cata lo g u e - forgotten books · x aminations for admission monday and tu esday sept....
TRANSCRIPT
CATALOGU E
W I LL IAM S COLLEGE
1903—1904
WILLIAMSTOWN,MASS .
PUBLI SHED BY THE COLLEGE
CALENDAR1903
June 24—Commencement Wednesday
SUMMER VACATION 01? THIRTEEN WEEKSSept. 21-22—Ex aminations for Admission Monday and TuesdaySept . 22-23—Registration of all Classes . .Tuesday and WednesdaySept. 24—Beginning of the College Year ThursdayOct. 8—Meeting of the Board of TrusteesOct. I s—Last day for registering for the Master’s Degree ThursdayNov. 26—Thanksgiving Day, a holiday ThursdayDec. zz—Christmas Recess begins Tuesday noonI 904
Jan. 7—Christmas Recess ends “ . .Thursday noonJan . 9—Clark Scholarship Ex amination, Minor Subject . . SaturdayJan. 30—Recitations end .
Feb. l—Semi-Annual Ex aminations beginFeb. m—First Half-Year ends
Feb. 11—Second Half-Year begins ThursdayFeb. I 4—Day of Prayer for Colleges SundayFeb. 22—Washington
’
s Birthday, 3 holiday MondayMar. 3o—Easter Recess begins Wednesday noonApril 6—Easter Recess ends .
May s—Meeting of the Board of Trustees ThursdayMay 30—Memorial Day, a hol iday . .MondayJ une 1—Clark Scholarship Ex amination, Major Subject WednesdayJune 4—Recitations end . “ SaturdayJune 6-15—Semi-Annual Ex aminations Monday to WednesdayJune 18—Graves Prize Speaking Saturday even ingJune 18-22—Ex aminations for Admission, Sat. , Mon., Tues ., Wed.
June I g—Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday forenoon
June I Q—M ission Park Meeting . Sunday afternoonJune zo—Meeting of the Board of Trustees MondayJune zo—Prize Rhetorical Ex hibition Monday eveningJune 21—Alumni Meeting Tuesday forenoonJune zx—Class Day Exercises Tuesday afternoonJune zz—Commencement . . .WednesdayJuly I—Last day for te-application for scholarships Friday
SUMMER VACATION OF THIRTEEN WEEKS17-21—Examinations for Admission Sat , Mon ., Tues . , Wed.
19-21—Registration of all classes M011., Tues., Wed. morningzz—Beginning of the College Year Thursday6—Meeting of the Board of Trustees ThursdayI s—Last day for registering for the Master
’
s Degree, Saturday3
CONTENTS
Lm or Pm m m
m v COCKG L, ALmnn 0"m m Vlsrmns
Tn u s or Amu ssxou
An Auczn zx r or En umAn ou s
Am ussxou BY Cm mmmrz
ADMI SSION m ADVANCED STANDING
COURSES or I x sn vcmouLANGUAGE AND LITERATUREPH ILOSOPHYHISTORYHISTORY or Arr AND CIVILIZATIONPOLITICAL SCIENCEMATHEMATICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCESPHYSICAL CULTURE
Q
Tm: GROUP SYSTEMTABULAR Ex mm'
r or 5 1 110125
Cox sm ws or COURSESLIBRARYLABORATORIESOBSERVATORIES
PA“
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
CLASSICAL SOCIETYLYCEUM OF NATURAL H ISTORYART ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIONMUSEUMGYMNASIUMFIELD SPORTSCOLLEGE INFIRMARYTHOMPSON COURSE OF ENTERTAINMENTSBEACH-HYDE LECTUREORDER AND DISCIPLINEHONOR SYSTEMREGISTRATIONATTENDANCE ON COLLEGE EXERCISESCOMPLETION OF COURSESDEGREESRECORDS AND REPORTSPUBLIC WORSH I P
PREACHERS TO TH E COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIPSSCHOLARSH IP FUNDS
HOLDERS OF SCHOLARSHIPSCOMMENCEMENT APPOINTMENTS m 1903
DEGREES CONFERRED IN
STUDENTSSUMMARI ES
PRES IDENTS
REV. EBENEZER FITCH , D .D . , 1793-1815
REV. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT MOORE,D .D. , 1815-1821
REV. EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN, D .D ., 1821-1836
REV. MARK HOPKINS, D.D LL.D.,1836-1872
HON . PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, D.D ., LL.D., 1872-1881
FRANKLIN CARTER, PH .D ., LL.D., 1881-1901
(JOHN HASKELL HEWITT, LL.D., Acting President 1901-1902)REV. HENRY HOPKINS,
D .D ., LL.D., 1902
TRUSTEES
REV. HENRY HOPKINS,D .D., LL.D.
PRESIDENT
REV. ROBERT RUSSELL BOOTH, D .D LL.D., New York CityHON. JAMES MADI SON BARKER,
LL.D Pittsfield
REV. WILLIAM WISNER ADAMS, D .D Fall RiverREV. CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL, D.D ., New York CityFRANCI S LYNDE STETSON, M .A ., New York CityHON. ALBERT CHARLES HOUGHTON, North AdamsHAMILTON WRIGHT MABI E, LL.D New York CityREV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D .D WorcesterHON. JOSEPH EDWARD SIMMONS, LL.D., New York CityEUGENE DELANO, M .A New York CityHON . JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD
,B.A.
,West Mentor, O.
HON. JAMES ROBERT DUNBAR,B.A., Brookline
WILLIAM HENRY HOLLISTER, IR., B.A. , Troy, N. Y.
HON . BENTLEY WIRT WARREN, B.A.,Boston
REV. HARRY PINNEO DEWEY,D .D ., Brooklyn, N. Y.
PRESIDENT HENRY LEFAVOUR, PH .D., LL.D Boston6
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
CHARLES SUMNER COLE, M.A.
TREASURER
WILLIAM HENRY HOLLISTER, 1x ,B.A., Troy, N. Y.
SECRETARY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE
ROBERT R. BOOTH J . EDWARD SIMMONS
WILLIAM W. ADAMS FRANCIS L. STETSON
CHARLES C. HALL ALBERT C. HOUGHTONHAMILTON W. MABIE EUGENE DELANO
WILLIAM H . HOLLISTER
COMMITTEE ON GROUNDS,BUILDINGS, AND IMPROVEMENTS
BENTLEY W. WARREN JAMES M . BARKERHENRY LEFAVOUR
COM M ITTEE ON DEGREES
JAMES R. GARFIELD HARRY P. DEWEY
COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY
DANIEL MERRIMAN JAMES R. DUNBAR
The corporate name of the college is
TH E PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
LIBRARY COUNCIL
THE PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE, ex -officioTHE LIBRARIAN OF THE COLLEGE, ex -officio
PROFESSOR JOHN H . HEWITTPROFESSOR LEVERETT W. SPRING
PROFESSOR SAMUEL F. CLARKE
ALUMN I OFFICERS
PRESIDENT, HON . WILLIAM HENRY SWIFT, of Chicago, I ll.,
Class of 1863VICE PRESIDENT
,REV. EDGAR PRESTON HILL, D .D ., of Portland,
Oregon,Class of 1884
SECRETARY AND NECROLOGIST, REV. EBEN BURT PARSONS, D .D
of Williamstow n, Class of 1859
TREASURER, WALTER DOUMAUX EDMONDS,M .A . , LL.B.
,of
New York City, Class of 1874
ALUMN I VISITORS
1901-1904
PROF. GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND, of Princeton,
N. J ., Class of 1862JULIUS HUBBELL SEYMOUR, ESQ ., of New York City, Class
of 1879
1902-1905
SOLOMON BULKLEY GRIFFIN,M .A of Springfield, Class of
1872
WILLIAM LAWRENCE ADAM ,LL.B.,
of Pittsfield, Class of
1877
1903-1906
HON. M ICHAEL EDWARD DRISCOLL, M .A., M .C., of Syracuse,N. Y., Class of 1877
REV. AUSTIN BRADLEY BASSETT, B.D ., of Ware, Class of
1881
OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION*
REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D .D ., LL.D.
President, and Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Theology
SAMUEL FESSENDEN CLARKE, PH .D .
Professor of Natural History
LEVERETT MEARS, PH .D .’
Professor of Ckemistry
RICHARD AUSTIN RICE, M .A .
Professor of the H is tory of Art and Civilization
JOHN HASKELL HEWITT, LL .D .
Law rence Professor of the Greek Language and Literature
REV. LEVERETT WILSON SPRING, D .D .
Morris Professor of Rhetoric
JOHN EDWARD RUSSELL, M .A .
Mark Hophius Professor of I ntellectual and M oral Philosophy
FRANK GOODRICH, PH .D .
Professor of European H istory
GEORGE MOR ITZ WAHL, L.H .D .
Professor of the German Language and Literature
HENRY DANI EL WILD, M .A .
Massachusetts Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
ASA HENRY MORTON,
Professor of the Romance Languages
CARROLL LEWIS MAXCY, M .A .
Professor of English
Arranged in the order of appointment to rank1'Absent in Europe on leave
9
10 WILL]AMS COLLEGE
FREDBRICK CARLOS FERRY, P11.D .
Professor of Mathematic:
WILLIS ISBISTER M ILHAM , PHD .
Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy
HENRY LOOM IS NELSON, L.H .D .
David A . Well: Professor of Political Science
JAMES LAWRENCE KELLOGG, PH .D .
Professor of Biology
THEODORE CLARKE SM ITH, PHD .
J . Leland M iller Professor of American History, Literature
E loquence
Garfield Professor of Ancient Languages
J ackson Professor of Christt'
an Theology, and Pastor of the
College Church
Thomas T. Reed Professor of Physics
Orrin Sage Professor of Political Economy
JAMES GRAHAM HARDY, PH .D .
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
GEORGE DWIGHT KELLOGG, PHD .
Assistant Professor of Latin and Greek
WILLIAM EDWARD McELFRESH ,PHD .
Assistant Professor of Physics
FREDERIC HOLLIS HOWARD ,M .D .
I nstructor in Anatomy and Physiology
WILL]AM3 COLLEGE
KARL EPHRAIM WESTON, M .A.
Instructor in the Romance Languages
HERDMAN FITZGERALD CLELAND, P11.D .
I nstructor in Geology and Botany
WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO, PILD.
I nstructor in Political Economy on the Orrin Sage Foundation
LEWI S PERRY,M .A.
I nstructor in English
DAVID TAGGART CLARK, M .A.
Instructor in Latin and Greek
CLEMENT GOLDSMITH ELMER,B.A.
Instructor in German
EDMOND WOOD BILLETDOUX, M .A.
Instructor in the Romance Languages
JAMES PERCIVAL KING, FILD.
Instructor in German
EDWARD MORGAN LEWIS, M .A.
Instructor in Elocution
GEORGE TYLER NORTHUP, B.A.
I nstructor in the Romance Languages
ELMER IRWIN SHEPARD,B.A.
Instructor in Mathematics
CHARLES FREDERIC SEELEY s
Director of the Gymnasium
BRAINERD MEARS, B.A.
Assistant in Ckemistry
LORANDE LOSS WOODRUFF, M .A .
Assistant in B iology
I I
OFFICERS OF ADMIN ISTRATION
REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D .D . , LL.D.
HENRY DANIEL WILD, M .A.
Acting President of the Faculty
FREDERICK CARLOS FERRY, PH .D .
D ean of the Callege
CHARLES SUMNER COLE,M .A .
Treasurer
REV. EBEN BURT PARSONS, D .D .
Secretary of the Faculty
REV. CHARLES HENRY BURR, B.A .
Librarian
ELMER ALANSON GREEN, B.A.
Secretary to the President and the Dean
WALTER EDWIN ORTON
Assistant to the Treasurer
COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION
The President
The Acting President of the FacultyThe Dean of the College
Senior Class Officer—PnomsSOR RICE
Junior Class Officer—PROFESSOR SPRINGSophomore Class Officer—Pnomsson MEARSFreshman Class Officer—Pkomsson HEWITT
1 2
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
The college owes its origin to an educational bequest ofColonial Ephraim Williams for the purpose of establishing“a Free Schoo in Williamstown . The charter of thisschool
,which was granted March 8, 1785, reads as follows
ACT for directing the use and appropriation of a charitable donation, made in a certain clause in the last will and testament ofEphraim Wi ll iams, Esq., for the support and ma intenance of aFree School in Williamstown,
in the County of Berkshire ; andfor incorporating certain persons as trustees
,in order more
effectually to execute the intention of the testator, expressedin the same.
HERBAS, I srael Williams, Esq ., and John Worthington, Esq.,
executors of the last will and testament of EphraimWilliams,Esq.,
deceased, have represented to this court that the said EphraimWilliams, on the twenty-second day of July, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, made his last will and testament,in which, after divers bequests, devises, and dispositions, is containedthe following clause , viz :I tem :
“It is my will, desire, and pleasure that the remaining part
of the lands, not yet disposed of, shall be sold at the discretion of myexecutors, within five years after an established peace and the
interest of the money and also the interest arising from my bondsand notes shall be appropriated towards the support and maintenanceof a Free School, in a township west of Fort Massachusetts, com
mouly called the West Township,forever ; provided, the said town
ship shall fal l within the jurisdiction of the province of Massachu
setts Bay ; and provided, also, the Governor and General Court givethe same township the name of Williamstown ; and it is further mywill and desire, that if there should remain any monies of the saidabove donation for the school, it be given towards the support of aschool in the East Township, where the fort now stands ; but incase the above provisos are not compl ied with, then it is my lastwill and choice that the interest of the above-mentioned moniesbe appropriated to some pious and charitable uses, in manner and
form as above directed in the former part of my last will and
testament.”
14 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
And, whereas the said executors have further represented, that itmay be a matter of doubt and uncertainty w hether the tow nshipmentioned in the above recited clause (which is now incorporatedby the name of Williamstown ) has so far fallen within the jurisdiction of the province of Massachusetts
,now Commonwealth of Massa
chusetts, in the sense of the testator, as that they might be justifiedin appropriating the said donation to the support and maintenanceof a Free School in the said town ; and have submitted their duty tothe determination of this court, praying that an act may be passedto declare their duty, and to indemnify them in the execution of the
same.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Reptesentatives, in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same,that the donation made in the clause before recited ought to bepresently applied to the use and maintenance of a Free School inthe town of Williamstown, in the County of Berkshire, and thatin case the said donation shall afford an annual interest more thansufficient for the supporting and maintaining such school in Williamstow n, then the surplusage be appropriated to the use and
maintenance of a Free School in the tract of land called by the testator East Township, now incorporated by the name of Adams, w ithother lands, applying and appropriating the said donation to the
uses above expressed, and shall be liable to no action or suit inlaw or equity, on account of such appropriations.
And,whereas the said executors have further prayed that for
carrying into complete execution the intention of the testator, a
corporation may be created and vested with such powers as maybe necessary for that purpose ;
SECTION 2. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid ,that Will iam Wil liams of Dalton
,Theodore Sedgwick, Woodbridge
Little, John Bacon,Thompson Joseph Skinner, Esquires, the Rev
erends Seth Swift and Daniel collins, Mr. I srael Jones and Mr.
David Noble, and their successors, to be elected and appointed as
hereinafter directed and provided, be, and hereby are, incorporated.and shall be a corporation forever by the name of
“The Trustees of
the Donation of Ephraim Will iams, Esq. ,for maintaining a Free
School in Williamstown”
; and that the said trustees and their successors be, and hereby are, vested with all the powers, rights, andimmunities
,which are by law incident to aggregate eleemosynary
corporations.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 15
SECTION 3 . And be it further enacted, that the said corporationshall always consist of a number not less than seven, nor more thannine persons, excepting only that whenever a vacancy shall happenby death, removal, refusal, or resignation of any member or members, so that the number be reduced to less than seven, the aforesaidnumber, then the remaining or surviving trustees shall have fullpower to perform all corporate acts until such vacancy be supplied ;and the said trustees shall elect and appoint a clerk of the cor
poration, w ho shall fairly enter and record all votes,acts, orders,
and proceedings made, done or passed by the trustees ; and shallelect a proper person to be their treasurer, w ho shall receive intohis hands all monies belonging to the corporation, and pay the samepursuant to the order of the trustees, and shall always keep a fairaccount of all receipts and payments.
SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, that the power of electingand appointing successors in case of the death, removal, refusal, orresignation of any of the trustees be, and hereby is, vested solelyin the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth ; and whenever any of the above mentioned cases shall happen, the trusteesshall, as soon as conveniently may be, certify the same to the Justicesof the said court, that a successor may be appointed ; and the
Justices of the same court are hereby empowered to remove fromoflice and trust any member of the corporation w ho shall
, in theirjudgment, be unfit to hold the same, by reason of incapacity, misdemeanor, negl igence, or breach of trust.And to the intent that the said donation may not be w asted, mis
managed, or perverted from its original intention ;
SECTION 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, thatthe said corporation, and the donation itself, shall always be underthe visitation and direction of the Supreme Judicial Court, w ho are
hereby empowered to visit the said corporation to rectify all abuses,to determine all matters of doubt or dispute touching the duty of
the trustees, and the use, appl ication,or appropriation of monies or
interests to the same donation belonging ; and to make all suchorders and regulations with respect to the use, management, and
appropriation of the same donation and every part thereof, as theyshall judge necessary or useful in order to promote the best interestof the school, according to the true mean ing and intention of the
testator and such laws of this Commonwealth as may be in forcerespecting the same ; and the said court
,whenever they shall judge
necessary, shall cause the said trustees to come before them, either
16 WILLIAMS COLLEGEI
to render an account of expenditures and dispositions of monies,or to answer for any mismanagement or breach of trust ; and the
trustees shall appear and lay their accounts, papers, records, and
corporation books before the said court for inspection, wheneverthey shall be required thereto.
SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, that the said trustees and
their successors forever shall have the possession, management, anddisposition of the whole interest and estate, real and personal, whichis contained in and given, bequeathed, devised, or disposed of by theabove recited clause in the will aforesaid and they are herebyempowered and directed, as soon as conveniently may be, to erectand maintain a Free School within the said town of Williamstown ,
for the instruction of youth, in such manner as most efiectually to
answer the pious, generous, and charitable intention of the testator,and agreeable to such orders and instructions as they may, fromtime to time, receive from the Supreme Judicial Court ; and theyare hereby empowered to appoint and employ instructors, masters,and oflicers, as shall be necessary for that purpose .
And to the intent that the said trustees may be enabled, in the
most easy and expeditious manner, to rece ive in their ow n possessionand management, the whole estate, property, and interest, containedin the aforesaid donation ;
SECTION 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, thatthe said executors
,shall, at the request of the trustees, make and
execute to the said trustees a deed or deeds of conveyance of all suchlands or real estate as belong to said donation
,and yet remain unsold,
in which deed or deeds it shall be expressed that the executors dogrant to the trustees the right, estate, and interest of the testator,and of themselves, in and to the described lands or tenements to thetrustees and their successors forever ; and the said executors shalldeliver over into the hands of the trustees, at their request, all suchpersonal securities or mortgages as the executors now have in thei row n hands, and which are a part of the same donation all of whichsecurities, whether bonds, promissory notes, mortgage deeds, or of
what name or description soever, being endorsed with the name of
the said executors, or one of them, and delivered as aforesaid,shall
become the property of the trustees to all intents and purposes ; andthey are hereby empowered
,in the name of the corporation, to bring
any action or actions against the obligors, promisors, mortgagors, ortenants, for recovering the contents of the same securities or possession of mortgaged estates, which action or actions shall be holdento be good and valid in law for that purpose, as if the securities or
18 WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
As they found it difficult to collect the necessary funds
for erecting a building, the trustees sent a petition , August19 , 1788, to the legislature,
“for the grant of a lottery toraise the sum of twelve hundred pounds . Accordinglyan act was passed February 1 1 , 1789, making such a grant.The initial step toward a transformation of the Free
School into a college was taken at a meeting of the trustees , May 23 , 1792 . In a petition to the legislature they“humbly showed” what had been done already, and setforth the “several circumstances attending the situationof the Free School peculiarly favorable to aseminary of a more public and important nature.
