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  1. What is in the Danforth Building?
    Drummond's Cleaners and the college bookstore (also some apartments).

  2. The Drew Coradini Memorial Question: What was the original attendant function of Jessup Hall?
    "To provide a college clubhouse for all the worthwhile elements of college activity in unique terms of fellowship." The building housed a pool and billiard table, while the second floor was used for Bible study and weekly prayer meetings.

  3. The following are slogans of Spring Street merchants. Give us the name of the advertised establishments:

    1. "Meet, treat, and trade."
      Hart's Pharmacy (their 1932 slogan)

    2. "It pays to look well."
      the Sanitary Barbershop

    3. "Let George do it."
      Rudnick's Cleaners and Laundry

  4. What businesses did the following people operate on Spring Street:

    1. George M. Hopkins
      Headquarters for student room furnishings (established 1888);

    2. Sam McClellan
      a printing shop (school papers and booklets a specialty);

    3. A. Ruther & Co.
      retail dealers in lamb, pork, and poultry.

  5. Where was the Forget Me Not Tea Room? If you were a Williams student in the heyday of the Forget Me Not, who would you have been most likely to take there,and what would you have been waiting for?
    It's at the Brown House on the corner of Southworth & Main Street, where you would likely take your girlfriend to wait for the train home after a weekend.

  6. What building stood on the site of the present Williams Inn, and what exactly happened to cause its demise?
    The Kappa Alpha fraternity house; it burned to the ground when residents tried (a little too successfully) to unfreeze some frozen water pipes.

  7. What unusual decoration is on the chimney of Hopkins Hall?
    A cast-iron "H" faces the south side.

  8. What two organizations occupied the building now demolished, and replaced by the Bronfman Science Center?
    The Williams Placement Bureau (old version of OCC); and the fraternity house that is now Spencer House was moved across the street.

  9. Where and what were the following old campus buildings:

    1. College Hall
      the old freshman dormitories;

    2. old Clark Hall
      the old Geo building (where Currier now is);

    3. Jackson Hall
      the lyceum of Natural History (approximately where Driscoll Dining Hall now is).

  10. Where were the following structures:

    1. Greylock Hotel
      where the Greylock Quad is today on Routes 2 and 7;

    2. The tennis courts
      where Baxter Hall now is;

    3. Borr track
      where hockey rink is now;

    4. The army barracks
      where B&G is now;

    5. Taconic Golf Club House
      across the street from current Clark Art Museum site;

    6. The New Observatory
      on the golf course somewhere near Weston Field;

    7. The Faculty House
      across from present Freshman Quad, approximately where music center is.