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Title: A Williams Anthology
A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910

Author: Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11658]

Language: English

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A WILLIAMS ANTHOLOGY

A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College

1798-1910

COMPILED BY

EDWIN PARTRIDGE LEHMAN
JULIAN PARK

EDITORS OF THE LITERARY MONTHLY
1910

INTRODUCTION

The present work owes its existence to a conviction on the part of its
editors that much material published by past Williams undergraduates
in past and present literary periodicals of the college, deserves a
resurrection from the threatening oblivion of musty library shelves.
That this conviction has been justified by the quality of the verse
and prose herein published, the editors believe; and they therefore
submit this volume to the public without undue fear as to its
reception, adding only the caution that its readers remember always
the tender age of the writers of these pages.

The purpose of the editors was to collect material which might be
adjudged to possess real literary merit; but in some cases in which
the historical interest attaching to the production, either by reason
of its subject or by reason of the fame attained in later years by its
author, is obvious, this rule has been waived. Among such exceptions
may be cited that of the Resolutions addressed to President Adams by
the students, and copied herein from the pages of the _Vidette_. The
matter has been arranged in the order of class seniority, with two
exceptions. It has seemed fitting to the editors to begin the work
with that immortal song, "The Mountains"; the second exception is that
of the series of biographical sketches entitled "Nine Williams
Alumni," which for obvious reasons were published as a whole.

The editors burrowed through all files of the colleg