” Thepetition was granted, and an act to establish the collegeand to transfer to it the property of the Free School was
passed June 22, 1793
An act to establish a college in the County of Berkshire,within this
Commonwealth, by the name of Williams College .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in the
General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, thatthere be erected and establ ished in the town of Williamstown, in
the County of Berkshire , a col lege, for the purpose of educatingyouth, to be called and known by the name of Williams College,to be under the government and regulation of a body politic and
corporate, as hereafter in this act is provided.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that JohnBacon, Esq . ,
Rev. Daniel Col lins, I srael Jones, Woodbridge Little,David Noble, Theodore Sedgwick, Thompson J . Skinner
,Esquires,
Rev. Seth Swift,Henry Vanscaak, Esq.
,Rev. Stephen West
, D.D .,
William Williams and El ijah Will iams, Esquires, together with thepresident of the said college for the time being, to be chosen as in
this act is hereafter directed, be and hereby are created a body pol iticand corporate . by the name of The President and Trustees of
Wil liams College,”
and that they and their successors, and suchothers as shall be duly elected members of the said corporation, shallbe and remain a body pol itic and corporate, by that name forever.And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for the
more orderly conducting the business of the said corporation,The
President and Trustees shall have full power and authority, from
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 19
time to time, as they shall determine, to elect a vice president and
secretary of the said corporation,and to declare the tenures and
duties of their respective offices, and also to remove any trusteefrom the said corporation
,when , in their judgment, he shall be ren
dered incapable, by age or otherwise, of discharging the duties of
his office, or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same, and to fillup all vacancies in the said corporation, by electing such personsfor trustees as they shall judge best . Provided, nevertheless, thatthe number of the said trustees, including the president of the sai dcollege, for the time being, shall never be greater than seventeennor less than eleven.
And be it further enacted,that the said corporation may have
one common seal,which they may change, break or renew, at thei r
pleasure ; and that all deeds signed and del ivered by the treasurer,and sealed with their seal
,by order of The President and Trustees,
shall, when made in thei r corporate name, be considered in law as
the deed of the said corporation and that the said corporation maysue and be sued in all actions
,real , personal or mixed, and may
prosecute and defend the same to final judgment and execution, by
the name of The President and Trustees of Williams College ; andthat the said corporation shall be capable of having, holding and
taking in fee simple of any less estate, by gift, grant, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate
,real or personal . Pro
vided, nevertheless, that the annual clear income of the same shallnot exceed the sum of six thousand pounds.
And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, that thesaid corporation shall have full power and authority to determineat what times and places their meetings shall be holden and in the
manner of notifying the trustees to convene at such meetings ; andalso from time to time, elect a president and treasurer of saidcollege, and such professors, tutors, instructors and other ofiicers
of said college as they shall judge most for the interest thereof,and to determine the duties, salaries
,emoluments and tenures of
their several officers aforesaid ; the said president, for the timebeing, when elected and inducted into his oflice, to be, ex -oflicio,
president of said corporation. And the said corporationare furtherempowered to purchase or erect, and to keep in repair, such housesand other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said col
lege ; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require , reasonable rules, orders and .by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of thisCommonwealth , with reasonable penalties, for the good governmentof the said college ; and also to determine and prescribe the modeof ascertaining the qualifications of the students
,requisite to thei r
20 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
admission and also to confer such degrees as are usually conferredby universities established for the education of youth . Provided,nevertheless
,that no corporate business shall be transacted at any
meeting, unless seven at least of the trustees are present ; and
provided further, that the said corporation shall confer no degreeother than those of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, until afterthe first day of January, which shall be in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundred.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the clearrents
,issues and profits of all the estates, real and personal, of
which the said corporation shall be seized or possessed, shall beappropriated to the endowment of said college, in such manneras shall most efiectually promote virtue and piety, and the knowledge of such of the languages, and of the liberal arts and sciencesas shall hereafter be di rected from time to time, by the said cor
poration.
.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Hon .
Thompson J . Skinner,Esq . , be, and he is hereby authorized and
empowered to fix the time and place for holding the first meetingof the said corporation, of which he shall give notice by an
advertisement in the Stockbridge newspapers, at least fourteen daysprevious thereto.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that thetreasurer of the said col lege shall, before he enter upon the ex ecu
tion of the duties of his ofiice, give bonds to the said corporation ,
with such sums, and with such sureties as they shall approve of,
conditioned for the faithful discharge of the said office, and for
rendering a j ust and true account of his doings therein, whenrequired . And that all the money, securities and other propertyof The President and Trustees of Williams College, together withall the books in which his accounts and proceedings as treasurerwere entered and kept, that shall be in his hands at the expirationof his office, shall
,upon demand made upon him, his executors
or administrators, be paid and delivered over to his successor inthat othee. And all monies recovered by virtue of any suit at law,
upon said bond, shall be paid over to the president and trusteesaforesaid, and subj ected to the appropriation above directed in thisact.And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the
Legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powersto, or alter, l imit, annul or restrain any of the powers by this actvested in the said corporation,
as shall be judged necessary to pro
mote the best interest of the said college ; and, more especially,
WILLIAM5 COLLEGE 2 1
may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of the said college,with all necessary powers and authorities for the better aid, preservation and government thereof.And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all theproperty, real and personal, belonging to the trustees of Williamstown Free School, be, and the same hereby is vested in the cor
potation, which by this act is created .
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that therebe
,and hereby is granted to the trustees of Williams College, for
the use, benefit and purpose of supporting said college, twelvehundred pounds, to be paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth ; three hundred pounds of the same to be paid the first
day of September, one thousand seven hundred n inety-three, and
three hundred pounds annually, on the first day of September, forthe three succeeding years.
February 26, an additional act was passed , as
follows
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen,whether the rights and credits
which, previous to passing the act aforesaid,were vested in and
belonging to the trustees of the donation of EPHRAIM WILLIAMS,Esquire, for maintaining a Free School in WILLIAM S
’
DOWN , are by
virtue of the same act transferred to and vested in the corporationof TH E Pu smnw r AND TRU STEES or WILLIAMS COLLEGE :Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,that the said rights and credits be and hereby are transferred to
and vested in the said Corporation of TH E PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEESor WILLIAMS COLLEGE, w ho are hereby authorized to commence and
prosecute to final judgment and execution, any suit or action in lawor equity, which the said trustees of the donation of EPHRAIMWILLIAMS
, Esquire, for maintain ing a free school in WILLIAMSTOWN, might heretofore have commenced or prosecuted.
On petition of the trustees the legislature passed an actFebruary 4 , 1796, gran ting the college two townships of
land “oi the contents of six miles square each , to be laid
out and assigned from any of the unappropriated landsbelonging to this Commonwealth in the district of Maine .
”
The act provided that the trustees“shall cause to be
settled fifteen families in each of said townships within
22 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
twelve years from the passing this resolve ; and also thatthere be reserved in each township three lots of threehundred and twenty acres each for the following uses ,viz . ,
one lot for the first settled minister, one lot for theuse of the ministry, and one lot for the use of schools ineach of said townships. These lands were sold for about
and the proceeds devoted to building East College.
Nine years later the college again appealed to the legislature for assistance . A committee of that body, whichinvestigated the condition and prospects of the institution,made the following report, February 19, 1805 :
The Committee of both Houses, to whom w as referred the petition of The President and Trustees of Williams College, prayingthe aid of government to enable them to build a chapel for the
performance of divine service,and for keeping the college l ibrary
and apparatus, having examined the origin,rise, and progress of the
seminary, from its institution to the present time, together withthe aid heretofore afforded by the government, and the existingstate of its funds, beg leave to observe
,That the funds granted by
the original donor and the government have, in the Opinion of the
Committee, been judiciously applied to the object of the institution,
and with success exceeding the most sanguine expectations, and
that the present state of the college affords a reasonable and pleasing expectation of its future extensive benefits to society, and thata chapel for the purposes above mentioned would essentially pro
mote the same and as the encouragement and grants of the government to that college have not been equal to those made to otherseminaries in the Commonwealth, the Committee ask leave to reportthe following resolve :Resolved, For reasons set forth in the petition, that there be and
hereby is granted one township of land of the contents of six milessquare to be laid out and assigned from any of the unappropriatedlands be longing to the Commonwealth, in the District of Maine,except the ten townships lately purchased of the Penobscot I ndians.
In 1809 the legislature granted another township ofland in Maine “for further aid in support of WilliamsCollege and for the erecting of other buildings for theconven ience of the institution and for sustain ing a pro
WILLIAM5 COLLEGE 23
fessor of the Oriental languages . The sum of wasrealized from the last two townships .The legislature passed an act February 24 , 1814 , forthe Encouragement of Literature
,Piety and Morality and
the U seful Arts and Sciences ,”
and appropriated the taxesdue to the Commonwealth from the Massachusetts Bank,for the ten years next to come, to Harvard, Williams ,and Bowdoin . Oi this fund Williams received “threes ixteenths parts, which amounted to In 1859 theState gave the College $2 and in 1868, Thetotal of these legislative gifts isIn 1883 the following act was passed :
Ah act to authorize The President and Trustees of Will iams Collegeto hold additional real and personal estate.
[Be it enacted, etc.,as follows : ]
SECTION 1 . The proviso in section 4 of the act establ ishing Will iams College, passed on the twenty-second day of June in the yearseventeen hundred and n inety-three, is hereby amended so as to
read : “Provided, nevertheless , that the clear annual income of the
same shall not exceed tw o hundred thousand dollars .
”
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
In 1890 the legislature passed the following act
The corporation known as the President and Trustees of Wil liamsCollege and its standing committees may hold special meetings without the limits of the Commonwealth.
The principal college buildings , with the dates of theirerection and their approximate cost, are as follows : WestCollege, 1790, East College, 1798,
burned in 184 1 , rebuilt, 1842, South College, 1842,
Griffin Hall, 1828, Hopk ins Observatory,
1837, Lawrence Hall Library, 1846, Jack
son Hall, 1856, Alumni Hall Chapel, 1859,
College Hall, 1872, Clark Hall,1881 ,
24 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Field Memorial Observatory, 1882, Morgan Hall ,1882,
Lasell Gymnasium, 1886, LibraryExtension, 1890, Hopkins Memorial Hall , 1890,
Thompson Chemical Laboratory, 1892,
Thompson B iological Laboratory, 1893 , ThompsonPhysical Laboratory, 1893 , College Infirmary,1895, Jesup Hall , 1899 , Total
,
26 WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
Subj ects in italics above are not required for admission ,but may be taken in college . If these subj ects are offeredat entrance, the requirement for graduation is fifty-ninehours of college work ; otherwise that requirement is sixtytwo hours, as heretofore.The names of students who enter as candidates for a
degree but have somewhat serious deficiencies or irregularities in their entrance records , are classified in the partialcourse group at the end of the class-lists until the deficiencies or irregularities have been removed .
DETAILS OF SUBJ ECTS
ENGLISH Tw o sets of books are prescribed for preparationin English, the A-group and the B-group ; those in theA-group are for reading, and practice in the essentials
of composition and grammatical construction ; thosein the B-group for m0re extended study.
A-group The candidate will be required to show a generalfamiliarity with the subj ect-matter of the books con
tained in this list, and to answer questions on the
lives of the authors. An important element of the
examination will be the writing of paragraphs on
topics chosen from the books assigned. The treatment of the topics thus presented will be taken as
evidence of the candidate’s power to express his
thoughts with clearness and accuracy. Wark that is
notably deficient in spelling, punctuation,idiom, and
proper division into paragraphs w ill not be accepted
as satisfactory.
The books prescribed for this part of the entrancework are
1904, 1905, 1906 : Shakespere’
s The M erchant ofVenice and Ju lius Caesar ; The Sir Roger de CoverleyPapers in The Spectator ; Goldsmith
’
s The Vicar ofWakefield ; Coleridge
’
s The Ancient Mariner; Scott’
s
Ivanhoe; Carlyle’
s Essay on Burns ; Tennyson’
s The
Princess ; Lowel l’s The Vision of S ir Launfal; GeorgeEl iot’s S ilas Marner.
B-group
NCH I
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
The examination on this part of the work presupposes a more careful study of the books prescribed,and a thorough familiarity with them as works of
l iterature and with their authors as representativewriters.
The books set for this part of the examinationare
1904 , 1905, 1906 : Shakespere’
s M acbeth; M ilton’
s
Lycidas, Comus, L’
Allegro, and I I Pemeroso; Burke’
s
Speech on Concih'
ation w ith America; Macaulay’s
Essays on M ilton and Addison.
Note‘
: In the examination on both groups the can
didate will be expected to answer such questions on
English grammar as may be proposed. Preparatoryschools are urged to give thorough and systematicdrill in the principles of grammar and in elementarycomposition, particularly in the development of the
paragraph from a given topic-sentence, with due attention to unity and coherence.
The elementary examination will be adapted to the
proficiency of those w ho have studied French in asystematic course of five hours a week for one year .I t will consist of tw o parts (which , however, cannotbe taken separately) : (0) The translation at sightof ordinary prose The passages set for translationwill be suited to candidates w ho have read not lessthan four hundred duodecimo pages from the worksof at least three different authors ; this amount ineludes sight-reading done in the class. Notmore thanhalf the reading should be from works of fiction. I t
is important that all translations be done into clearand idiomatic Engl ish . (b) The translation intoFrench of English sentences and of a short con
nected passage, to test the candidate’
s fami liarity w ithelementary grammar E lementary grammar is understood to include the conjugation of regular and the
more usual irregular verbs, such as alter, tenir,
pouvoir, savoir, voir, vouloir,dire
, faire, and thosebelonging to the classes represented by dormir, ouvrir,connaitre
, conduire,craindre; the forms and posi
tions of the personal pronouns ; the uses of other
28
FRENCH 2
GERMAN 1
GERMAN 2
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
pronouns and of possessive, demonstrative, and interrogative adjectives the inflection of nouns and adjec
tives for gender and number, except rare cases ; thecommoner uses of the article ; and the partitive con
structions. Proficiency may also be tested by directquestion ing. Pronunciation should be carefully taughtand the pupil should be accustomed to hear and
understand the spoken language . The writing of
French from dictation is also recommended.
The advanced examination will consist of tw o parts(which may be taken separately) (a ) The transla
tion at sight of standard French The passages set
for translation will be suited to candidates w ho
have read not less than one thousand duodecimopages of classical and contemporary prose and versefrom the writings of at least five standard authors.
(b) The translation into French of disconnectedEnglish sentences and a passage of Engl ish prose In
preparation for this examination candidates will beexpected to have acquired a thorough knowledge of
accidence and a familiarity with the essentials of
French syntax, especially the use of modes and tenses,and with the commoner idiomatic phrases . Pro
ficiency may also be tested by direct questioning .
Careful attention should be paid to pronunciation and
to the use of spoken French, that the candidate mayat least acquire the abil ity to follow a recitation con
ducted in the language and to answer questions askedby the instructor.Candidates w ho offer French 2 are expected to have
studied the language for at least three years beforepresenting themselves for examination . They are not
required to take the examination in French 1 .
(0) Ability to translate ordinary prose at sight ; inpreparation for this the student should have readtw o hundred and fifty pages of narrative prose. (b)Proficiency in elementary grammar, includ ing the rulesfor the arrangement of German sentences
,and in
translating s imple prose from English into GermanAttention shou ld be paid to a distinct pronunciationof the language.
(a ) One hundred and fifty pages of prose fiction ;
also Freytag’
s Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen,
GREEK
HISTORY I
HISTORY I I
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 29
Lessing’
s M inna von Barnhelm, Schiller’s WilhelmTell, and Goethe
’
s Hermann und Dorothea A knowledge of the l ives of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller isrequired ; Kluge
’s Geschichte der deutschen National
Litteratur 48 and 51-57) is suggested as indicatingthe amount. While reading at sight will be an essen
tial part of the examination, the candidate will be
tested on the works given above with regard to bothlanguage and subject-matter. Equivalents will be ac
cepted, but the candidate must have read one standardwork of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, one historicalessay, and one modern novel
,corresponding to the
above. Approval of substitutes should be obtainedfrom the department previous to the examination.
(b) There will also be an exercise in prose compositiou, for which purpose the candidate should havetranslated about seventy-hy e pages of narrative prosefrom English into German .
Candidates w ho ofl‘er Ge rman 2 are expected to
have studied the language for at least three yea rsbefore presenting themselves for examination. Theyare not required to take the examination in German 1.
Hadley and Allen’
s or Goodwin’
s Grammar ; translation into Greek of Engl ish passages based on Xenophon ; Xenophon, four books of the Anabasis ; Homer
,
three books of the I l iad ; translation at sight of passages of less difficult Greek prose Candidates are
expected to pronounce Greek according to the writtenaccents, and in conformity with 11
,14, 19, 20, and
21 of Hadley and Allen, or according to Goodwin’
s
preface and 28 of his revised edition. The un
abridged, or the intermediate, edition of Liddel l andScott’s Greek Lexicon is also recommended, but notany abridged lexicon.
Greek to the death of Alexander, and Romanthrough the reign of Trajan : Smith’s Smaller Historyof Greece, Oman
’
s or Meyer’
s History of Greece,and
Botsford’s History of Rome are recommended. The
related geography is also included.
Roman through the reign of Trajan, and eitherMontgomery
’s Engl ish History or Montgomery
’
s Stu
dent’s American History, or equivalents : Botsford’s
3° WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
History of Rome is recommended. The related geography is also included .
HISTORY I I I Montgomery’
s Engl ish History and Montgomery’s
Student’s American History, or equivalents The
related geography is also included.
LATIN Grammar ; translation of connected English pas
sages into Latin prose ; Caesar, four books ; Cicero,
six orations ; Vergil , six books of the Aeneid, including prosody ; translation at sight of passages fromNepos and the Metamorphoses of Ovid Equivalentsfrom other authors will be accepted in part.
MATHEMATICS A Algebra A : Algebra through the binomial theorem for positive integral exponents, including simultaneous quadratics, ratio and proportion, and progres
sionsGeometry A : Plane Geometry, demonstrations,constructions, applications, and original problems
MATHEMATICS 1 Algebra 1 : binomial theorem for negative and
fractional ex ponents, undetermined coefiicients, partialfractions, reversion of series, logarithms, continuedfractions, and permutations and combinations‘Geometry 1 : Solid Geometry, including also problems and propositions for original demonstration de
pendent on easy deductions from the standard propositions given in the text-booksTrigonometry : Plane Trigonometry, including the
practical use of logarithmic tables in the solution of
triangles
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS
Preliminary examinations in a part of the requirementsfor admission will be given one year in advance to candidates desiring them , provided they bring from the principalsof their schools certificates specifying the subjects in whichtheir teachers consider them prepared . The examinationwill cover the whole of each subj ect offered by the candidate. For example, Algebra A , Cicero, or Xenophon cannot‘For admission to the class of 1909 and later classes, the requirement in Algebra Iwill include the elements of determinants .
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 3 1
be divided between the preliminary and the final examinations .In order to prevent an interruption to studies which are
to be continued in the college course, candidates arerequested to reserve the following subjects for the finalexamination : Cicero or Vergil, Greek Prose Composition,Latin Prose Composition, English B, Algebra A or Geometry A (or Mathematics 1, if the admission group is IV or
V) , and Homer. The subjects thus reserved can be pas sedin the preliminary examinations only by reaching a mark ofseventy-five instead of sixty as required in other subj ects .No credit will be given for the preliminary examinationunless the applicant pass in a substantial part of the sub
jects off ered. The preliminary certificate will be valid forone year only, unless the examination has been passed ina specially creditable manner.
ARRANGEMENT OF EXAMINATIONS
The examinations for admission will be held in room No.
8, Hopkins Hall , on the Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, andWednesday preceding Commencement, and the Saturday,Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the beginning of
the college year in September , as follows
SATURDAY9 A .M .
