Williams vs Tufts for ED

Mastadon
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 21:46:57 +0000

Here is a description of William’s location from their website.

The bold decision to plant a college in the wilderness betrayed the intentions of Colonel Williams: yet the new vision had been fed by the same sort of dreams that had led Ephraim Williams to see a school and a comfortable community where only a military outpost had stood. The early trustees and the legislature of the Commonwealth were to be remembered for their foresight, but in the decades after 1793 they had reason to acknowledge that the soil they had chosen was stubbornly uncongenial – so uncongenial, in fact, that for many years the trustees of Williams spent more time and energy in trying to close the College than in trying to keep it open.

In 1819 they petitioned to move the college to Northampton, MA, and in 1821, having been spurned by the legislature, President Zephaniah Swift Moore took matters into his own hands. Convinced that almost everything about Williams was impossible – its location, its funds, its enrollment – he led a group of students over the mountains into the Connecticut Valley. There he became their president once again, at the struggling new college known as Amherst.

The founding of Amherst from the President of Williams, staff, faculty and students from Williams kicked off the purest rivalry in American sports and earned Amherst the moniker of “The Defectors” at Williams.

Be aware that Williams is so rural that it has purple cows!