Why Williams over Harvard, Yale, or Princeton?

Corbett
Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:14:08 +0000

Huh…is there a real competition between the two schools? I wasn’t even aware of this!..I’d be curious to hear about any rivalries between the two schools

Good lord. Is such ignorance possible?

Williams was founded in 1793. Amherst was founded in 1821 by a group of students and administrators from Williams, who left because they didn’t like mountains.

There has been a bitter rivalry ever since, somewhat like Oxford-Cambridge, Harvard-Yale, Gryffindor-Slytherin, or Gondor-Mordor, only more intense