—French2 P.M .
—German
MONDAY9 A .M .
—Eng1ish1 1 A.M .
—Greek and Roman HistoryEnglish and American History
2 P.M .—G1'eek
TUESDAY9 A.M 0
—148tln2 P.M .
—Mathematics
WEDNESDAY
9 A.M .-Chemistry 1
2 P.M .—Biology 1, Physics 1
3 2 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Entrance examinations in June will be held on the samedays and in the same order as in Williamstown, at anyresponsible school which has candidates for admission and
which will undertake to conduct the examinations on thesame dates and in the same order as indicated above, andwill do this without expense to the college . The student’swritten work in such cases is to be forwarded at once bythe teacher in charge to the Dean or the Secretary of theFaculty . If sent later than the morning of the day following the last examination , the Committee on Admissionsmay decline to consider the application .
Requests for the ex amination papers for use in distantschools under this arrangement must be made by the princi
pals and should be in the hands of the Dean or the Secretary of the Facu lty not later than June 10th.
The September examinations are held in Williamstownonly.
Certificates showing that candidates have passed theexaminations of the College Entrance Examination Boardin subjects required for admission to Williams College willbe accepted as valid for the subjects which they cover .
ADMISSION BY CERTIFICATE
Under certain conditions specified below , certificates of
preparatory schools are accepted in place of examinationsin English , Greek , History, Latin , and Mathematics A .
Certificates will in no case be accepted for French 1, French
2,German 1 , German 2
,Mathematics 1 , or for the antici
pation of any course of study pursued in college . The
privilege of sending students by certificate may be grantedto a school which requests it, provided the Faculty of thecollege have such information concerning the work of theschool as will warrant granting the request . In general , aschool which has recently sent properly trained students byexamination is considered entitled, on application , to receive
4 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
When a year or more has passed between the completionof the work for which the certificate vouches and the timefor the student to enter college
,satisfactory evidence that
he has kept up his studies in the interval is required.
All correspondence in matters of admiss ion should beaddressed to the Dean .
ANTICIPATION OF COLLEGE COURSES
I Subjects in the entrance groups
Any college course included in the entrance groups on
page 25 of the catalogue , and the cou rses announced asB iology 1 , Chemistry 1 , and Physics 1 , will be countedtowards a degree, if offered in addition to the subjectsrequired in any one group . Ex aminations in such additional subjects may be taken at the time of the regularentrance ex aminations in June or September and a markof fifty is necessary for pass ing. Students will not berequired to substitute other courses after entrance in placeof those anticipated, provided only that the number ofhours per week must never be less than twelve .
II Subjects not in the entrance groups
No student,except by special vote of the Faculty, will be
allowed to anticipate by examination a course of study notincluded among those mentioned in the above paragraphunless he gives evidence of having had satisfactory instruction in the subj ect in some school or college. In suchanticipatory ex aminations a mark of seventy-five will berequired.
GRADUATION IN THREE YEARS
A student who is able to anticipate at entrance, in accordance with the above rule, two college courses may, by takingnineteen hours for two years , and eighteen hours for thethird year
,complete the required work in three years ; but
the Faculty may decline to permit a student to do this if hisgeneral scholarship is not of a sufiiciently high character .
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 35
ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING
Candidates for admission to advanced standing will beexamined in the courses that have been pursued by theclasses which they wish to enter, or in other equivalentcourses .Students who come from other colleges and who bring
certificates of honorable dismissal may, upon proof of their
qualifications, be admitted to a corresponding standing inthis college.
REGULATIONS CONCERNING PARTIAL COURSE STUDENTS
A candidate for the partial course must have studied someforeign language, ancient or modern , with such proficiencyas to enable him to continue it with some college courseother than an elementary one, and he will be required toinclude this advanced course among his first year studies .No student who offers French or German will be permittedto take elementary French or German after admission .
The requirements in Greek and Latin ( if either is offeredin place of French or German) and in English , History,and Mathematics are the same as for the full course . See
Group VI , page 25.
Partial cou rse Freshmen must take at least seven hoursa week with the Freshman class , unless they can anticipateby ex amination a full year’s work in one or more of theFreshman courses, in which case they may take a corresponding number of hours with a higher class . They areexpected to continue each study chosen through the collegeyear or till the termination of that course, and, in general,to fulfill as far as possible the requirements made of studentsin the full course .
Partial course studentsmay be ex cluded from any courseor dismissed from college at any time if the Faculty areconvinced that they are not qualified to do their current workor are not making good use of their opportunities .
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
DEPARTMENTS OF LANGUAGE AND L ITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK
Professor HEWITT, Assistant Professor KELLOGG, and Mr. CLARK1a Diodorus, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon Portions
of these historians as found in Fernald’s Selections will be read.Different portions are selected in consecutive years. Much time willbe given to a systematic review of Greek forms and syntax, for thelatter constant use being made of Bevier’s Greek Syntax . A courseof lectures will be given and reading assigned on Greek history,economic and political.Required course for Freshmen in Group IFour hours a week until Christmas
Mr. CLARK
1b Homer Books V, VI , VI I , and VI I I of the Odyssey will beread and some of the principal Homeric questions will be discussedin lectures. The instructor will give to the class several readingsfrom portions of the poem not prescribed for the daily work.
There will also be lectures, illustrated with photographs, lanternviews, and other material, upon the remains of Greek architectureand upon certain other Greek antiquities.
Freshman required courseFour hours a week from Christmas to Easter
Professor HEWITT
1c Lyrics Morgan’
s edition is used. Special attention will begiven to the pol itical and social allusions which abound in the ora
tions of Lysias . Different orations from those read the previousyear will be selected . Greek compositionFreshman required courseFour hours a week after Easter
Assmtant Professor KELLOGG
The course in Sophomore Greek,2a and 2b, may be reckoned as
a three-hour or a four-hour course, according as a student wishesor not to devote a fourth hour to New Testament Greek.
2a P lato and Xenophon The Protagoras of Plato or Selectionsfrom the Memorabil ia of Xenophon will be read by the class. The
instructor will read to the class the Apology of Plato and portions ofthe Grito and Phaedo. A course of lectures will be given on the
earlier Greek philosophy and on the philosophy of Plato.
36
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 37
Those taking the four-hour course will devote one hour a weekto the Gospel of John .
Sophomore elective courseThree (or four) hours a week until Christmas
Professor HEWITT
2b Greek Drama Until Easter the time will be devoted to
E schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The Agamemnon and Iphi
gen ia among the Taurians will be read by the class chiefly from the
l iterary point of view, and special attention will be given to pointsof similarity and dissimilarity between the ancient and moderndrama . The instructor will also read to the class the whole or por
tions of other plays, among which will be the Prometheus, Antigone,and Alcestis. A course of lectures will be given on the Greektheatre and on the origin and history of the Greek drama.
After Easter tw o hours a week will be devoted to Greek comedyand to the reading of the Birds of Aristophanes. The instructorwill read to the class portions of the Clouds and Frogs . In placeof the third exercise each member of the class will be required to doindividual work in Greek Syntax or editorial work upon a portionof one of the Greek plays .
Those taking the four-hour course will devote one hour a week tothe Acts of the Apostles .
Sophomore elective courseThree (or four) hours a week after Christmas
Professor HEWITT
3a Homer A study' of Greek Epic poetry and of Greek l ife in theHomeric times While some of the books of the Odyssey will beread more rapidly with special attention to the l iterary qualities,critical interpretation will be given to portions of Homer and of the
later Greek Epics. Lectures will be given on the history of Homericstudy and on the composition and transmission of the poems. Some
study will be devoted to the influence of the poems on later literature.
A portion of the time in this course will be given to the subjectof Greek Archaeology with particular reference to the period of theMycenaean civilization . In place of the third exercise the membersof the class may be asked to devote the time to the investigation of
some special topic assigned by the instructor .Sen ior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week until Christmas
Professor HEWITT
38 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
3b Demosthenes A study of Greek Oratory The class willread with special reference to their character as masterpieces of
argument and expression several of the “parliamentary”
speechesof Demosthenes . One or tw o of the
“private orations or of the
speeches of I saeus may be taken up for the l ight they shed uponAttic law and social l ife .
Col lateral reading may be assigned in Jebb’
s Attic Orators and
attention will be given to the history of Greece from the close of
the Peloponnesian war to the death of Alexander .In accordance with the plan of making this largely a rhetorical
study, the members of the class will from time to time prepareanalyses of certain English orations
,for comparison with the Greek.
The instructor will also present certain comparisons with the oratoryof Cicero and that of the French Revolution.
Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week from Christmas to Easter
Mr. CLARK
3c The Greek Bucolic Poets Selections will be read from Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, and comparison made with Bucol ic poetryin other literatures. Particular attention will be given to the in
debtedness of Vergil and certain English poets to the Greek Bucol icpoets, and a brief survey given by lectures of the Alexandrian periodof poetry.
A portion of the time in this course will be devoted to the con
tinuation of the course in Greek Archaeology commenced in the Fallterm. The subject in Archaeology for the
‘
Summer term will beGreek Sculpture and for purposes of i llustration use will be madeof Heinrich Brunn’
s Denkmaler and other illustrative material belonging to the Greek Department.Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week after Easter Professor HEWITT
While course 3 is designed for Juniors and Seniors w ho havetaken Courses 1 and 2, it may, with the consent of the instructor, beopen to those w ho have obtained the grade of A or B in Course 1.
While this course is largely a study in l iterature, history and archaology and so designed to impart a general culture, the course is alsointended to be helpful to those intending to teach or to pursuegraduate courses in the Ancient Languages.
For a part of the year in place of the third exe rcise the class willdo seminar work under the direction of the instructor.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 39
DEPARTMENT OF LAT IN
Professor WI LD,Assistant Professor KELLOGG, and Mr . CLARK
1 Livy, Latin Poets,Tacitus During the first half-year Book
XXI of Livy will be read with reading at sight in Books I and
XXI I . The principles of Latin syntax will be studied with the aim
of connecting the first weeks of college instruction as closely as
possible with that received in the preparatory schools. Constantreference will be made to Lane’s Latin Grammar in connection withthe daily work . The history of Rome during the Pun ic wars willbe an important part of this course, with assignments for col lateralreading.
The work for the second half-year will include the reading of
selections from Catullus,Horace
,Ovid, Tibullus, and Pha drus, with
reading at sight of selected Epigrams of Martial,and, after Easter,
the Agricola of Tacitus with selected portions of the Germania.Selected passages from the Annals will be read at sight and therewill be also collateral reading in the history of the Empire .
The general aim of the course for the year will be, first, to increasethe student’s working knowledge of the language, and, second, tolead him to an appreciation of Latin literature with some view of the
great facts of Roman life associated with it.Freshman required courseThree hours a week through the yearProfessor WILD
, Assistant Professor KELLOGG, and Mr . CLARK
2 Roman Comedy, Horace,Pliny
’s Letters The Menaechmi of
Plautus and the Adelphos of Terence will be read carefully, theCaptivi of Plautus will be read rapidly and there will be as muchreading at sight as possible in other plays of both authors . Therewill be lectures on the development of Roman Comedy, and attentionwill be given to the contrasted elements in the work of Plautus and
Terence. This course will continue through the first half-year.The reading work for the second half-year will be divided between
the Odes of Horace and the Letters of Pliny. In connection withthe Odes of Horace some attention will be paid to the English lyricwith the preparation of carefully made translations from the Latinand a comparison of the better known Engl ish versions . The coursein Pliny
’
s Letters will be a reading course mainly, with constantwork at sight and reading of the Latin without translation . Duringthe second half-year a portion of the time will be devoted to a studyof Roman customs, partly through lectures and partly through the
investigation of separate topics from books of reference and the
original sources .
40 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Sophomore elective courseFour hours a week through the yearProfessor WILD, Assistant Professor KELLOGG, and Mr. CLARK
3 Latin Satire, Vergil, Teachers’ Cours: During the first halfyear the general topic will be Latin Satire, with lectures on its
origin and development. The reading base will be Juvenal, withrapid and sight reading from Ennius
,Lucilius
,Varro, Petronius
and Apule ius, in Merrill’s Fragments of Roman Satire. Certainportions of Juvenal will be ass igned for individual comment andinterpretation with access to the leading editions and translations .
The student will present his commentary to the class for generaldiscussion under the direction of the instructor.The second half-year will involve the study of a single author,
Vergil . The aim will be to gain a comprehensive view of Vergil inhis life, writings and influence. References to him in classica l literature will be carefully studied, books VI I-XII of the Aeneid willbe read and as much as possible of the Eclogues and Georgics, andthe merits of the different editions will be discussed. This coursewill have in view also the needs of those w ho intend to teach Latinand will be so arranged that they may have an opportunity of pre
paring themselves directly for their work. Such students will meetthe instructor to discuss the problems of the teaching of Latin in thesecondary schools as typified in the teaching of Vergil, and to be
come acquainted with methods of work and the bibliography of the
subj ect.Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week through the year
Professor Wm
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLI SH
Professor SPRING, Professor MAXCY, Mr. PERRY, and Mr. LEWIS
1 Rhetoric and Composition The work of the first hal f-year isdevoted to correctness of expression, and consists of constant drillin paragraph-themes, sentence construction, and the criticism of
common errors. That the course may be practical in appl ication,the class is required to present written work at each recitation ;this receives individual attention and is made the basis of class studyas illustrative of the principles discussed in the text-book .
The second half-year is devoted to higher phases of composition,particularly the principles of the expository theme . As in the first
half-year, the text-book is subordinated to practical exercises in writing which receive individual criticism.
42 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
struction of persona l briefs . During the second half-year the greaterpart of the time is devoted to practical exercises in argumentativewriting and speaking, and to the criticism of class-work .
The course in general conforms to the matter contained in Baker’
s
Principles of Argumentation, or MacEw an’
s Essentials of Argumentation, and Alden
’
s Art of Debate .
English 5 is open to those w ho have completed English 2 .
Three hours a week through the yearProfessor MAXCY
[6 Study ofAnglo-Sax on and Choweer The first part of the coursewill consist of work in Anglo-Saxon grammar, after which selectionswill be read from Bright
’
s Anglo-Saxon Reader . The remainder ofthe course will be devoted to the reading of Chaucer’s CanterburyTales and Troilus, with the special aim of gaining an insight intothe pol itical, moral, and social conditions in England during the fourteenth century.
Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week through the yearOmitted 1903
-1904 Mr. PERRY]
7 English Prose Fiction This course covers the history of Eng
l ish fiction from the beginning, and in particular the novel from the
time of the great eighteenth century writers to the present day. The
study of the history of the novel is supplemented with work on the
art of fiction and with extensive readings and analyses of selectedspecimens . In connection with the course the class uses Perry’sS tudy of Prose Fiction and Cross’s Development of the English
Novel.
Engl ish 7 is open to all students w ho have completed English 3 .
Three hours a week through the yearProfessor MAXCY
8 The E lizabethan Drama This course is devoted to the rise of
the drama and the critical reading and discussion of plays of Mar
lowe, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster and of a largegroup of Shakespere
’
s most important works.
Sen ior elective courseThree hours a week through the year
Professor SPRING
9 English Literature from the Restoration to the close of the
Eighteenth Century Lectures on the progress and interpretation of
Engl ish Literature during the period Readings and critical essaysrequiredSenior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year
Professor SPRING
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 4 3
10 English Poets of the Nineteenth Century Lectures bio
graphical and critical, together with assigned readings This coursewill include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and other poets of the period .
Senior elective courseThree hours a week during the secondhalf-year
Professor SPRING
11 English Prose Writers of the Nineteenth Century A coursein which the principal prose writers of this period will be studiedA considerable amount of reading will be assigned .
Senior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year
Professor SPRING
12 American Literature A study of American Literature, bothprose and poetry Barrett Wendell’s Literary H istory of Americawill be used as a basis for outside reading.
Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year
Mr. PERRY
13 The English Drama from 1642 to 1902 Prel iminary lectureswill be given upon the structure of the drama . The course willinclude the reading of representative plays from Wycherly and
Congreve to Jones and Pinero.
Senior and Junior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year
Mr. PERRY
DEPARTMENT OF ELOCUT ION
Mr. LEWIS
The course for Freshmen, covering the first half-year, beginswith tw o lectures on the essentials of good speaking. These are
followed by individual drill in declamation, four rehearsals, including del ivery before a small division of the class, being required of
each student . The choice of speakers for the prize contest indeclamation is based on this work .
Freshman required courseFirst half-year
Sophomores receive training in the del ivery of orations of theirow n production, either written and committed to memory, or carefully prepared from notes . Four rehearsals, including a final speaking before members of the class, are required of each student during
44 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
the second half-year, and this work determines the appointmentsfor the preliminary contest in oratory.
Sophomore required courseSecond half-year
In the Junior year the del ivery of orations is optional, being con
fined chiefly to those w ho are candidates for the rhetorical contest.Students w ho take English 5 are also entitled to rehearsals preparatory to the debates in that elective.
In the Senior year students w ho are appointed for commencement parts are trained in preparation.
Extended drill is given in all cases to speakers w ho compete inprize contests . Opportunity for systematic work in the developmentof the voice and in expression is afforded to members of all classesthrough concerted exercises given during part of the winter, athours to be announced . In connection with these exercises, individual instruction is offered to students w ho desire special workas a preparation for public speaking.
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Professor MORTON, Mr. WESTON, Mr. BILLETDOUX, and Mr. NORTHUP
FRENCH
1 Elementary French This course includes the study of grammar and composition and the reading of modern French . The classwill be arranged in small divisions so that each student may receiveindividual attention and adequate training in pronunciation and the
use of conversational French . I n this and in the more advancedcourses the French language will be used in the class-room as muchas possible, though the character of the work will be essentiallyliterary. Special attention will be given to dictation in each course.
Three hours a week through the yearMr . WESTON, Mr. BILLETDOUX, and Mr. NORTHUP
2 Intermediate French This continues all the work of course 1.
Standard authors will be read and the history of French literaturegiven in outline from its origins to the eighteenth century. The use
of the spoken language will be increased .
Three hours a week through the year for those in Group I and
font hours a week for those in Groups I I I—V Mr. NORTHUP
[3 Advanced French This course is devoted to the poetry and
the drama of the n ineteenth century, and includes reading, composition, and oral practice . The spoken language will take the place
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 45
of English except in translation and occasional lectures . The his
tory of French literature during the n ineteenth century, with itsorigins in the eighteenth, will be studied, especial ly the history of
poetry and the drama.
This course alternates with French 4 and is open to those w ho
have taken French 2 or French 4 . Required of Freshmen enteringin Group I I , elective for Sen iors, Jun iors, and SophomoresFour hours a week through the yearOmitted 1903
—1904 Professor MORTON ]
4 Advanced French This course is devoted to the French novelof the n ineteenth century and includes reading, composition, and oralpractice . The history of French literature during the nineteenthcentury, with its origins in the eighteenth, will be studied, especial lythe history of the novel .This course alternates with French 3 and is Open to those w ho
have taken French 2 or French 3 . Required of Freshmen entering in Group I I , elective for Sen iors, Juniors, and SophomoresThree hours a week through the year Four hours a week for
Freshmen in Group I I Mr. WESTON
[5 Old French Literature from its origins to the RenaissanceTranslation of texts into modern French Lectures in French uponthe age The course will be essentially l iterary and il lustrative of
the social conditions of the time and will be conducted entirely inFrench . Outside reading will be assigned .
Senior and Junior elective course, alternating with French 6
Open only to those w ho have taken French 3 or 4 and w ho are
able to follow a course carried on in FrenchThree hours a week through the yearIt is intended that this course shall be given in 1906—1907
Mr. WESTON ]
[6 Classie French Literature of the age of Louis XIV The
course will begin with the Renaissance and show the developmentof classicism. Lectures in French upon the period The coursewill be a study of the culture of the age of Louis XIV and the
social conditions as expressed in its l iterature, and will be conducted
entirely in French . Outside reading will be assigned .
