Letter to the Editor: Reflection on Frost

During the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 12, I was caught up in the rip-tide like force of a collective cri de coeur in the foyer of the Frost Library. As I listened to the passion of individual voices from widely different backgrounds and circumstances, a newly installed sign visible on the second floor voiced a silent longing focused by the moment: “Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry.” Is it possible that three words added to this sign could in one awakening act reveal one source of a