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Differences are differentiated along the distinct areas of circumspective statistical distribution such as: athletics, external community appeal, course dynamics, reputation, intellectual rigor, etc. Fit, financial aid, and forseability rarely enter the picture from the student’s prospective as these are more elusive and student oriented, where these important and salient features rarely enter the benefactors mind.
As costs precede common sense and the factors such as mentors, parents and tangential abstractions take precedence over personal design towards success and experience, we find the process approaches the semblance of balance between chance and measured deliberation.
Amherst has defined itself apart of the Williams charter and thus appeals to the reactionary in their draw. Its consortium environment appeals to those for whom a more metropolitan community is important, and to those for whom class distinction and anonymity appeals, and especially for those for whom a pastoral setting intimidates fragile characters.
Williams celestial beginnings were wrought within a frontier frought with war and thus took on the more patriotic stance of conserving the frontier for present and future generations. Armed with history and the self confidence of its assertive antecedents, Williams marched into time well knowing that its past would bind over time to defend its principles grounded in the liberal arts program, where education would be the primary defence of the frontier, of our nation, and the independence of our people and their way of life as observed within our culture.
As such, I am Williams, and I claim a stake for the frontier that is Williams and our future.
Go EPHS!
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