Senior and Junior elective course, alternating with French 5
Open only to those w ho have taken French 3 or 4 and w ho are
able to follow a course carried on in FrenchThree hours a week through the yearIt is intended that this course shall be given in 1905—1906
Professor MORTON ]
46 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
DANTE
[Dante Reading of the Divina Commedia with the aid of a translation . Enough grammar will be studied to enable the student tofollow the I talian text and understand the construction . The coursewill, however, be devoted to the poem itself, both as a masterpieceof l iterature and as an exponent of the social, philosophical, and
religious ideas of the middle ages .
Sen ior and Jun ior elective course alternating with SpanishFour hours a week through the yearOmitted 1903—1904 Professor MORTON ]
SPANISH
Spanish Elementary grammar and reading of classical and modern Spanish Reading of Don Q uixote with Ormsby
’
s translationThe object of this course is to give a practica l elementary trainingin Spanish and also to read as much as possible for the sake of avocabulary . The reading will be in standard works of literature .
The history of Span ish literature will be given in outline .
E lective course for Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores, alternatingwith the course in DanteFour hours a week through the year Mr. BILLETDOUX
THE ITALIAN RENAI SSANCE
[ (Course formerly known as Romanic Civilization ) The courseis devoted to the study of the culture of the Renaissance in I talyand its influence upon France and Spain . Manners and ideas of
the time chiefly as expressed in its l iterature . Transformation of
medieval ideals A short time will be given to such study of the
art of the period as is needed for comparison and to i llustrate the
general character of the Renaissance .
Text-book and lecturesSen ior and Jun ior electiveThree hours a week through the yearOmitted 1903
—1904 Professor MORTON ]
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN
Professor WAH L, Mr. ELMER, and Dr. KI NG
1 Elementary German This is a course in grammar, compos ition and reading of narrative prose . Oral use of the language is
introduced gradually.
WI LLIAMS COLLEGE 4 7
Optional with French 1 for Freshmen in Group I w ho enteredwithout a modern language . Required of students in Groups I I andIV w ho did not offer German 1 at entrance . E lective for all others.
Three hours a week through the yearProfessor W
'AH L, Mr . ELM ER, and Dr. KING
2 I ntermediate German In this course are read a modern novelSchiller’s Wilhelm Tell Goethe’s H ermann und Dorothea ; and
Lessing’s M inna von Barnhelm. This course includes also grammarand composition . The oral use of the language in the class-roomis increased in connection with the texts read, dictations, and lectures.
Required of Freshmen in Group I w ho passed German 1 and
of those students in Group I w ho took German 1 in college ; alsoof those in Groups I I , IV and V. E lective for all others w ho havetaken German 1 .
Three hours a week through the yearProfessor WAH L, Mr. ELM ER, and Dr. KING
3 Advanced German This course is devoted to the reading of
modern German l iterature : prose fiction, poetry, essays, lectures,and orations . Oral use of the German language in the class-roomwill become more extensive . Lectures on the l iterary, philosophic,historic, social, and political movements, as reflected in the texts read,will finally be given in German,
and texts will be assigned for outsidereading in this or other departments .
The course is open to all w ho have had either German 2 or any
subsequent course or courses .
Four hours a week through the yearProfessor WAH L, Mr. ELM ER, and Dr . KING
[4 Advanced German This will be a course in reading mostrecent German literature and will aim also at preparing for the use?
of German text-books in other departments . I t alternates with German 3 .
Omitted 1903—1904 ]
5 E lective Advanced German This is a course on Goethe and the
classic period of German literature . Faust (Parts I and I I ) , Goethe’
s
autobiography, his poems, Werther, Egmont, Iphigenie and otherselections from his works are read and interpreted with referenceto the poet’s ow n l ife and character as well as to the literary, philosophic, and scientific movements to which they are related . The
oral use of the language will be constantly increased and lectureswill finally be given in German .
48 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
The course is open to Seniors and Juniors w ho have had eitherGerman 2 or any subsequent course or courses .
Three hours a week through the yearProfessor WAHL
[6 E lective Advcmced German The purpose of this course willbe to prepare for teaching. It is intended to be a course dealing withthe historic development of the German language and l iterature. It
will include the reading of illustrative works of various epochs inthe history of the German language and l iterature.
Omitted 1903-1904]
DEPARTMENT OF PH ILOSOPHY
Professor RUSSELL
1 Psychology and the Theory of Thought and Know ledge
James’s Psychology and Bowne’s Theory of Thought and Knowledgewill be used as text-books .
Lectures and collateral readingJunior and Sen ior elective courseThree hours a week through the year Professor RUSSELL
2 Ah introduction to Philosophy Paulsen’
s Introduction to Philosophy will be used for the first half-year, and selected portions of
the Philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Hume will form the principal study for the second half-year.Open to Seniors w ho have taken Philosophy 1
Three hours a week through the year Professor RUSSELL
3 E thics and Philosophy of Religion Ass igned topics for specialStudy and discuss ion of papers presented by members of the classOpen to Seniors w ho have taken Philosophy 1
Three hours a week through the year Professor RUSSELL
DEPARTMENT OF H I STORY
Professor Goomucn and Professor SM ITH
1 General European and American H is tory
1a M edicw al H istory (378-1500) This course aims to give asurvey of the pol itical development of Europe from the BarbarianInvasions of the Roman Empire to the end of the fifteenth centuryI t is introductory to the courses in European history offered in the
59 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
section, a section for Sen iors, the work of which begins with theFrench Revolution and extends to the foundation of the new GermanEmpire ]Three hours a week through the year Professor Goomu cn
[6 European H istory The Era of the Reformation ( 1500—1648)This is intended to be an advanced course for Sen iors involvingsome study of the original sources of the period . Special attention will be given to the influence of the Reformation on the
principal European states, including England. Abil ity to read Frenchand German eas ily w ill be essential .Omitted 1903
-1904 Professor GOODRICH ]
7 American History, Literature and Eloquence This coursestudies in detail the history, institutions, soc ial and politica l conditions of a limited field as illustrated in contemporary l iterature,speeches and political writings, offering practice in historical criticism and independent investigation . For the year 1903
—1904 the
period chosen is 1846-1861.
Sen ior course open to those w ho have passed creditably in
course 3Three hours a week during the first half-year
Professor SMITH
8 ‘History of Art (See Department of the History of Art and
Civilization, course
DEPARTMENT OF THE H I STORY OF ART AND
CIVILIZATION
Professor RICE1 H istory of Art and Civilization This course presents a study
of the origins of European art and civilization and the most important factors and periods in their development the records furn ishedby various forms of art are made use of in lantern-views and photographs to illustrate this subject. I t presupposes a knowledge of the
main facts of ancient and modern geography and history. Opento those w ho have completed H istory 1 and introductory to Art 2 .
Lectures, text-books and assigned readingJunior elective courseThree exercises ( four hours) a week through the year
Professor RICE
2 H istory of Art This course takes up the principles of designin the arts ; the evolution of architectural styles ; schools of paint
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 5 :
ing and sculpture ; and the civilization of Europe as expressed inarchitecture and decoration .
This course is fully illustrated by the collections of the art department. Text-books, practice, and assigned topicsSenior and Junior elective course, open to those w ho have com
pleted or are taking Art 1
Three exercises (six hours) a week through the yearProfessor RICE
(The numbers in these courses are, for the present, l imited to theseating capacity of No. 13 H . H . )
DEPARTMENT -OF POLI T I CAL SCI ENCE
Professor NELSON, Professor HEWITT, and Dr. MUNRO
(A ) GOVERNMENT
1 The S tructure and Functions of Government in the United
S tates This course is designed as an introduction to the study of
the principles and ideals of civil liberty, and of the successes and
failures of the democratic form of government in carrying out the
principles and in realiz ing the ideals. I t will be a course in civilgovernment in this country, a study of the structure and workingsof our various forms of government, town, municipal, county, state,and national .A text-book will be used, and there will be occasional lectures,with oral and written tests.
Junior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year
Professor NELSON
2 Modern European Governments This course is intended to tracethe pol itical evolution of the leading states of Europe since 1848 and
to present an analytical study of their present pol itical organ ization.
For the current year the constitutions to be studied are those of
France, Germany, I taly, and Switzerland together with, if possible,a cursory examination of the constitution of Austro-Hungary.
Lowell’s Governments and Parties in Continental Europe will beused as the basis of study, supplemented by lectures on the political institutions of the various states under consideration .
Junior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year Dr. MUNRO
3 From mid-year to the Easter recess the class will study Greekpolitical ideas. Fowler’s The City State of the Greeks and Romans
will be used as a textb ook . The class will also be assigned readings
52 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
in Plato’
s Republic. One hour a week will be used by the instructorin lectures and in giving the theory and a criticism of the Politicsof Aristotle . Professor Haw u
'
t
After the Easter recess the class will take up the study of the
application of the principles of civil liberty by the modern democracy .
This will be a study of the achievements of democracy, and of the
influence of our republic upon the pol itics of other countries and uponinternational pol icies . Lectures, collateral reading, and testsJun ior and Sen ior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year
Professor NELSON
4 The Evolution of the Principles of Cim'
l Liberty In this courseare studied the gradual deve lopment and formulation of the principles of civil l iberty from the Norman conquest until the adoptionof the constitution of the Un ited States . It includes an ex aminationand comparison of the great Documents of Liberty, M agna Charta,the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights,the Act of Settlement, the Declaration of Independence, and the civilliberty articles to be found in the written constitution of the UnitedStates . This is a study of the philosophy of democracy as it hascontrolled the history of the English people and that of the peopleof the colon ies, and the beginn ings of our national government.Instruction will be given by lectures, col lateral reading, themes,
and discussion . Each student will be required to write a theme or
themes on some one of the important phases of the historical andconstitutional progression, and each theme will be discussed by the
instructor and the class .
Sen ior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year
Professor NELSON
5 Jurisprudence This course presents an historical study of the
leading legal systems, tracing in outline the growth of Roman Law ,
Canon Law , and the Common Law of England to the time of Blackstone, together with an analytical study of various important legalinstitutions . A considerable portion of Blackstone’s Commentart
'
es
(Chase’
s Abridged Edition) will be read and analyzed, while guidance will be given in the study and application of selected cases.
Both in its scope and method the aim of the course is to afford ageneral preparation for the later study of law .
Senior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year Dr. MUNRO
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
(B ) ECONOM ICS
1 E lementary E conomics This is an introductory course and is
desig ned to give the student a general view of the field of economicscience . Bullock’
s I ntroduction to the S tudy of Economics is usedas a text-book, supplemented by lectures, discussions, and collateralreading. The course must be taken by those intending to electEconomics 3 or 4 .
Jun ior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year Dr. MUNRO
2 Economic H istory The aim of this course is to study the chieftopics in the history of agriculture, industry, and commerce withspecial attention to England and the Un ited States . Cheyney
’
s I h
dustrial H istory of England and Coman’
s I ndustrial H istory of the
Um'
ted S tates are used as texts, supplemented by lectures on selectedtopics . Special topics are assigned, each half-year, to every studentfor investigation and report .Jun ior and Sen ior elective courseThree hours a week through the year Dr . MUNRO
3 M oney and Finance In this course an attempt is made to cover,in a general w ay, the field of monetary and financial science . The
principles of currency and credit, of banking, exchange, and of publ icfinance are studied with special reference to American experience and
conditions . Considerable attention is given to the financial historyof the Un ited States and to the national banking system.
Sen ior elective course (Open only to those w ho have completedEconomics 1)Three hours a week through the year Dr. MUNRO
[4 Apph’
ed E conomics This is an advanced course on the organization of modern industry and on the application of economic principles to the study of present day problems in production, distribution,and exchange. A wide range of assigned reading is made the basisof daily class-room discussion . Each student is given individualinstruction in the investigation of assigned topics and in the col
laboration and use of statistical data.
Sen ior elective course (Open only to those w ho have satisfactorilycompleted Economics 1 )Three hours a week during the second half-yearOmitted 1903
-04 Dr. MUNRO]
54 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
DEPARTMENTS OF THE MATHEMATICAL AND
NATURAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Professor FERRY, Professor M ILHAM, Assistant Professor HARDY,and Mr. SHEPARD
1 Solid Geometry, Algebra, P lane Trigonometry, and Surveying
Solid Geometry Books VI,VI I , and VI I I of Wentw orth
’
s New
Plane and So lid Geometry, together with original propositions and
numerical problems
Algebra Progressions, binomial theorem, logarithms, permutations, combinations, method of undetermined coefficients, determi
nants, theory of equations, etc. Fisher and Schw att’
s HigherAlgebra
Plane Trigonometry The trigonometric functions, trigonometricanalysis, solutions of right and oblique triangles, etc. Phillips and
Strong’s Elements of Trigonometry
Field Wark in Surveying The practical use of instruments, including determination of heights, simple triangulation,
measurement ofareas, and levell ingFreshman required courseFour hours a week through the yearProfessor FERRY, Professor MILHAM,
Assistant Professor HARDY, and Mr. SHEPARD
2 Analytic Geometry and D ifferential CalculusAnalytic Geometry Plane analytic geometry ; the straight line,circle, parabola, ell ipse, and hyperbola ; with an introduction to
analytic geometry of three dimensions Wentw orth’
s Analytic'
Geo
metry Professor FERRY and Mr. SHEPARD
D ifferential Calculus Beginn ings of calculus, methods of differentiation, expansion of functions, indeterminate forms, etc., based on
McMahon and Snyder’
s Differential CalculusAssistant Professor HARDY
Sophomore elective course, required of Freshmen in admissiongroups IV and V
Four hours a week through the year
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 55
3 Differential and Integral CalculusAppl ications of differential calculus to plane curves, maxima and
minima, etc., based on Osborne’s and McMahon and Snyder’
s
D ifferential Calculus Professor FERRY
Derivation and appl ication of the fundamental formulas of integration ; applications of the integral calculus to the calculation of
lengths of curves, areas and volumes,mean values
,moments of
inertia, etc., based on Murray’s I ntegral Calculus
Assistant Professor HARDY
Junior elective course, open to all w ho have taken Mathematics 2
Three hours a week through the year
4 Differential Equations and Modern Analytic Geometry
4a D ifferential Equations
Methods of solution of the simpler forms of differential equations,applications to many problems of mathematical physics, etc., basedon Murray
’
s D ifferential EquationsSenior elective course, open to all w ho have taken Mathematics 3Tbree hours a week during the second half-year
Assistant Professor HARDY
4b M odem M ethods in Analytic GeometryAbridged notation, line co-ordinates, harmonic division,
projection,
etc., with many applications Lectures, with re ferences to Salmon’
s
Conic Sections and other worksSenior elective course, open to all w ho have taken Mathematics 3Three hours a week during the second half-year
Professor FERRY
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY
Professor M ILHAM
Astronomy 1 This course is divided into tw o parts, DescriptiveAstronomy and an introduction to Spherical and Practical Astronomy. In the Descriptive Astronomy a text-book, Young
’
s Mamml
of Astronomy, is used as the bas is of instruction . Numerous sup
plementary lectures are given and the course is illustrated by chartsand photographs. Such topics as the time service of the country,the origin of our calendar, the presence of an atmosphere in the caseof the moon and the planets, and the nebular hypothesis are treated
56 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
at length . During the second part of the course lectures on modernobservatories, their location, equipment, and work will be given.
Experimental demonstration and practical exercises in the observatory will constitute a large part of the instruction during the lastpart of the second half-year . A knowledge of Mathematics 1 is
required for this course .
Junior and Senior elective courseThree hours a week through the year
Astronomy 2 One of the fol lowing half-year courses will begiven,
the selection be ing made by the studentso
taking the course.
(a ) H is tory of Astronomy The rise of Astronomy from the
earliest times to the present day will be briefly considered .
(b) Practical Astronomy This will consist of spherical Trigonometry, practical exercises in the observatory, and the reduction of
the observations . Mathematics 1 and Astronomy 1 are required .
(c) Theoretical Astronomy This is an introduction to CelestialMechan ics and is Open on ly to those w ho have had Mathematics 1
,
2, and 3 .
( d) Surveying Such topics as the theory and use of surveyinginstruments, land surveying, and determination of heights by triangulation and by means of the barometer will be treated . Mathematics1 is required .
Junior and Senior elective courseThree hours a week during the second half-year
M eteorology The equipment of the stations of the Un ited StatesWeather Bureau and scientific weather prediction are very fullytreated . The text-book, Davis
’
s E lementary M eteorology, is supplemented by numerous lectures and practical work on meteorologica lstatistics and in making weather forecasts .
Junior and Senior elective courseThree hours a week during the first half-year
DEPARTMENT OF CHEM I STRY
Professor MEARS and Mr. MEARS
Ckemistry 1 General Chemistry The principles of chemistry are
studied in connection with the non-metals and their compounds .
This course is given by experimental lectures, supplemented by recitations and practical work in the laboratory. A printed outline of
the lectures is used, to be enlarged by notes taken in the class-room.
Sophomore elective courseFour hours a week during the first half-year
5s WILLIAMS COLLEGE
2 E x perimental Physics Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Light, Mag
netism, and Electricity This course consists of a series of physiw l
measurements in the laboratory, accompanied by lectures . The
lectures deal with the methods and principles involved in the laboratory work and also discuss certain physical problems which do not
readily lend themselves to laboratory experimentation. In the laboratory work high-grade instruments of precision
"
are employed andthe course is expected not on ly to develop famil iarity with physicalphenomena but, at the same time, to give skill in accurate measurement.
Open to those w ho have taken Physics 1
Five exercises a week during the second half-year These willgenerally be tw o lectures of one hour each and three laboratoryperiods of tw o hours each.
3 ( 1) E lectricalM easurements and Practical Applications of E lectricity This course consists of lectures and laboratory work and
includes a study of the magnetic properties of iron and steel, of
direct and alternating current phenomena, and of their practimlillustration in the dynamo and motor.
(2) Heat and Light A study of the elements of Thermodynamicsand Physical Optics Lectures and reading with occasional laboratory experimentationOnly one of these sub-courses will be given each yearThree exercises a week through the year
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
Professor CLARKE, Professor KELLOGG, and Mr. WOODRUFF
1 The fundamental facts and principles of the science of l ife are
presented in this course. It treats of the order of nature and of
the laws of nature. It gives the student a knowledge of the propetties and powers, and what contributes to the successful action of,
the l iving material of which he is composed, and through whichhe does his l ife work. It deals with the structure of living matter,its possible origin, and its relation to non-l iving matter .A typical plant and an imal are studied to illustrate the w ay in
which the tw o great groups solve the problem of maintaining life,their relations to each other and to their surroundings. As the
highest form of l iving matter, man is studied in his relations to, and
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
his dependence on, other forms of l ife, and with regard to the
mean ing and origin of his structure . An outline is given of the
evidences of the evolution of l ife, of mutual aid and associated l ifeamong animals, and their possible significance . The object of thecourse is to make a man intell igent regarding himself, and his fundamental relations to his environment to set before him the relationsof this knowledge to other knowledge, and by this broad view gaina larger appreciation oi, and a more generous sympathy with, manyof the great interests and resources of human l ife .
While this course is complete in itself it furnishes a broad toundation of value to one w ho takes further work in biology.
Lectures, with the examination of note-books, and a small amountof laboratory workSophomore elective courseFour hours a week during the second half-year
Professor CLARKE
2 The year’
s work includes three subjects .
(a) Zoology of the I nvertebrata This part of the course extendsfrom September to about the last of February. Instruction is by
means of lectures, recitations, and laboratory work. After con
sidering the fundamental properties of protoplasm,the cell as the
structural and physiological unit, the relations existing betweenanimals and plants, and other preliminary subjects, the great groupsof animal forms below the vertebrates are examined in order fromthe simpler to the more complex. The general characters of eachgroup are studied in some detail . Explanations of general questionsinvolved in the comparison of various animals are given throughoutthe course. From each group several species are selected for minutestudy in the laboratory.
