May 28th, 1898
Cap and Bells offers its first production, a comedy “For one night only.”… Continue reading »
Cap and Bells offers its first production, a comedy “For one night only.”… Continue reading »
A portion of the east side of (old) Clark Hall is loosened by the rain and tumbles to the ground. Continue reading »
Students vote 247 to 42 in favor of inaugurating a campus-wide honor code. Continue reading »
A violent storm destroys the Chadbourne Gymnasium, the setting for the annual alumni dinner, smashing dishes, tables, and the building itself. Continue reading »
James A. Garfield, Class of 1856 and 20th President of the U.S., is shot by a disgruntled office seeker in a Washington, D.C., railroad station. Continue reading »
One of Williams’s favorite sayings is born. At the annual dinner of the Williams Alumni Association James A. Garfield waxed rhapsodic about former President Mark Hopkins’s impact on education at the college. As no one took notes, we are uncertain of the exact words Garfield used. The saying, however, was… Continue reading »
The student newspaper, the Vidette, announces that East College has been wired for telegraphic communication. Continue reading »
The Society of Alumni appoints a committee to “examine into the expediency of admitting women as students to college.” Prof. John Bascom, David Dudley Field, Francis H. Dewey, Clement Hugh Hill, and Rev. Henry Hopkins were appointed to study the introduction of coeducation and submit their report at the 1872… Continue reading »
Williams students rebel against a faculty ruling that awards a zero for any absence from recitation, whether the absence was officially excused or not. In the student newspaper Vidette, Marshall Hapgood, non-graduate of the Class of 1872, described the students’ disagreement with a new faculty regulation . “Tuesday, November 10… Continue reading »
The Soldier’s Monument is dedicated on Alumni Day. Williams is the first college to commemorate its Civil War dead in this way. Continue reading »