Wednesday night.

He died on April 28, 1951 at his summer home on Chilmark, Martha's Vinyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts and is buried in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Reynolds would not move into the district until eight months after the election when he purchased a home in Clarence — near Amherst, one of the larger towns in the seven-county district.

Amherst Island is home to approximately 500 white-tailed deer amongst varied other native wildlife.

* Amherst Island home page

He was educated in his home state, and moved with his parents to Amherst County, Virginia.

On October 23, 1998, at approximately 10 p. m., Barnett Slepian was standing in the kitchen of his home in Amherst, New York.

Seelye died on May 12, 1895 at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

After fulfilling his contractual obligations to Blanco y Negro in the UK and Sire / Reprise in the US, Mascis holed up in his home studio in Amherst, MA, which he named Bob's Place after his pet bulldog.

The couple moved to America so that Plath could take a teaching position at her alma mater, Smith College ; during this time Hughes taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

However, a $ 15 price tag on the book made it too expensive to sell easily, so the Amherst firm decided to sell out.

The Cherokee war effort had collapsed because of a shortage of gunpowder, and so Amherst hoped that future uprisings could be prevented by limiting the distribution of gunpowder.

The new system of administration, of which the above is a part, is so original and peculiar that it is known as the Amherst System.

The cost of the urban section was so high that no funding was available to extend the lines into the suburbs, including the Amherst campus of the University at Buffalo.