(b) H istology After completing (a) about five weeks are givento the study of the minute structure of animal tissues. The workincludes a description of methods of k ill ing, staining, section ing, andmounting of tissues
,and is conducted by means of lectures, recita
tions, and laboratory work.
(0) Theories of Biology The remainder of the year is given to
a series of lectures, with recitations, on the general problems of
biology.
The aim of the course is to show the significance of the variedphenomena of the living world, to give a definite knowledge of the
60 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
scientific method of dealing with facts, to afford a practical drill inthe inductive process of reasoning, and, so far as possible, to stimalate a habit of independent thought.
It considers the views of the early Transmutationists, of Lamarckand the Neo-Lamarckians, and enters fully into a discussion of the
theory of natural selection of Darwin and Wallace, on which the
science of biology is largely founded . Attention is given to the
earlier criticisms of the theory, and more particularly to recentobservations which tend to l imit it as a un iversal explanation of the
structural and functional peculiarities of organisms.
Among the subjects discussed are the meaning of the term species ,the multiplication of organ isms and the struggle for existence ,
variation among individuals , the meaning of color and peculiarstructural modifications among animals and plants, heredity,
naturalselection and the development of the mental faculties, natural selection and morals, and the influence of the scientific method on modernthoughtJunior and Senior elective courseThree exercises ( six hours ) a week through the year
Professor KELLOGG
3 A continuation of Biology 2
(a) Zob'
logy of the ChordataThe course continues through the first half-year . As in the
Zob'
logy of the Invertebrata, instruction is by means of lectures,recitations, and laboratory work . The fishes
,amphibia, reptiles,
birds, and mammals are studied comparatively by means of dissec
tions in the laboratory.
(b) Embryology The second half—year is given to a study of
the development of the starfish, frog, chick, and mammal . In the
first tw o forms, special attention is given to the early stages whichfollow fertilization . The work on the chick is outlined by a textbook, and is followed in the laboratory by means of preparationsmade by the student. It covers the development from the beginningof incubation to a stage in which the more important organs of the
body have appeared . Mammal ian development is compared withthat of the chick, which it closely resembles, but is studied in the
laboratory only by means of models and demonstration preparations .
Senior elective courseThree exercises ( six hours ) a week through the year
Professor KELLOGG
WILL] AM5 COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE , ANATOMY, AND
PHYSIOLOGY
Dr. HOWARD
Hygiene A series of twelve lectures on subjects pertaining to personal and publ ic healthFreshman required courseAfter Easter
Anatomy and Physiology The aim of the course is to give the
student a general view of physiology with sufficient anatomy and
histology to make the subj ect intelligible . The facts and theories of
human physiology receive most attention, but the functional relationsof the human body to lower forms of l ife are also discussed . The
physiological laboratory has facilities for exhibiting many vitalphenomena . The physiology of muscle and nerve is studied in detailin the isolated muscle and nerve of the frog. The course, togetherwith the courses in Biology, prepares the student to enter intell igentlyupon medical study.
Junior and Senior elective courseThree hours a week through the year
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND BOTANY
Dr. CLELAND
1 General Geology This course is des igned to give the studenta general knowledge of the formation, structure, and history of our
globe . The purpose throughout the study is to so familiarize the
student with the features of the earth’s surface by lantern sl ides,excursions, photographs, models, and lectures that the earth formswill have a definite meaning to him. In the study of the l ife of the
past the course of the evolution of animals and plants will be carefully traced .
The subj ect is divided into three parts(a ) Dynamical Geology deals with the forces which have shaped,
and are now shaping, the earth’s surface, such as volcanoes, earthquakes, glaciers, and rivers.
(b) S tructural Geology In this part the form of the earth’ssurface, the structure of the earth’s crust, and the rocks of whichit is composed will be studied .
(c) H istorical Geology This division of the subject is a history of the l ife of the earth as shown by the fossil remains found
62 WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
embedded in the rocks and is primarily a study of the developmentof l ife . The fossils in the collection and a number of cas ts of
extinct vertebrates purchased this year will be used in illustration .
Excursions will be taken to points of geologic interest aboutWill iamstown . I t is possible that tw o excursions outs ide of Williamstow n will also be taken.
Open to Jun iors and Seniors w ho have had Chemistry 1
Three hours a week through the year
2 M ineralogy The purpose of this course is to give ( 1) a know ledge of the commoner minerals, and (2) a knowledge of buildingstones and other rocks ( lithology ) . To accomplish this the subjectwill be introduced by a brief course in crystallography followed byblow-pipe analysis. The student will be taught to identify the minerals by their physica l properties as well as by blow-pipe and chemical tests . Speciments will be freely used. The text-book will beDeterminatz
'
ve M ineralogy and Blo'
w -pipe Analysis, Brush-Penfield.
Laboratory feeOpen to students w ho have had either Geology 1 or Chemistry 1
and 2
Three exercises ( six hours) a week during the first half-year
3 Advanced Geology The second half-year has been planned tosupplement the work of Geology 1. During this period each studentwill prepare one or more papers on subjects to be assigned by theinstructor . These subj ects will, in most cases, require considerablefield work.
Open to students w ho have had Geology 1
Three hours a week during the second half-year
Botany This course will cons ist of a study of plant physiologyand morphology. The aim is to give the student a general knowledge of the whole field. During the autumn the physiology of plants,which will include such topics as the absorption and movements of
l iquids, food manufacture, and the phenomena of growth and movement, will be studied . Then will follow a careful study of plantmorphology, beginning with the simplest forms of the algae and
working up to the flow ering plants . Especial emphasis will beplaced on the evolution of sex . In the spring some time will bespent in the analysis of flow ering plants and ferns . Atkinson’
s
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
E lementary Botany will be used as a bas is with Campbel l, Sachs, andothers as references .
Laboratory feeOpen to Juniors and SeniorsThree exercises ( six hours) a week through the year
DEPARTMENT OF PHYS I CAL TRAINING
Mr. SEELEY
Exercises consisting of marching, calisthen ics, and l ight gymnastics with wands, clubs, chest-weights, and dumb-bellsFreshman required courseThree forty-five minute periods a week until EasterElective work in the gymnasium is ofi ered to the other classes.
[In connection with this work a course of lectures on Hygienewill be given after Easter by Dr. Howard . See the announcementof Hygiene, Anatomy, and Physiology ]
THE GROUP SYSTEM
The fundamental principle of the curriculum is that of theGroup System, which comes into operation at the close ofFreshman year. This Group System presents the followingfeaturesThere are three groups, I Languages, II Philosophy
( including Government, H istory,‘
and Political Science) , andIII Sciences ( including Mathematics ) .
After Freshman year and under the Operation of theGroup System all studies are elective.Although no specific studies are required after Freshman
year, every student must have completed after that timeand before graduation at least 12 semester-hours* in each ofthe three groups .Every student must have completed, after Freshman year
and before graduation, a major study . By a major study
[No'rn—A semester-hour, or half-year hour, is one hour a week continued for ahalf-year. A year-hour is one hour a week continued for ayear. Twelve semesterhours are therefore equivalent to four three-hour-a-week courses pursued for a half!year, or to tw o three-hour-a-week courses pursued for a year.]
64 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
is meant a spec ial, ,cumulative study of fundamental and
advanced courses , amounting to at least 15 semester-hoursin some one of the following subjects :1 Greek 2 Latin 3 English 4 French ; 5 German ; 6
Philosophy ; 7 History ; 8 Economics ; 9 Economics andGovernment ; 10 Mathematics ; 1 1 Chemistry ; 12 Physics ;13 Biology ; 14 Chemistry and Geology.
Elementary French or Elementary German must eitherbe presented at entrance in addition to the entrance subjectshitherto required, or else taken as an extra course afterentrance. The number of hours required for a degree willbe 59 for those fu lfilling this requirement at entrance and
62 as heretofore for those who take the course in col lege.A second year is required of the language presented at
entrance or begun in Freshman year.At least 32 semester-hours of Sophomore work ( the
equivalent of four four-hour year courses ) must be takenbefore graduation .
The number of semester-hours required for graduation is1 18 (59 year-hou rs ) ; or 124 (62 year-hours ) for thosewho do not present one year of a modern language atentrance in addition to the subjects previously required.
Students in the course with Greek must have completedafter Freshman year and before graduation at least 6semester-hours of Greek or Latin .
Every student, in order to graduate, must have attaineda grade above that of D in at least one-half the number of
hours required for graduation .
66 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Courses amounting to at least 32 semester-hours must betaken before graduation from the following
YEAR COURSESFrench 1
*French 3 or 4
German 1
*German 3 or 4
Greek 2
Latin 2
Mathematics 2(Mathematics 3 for Groups IV and V)1'
Spanish
HALF-YEAR COURSESm sr B ALF-YEAR SECOND HALF-YEAR
Biology 1 (4 )Chemistry 1 (4 ) Chemistry 2 (5)Engl ish 2 (4) English 3 (4 )History 1a (4 ) History 1h (4 )Physics 1 (4) Physics 2 (5 )
JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS
All courses in these years are elective, subj ect to the
regulations govern ing the Group System as given above.
‘French 3 and German 3 are given in alternate years with French 4 and German 4respectively .
1'TO be given in alternate years.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 67
CONSPECTUS OF COURSES FOR THE COLLEGE YEAR19034 904
ARRANGED ACCORDING TO 1 111: TB REE GENERAL GROUPS
Courses marked with one asterisk are offered for the first halfyear only those marked with tw o asterisks are offered for the
second half-year only. Three exercises a week will be held in allcourses except where otherwise indicated in parenthesis after thename of the course a number in parenthesis indicates the numberof ex ercises per week .
LANGUAGES
English 1 (2) *Economics 1 Anatomy-Physiology*Engl ish 2 (4 ) Economics 2 Astronomy 1
"Engl ish 3 (4 ) Economics 3 WAstronomy 2
English 42 (Themes ) *Government 1 “Biology 1 (4 )Engl ish 4b (Themes) “Government 2 Biology 2
English 5M Government 3 Biology 3
English 7*Governn1ent 4 Botany
English 8 “Government 5 *Chemistry 1 (4 )*English 9
*History 1a (4 ) “Chemistry 2 5)M English 10
“H istory 1b (4 ) *Chemistry 3aW English 11 History 2—Art 1 ’” Chemistry 3b*Engl ish 12 History 3 Chemistry 4M English 13
*History 4 Geology 1
French 1 History 5 Geology 2
French 2 (3 or 4 ) *History 7 Mathematics 1 (4 )French 4 (3 or 4 ) History 8—Art 2 Mathematics 2 (4)German 1 Philosophy 1 Mathematics 3German 2 Philosophy 2 Mathematics 4German 3 (4) Philosophy 3 "‘MeteorologyGerman 5 *Physics 1 (4 )Greek 1 (4) "Physics 2 5)Greek 2 (3 or 4 ) Physics 3Greek 3Latin 1
Latin 2 (4 )Latin 3Spanish (4 )
Also Elocution, Hygiene, and Physical Train ing
GENERAL INFORMATION
LIBRARY
The College Library contains fifty thousand hy e hundredvolumes
,exclusive of duplicates, and over seventeen thou
sand eight hundred pamphlets . The card catalogue nowcovers this entire collection, bound and unbound. For themaintenance and enlargement of the l ibrary about fourthousand hy e hundred dollars are expended annually. TheLawrence, Jonathan Phillips, Adriance, Jones, Class of1878, and Josiah William Wheeler funds represent a capital sum of about fifty-three thousand one hundred dollars ,the income from which is increased by gifts, and by specialappropriations of the Trustees .Students have direct access to all books . They may draw
three volumes at a time, to be retained, if desired, for twoweeks, with the privilege of one renewal . Abundant facilities are afiorded for reading, study, and writing duringlibrary hours .The l ibrary is open every week day during the entireyear. In term time the hours are from A. M . toP. M . , from 2 P. M . to 6 P. M . , and, for the east wing only,from P. M ., to P. M . Ou Sundays during the college year the library is open , for reading and reference only,from 2 P. M . to P. M . In vacation the hours : are from
A. M . to P. M . , on week days .A special effort is made to promote the seminary method.
For this purpose reference books bearing on the term’s work
are placed in a spec ial department of the east wing. Branchlibraries are established in the Thompson Laboratories,bringing the books bearing on biology, chemistry, physics,and mathematics within the immediate reach of students inthose departments . With the same method in view
,books
used for special study in language, history, or philosophy are68
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 69
placed in rooms of the library or other college buildingsreserved for this purpose.The libraries of the Philotechnian and Philologian Societies, containing nine thousand volumes , are open to theirmembers Wednesdays and Saturdays .A comfortable reading-room, well supplied with daily andweekly papers and other current literature, is maintainedunder the auspices of the Mills Young Men’s ChristianAssociation.
LABORATORI ES
The departments of B iology, Chemistry, and Physics arelocated in the three buildings presented to the College bythe late F. F. Thompson, Esq. , of New York City.
The Biological Laboratory contains three laboratories forthe various courses offered, a general lecture room, a libraryand reading—room where much of the current literature ofbiology is kept on file, also a room for illustrative collections ,and an aquarium. The work of instruction and researchcommands the aid of suitable apparatus, such as microscopes,microtomes , ovens, baths, and other necessary appliances ,together with a large series of charts , models , and illustrativecollections, which are being continually increased . There isalso a complete stereopticon outfit, with projection microscope and arc light.The Chemical Laboratory is supplied with the best modern
appliances for instruction in chemistry. The bu ilding contains three large laboratories , two private laboratories , lectureand recitation rooms and a reference library .
The Physical Laboratory contains a well appointed lectureroom, a recitation room, separate laboratories for the workof the difierent classes , a department l ibrary, and roomsespecially arranged for advanced work in electricity, magnetism, light, and chemical physics . Power is furnished bya Westinghouse engine of fifteen horse-power
,and the
electrical equipment includes a hy e kilowatt dynamo, ex peri
70 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
mental dynamos and motors,Weston measuring instruments ,galvanometers , standard cells, condensers, and resistances .A storage battery of thirty cells furnishes current for theelectric lights used in the lecture room and laboratories . A
workshop in the basement contains an additional engine, awater motor, a 13
” lathe,a grinder, and other tools for
working in metal and wood.
OBSERVATORIES
The astronomical department of the college possesses twoobservatories for illustration and scientific investigation .
The older was built by Professor A lbert Hopkins in 1838,
and contains an equatorial by Phelps of Troy, N . Y . , withan object glass by Alvan Clark
, Senior, which has an aperture of 7 inches . This instrument was constructed about1852 and is interesting as an early ex ample of Clark’soptical work . It is employed for instruction and the observation of occasional phenomena. The meridian room of theHopkins Observatory contains a portable transit which can
be used as a zenith telescope, together with the necessaryclock . Another room contains the meteorological apparatus .
Meteorological observations have been made regu larly sinceabout 1816.
In another part of the town a plot,comprising five acres
and a half, was purchased in 1881 for astronomical purposes .At present this enclosure contains the Field MemorialObservatory, an iron meridian house
,built at the expense
of the Hon . David Dudley Field, together with a smallbu ilding for the accommodation
lof portable instruments .
The main instrument of this observatory is a fine meridiancircle by A . Repsold and Sons of Hamburg, with a telescopeof inches aperture and a circle divided to 2
’ of arc,reading by four microscopes to single seconds directly. Themeridian circle is provided with a Riefler clock, a filletchronograph, and collimators according to R ittenhouse . In
addition , the department of Astronomy is provided with a
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 71
large number of portable instruments, among which are tw otelescopes for the simpler observations and three surveyor’stransits, one of them a Wanschaff universal with seven-inchlimb, latitude level, and microscopes reading to 5
” directly.
There are also several instruments of reflection, includingsextants, sailors
’ octants , and two prismatic circles, threechronometers , artificial horizons , and other small pieces ofapparatus .
CLASSICAL SOCI ETY
The Classical Society, formed of instructors and studentsin the elective Latin and Greek courses , has for its objectthe increase of interest in the study of the classics . It holdsits regular meetings in the College Library on the secondTuesday evening of each month, for the reading and discussion of original papers and for reports in the fields of Greekand Latin philology and archaeology .
LYCEUM OF NATURAL H I STORY
This organization was founded in 1835, and is maintainedby the students of the college in connection with the department of B iology. Regular meetings are held
,at which
reports are presented by the members or by visiting biologists .A fund established by the late William J . Walker equips
expeditions , organ ized for the purpose of making collectionsand of study, at more or less distant points . This fund,which, by the terms of the gift, is awarded every fourthyear, will be next available in the summer of 1905, for theencouragement of biological research at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Holl, Mass .The Lyceum of Natural History w as provided with a
building, Jackson Hall, named in honor of its donor, thelate Nathan Jackson, in which a museum is located, whichcontains scientific material collected by former expeditions ,
72 WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
together with ethnological material sent to the college byits missionary graduates, and various collections belongingto the college.
ART ASSOCIATION
The Williams Art Association, an organization of thestudents, under the direction of Professor Rice, providesoccasional lectures and exhibitions during the autumn andwinter terms . The material has been provided largely bygifts of alumni and friends, who show their interest in thisfeature of college life by contributions to the support ofthe courses in the history of art. Room No. 13 in theHopkins Memorial Building has been fitted up for exhibiting and storing the photographs, prints , and other illustrations purchased since the founding of the association .
ART COLLECTION
A valuable collection of paintings, bas-reliefs, Etruscanvases, and Peruvian pottery, the gift of the late Mrs . JohnW. Field, of Philadelphia, is on exhibition in the Library.
The gift of suitable works of art is solicited by theTrustees of the college, subject to approval by a committeeof their number.
MUSEUM
Clark Hall and the Wilder M ineralogical Cabinet wereprovided through the generosity of the late Edward Clarkof the class of 183 1 . Besides this cabinet the museum con
tains the collection of the late Professor Emmons and manyspecimens obtained by donation, exchange, and purchas e.The collection of fossils is arranged stratigraphically onthe first floor and biologically on the second floor. Invertebrate fossils are well represented. During the past twoyears the value of the collection , from a teaching standpoint,has been greatly augmented by the purchase of a number of
74 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
adapted to individual peculiarities,and a symmetrical devel
opment secured. Gymnastic exercise is required of theFreshman class until the Easter recess .
FIELD SPORTS
The smaller athletic fields near the college buildings affordpractice in lawn-tenn is and baseball, while the large WestonField, the gift of the late Hon . Byron Weston , of Dalton ,affords opportun ity for baseball , football, and track athletics .The golf links of the Tacon ic Club is open, upon moderateterms
,to student players .
COLLEGE INFIRMARY
Through the generosity of friends of the college a househas been provided where students Who are ill can receiveproper attention . In cases of severe sickness tramed nursesmay be secured at the ex pense of the patient. Each studentreceived into the infirmary pays one dollar a day for his ow nboard and the same for that of his nurse. Board bi lls areto be paid to the College Treasurer. Students are assessedthree dollars a year for the maintenance of the infirmary.
THOMPSON COURSE OF ENTERTAINMENTS
This course, which for many years was sustained by theliberality of the late F . F. Thompson , Esq.
,of New York
City, provided lectures , concerts , and other entertainments
during the winter . M rs . Thompson has generously ofi ered
to continue the course for the current year.Last year entertainments were given by Charles Battell
Loomis , Herbert W . Gleason, Lotus Glee Club, Leland T.
Powers , Adamowski Quartette, Polk M iller, and LymanUnderwood .
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 75
THE BEACH-HYDE LECTURE
James H . Hyde, Esq. , of the Equitable Life AssuranceSociety, New York City, has generously provided that theannual lecturer of the Cercle Francais de l
’
université, Harvard, shall give one lecture before the Faculty and studentsof the college in honor of his great-grandfather, JamesBeach, of the class of 1804 .
ORDER AND D I SCI PLINE
It is the aim of the college to develop in the individualstudent the sense of personal responsibil ity for good orderand a high standard of scholarship
, and to secure, in thelargest measure, his cooperation with the Faculty in thedevelopment of his own character . But if such cooperationis plainly impossible, a student may be dismissed from college even without previous warn ing.
