Old News: The Student’s Headlines This Week in 1921

Sonia Chajet Wides ’25

Managing Features Editor

Each week in Old News, I use a random number generator to select a year in the college’s history and take a look at The Stu- dent’s issue from this week in that year.

This Week’s Year: 1921

The March 21, 1921 edition of The Student painted a picture of Amherst one year into the Roar- ing ’20s, with a variety of artistic and political activities. The second page informed me that one paper copy cost 5 cents, and a yearly subscription cost 3 dollars — The Student shipped to anywhere in the United States.

Managing News Editor Leo Kamin ’25 brought up a good point in response to last week’s column: the Amherst Student used to wear more hats than it does now, in the absence of modern resources like emails, web- sites, social media, and GroupMe. As with 1976’s issue (which I covered last week), this paper served in a variety of additional roles: an announcement board, a calen-

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