>>>There is nothing like being exact! :) You might wish to contact the University and tell them to change the word University to College.
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>>>http://www.umass.edu/
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>>>By the way our daughter attended U Mass (as she and her friends called it), before transfering to UCLA.
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>>As Steve pointed out, there are two institutions of higher learning in Amherst, Mass. Amherst College (which my son attended) and the main campus of the University of Massachusetts, which is commonly known as UMass-Amherst, but doesn't officially have Amherst in its name, I believe.
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>>Tamar
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>Tamar;
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>Actually Steve gave a link to Amherst College and to my knowledge that did not refer to the existence of two intuitions of higher education. I may have missed the reference to the University in the link Steve provided.
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>In the link I provided I see “University of Massachusetts Amherst”. In fact that is how I filled out our daughters tuition check. It may have a formal name and a popular name, but worrying about the exactness of something as trivial as this does have its humorous side.
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>Making an absolute statement and expressing your authority on the subject did not convince me that there is no University of Massachusetts Amherst. It is not that I am unwilling to believe what you say but my experience is different.
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You're right that this isn't worth the time we're giving it. I misunderstood your original message as referring to Amherst College, not to UMass Amherst, and responded that it was a college, not a university, and off we went.

I think we can agree that both are in Amherst. To the best of my knowledge, both names reflect the town name, not the general's name.

Tamar