HONOR SYSTEM
All examinations are conducted under an honor system,
established in 1896, by which the presence of proctors in theexamination room is dispensed with and each student isplaced upon his honor. The following declaration is necessary to make an examination valid : I have neither given nor
received aid in this ex amination .
All cases of suspected fraud are dealt with by a committee
of ten students, including representatives from each class ,who have the power to decide on the question of gu ilt andto recommend to the Faculty the penalty of dismissal fromcollege in the case of a Sen ior, Junior, or Sophomore, and ofsuspension in the case of a Freshman .
REGI STRATION
All students are required to register at the Dean’s Office
on the Monday,Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding the
beginning of the college year .
76 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
ATTENDANCE ON COLLEGE EXERC ISES
Attendance upon nine-tenths of all college exercises isrequired, and if a student fail for any cause to meet thisrequirement of attendance upon secular exercises, workadditional to that done by the class will be assigned insome department or departments of study in which thefailure has occurred. This assignment of extra work willbe made by a committee of the Faculty in consultation withthe instructor, and will be announced at the end of thehalf-year.The regulation of attendance upon both the secular andrel igious exercises is entrusted to the Dean. He is authorized to establish such rules for attendance upon the religious ex ercises of the college as he may deem necessary,and to place on probation any student who fails to meetthese requirements, or whose attendance on recitations andlectures is especially irregular. If a student does notcomply with the conditions of the probation, the Dean maydismiss him from college ; but any student thus dismissedhas the right of an appeal through the Dean to the Committee on Administration .
COMPLETION OF COURSES
A course will be considered satisfactorily completed forany half-year when the student has obtained a mark of notless than fifty in the term work (which shall include all oraland written exercises prior to the semi-annual examination ) , and also a mark of not less than fifty in the semiannual examination . A student failing to obtain a mark offifty in the term work must repeat the course with a subsequent class or take, in the case of an elective, an equivalentcourse. A student failing to obtain a mark of fifty in thesemi-annual examination will be allowed two further opportunities to pass that examination if unsuccessfu l in bothof these, he will be required to repeat the course with a subsequent class or take, in the case of an elective, an equivalentcourse.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 7
DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts— The degree of Bachelor of Arts isconferred by vote of the Trustees at the annual Commencement upon students who have completed the requirementsas to courses to the satisfaction of the Faculty
,have paid
their dues to the Treasurer, and have returned all booksbelonging to the library ; but the degree may be forfeited bymisconduct at any time previous to the close of the Commencement exercises .M aster of Arts—The degree of Master of Arts will be
conferred upon graduates of this college, or of any collegewhich grants the Bachelor’s degree under similar or equivaleut conditions, who have spent one year in residence atthis college pursuing two approved courses of study indifi erent departments, the total work being equal to that ofa college year, and who have passed satisfactory examinations on both subj ects and have prepared a satisfactory thesis .The degree will be conferred upon graduates of this
college, who have spent one year in residence at any aca
demic or scientific institution engaged in non-professionalstudy, and who, having been registered at this college ascandidates for the degree not less than a college year
,have
fu lfilled the conditions regarding courses of study, examination, and thesis specified in the preceding paragraph.
The degree will be conferred upon graduates of thiscollege who, not having been in residence, but having beenregistered at this college as candidates for the degree notless than two years, have fulfilled the conditions with regardto courses of study, examinations , and thesis specified in thefirst paragraph .
Each candidate for this degree must register his name,address, and course of study with Professor Max cy, secretary of the committee on graduate students, not later thanthe fifteenth of October of the year for which he desiresregistration . Blank forms for regi stration may be obtainedupon application . This registration must be renewed each
78 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
year for which the applicant desires to be considered a candidate. A registration fee of ten dollars must be paid atthe time of the first registration.
Each candidate must submit two courses of study, not in
the same department. These courses must meet the approvalof the professors to whose departments they are re lated, andof the Facu lty committee on graduate students (consistingfor the present year of Professors Hewitt and Max cy) . Of
these courses one, to be know n as the major course, mustbe equivalent to at least tw o—thirds of the work of a collegeyear
,and the other, to be known as the minor course, must
be equivalent to at least one-third of the work of a collegeyear.The thesis required of each candidate must treat a subjectrelated to the major course of study. It must be submittednot later than the fifteenth of May of the year in whichthe candidate desires to be examined, and must meet theapproval of the professor to whose department it is relatedand of the Faculty committee on graduate students . A
copy of the thesis, printed or typewritten on paper of thesize usually used in a typewriter, must be deposited in thecollege library .
In addition to the registration fee, a charge of fifteendollars will be made for the examinations . It must bepaid at the time the examinations are taken . No furthercharge is made for the diploma.
Candidates in residence who desire instruction will becharged forty dollars for each course, in addition to theprescribed fees for reg1stration and examination. This willentitle them to one weekly period of instruction in each
course. An additional charge may bemade for the use oflaboratory apparatus .Successful candidates for the degrees are expected to bepresen t at the time the degrees are conferred unless previously excused by the President.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 79
RECORDS AND REPORTS
A report of scholarship and conduct is sent to every student’s parents or guardian at the close of each half-year, andat such other times as the Faculty may deem expedient. A
permanent record is kept of each student’s scholarship and
by this record his final rank is determined .
PUBLI C W0RSH IP
Chapel Exercises are held every week-day morning and
Sunday evening, and all students are required to be present.On every Sunday morning, also, there is held in the
college chapel a service at which the presence of all studentsnot excused to attend elsewhere is required.
The preachers for the year, besides the President, Professors Russell and Spring, and Dr. Bascom, have been asfollows in the order mentionedRev. W. S . Butler ,Williamstown, Mass . Professor Frank
K. Sanders , New Haven, Conn. ; Rev. Edward EverettHale
,D .D . , Roxbury, Mass . Rev. Raymond Calkins , Pitts
field, Mass . ; Pres ident Henry C. King, D .D . , Oberlin, O . ;
Rev. Willard Scott, D .D . , Worcester , Mass . ; Rev. F. B.
Savage, Newburgh, N. Y . ; Rev. H . Grant Person, SenecaFalls, N Y Rev. William R . Richards, D .D . ,
New YorkCity ; Rev. E . T. Tomlinson, D .D . , Elizabeth, N. J . Mr.
Robert E . Speer, New York City Rev. T. P. Frost, D .D . ,
Newark, N. J . ; Rev. John Balcom Shaw, D .D . , New YorkCity ; Rev. Andrew Gillies, Troy, N. Y . ; President Wm. J .
Tucker, D .D . , Hanover, N. H . ; Rev. H . P. Dewey, D .D . ,
Brooklyn, N Y . Rev. E . Winchester Donald, D .D . ,Boston,
Mass . ; Rev. C. E . Jefferson , D .D . , New York City ; Rev.
C. L. Thompson , D .D . , New York City ; Rev. J . S . Zelie,Plainfield, N. J . ; Rev. Shephard Knapp, New York City ;Rev. Wm. W. Ranney, Hartford, Conn . ; Rev. D . J . McMil
lan , D .D . , New York City ; Rev. Nehemiah Boynton ,D .D . ,
Detroit, M ich . ; Mr. Luther D . Wishard, New York City ;Rev. E . E . Braithwaite, No. Cambridge, Mass . ; Prof.
80 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Henry G. Smith, Cincinnati , O. ; Prof. Arthur Gillett,Hartford, Conn . ; Rev. Wm. V. W. Davis, D .D. ,
Pittsfield,
Mass . ; Rev. John H . Denison, Boston, Mass .
PRIZES
BENEDICT PRIZES
The late Hon. Erastus C. Benedict, of the class of 1821 ,once an instructor in the college, established seven first
prizes of twenty-hy e dollars each, which may be awardedannually for excellence in the following departments : Latin,Greek, French, German, Mathematics, Natural History, andHistory ; seven second prizes of fifteen dollars each, whichmay be awarded in the same departments .He also founded a prize of twenty-five dollars, to be givenannually to that member of the college who, at the close ofeach college year, shall be found to have received the largestnumber of prizes .
* Honorable mention is here counted asa prize. In case of a tie, the relative grades of the prizeswill be taken into account, and honorable mention in Latinor Greek and a R ice book prize will not both be counted.
VAN VECHTEN PRIZE
A prize amounting to seventy dollars, established by A .
V. W. Van Vechten, Esq. , of the class of 1847, may beawarded for extemporaneous speaking. The assignment ofthis prize will be made by a committee of the Faculty onthe basis of a public competition .
GRAVES PRIZES
The late Arthur B. Graves , Esq. , of the class of 1858,
founded seven prizes , amounting to two hundred dollars,
which may be awarded as follows : Six prizes of twentydollars each for the best six essays prepared by members
*For the present an additional sum of will be given eachyear by a friend of the college to increase this prize to
82 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
DEWEY PRIZE
The late Hon . Francis Henshaw Dewey founded a prizeof fifty dollars to be awarded to the member of the graduating class w ho presents the most creditable oration in pointof composition and delivery at Commencement ex ercises .
LATHERS GOLD MEDAL
The income of a fund of one thousand dollars, receivedfrom the late Col. Richard Lathers, is to be used each yearfor the making of the Lathers gold medal from a mould ordie, for the manufacture of which Colonel Lathers gave an
additional sum of one hundred dollars . This medal w ill beoffered in competition to all members of the Senior classwho hand to the Secretary of the Faculty on or before thefirst day of March preceding their graduation , a writtenessay of not less than one thousand words on “The Dutiesof Christian Men in Relation to Governmen t,
”and will be
assigned to that writer whose essay has been pronouncedby a committee of the Faculty to be the most worthy of publication . The essay selected shall then be sent by the
Secretary of the Faculty to the Springfield Republican,or
to a journal published in Pittsfield, with the request that itmay appear in a near issue of such newspaper. In case noone of the competing essays has been adjudged worthy ofpublication, no medal for that year shall be awarded.
THE DAVID A . WELLS PRIZE
In accordance with the will of the late David A . Wells, ofthe class of 1847, a prize of $500 will be awarded annuallyfor the best essay upon a subject in any one of a number ofbranches of Economics enumerated in the will of the
founder .The will provides that if no essay deemed worthy of theprize be presented in any year the award shall be withheldfor that year . The successful essay will be printed and
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
circulated by the college out of the residual income of thefund .
“The David A. Wells Prize of $500‘
in gold coin of
standard weight and fineness, or in the form of a_meda1 of
gold suitably inscribed, at the option of the recipient,’
w illbe awarded, at the Commencement of 1905, and thereafterannually at Commencement.”
Competition is limited by the terms of its foundation toSenior undergraduates and to graduates ofWilliams Collegeof not more than three years’ standing ; but, with the ex ception of the graduates of the classes of 1901 , 1902, and 1903 ,
no one shall at any time be eligible for the competition whohas not taken Dr . Munro’s course entitled,
‘Introduction toPolitical Economy,
’ and one of the courses of ProfessorNelson, the David A . Wells Professor of Political Science.The following provision of the will of the founder of the
competition governs the committee in the selection of sub
jects and in the consideration of essays :“N0 subjects shall be selected for competitive writing orinvestigation and no essay shall be considered which in anyway advocates or defends the spoliation of property underform or process of law ; or the restriction of commerce intimes of peace by legislation, except for moral or sanitary
purposes ; or the enactment of usury laws ; or the impairment of contracts by the debasement of coin ; or the issueand use by Government of irredeemable notes or promisesto pay intended to be used as currency and as a substitutefor money or which defends the endowment of such“paper
,
” “notes , and“promises to pay” with the legal
tender quality .
”
The subject for the second competition is
The I nfluence of the Church in the Development ofEnglish Democracy.
Between the close of the Easter recess and Commencement
, 1904 , Professor Nelson will lecture on the subject of
34 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
the competition to all competitors presenting themselves, ii ,in his judgment, there is a sufficient number of competitorsto warrant him in doing so.
The essays in the competition must be sent by March 15,
1905, to Professor Henry Loomis Nelson, Williamstown ,Mass . , to whom all communications should be addressed.
The competition for the prize of 1905, with the qualifica
tions already stated, is open to the members of the classesof 1901 , 1902, 1903 , and 1904 .
ADELPH IC UNION PRIZE DEBATE
A public debate is held in the second half-year betweenthree members of the Philologian and three of the Philotechnian societies . The generosity of an alumnus of thecollege provides for this contest three prizes of twentyhy e, fifteen, and ten dol lars respectively.
FRANKLIN STORY CONANT PRIZE IN BIOLOGY
This prize,which yields twenty-five dollars annually, has
been founded by the Class of 1893 , in memory of theirdeceased classmate
,whose name it bears . The award of
this prize is made upon the recommendation of the Professor of Natural History, to that member of the Sen iorclass who, in his judgment, is best fitted to profit by advancedbiological study. The money thus awarded will be used topay the tuition fee of such student at the Marine B iologica lLaboratory, Woods Holl .
CANBY ATHLETIC SCHOLARSH IP PRIZE
A prize of fifty dollars, established by W. Marriot Canby,
Jr. , of the class of 189 1 , may be awarded at Commencementto that member of the Senior class , among those eligible , whoshall have the highest average standing in scholarship duringhis course.
Any member of the Senior class who has been in collegesince the beginning of his Junior y ear
,and who
,at any time
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 85
during his college course, has represented the college in anyrecognized intercollegiate contest, shall be eligible.
GREEK PRIZES
An alumnus of the college ofl'
ers annually, for the present,three prizes of fifty, thirty and twenty dollars respectively,to members of the Junior class who have shown the greatestexcellence in the Greek studies of the Sophomore and Junioryears .
SPECIAL HONORS
On the recommendation of a department, the Faculty willaward any Senior at graduation “special honors” in any sub
ject in which no prizes are offered for the work of the Juniorand Senior years , if he has completed at least two electivecourses in that subject with a very unusual degree of success .Such “special honors” will be announced on Commencementday, and a record of the same will be printed in the collegecatalogue.
SCHOLARSH I PS
THE HORACE F. CLARK PRIZE SCHOLARSH IP
The Horace F. Clark Prize Scholarship, in honor ofHorace F. Clark, Esq. , of the class of 1833 , has been established under the provisions of the will of Madame MarieLou ise Souberbeille, his daughter, and the income will beawarded as follows
( 1 ) For the Freshman year $200, to be awarded to themember of the class regu larly and faithfully participating inand duly completing the exercises and duties of that year,who upon admission to the college shall have passed a betterex amination than any other such member of the class .The examination for this scholarship will be held inWilliamstown , on the Monday and Tuesday preceding theopening of the college year in September.
86 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
(2) For the Sophomore year $200, to be awarded to themember of the class regu larly and faithfully participating inand duly completing the exercises and duties of that year,who shall pass the best examination on certain subjects
supplementary to and conn ected with the regular studies ofthe course
, the sum to be paid at the end of the Sophomoreyear.
(3 ) For the J unior year $200, to be awarded to the member of the class regu larly and faithfully participating in andduly completing the exercises and duties of that year, whoshall pass the best examination on certain subj ects supplementary to and connected with the regular studies of thecourse, the sum to be paid at the end of the Junior year .
(4 ) For the S enior year $400, to be awarded to the member of the class regularly and faithfully participating in andduly completing the duties of that year, who shall pass thebest examination on certain subjects supplementary to and
connected with the regular studies of the course, and shallengage to pursue for one year at some academic or scientificinstitution a course of graduate study (non-professional ) tobe approved by the Faculty, the sum to be paid one-half atthe end of the Senior year and one-half at the close of suchyear of graduate study . Such graduate student must register his name, address , and course of study with the Secretaryof the Faculty not later than the first of November, andmust pass a satisfactory examination upon the work assigned.
This examination will be held at Williamstown in June .
This scholarship may be withheld whenever, in the judgment of the committee, the result of the competition ,
in any
class, does not justify its award .
The subj ects for the examination for the candidates fromthe Sophomore, Junior, and Senior clas ses are to be a majorand a minor subject chosen from different departments ofstudy . Such subjects must be submitted by the first of
November each year to a committee of the Faculty,consist
ing for the present year of Professors Hewitt and Meat s ,
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 87
and Assistant Professor Hardy. The examination upon theminor subject will be held on the second week in January andthat on the major subject in June.
HONOR SCHOLARSH IPS
Several Honor Scholarships” have been founded byalumni and friends of the col lege in order both to affordpecuniary aid and to recogn ize successful scholarship . But
under the present system all scholarships are considered“honor scholarships
,
” and therefore these special “HonorScholarships,
”five in number, are now merged in the general
list in accordance with previous announcements (catalogu e,1898. 1899 )
GENERAL SCHOLARSH IPS
The income of the endowments included in the appendedlist, amounting to over annually, is available fordistribution under the direction of the Trustees among thosestudents who are known to need aid. This is given inscholarships to candidates for the bachelor’s degree.The regulations are as follows1 . Applications must be made in advance to the Committee
on Scholarships upon forms provided by the Dean . All
scholarships lapse at the close of the college year. Appli
cation for renewal, including a complete statement of incomeand expenditure for the year preceding, must be filed beforeJuly I st upon forms provided by the Committee.2 . All promises of scholarships to students before theiradmission are provisional . If conditions or deficiencies arestanding against the candidate when the college year opens,his scholarship may thereby be forfeited. Scholarships arenot assigned to students registering in Group VI .
3 . The stipend for Freshmen is uniformly forty-fivedollars for the first half-vear. For each half-year of thecourse after the first, the stipends range from forty-five toseventy-hy e dollars.
88 WILLIAMS COLLECH
A regrading of the stipends will be made at the beginningof each half-year, on the basis of the averages for theprevious half, according to the following scale
Group 1 . Upper grade A , (95 per cent . or over) per half year2 . Lower (be low 95 per cent .3 . Upper B , (87 to 92
4 . Lower (82 to 875 . Grade C , (70 to 82
After this year, ow ing to the increase in the fee for tuition
see page there will be a proportionate increase in thescholarship stipends in the different groups .
4 . A Freshman who fails to reach an average of sixty-hyeper cent. in his studies for either half-year will lose hisstipend for the following half.
5 . After the Freshman year, a student who fails to reachan average of seventy per cent . , or grade C, will lose hisstipend for the following half-year.6. Any one of the following causes may prevent the con
sideration of an application , or cause the forfeiture, whollyor in part, of a scholarship already awarded
(0) Evidence satisfactory to the committee that thescholarship is not needed,
(b) Any serious misconduct,
(c) Indulgence in intoxicating liquors,(d Expensive habits . Holders of scholarships must
satisfy the committee that they are exercising strict economyin respect to lodgings, board, and general living expenses .
7. A scholarship may be restored after the lapse of a halfyear, if there is no longer any cause of forfeiture.
In accordance with previous announcement,lists of all
holders of scholarship, except Freshmen, are printed in thecatalogue, in groups according to grades , without distinctionof class .
90 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
The Charles Stoddard Scholarship, 1866Emory Washbu rn Scholarship, 1877
The Mrs. Sarah Woodhull Arms Scholarship, 1877The Cyrus Taggart M ills Scholarship, 1886The M ichael Edw ard Drisooll Fund, 1896
The Benjamin How ard Fund,The Ezra Starkweather Fund, 1835 .
The Henry Root Scholarship (not complete)The Franklin Marcellus Olds Fund, 1886The Charles Merriam Scholarship, 1860
The J . Barker and Brothers Scholarship, 1856
The W. W. Mason Scholarship,1856
The B. F Bancroft Scholarship ,1856
The Bela Peck Williams Scholarship,1859
The Thomas W. Williams Scholarship, 1859The John Tatlock, Jr. Fund, 1892The Charles Andrews Hea th Fund, 1897
The John Dudley Hardy Fund, 1902
The I ra Jewett Geer Fund, 1902
The Fund of the Class of 1840The Fund of the Class of 1860
The Fund of the Class of 1857The Funds of six other ClassesThe Frank Benjamin Yates Fund, 1897
The Mrs. Betsey Barnes Fund, 1879The Fund of the Class of 1848
The Fund of the Class of 1847
Total $263 6694 7
THE J OSEPH WH ITE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSH IP
By the will of the late Hannah M . White thirty shares of
the capital stock of the New York Architectural Terra CottaCompany (par value were bequeathed to the collegefor the purpose of founding a scholarship to be known as theJoseph White Memorial Scholarship. The income of thisbequest becomes available for the first time this year.The use of the income of the bequest of the late Henry
Titus Morgan, in assisting young men to secure an education, is in accordance with the preference expressed , though
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 9 1
not made mandatory, in his will . By vote of the Trusteesthe income will be used, so far as may be necessary, toprovide Henry Titus Morgan Scholarships for the Freshman class .The income of the gift of Ebenezer R . Goodnow
of Charlemont, will also ultimately be devoted to scholarships.
