Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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Selections from Williams Publications . The following selections were chosen as the best articles which have ap- peared in the W'illfill77l8 Record, the Wfillfiams Literary Monthly, and the Purple Cow under the 1916 Boards. The Gul takes this opportunity to thank Professors Galbraith, Dutton, and Licklider for their selections. The Williams Record, February l4, l9l6 W Cselected by Asst. Prof. ,lohn S. Galbraithj To a Daughter of Colonel Elph. Due to the generosity and forethought of Colonel Ephraim VVilliams the College which now bears his name received its birth. His gift was large but the funds thus obtained were not inexhaustible. To carry on the work of the College during the early years of its existence much money was needed, and a company of loyal friends and alumni came eager- ly to the aid of the instit.ution. As these earlier sons passed on there were other equally devoted supporters who took their places. The College has ever been in need of such supporters and probably always will be. In the foremost ranks of the present day benefactors is lVIrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson. Her husband, a member of the class of 1856, gave the College its three line laboratories and he had planned to supply the funds for the erection of a chapel, but his death interrupted this plan. Shortly afterward lVIrs. Thomp- son, bent on carrying out her husband's plan, came forward with the money which erected the present chapel, declared by many to be the most beautiful college chapel in the world. In 1911 the Thompson Infirmary was built. The edifice and its elaborate equipment were Mrs. Thompson's gift. Last December the College suffered a very serious loss when the Thompson Chemical Laboratory was burned to the ground. One of the institution's most important departments was crippled and its work, of necessity, temporarily sus- pended. VVhere the money to rebuild the ruined- building was to be obtained was a source of general conjecture. Moved by the College's serious loss and probably also by a sentimental attachment for the building, which was the gift of her husband, Mrs. Thompson has now generously subscribed the sum re- quired to erect the new structure. The Collegc's gratitude toward Mrs. Thompson and its appreciation of all that she has done for it and is doing for it is very great. In our small way we wish to give voice to this feeling and to thank Mrs. Thompson once again for her very devoted loyalty. Gordon Wyatt Canwron 31