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Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755.
1792 In May the Trustees petition the Massachusetts General Court to convert the Free School into a college to be named Williams Hall. In their petition, they stress the importance of keeping college-bound Massachusetts students from leaving the state, the moral ambiance (or “lack of allurements”) of the rural location, and the ...
Anna Christina De Ozorio Nobre 1985, professor of cognitive neuroscience, University of Oxford. Charles B. Dew 1958, American South historian, professor at Williams College. Jennifer Doleac 2003, economist of crime and associate professor at Texas A&M University.
Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor House (moved from Albany, N.Y.), and the oldest U.S. observatory (Hopkins; 1838).
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