A highway (although everyone on the East Coast uses "route" rather than "highway" - like pop/soda argument). See the route/highway argument.
It runs through campus, from east to west.
Or west to east.
Depending on which way you want to look at it.
According to Prof. Wood, Route 2 cutting through the middle of campus would make Williams College very difficult to defend were we attacked by two Roman legions.
Bob Quay '04 authored a senior history thesis about its history.
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