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Williams
- Who is the president?
Morty Owen Schapiro
- What happened to Hank, and how is he immortalized among us?
He left after (recent discovery) accepting a hefty chunk of stock in Herb Allen's company in exchange for backing Allen's theatre Goodrich's main hall is named for him.
- Who writes the Record's humor column?
Seth A. Brown, '01
- For what event was the Record published in color this year?
Morty's induction
- What is the current exhibit in Sawyer Library?
Economics in Higher Education
- Plan a multi-course dinner for six using either top Williams current dining hall cuisine, or take-out from Spring St. restaurants only. Feel free to make it a specialty or theme meal. (Sure, we'll stretch the definition of 'restaurant' to cover gummy frogs at Where'd You Get That if you like.) Identify sources for your ingredients if applicable.
- Where can you go in Williamstown to eat sushi?
Chopsticks
- To eat anything after 1 a.m.?
Cumberland Farms
- Design your ideal dorm room. It must comply with handbook regulations. Resources are limited to whatever you can find within driving reach of campus.
The Quote Board. No more than four real or fictional Williams contributed to each of the following. Name them:
- "I hear how the youthful harlot's curse blasts the newborn infant's ear... I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. So much depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
William Blake, Shakespeare, William Carlos Williams, Bill Clinton
- "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold-- not if we jam it. In my youth , I feared it would damage the brain, but now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, why I do it again and again!"
Will Rogers, William Butler Yeats, Bill Pullman, Old Father William
- "Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Willie Nelson, William Faulkner, Billy Boy (song lyrics)
- What does the name William mean?
William means Willing defender or Defense of many, according to the Emperor Titus and Martin Luther respectively. The root is Teutonic, from Valja, to choose, and val, vali, wali - as in valiant? - for anyone interested.