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THE

NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE

AND

BAY STATE MONTHLY.

    OLD SERIES       JUNE, 1886.    NEW SERIES

    VOL. IV. NO. 6.                 VOL. I. NO. 6.

Copyright, 1886, by Bay State Monthly Company. All rights reserved.


Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved
to the end of the article.




WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

BY REV. N. H. EGLESTON.


Williams College has something peculiar and romantic in its history, as
well as in its site amid the beautiful hills of Berkshire. It had its
birth upon the very frontiers of civilization, and amid the throes of
that struggle which was to decide finally whether the control of this
continent, and the permanent shaping of its institutions and its destiny
were to be French or English. The nas