The Horace F. Clark Prize Scholarship Fund of
is not a part of the General Scholarship Fund, its incomebeing distributed as prizes to all successful competitors without regard to their pecuniary circumstances, as is explainedon page 85 .
EXPENSES
TREASURER’
S BILLS
Tnitica , per half-yearLibrary
I nfirmaryRoom rent, $4 to $56 per half-year
GENERAL EXPENSES
The following is an estimate of the necessary expenses forthe college year :
Board, to $6 per week, for 36 weeksWashingFuel and light
Total from
In addition to these items a fee is charged for the use ofapparatus and materials in connection with the followingcourses
9 2 11 cc
Ga zing 2
Pht sics s
A m n cb rge is m de in each
0-1'
the Serif3113 to cover ex penses of gradca tion .
Every Sta dem'
s bill is mailed to him at the hegmning of
ea ch haIi-jrezr , and he is he ld respon s ible for prmnpt [n yment, w hich is required in advance. In case am student
fai's to pa y by the end oi the secm d w eek of the ta m he
tu m bii'
. r : be re fu nded for any cau se.
ing mmm. cos t of tex t books , and inciden tals. The ammmt
Special damage done by studen ts to college property w ill
be charged m their term bills.
Those w ho enter on an advanced standing . unless they
come from another college , pay the follow ing sums as
entrance fees, viz. : Sophomore , $ 10 ; Jun iors, s Seniors,
530. This rule is applicable also to par tial course students.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE93
Beginning with the y ear 1904-1905 the tuition will be
$140 a year, payable half—yearly, the fees for the library,gymnasium and infirmary being abolished. The additionalcharge to Seniors to cover expenses of graduation will be
$10.
COLLEGE ROOMS
The college has three steam-heated and three stove-heateddormitories ; the former accommodate one hundred andtwelve students and the latter one hundred and thirty-four.Most of the rooms are double and all are unfurnished.
The average yearly rental for each occupant of a steamheated room is about eighty dollars and in a stove-heatedroom about sixteen dollars . Students receiving beneficiaryaid are expected to room in the cheaper dormitories . A
janitor in each of the steam-heated buildings takes care ofthe rooms . In the other buildings each occupant cares forhis own room. N0 room is secured till an obligation issigned and put on file at the office of the Secretary of theFaculty. On application a list of the rooms giving locationand price will be furnished.
-A student must occupy theroom for which he signs , as transfers are not allowed . Eachoccupant of a college room will be held responsible for anydamage done to the room.
Early in May the rooms are rented for the ensuing year.The tw o occupants of any room can retain their room forthe coming college year by sign ing the obligation . Onestudent can hold his half of a double room by securing aroom-mate from his own class or from an upper class . Therooms not thus te-engaged are offered to the classes in theorder of seniority . The choice in each class is determ inedby lot
,but no choice is given ex cept to two members of the
same class who have signified a desire to room together .Early in June the steam-heated rooms, not taken by menin college
,are open to the entering class in the order of
application . To secure these rooms an obligation for the
94 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
college year must be given and the first half-year’s rent paidin advance. Rooms in other buildings can be secured assoon as the student’s entrance papers are accepted and theobligations have been given .
Students about to enter college, who wish rooms in the
steam-heated buildings, should make early application tothe Secretary. This application does not constitute apromise to take a room, but simply gives
.
an opportunity todo so, and when the applicant’s name on the list is reached,a list of the vacant rooms will be sent to him and he canengage a room or not as he chooses .As the rooms are arranged for two occupants, it is very
desirable that students about to enter college should securetheir own room-mates before the college year opens . Whenthis is not done, the men will be located in the order ofapplication .
Students who leave college at the ebd of the college year,as well as those who are to change from one room to another,or from a college room to a private house or a society house
,
must remove all furniture and other property from theirrooms within two weeks after Commencement dav. Furniture not thus removed by the owner will be removed by thecollege employees and stored at the owner’s expense . Thisexpense will be collected of students who leave college
,when
the property is taken away, but in cases of other students itwill be charged in the nex t term bill .In the stove-heated buildings , rooms which are clear of
furniture will be cleaned and necessary repairs will be made .
All further changes in those buildings and all changes inthe steam-heated buildings are at the expense of the occupant .
Sec‘ond-hand furniture is sold at reduced rates and new fur
niture can be bought at reasonable prices . All furn iture sentby the Boston Maine Railroad should be sent to the careof Mr. M . M . Watkins, superintendent of buildings .
PRIZES AWARDED AT COMMENCEMENT 1903
THE BENEDICT PRIZES
I n Latin
F11251: PRIZE—Roy Kenneth Hack Class of 1905
SECOND PRIZE—Benjamin Franklin M illsHONORABLE MENTION—Raymond Eugene Cook
In Greek
Fmsr AND SECOND s s s—Equally divided betweenRoy Kenneth Hack, Lindsay Stillwel l Hadley and
Henry Bernon Tourtellot Class of 1905HONORABLE MENTION—Raymond Eugene Cook
In French
FIRST PRIZE—Stuart Pratt Sherman Class of 1903
SECOND PRIZE—Charles I rving WoodHONORABLE MENTION—Wil liam Charnley Andrew
I n German
FIRST PRIZE—Charles I rving Wood Class of 1903
SECOND PRI zE—Stuart Pratt ShermanHONORABLE MENTION—Emerous Donaldson Clapp
I n M athematics
FIRST PRIZE—John Manning Harts Class of 1905
SECOND PRIZE—Arvie E ldredHONORABLE MENTmN—David Lawrence Belding
I n Natural History
FIRST s E—Richard Mason Smith Class of 1903
SECOND PRIZE—Albert Adams Sercomb
I n H!story
FIRST PRIZE—Barclay Jermain Savage Class of 1903
SECOND PRIZE—Albert Adams Sercomb
PRIZE FOR PRIZES
Equally divided between Stuart Pratt Sherman and
Charles I rving Wood Class of 1903
96 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
THE GRAVES PRIZES
For Essays—Class of 1903
Bruce Wallace Brotherston Walter Curtis PalmerHerbert Brayton Clark Barclay Jermain SavageRowland Johnson Hastings Willard Wall Whee ler
For Ex cellence in Delivery
Rowland Johnson Hastings
THE RHETORICAL PRIZES
General Prize
James Rees Pugh Class of 1904
Junior Prizes
F11151: s s—Lloyd Hazen Houston Class of 1904
SECOND s E—Frank Jeremiah Q uirk
Sophomore Prizes
Fmsr s z—Truman Andrew Kilborne Class of 1905
SECOND s E—Raymond Eugene Cook
THE VAN VECHTEN PRIZE
For Ex temporaneous Speaking
George Frederick Hurd Class of 1903
THE DEBATING PRIZES
Dartmou th Preliminaries
F1Rs1 PRI ZE—Herbert Brayton Clark Class of 1903
SECOND PRI ZE—Rowland Johnson HastingsTHIRD PRI ZE—William Smith Pettit
Wesleyan Preliminaries
FI RST PRIZE—Albert Priest NewellSECOND PRIZE—James Rees PughTHIRD PRIZE—Russel l Stanley Gregory
THE DEWEY PRIZE
For E x cellence in Commencement E x ercises
George Frederick Hurd Class of 1903
HOLDERS OF SCHOLARSHIPS
SENIORS,JUNIORS, AND SOPHOMORES, CLASSES OF
1904, 1905, AND 1906
The following list of holders of scholarships is considered an
honor list.” It includes the names of none w ho have not been incollege for at least a year, and of none w ho did not reach at leastthe grade of C for the last half-year . It therefore excludes the
names of all Freshmen and other new students , though they maybe having the pecun iary advantage of scholarships.
I t excludes also the names of a few students w ho hold scholarshipsby special vote of the Trustees.
The list is based on the averages of the last half-year, as is fullyexplained in section 3 on pages 87 and 88.
GROUP 1— Includes those whose average w as ninety-hy e per cent.or over.GROUP 2—Includes those whose average w as not less than n inety
tw o nor more than ninety-four.GROUP 3—Includes those whose average w as not less than e ighty
seven nor more than ninety-one.
GROUP 4— Includes those w hose average w as not less than e ightytw o nor more than e ighty-six .
GROUP 5—Includes those whose average w as not less than seventynor more than eighty-one .
A few scholarships are dependent upon local considerations, or
personal nomination . Incumbents of such scholarships are placed inthe groups which correspond to the ir standing, without regard to
the actual value of the scholarships which they hold .
GROUP I
1904
Arthur Hughes Muir
GROUP I I
I 905
Benjamin Frank l in M il ls
98
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
GROUP I I I
I 904 1905
Joseph Folsom Brown Percy Llewellyn BoutelleEmerous Donaldson Clapp Raymond Eugene CookReinholdt Herman Ernst James Roe StevensonCharles Clarence May
Carrol l Brayton ReynoldsCharles Armand Sti les
1906
Richard Newell BarrettEugene I rving CowellErwin Briant LelandJoseph Earl PerryAlbert Harold Wakefield
GROUP IV
1904 1905
Madison Clair Bates Roy Luman BufiumTyler Wilbur Dennett Bernard C0pping, I r.
Winthrop Davenport Foster Arvie EldredEdmund James Saunders Clarence E lmore We llsRobert Franklin Wood
1906
Edward Allison ClappHomer Payson LittleHarold Adin NomerWalter Leroy White
GROUP V
1904
Edward Nicholas ChaseHerbert Lindsley GuttersonJohn Spears HamiltonGeorge Edwin MearsHenri Albert MorganCharles Ell iott OsgoodWilliam Nelson ThompsonWilliam Lee Woodward
99
1905
William Leroy Belknap, J r.
Walter Carter BudingtonFrederic Daniel CheydleurRalph Mather ColeWalter Morton EdwardsEzra FiskEdward Elmwood KempRoy Boardman SmithWilliam Redfield Stocking, J r.
Walter Albert SwanCharles Franklin TaberJames William Wadsworth
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
1906
Llew ellyn Hartranft Andrew sBasil Boliva r BarlowU ndofi Austin Bassett“farren Hezekiah Bla isdell
, J r.
Harrison Nelson Bow enCharles Frederick GuntherGeorge Winslow HarveyBarnaby Matthew HoganFrederick Raymond HuntEdw ard A loysius KenneyFrederick Arthur MacnuttJohn Barr ReidWilbu r ThingCl inton Burnett Wilbur
DEGREES CONFERRED IN 1903
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Marshall Maclay AldenSamuel Edward AllenWilliam Charnley AndrewLaurence Cutler BangsDwight Albert BartlettThomas BigelowLucian Guy BlackmerJoseph Manton BradleyBruce Wallace BrotherstonLawrence Levi BrownWilbur Herrick BrownClarence John BuckLester Lawrence CallanAaron Burt ChampionMarvin Abbot ChapmanHerbert Brayton ClarkWilliam Mulford CooperJacob Dolson Cox , 3d
Samuel Houghton CoxWalter Thomas DiackTheodore Williams DikeRichard Hart DoughtyFred Julian DunnHoward Winthrop DyeMorton Hoit EddyGeorge C. Forrey, I r.
Reyburn Frisbie GoveRowland Johnson HastingsJames Arthur HatchWalter Woodbury HerrickRobert George H iginbothamHenry Hopkins, J r.
Percy Hazen HoustonRichard Wolcott HubbellGeorge Frederick Hurd
Percy Joseph KingSidney Charles LedererJames Lowell LinsleyBethuel Boyd Vincent LyonClarence McMillan
Arthur Hamilton MarstonBrainerd MearsHarris David MearsSeward Holl ister M illenerAlfred Henry MortonJames Glenn OrrWalter Curtis PalmerHugh Peters
'
John Ernest RiceMaxwell Ware RiceWallace Donelson RumseyLeigh SanfordBarclay Jermain SavageAlbert Adams SercombErnest Edward ShepardStuart Pratt ShermanEdward Chauncey SmithGeorge Kirkham SmithRichard Mason SmithGeorge Lemuel TaylorFrankl in Condit ThompsonEdward Ole ThorpeCharles M ilton TurellJames Wilson VoseCharles Hen ry WardTownsend King Well ingtonWillard Wall WheelerHoward Gregory WhippleCharles I rving WoodCharles I rving Wood
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Robert Grosvenor Hutchins, as of the Class of 1861Charles Talbot Poore, as of the Class of 1861S idney Nelson Kinney, as of the Class of 1863M iron Winslow, as of the Class of 1863Eugene Dutilh Sewall, as of the Class of 1887
M ilford White Childs, as of the Class of 1893Acosta Nichols, as of the Class of 1893Edgar Willey Ames, as of the Class of 1897
MASTER OF ARTS
Fred Andrew Benton, Class of 1894
Arthur Wyman Carr, Class of 1902
HONORARY DEGREES
MASTER OF ARTS
The Reverend William Tatlock
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
The Reverend Samuel Van Vranken Holmes
DOCTOR OF LETTERS
Rollo Ogden
DOCTOR OF LAWS
Edward Asahel Birge Henry Stewart Pritchett
STUDENTS
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
Horace Greeley Brown, B.A .,1896, Worcester, Mass.
English, Philosophy
Randolph Foster Clark,B.A . ,
1900, She lter I sland, N. Y .
M athematics, Astronomy
Charles Carroll Cobb, B.A .
, 1885, Chicago, I ll.Latin, Greek
Clarence Wells Dunham,B.A .
,1896, Warrensburg, N. Y .
Greek, English
Walter Eugene Foster, B .A . ,1899, New York City
Latin, English
Elmer Alanson Green, B .A .,1902, Williamstow n, Mass .
English, French
H . Pierson Hammond, B .A . , 1900, Brooklyn, N. Y .
M athematics , Political Science
Joel Hatheway, B .A., 1899, Tanjay, Oriental Nestos, Phil . I slandsRomance Languages , Latin
Percy Hazen Houston, B.A ., 1903 , Williamstown, Mass.
English, Philosophy
Lawrence R iggs Howard, B .A . , 1898, Plainfield, N. J .
H is tory, English
Willard Evans Hoyt , B.A ., 1892, Williamstown,Mass.
German, English
Frederic William Keough, B .A .,1892, New York City.
English, Political S cience
Arthur Roy Leonard, B .A . ,1902, Chester, Penn .
History, Philosophy
Brainerd Mears, B.A . , 1903 , Williamstown,Mass.
Ckemistry,Biology
1 04
106 WI LLIAMS COLLEGE
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
SENIORS—CLASS OF 1904
Henry Mott AllenFrank Hawkins AppletonStockbridge BacchusAlvin Converse BaconHarold Remington BarkerMadison Clair BatesAllen Percy Bissel lEverett Abbott Brett
John Bridgewater, J r.
Harry Gunnison BrownJoseph Folsom BrownEdward Nicholas ChaseEmerous Donaldson ClappBertrand Rockwell ClarkeDouglas Gordon CrawfordNicholas DanforthWilliam Jefferson DeavittTyler Wilbur DennettJames Garfield DurfeeMorton Casey EmbreeReinholdt Herman ErnstRalph Child ErskineWinthrop Davenport Foster
Edwin Franklin GibbsWilliam Urw ick Goodbody
John Augustus GriswoldHerbert Lindsley GuttersonJohn Spears HamiltonWalter Rice HardJudson Arthur HarringtonRadclifie Heermance
Durand Hemion
Auburn, N. Y
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Brooklyn,N. Y.
Brandon, Vt..Fall River
Galesburg, I II.
Columbns, 0.
New York City
M elrose
Troy,N. Y.
NetherleighZ .
\If . HouseZ.
!Ir. House9 . A. X. House
23. <I> PlaceLibrary
75 Main St.A. K. E. House9 . A. X. House
12 E. C.
H ammondsport, N. Y 3 Hox sey St.
North Adams
Auburn, N. Y
Kansas City, Mo.
Williamstow n
New York City
M ontpelier, Vt.Pascagg,
R . I .
Oberlin,0.
Princeton,Ind.
Adams
Racine, Wis.
Auburndale
New tonville
Haledon, N. I .
Troy, N Y
WinchesterAuburn, N. Y
Manchester, Vt.Pittsburg, Pa.
9 . A. X. House23 E. C.
A. A. House23 <I>. PlaceA.
!Ir. Lodge
75 Main St.22 J . H .
13 S. C.
X.‘If . Lodge
A. Z. A. HouseA.
\If . Lodge
18 E . C.
9 . A. X. HouseX.
‘If . LodgeK. A. LodgeK. A. Lodge
A. Z . A. House
75 Main St.A. T. House
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.A. A.
<I>. HousePassaic
, N I . 8 E. C.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1 6 7
Harold Allen HerrickFrederick Hill
Earle Phipps HiteJoseph Hillman Hollister
Lloyd Hazen HoustonThomas Hun
Theodore JaeckelChester Addison JayneRobert JohnstonMorgan Akin JonesCharles Bucklin Judson
Edward Marmaduke KennedyWillard Cray KitchelAntoine Gilbert LabbeWi lliam Frederick LambWilliam McFarland
Arthur Warner McNair
Charles Clarence May
George Edwin MearsAlbert Morris M iller
Roscoe Rowland M itchellHenri A lbert Morgan
Arthur Hughes Muir
Sidney New borgRichard Ward NorthupCharles E lliott OsgoodWil liam Henry PeabodyHarold Percy PeckhamJames Grosvenor PettitJames Rees PughFrank Jeremiah Quirk Geneseo, N Y
Carroll Brayton Reynolds North Adams
George Mather Richards Washington,D . C
Oliver Root Pittsfield
Edmund James Saunders Rhinebeck,N
,Y.
Raymond Stockbridge Smith Hampden
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.Z. i n House
Catskill, N. Y.A. K. E . House
White P lains, N. Y. 9 . A. X. HouseTroy, N. Y A. K. E . HouseJamestow n
, N. Y.A. T. House
Albany, N. Y.
K. A. LodgeNew York City X.
‘I’. LodgeBrooklyn,
N. Y Z.\Ir. House
Rhinebeck, N Y A. A.<I>. House
Hudson, N. Y 2 .
<I> PlaceTroy, N. Y A. LodgeTroy, N. Y.
A. K. E-‘HouseMinneapolis, M inn. 18 Main St.Portland, Ore. X.
‘I'. LodgeBrooklyn, N. Y.
Z.\I'. House
Greenw ich, N. Y 16 S. C.
M t. Morris , N . Y A. Z. A. HouseLee Z. i n HouseEssex ChapelColnmbus, O.
X.‘I'. Lodge
Cohoes, N. Y.9 . A. X. House
Norw ich, Conn.A. Z. A. House
5 an Antonio,Tex . 75 Main St.
New York City A. Z. A. HouseEvanston ,
I ll. 4’ A. 9 . HouseH udson 27 J . H .
Chicago, I II. A. T. HouseWaterford, N. Y A. T. HouseCanajoharie, N. Y 105 Main St.
105 Main St.
13 S. C.
19 E . C.
A. T. House105 Main St.
A. A. House
75 Main St.
1 08 WI LL] AM5 COLLEGE
Walter Squires Plainfield, N. I .
<P A. 9 . HouseMark Hemenway Steele Baldw inw ille, N. Y 9 S. C.
Charles A rmand Stiles Westfield T. C. L.
