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History Williams receives charter from Massachusetts legislature 1793 Date the Defectors left to found Amherst College stealing half of Williams’ library 1821 Date of foundation of the Alumni Society, America’s oldest 1821 First year of the annual Williams trivia contest, the longest-running competition of its sort in the United States. 1966 People Number of students 1,945 undergraduates and 59 graduates Student to faculty ratio 8:1 Applied (Class of 2008) 5,705 Admitted (Class of 2008) 1,093 (19%) Entered (Class of 2008) 537 (50%) Campus and financials 2003-04 Operating expenditures $137,351,974 Endowment and investments $1.4 billion (Market value as of 6/30/04) Value of the Chapin Rare Book Library $200 million
Campus acreage In addition to the 450-acre campus, the college owns 2,500 outlying acres including the Hopkins Memorial Forest (2,200 acres). Miles from Boston and New York 145 and 165
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By the numbers Size of the Jewish Religious Center 5,000 square feet. Number of Jews at Williams About 250 Number of JRC events in fall 2004 in addition to weekly Shabbat observances 21+ Number of congregations within 30 minutes of campus 4 Number of congregations within 5 minutes of campus 1 Number of worshippers at a typical Friday night service 30 Number of diners at the typical Shabbat meal 50 Notable Jewish alumni Herbert H. Lehman 1899, 49th governor of the state of New York and a co-founder of Lehman Brothers. Telford Taylor 1928, Prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials, General in the U.S. Army, and professor of law at Columbia University and Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law. Herbert Stein 1935, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to the president and father of Ben Stein. Walter Kaufmann 1941, philosopher, poet, and translator. Bruce Sundlun 1946, 69th governor of Rhode Island. Stephen Sondheim 1950. Sondheim premiered Phinney's Rainbow, a satire of Williams, and All that Glitters while at Williams Robert I. Lipp 1960, Chairman and CEO of Travelers Property Casualty Corp. Jonathan Kraft 1986, operator, investor and owner's representative to the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution.
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