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Student Handbook 2009-2010

The Williams College Student Handbook is published annually as a reference guide to the College, its services and aspects of its student life. Please read the Handbook and keep it available for reference. It includes descriptions of various programs and policies of the College as well as the regulations governing student life. Academic regulations appear in full in the online Williams College Course Catalog.

Students are required to be thoroughly familiar with College regulations as stated in the Course Catalog and this Handbook. The entrance and continued presence of a student at Williams College shall be considered as signifying his or her willingness and expressed consent to abide by these regulations. Students are also held responsible for all official College notices published throughout the academic year online in the Williams College Daily Messages, sent via email or distributed to mail boxes; and such publications or distribution of any announcement or appointment constitutes official and sufficient notification to all students.

The information in this handbook was complete and accurate at the time of publication. Williams College reserves the right, however, to make from time to time such changes in its operations, programs, regulations and activities as the trustees, faculty and officers consider appropriate.

Williams College, in compliance with state and federal law, does not discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, or military service.

The following person has been designated to handle inquiries concerning the College's non-discrimination policies: Dean of the College, Williams College, Williamstown, MA (413) 597-4171.

Graduation rate: Of the 539 new first-year students who entered in the fall of 2002, 91% graduated from Williams within 4 years and 96% within 6 years; of the 533 who entered in 2003, 93% graduated within 4 years and 96% within 6 years. Additional information on this topic is available at the Office of the Registrar.

Published by Williams College, Hopkins Hall, 880 Main Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 01267.

August 2009

The Mountains

College Song by Washington Gladden, 1859

1. 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,

And 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.

2. The snows of Winter crown them with a crystal crown,

And the silver clouds of Summer round them cling;

The Autumn's scarlet mantles flows in richness down,

And they revel in the garniture of Spring.

3. O, mightly they battle with a storm-king's power;

And conquerors shall triumph here for aye

Yet quietly their shadows fall at evening hour,

While the gentle breezes round them softly play.

4. Beneath their peaceful shadows may old Williams stand

'Til sun and mountains never more shall be

The glory and the honor of our mountain land,

And the dwelling of the gallant and the free.

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