Benjamin Fairchild Stower Plattsburg, N Y A. K. E . HouseWilliam Nelson Thompson Williamstow n 9 S. C.
Richard Richardson Williams, I r. ,Brooklyn, N. Y K. A. Lodge
Robert Frankl in Wood Blandford 8 E . C.
William Lee Woodward P lattsburg, N Y A. K. E . HouseAbram Zoller Little Falls, N Y 14 Hox sey St.
SENIORS, 77
WILLIAHS COLLEGE
Herbert Barber HoweFrederick Raymond HuntWilliam Clinton JohnsonHorace Carter J01106Edward Elmwood KempRa lph Mil ler KetchamEugene Hooker LeaningEdmund Vaughan LewisArthur Ward LincolnJohn Bright LordJohn Joseph McCarty
Baldwin MannCharles Arthur MarvinHarry Wicker Mel len
Ray March MerrillPhilip Northrop M il lerBenjamin Frankl in M il lsWilliam Hilary MurrayHarold Everett NesbittAlbert Priest NewellWilliam Allan Newell
Louis Harold NorthropDavid Henry Osborne, 2d
Bert Fletcher ParsonsWilliam Smith Pettit
John Brooks PrattJohn Bayard Pruyn
Charles Runyon, J r.
John Shepard Shedden
Joseph Edwin ShoudyRoy Boardman SmithJames Roe Stevenson
WilliamRedfield Stocking, Ir.Walter Albert Swan
Charles Frankl in Taber
Wilbur Thing
Eas t Orange, N. I .A K 3 House
Columbia,Conn. 21 W. C.
Summit, N. I .X ‘P Lodge
Greenw ich,Conn.
2 . Q PlaceNorth Adams 19 E . C.
I ndianapolis, I nd. Q A 9 . House
Gloverw ille, N Y X ‘P Lodge
I rvington, N . Y A. A. Q House
Warrester K. A. LodgeBrooklyn,
N . Y.2 . Q P lace
Carning,N . Y.
A. A. Q HouseBuffalo, N. Y. 7 North St.Brooklyn,
N . Y. 21 M . H.
Pas adena, C01. A.‘I'. Lodge
Kansas City, M o. 6 North St.
East Orange, N. I .A. K. E. House
Pittsfield A. Z. A. HouseTroy, N. Y 24 E . C.
Brookline 9 . A. X. House
Ogdensburg, N. Y. 22 J . H .
Ogdensburg, N . Y. Q A. 9 . HouseM inneapolis , M inn . 26 M. H .
Victor, N. Y 26 M . H .
Brooklyn, N. Y Z.‘I'. House
Canajoharie, N. Y. 105 Main St.M ilw aukee, Wis . X.
‘P LodgeKinderhook, N. Y <I>. A. 9 . HouseNew Yark City A. A. Q HousePlattsburg, N Y K. A. LodgeBrooklyn, N. Y. 21 M . H .
Berlin, Conn. 105 Main St.Auburn, N. Y 105 Main St.Williamstow n 20 W. C.
Geneseo, N. Y. 105 Main St.Auburn, N. Y 26 W. C.
Limerick, M e. 22 W. C.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1 1 1
Henry Bernon TourtellotJames William WadsworthRichard Harold WarnerHarry Towle WatsonRobert Epenetus WebsterBarrett Rich WellingtonClarence Elmore Wells
Charles White WhittleseyWilliam Theron Wright
East Derry, N. H . 28 W. C.
Hammondsport, N. 5 E. C.
Port Henry, N. Y 14 Hox sey St.
Williamstow n Southworth St.Springfield 9 . A. X. HouseTroy, N. Y. A. K. E . HouseRiverhead, N. Y A. Z A. HousePittsfield 10 C. H .
Brandon, Vt. 105 Main St.
JUNIORS, 78
1 1 2 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
SOPHOMORES—CLASS OF 1906
Llewellyn Hartranft Andrew s DaltonAlfred Hector Appell Maunt Vernon, N Y
Basil Bolivar Barlow Ware
Richard Newell Barrett Albany, N Y
Lindofi Austin Bassett Ware
Franklin Westenhouse Bates Williamstow n
Henry D ike Bix by Salem
Warren Hezekiah Blaisdell, Jr. CartisteAlfred M iller Botsford Quincy, I 11,
Harrison Nelson Bowen . Briggw ille
Grover Chester Bowman Tuscola, I 11.
Charles Henry Brady Potsdam, N. Y
Albert Francis BuchananWalter I ves Budington Brooklyn, N. Y
Leonard Lord Campbel l Indianapolis, I nd .
Walter Summe rhayes Case New York City
Charles Edmund Casey Lee
Edward Allison Clapp Auburn,N Y
Eugene I rving Cowell Ashburnham
Arthur Newell Cow perthw ait New York CityStanley Gardner Curtis Plattsburgh, N Y
William Hanford Curtiss Olean, N. Y,
William Harris Day, J r. Batavia, N. Y.
Charles Harrison Demond S tafford Springs, Conn .
Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston E lizabeth, N. J .
Edsall Du Bois Elliott Catskill, N. Y
Henry Lewis Everitt Williamstow nCheste r Fitch Utica, N. Y
Raoul Herbert Fleischmann New Yark City
Ralph Rodney FrenchArthur Robert Gabriel Brooklyn, N. Y.
Charles Ball Gale Lee
Daniel Francis Gardner Pow nal, Vt.
William Hazen Gates Solapur, India
7 W. C.
2 M . H .
105 Main St.10 E. C.
105 Main St.16 East Main St.
3 1 M . H .
1 W. C.
30 M . H .
3 E . C.
17 E . C.
9 M . H .
9 . A. X. House13 Hox sey St.
15 Hox sey St.
<I>. A. 9 . House
28 J . H .
23 E. C.
105 Main St.
38 M . H .
105 Main St.
9 M . H .
9 C. H .
7 W. C.
8 M . H .
<I>. A. 9 . House9 . A. X. House
5 M . H .
10 Hox sey St.
11 E. C.
11 C. H .
9 North St.20 E . C.
14 E. C.
WILLIAM5 COLLEGE
Joseph Earl Perry Shelburne Falls
John Barr Reid P ittsfield
Francis LeBarron Robbins, Jr. Greenfield
Frank Reamer Schell Harrisburg, Pa.
Howard Abraham Scholle New York CityFloyd Reeves Smith Tarrytow n, N Y
Everett Ti tsworth Tomlinson, J r., E lizabeth, N 1.
Albert Harold Wakefield Sheffield
Walter Leroy White Phillipston
Cl inton Burnett Wilbur Somerset
Cyrus Jay Wilson Brooklyn, N. Y
Benjamin Mather Woodbridge Willicinstow n
Orpheus Lamphear Woodbury BeverlyJames Merriman Woodhouse Wethersfield, Conn.
William Dudley Woodhouse Wethersfield, Conn.
Samuel Caverly Wooster, Jr. Albany, N. Y
Robert VanLier Zahner Adams
7 E . C.
22 W. C.
32 M . H .
33 M . H .
26 J . H .
13 Hox sey St.
8 M . H .
10 E . C.
14 E . C.
16 Spring St.
29 M. H .
7 E . C.
25 J . H .
5 C. H .
5 C. H .
Sornou omss, 87
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1 15
FRESHMEN—CLASS OF 1907
John Alexande r Schenectady, N. Y
Archibald John Allen Williamstow nA lbert Willard Andrews Canandaigua, N. Y
Harold Yerille Bain Glens Falls, N. Y
Francis Brown Barton Palmer
Park Benjamin, I r. New Yark City
Dennis William Bennett West Warren
Hughe s Mott Benson Auburn, N. Y
Lewis I saac Bi rdsall Patterson, N. Y
Harry Cleveland Blagbrough Orange
Cecil Beaumont Bradley New York City
George Edward Brockway, Jr. Salem,N. Y.
Arthur Milton Brown Troy, N. Y
Howard Howland Brown Adams
Montague Brown Portland, M e.
Arthur Howland Bufiinton Potterw ille
Richard Samuel Burnap Fitchburg
John Joseph Butler, J r. Worcester
Roy He rbert Case Canandaigna, N Y
Chauncey Brewster Chapman Ogdensburg, N Y
Northrop Clarey Great Barrington
William Mansfield Clark Salisbury, Conn .
Horace Gillette Cleveland Ridgew ood, N J .
Donald Robinson Cole Rochester,N. Y
Abbott Carson Combes, Ir. E lmhurst, N. Y
Clinton de Raimes Combes E lmhurst, N. Y.
Edmund Stuart Cramer North Tonaw anda,
Edward Bassford Davis Richmond
Kenneth Stackpole Domett Boston
Henry Greeley Durfee Oberlin, 0.
George Burwell Dutton Buffalo, N. Y.
Phil ip Dwyer Elliot Grafton
Ralf Pomeroy Emerson Detroit, M ich.
Dudley Ward Fay Auburn, N. Y
1 16 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
John Lewis Feeny Stopleton, N. Y 15 Hox sey St.
Joseph Chandler Ford, Jr. Fruitport, M ieh. 4 M . H .
Arthur Norton Gadsby North Adams 30 W. C.
Olin Potter Geer New Yark City 4 Park St.
Frank Gosnel l, J r. Baltimore, Md. 8 Hox sey St.
Appleton Gregory Albany, N Y 9 North St.
George Warne r Griffin New York City 101 Main St.
Alfred Phineas Hanchett, I r. Conh etl Bluffs, I ow a 4 C. H .
Ernest Belden Hart Bris tol,Conn. 29 W. C.
John Dean Gillette-Hill Lincoln,m. Netherleigh
Lewis Gibson Hinman Addison,N. Y. 14 S. C.
Henry Alexander Hompe Auburn, N. Y. 13 W. C.
George Pulsipher Horsley Toulon, I II. 4 E. C.
George Ryer Hotaling New Yark City Room B, C. H .
Harry Preston Houston Jamestow n, N Y 24 M . H .
Edward Frank Howe Troy, N. Y 1 E. C.
Eugene Maclay Hoyne Chicago, I ll. 18 M. H .
I John Edward Hughes Williamstow n Cole Ave.
Carroll Benton Huntress Keene, N. H . 12 Hox sey St.
Be rt Elmer Hurlbut Gouverneur, N. Y 16 W. C.
Malcolm Douglas Jeffrey Columbus, O. 7 M . H .
Reginald Davis Johnson Pasadena, Cat. 6 North St.Monroe Benchley Keith M inneapolis , M inn. 3 M . H .
Douglas Archibald Kincaid Honolulu,H . I . 12 Hox sey St.
Karl Klauser M ilw aukee, Wis . 15 M . H .
Kerro Knox Plainfield, N I . NetherleighJohn Henry Lapham New Yark City 18 M . H .
Rudolph William Lesser Albany, N. Y. 5 Hox sey St.
Warren Erskine Lisle Troy, N. Y
Vawter Cl ifford Longley Paw tucket, R . I .
John Barton Loughborough Auburn, N.
Y
Sidney Carl Luce New ark, N . Y
Boyd McCleary Amsterdam,N Y
Charles Bailey MacEw an Loudonville,N. Y
Frederick Hamilton McGow n Cooperstow n,N Y
Lytel William Matthews Westfield, N. Y
1 18 WILLIAH S COLLEGE
Walter Harris Smith, J r.
Bernard Willis SouthworthStephen Treat StanleyJohn Fletcher SteeleWalter Maurice Ste rnbergerClarence Bennett StewartKenneth Campbell Stewart
LeRoy, N. Y
W'
are
Norw alk, Conn.
Rochester, N. Y
New York City
North Troy, N. Y
Chittenango, N. Y
Samuel Baker StockingLawrence Joseph StoddardGilbert Partridge TaylorWilliam Carson TempleAustin Bassett ThompsonOswald TowerReynolds King TownsendRichard Stanley Tuthill , Ir.Willard Bull Van Inw egen
Robert Pettit WallerStuart Durland WarnerLucius Parsons WarrenRobert Joesbury Weeks
Edward James WelchKarl Stephens WellsMackey WellsWilbur Booth Wensley
W'
illiamstow n
Greenfield
New York City
North Adam:
Orange, N. I .
North Adams
Albany, N. Y
Chicago, I II.
Port Jervis, N. Y.
I ndiana, Pa.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chicago,I ll.
Riverhead, N Y.
Williamstow n
Williamstow n
M ilw ankee, Wis.
Brooklyn,N . Y
Thomas Rochester Wheeler Buffalo, N. Y
Henry Lawrence Whittemore Dorchester
Edward Brockway Wight M ilw aukee, Wis .
Leopold Livingstone Wilder Africa
Donald Denison Willcox Chester,Conn.
Wilcox Dale Williams Auburn, N Y
Carrol l Atwood Wilson Westfield
Claude Thomas WilsonWilliam Richmond Witherel lWilliam Stowell WoosterFrede rick Fleek WrightWilliam Page Yarnelle
Waterville, N. Y.
North Adams
Albany, N. Y.
New ark, 0.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
101 Main St.
14 S. C.
13 E . C.
18 M . H .
1 M . H .
15 W. C.
25 W. C.
20 W. C.
10 S. C.
4 Park St.
3 E. C.
6 W. C.
21 E . C.
4 Park St.
2 . Q . Place
12 M . H .
7 North St.
12 Hox sey St.
4 Park St.
5 W. C.
Latham St.
62 Main St.
15 M . H .
101 Main St.
22 M . H .
14 M . H .
12 Hox sey St.
9 W. C .
33 M . H .
27 W. C .
5 W. C .
6 C . H .
18 C. H .
25 M . H .
13 Hox sey St.
2 M . H .
FRESH M EN,142
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
PARTIAL COURSE STUDENTS
SENIORS—CLASS or 1904
Edward Center Groesbeck Albany, N Y
JUNIORS—CLASS or 1905
Willis Percival Goldin Catskz'
ll, N Y.
Frederick Allen Judson Troy, N. Y
Nathan Jacob Stern New York City
Sopnou ons s—Cm ss or 1906
Luther Franklin Bodman Chicago, 111.Robert Hamilton Holmes Ware
William Hustace Lane New York CityJohn Van Read Lyman, Ir. Em CZaire, Wis.
Henry Hiland Sercomb Chicago, I ll.
Nathan Bernard Stern New York City
James Otto Westervelt Piermont, N. Y.
FRESHMEN—Cm ss OF 1907
Cl ifford M inor Barber Orange, N. J .
Edward Tappen Bellamy Rochester,N. Y
Edward Vernon Brush M t. Vernon,N Y
John Wiggins Collamer Ballston, N. Y
Edward Francis Curtis Williamstow nBen Charles English Danville
,I ll.
Robert El ias Frink H illsdale, N. Y
Harold Grant Worcester
Albert Richardson Grinnell Burlington, Vt.
Henry Appleton Knowles Boston
Richard Rossman Lawrence H illsdale, N Y
Ralph Merton McLellan New ton CentreGeorge Abram Moore S t.Glond
,M inn .
William Leggat Ogsbury, Ir. S elkirk, N. Y
Joseph Wild Pearson Tompkinsville, N. Y
105 Main St.
16 M . H .
13 M. H .
<I>. A. 9 . House18 E . C.
40 Cole Ave.
Hox sey St.
13 Hox sey St.
20 C. H .
12 Hox sey St.
12 C. H .
13 Hox sey St.
8 W. C.
28 M . H .
24 J . H .
11 Hox sey St.
2 . Q Plac
24 W. C.
4 Park St.23 J . H .
A. A.<I>. House
34 M . H .
2 . Q Place
INDEX
PAC!
ADDRESSES of students . 104-120 ATTENDANCEADMINISTRATI ON, Com
mittee onBEACH-HYDE LECTURE
ADM INISTRATION, Oflicers BIOLOGY, Courses 1n
of Laboratory
ADMISSION, Terms of BOTANY: Course 111
by certificateBUILDINGS; College, dates
Examinations forto advanced standing .
to partial courseRequirements forEngl ishFrenchGermanGreekHistoryLatinMathematics
ALUMNI OFFICERS ANDVISITORS
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Course in
ANTICIPATION of CollegeCourses
ART AND CIVILIZATION,
History of, Coursesin
ART ASSOCIATIONCollections
ASTRONOMY, Courses in .
Observatories, etc.
and approximate cost
CALENDAR for College
Year
CERTIFICATES FOR ADM ISS101:
23224
CHEM ISTRY, Courses inLaboratory
Cu ssrcm. Soc1m
COMMENCEMENT APPOINTMENTS, 1903
COURSES, Completion of
Conspectus of
COURSES of InstructionTabular Exhibit of
DANTE, Course in .
DEAN,Duties of (see At
tendance)DEGREES, Cond1t1ons for
granting 77, 78
Conferred in 1903 102, 103
Courses leading to B.A . 36-63
Requirements for B .A . 77
Requirements for M .A .
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1 23
FACB PAGE
DISCIPLINE 75 GROUP SYSTEM
ECONOM ICS, Courses in . 53GYMNASIUM
ELOCUTION, Training in . 43
contents and prizes . 80—82
prizes awarded in 1903 96
ENGLISH, Courses ih . 40-43
for entrance 26, 27 13-17
EXAM INATIONS,for admission 30
-32
Semi-annual (see Com
pletion of courses ) 76
for Clark Scholarshipfor M .A . 77
EXPENSES 91-93
Treasurer’s bills 91
General expenses—board0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FIELD Spon'
rs 74
FRENCH , Courses infor entrance 27, 28
I NFIRMARY74
FRESHMAN CLASS, List of 115—118 Charge on Term-bill 9 1
I NSTRUCTION OaicerGEOLOGY, Course m
s Of 9-11
Collections, etc. 72, 73
GERMAN , Courses in 46—48 JUNIOR Cu ss, 1 4“°f 409—11!for entrance 28, 29
GOVERNMENT, Courses in 51, 52
GRADUATE STUDENTS,Candidates for the de
gree of M .A.
l ist of
GRADUATION in three yearsGREEK, Courses infor entrance
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF
COLLEGEThe Free School, Actof Establ ishment
HISTORICAL SKETCHThe College, Act of
EstablishmentLegislative grantsAmendments to Act ofEstablishment
College Buildings, datesand cost
HISTORY, Courses in
for entranceHONOR SYSTEMHYGIENE, Lectures on
LABORATORIES, THOMPSON 69
LABORATORY FEES, etc 92
LATIN, Courses m 39 , 40
for entrance 30
LIBRARY 68
LIBRARY COUNCIL 8
LYCEUM 01?NATURAL H1s
1 24 WILLIAMS COLLEGE
PAG E PAGE
Mu nm an cs, Courses in 54, 55 PSYCHOLOGY (see Philosofor entrance 30 phy)
MUSEUM and Collections 72, 73
Onsmw xmm s
Pm uu. Covnss , Regulations concern ing
PARTIAL Covass STU
DENTS, List ofPHILOSOPHY, Courses in
PHYSICAL TRAINING(see Gymnasium)
PHYSICS, Courses ih .
LaboratoryPRESIDENTS, List of
Adelphic Un ion Debating 84
Benedict 80
Canby Athletic 84
C0nant, F. S . 84
Dewey 82
Graves 80
Greek 85
Lathers (Gold Medal ) 82
Rhetorical 81
Rice 81
Special Honors 85
Van Vechten 80
David A . Wel ls 82—84Awarded at Commencement, 1903 95
-97
Raconns AND REPORTSRELIGIOUS Em cxss s
REGISTRATIONRENAISSANCE, the I talian ,
Course in
Rooms, College
Scnou nsmp FUNDS, List
of 89, 90
Scnou msmps 85—9 1
Basis of award 85—88
General 87, 88
Holders, List of 98—100Horace F. Clark prize 85—87Honor 87
SENIOR CLASS, List of 106—108
Sornon omaCLASS,LiSt of 112—114
SPANISH,Course in 46
STUDENTS, by Classes 106-120
Summary by Classes
Summary by States
STUDIES, Tabular Exhibit
of
THOMPSON Course of Eutertainments
TREASURER’S BILLSTRUSTEES, List of
Committees
Prize in Declamation