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been enriched with names like Bryant, Prime, Franklin Carter, Mabie, Stoddard, Scudder, Alden, Gladden, G.L. Raymond, L.W. Spring, G. Stanley Hall, H.L. Nelson, G.E. MacLean, Cuthbert Hall, Isaac Henderson, Bliss Perry, F.J. Mather, Rollo Ogden: many of them are represented here; and we are glad for the college that their fame had its beginnings, even if often modest, in our student publications.
For the purpose of embodying the literary history of the college as completely as possible in one volume, the compilers have added an appendix containing the names of the editors of the Literary Monthly for the twenty-six years of its existence. For the same purpose, they quote below a chronological sketch of the various publications, which appeared in the Gulielmensian of the class of 1908. The present editors cannot vouch for all the facts there set forth.
"So far as is known, the earliest periodical published by Williams undergraduates was The Adelphi, a bi-weekly, of which the first issue appeared August 18, 1831, and the last June 21, 1832. After twelve years The Williams Monthly Miscellany was started in July, 1844, and continued until September, 1845. After another lapse of several years, The Williams Quarterly Magazine was founded in July, 1853, and continued publication until June, 1872. Meantime, April 13, 1867, The Williams Vidette had been started, and in 1872, the older Quarterly_ was merged into it. The _Vidette was published fortnightly until June, 1874, when it, together with _The Williams Review_, a tri-weekly, started in June, 1870, was united to form the fortnightly Williams Athenoeum, the first issue of which appeared October 10, 1874. In May, 1881, another fortnightly, The Argo, was started, which, with The Athenoeum, appeared in alternate weeks until April, 1885, when the two gave place simultaneously to _The Williams Literary Monthly_ and The Fortnight. Two years later, April, 1887, The Fortnight_ was reorganized into The Williams Weekly_. In 1904 The Williams Weekly_ became _The Williams Record.
"Volume I of the Gulielmensian appeared in the early spring of 1857."
To these must be added two more, whose existences have begun since the above was published. A humorous monthly, The Purple Cow, first saw the light in the fall of 1907 and has since prospered. Two volumes have appeared of Coffee Club Papers, containing productions read before the meetings of that body. The first volume bears the date of 1909 and the second of 1910. Every class on its graduation publishes its Class Book and these sometimes attain a degree of literary merit; hence any review of the literary interests of the college would be incomplete without at least mention of them.

And now the editors have done their task. It has been pleasant work; may the results prove as pleasant to those before whose literary palates they are spread. It remains only to thank the alumni for their loyal financial support through the subscription blanks sent out in June, and the library staff of the college for the generosity with which more than the ordinary facilities of the library have been tendered.
THE EDITORS.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 1, 1910.
A WILLIAMS ANTHOLOGY
THE MOUNTAINS
WASHINGTON GLADDEN '59
O, proudly rise the monarchs of our mountain land,?With their kingly forest robes, to the sky,?Where Alma Mater dwelleth with her chosen band,?Where the peaceful river floweth gently by.
Chorus.?The mountains! the mountains! we greet them with a song!?Whose echoes, rebounding their woodland heights along,?Shall mingle with anthems that winds and fountains sing,?Till hill and valley gaily, gaily ring.
The snows of winter crown them with a crystal crown,?And the silver clouds of summer round them cling;?The autumn's scarlet mantle flows in richness down;?And they revel in the garniture of spring. Chorus.
O, mightily they battle with the storm-king's pow'r;?And, conquerors, shall triumph here for aye;?Yet quietly their shadows fall at evening hour,?While the gentle breezes round them softly play. Chorus.
Beneath their peaceful shadows may old Williams stand,?Till suns and mountains never more shall be,?The glory and the honor of our mountain land,?And the dwelling of the gallant and the free. Chorus.
Quarterly, 1859.
ADDRESS OF THE STUDENTS OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
From the Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass., July 25, 1798
Sir,--Though members of an infant Institution and of little comparative weight in the scale of the Union, we feel for the interest of our country. It becomes every patriotic youth in whose breast there yet remains a single principle of honour, to come forward calmly, boldly, and rationally to defend his country. When we behold, Sir, a great and powerful nation exerting all its energy to undermine the vast fabrics of Religion and Government, when we behold them inculcating the disbelief of a Deity, of future rewards and punishments; when we behold them discarding every moral principle and dissolving every tie which connects men together in Society, which sweetens life and renders it worthy enjoying; when we behold