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Williams College is a private, coeducational, highly-selective liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As of 2005, the school has an enrollment of 1945 undergraduate students and 59 graduate students. It has consistently been ranked first or nearly so in U.S. News and World Report's listings of national liberal-arts colleges. Williams, Amherst, and Wesleyan are known as the "Little Three," in distinction from the "Big Three" of Harvar ...

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Williams College - School colors and origins thereof. Williams's primary school color is purple. The story goes that at the Williams-Harvard baseball game in 1869, spectators, watching from carriages, had trouble telling the teams apart (there were no uniforms) so one of the onlookers bought ribbons from a nearby millinery store to pin on Williams' players. The only color available was purple. The buyer was Jennie Jerome (later Winsto ...

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The school's sports teams are called the Ephmen, or the Ephs (pronounced "Eef", or [if] in IPA) - a shortening of the first name of founder Ephraim Williams. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Williams has had tremendous success winning the NACDA Director's Cup, an annual award formerly known as the Sears Cup which is presented to the institution within each NCAA division that has the greatest overall success in NCAA sanctioned championships. Williams has won the D ...

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The Society of Alumni of Williams College is the oldest existing alumni society of any academic institution in the United States, and may be the oldest alumni organization in the world. The Society of Alumni was founded during the "Amherst crisis" in 1821, when Williams College President Zephaniah Swift Moore left Williams. Graduates of Williams formed the Society to ensure that Williams would not have to close, and raised enough money to ensure the future survival of the school. In the years since the Amherst Crisis the generosity of alumni has made Williams one of the wealthiest educational institutions in the Uni ...

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Colonel Ephraim Williams was an officer in the Massachusetts militia and a member of a prominent landowning family. His will included a bequest to support and maintain a free school to be established in the town of West Hoosac, Massachusetts, provided that the town change its name to Williamstown. The will was unsigned and undated, and provided additional stipulations, such as the town remaining in Massachusetts rather than becoming part of New York, as some residents wanted. Williams was killed at the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1 ...

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See List of Williams College people. In the syndicated cartoon strip Foxtrot, the father Roger Fox, is an alumnus of Willot College, a parody of Williams College. The creator, Bill Amend is an Amherst grad. ...

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