The Whiteman Collection at Williams College

Notes ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Irwin Shainman
Keyword(s):  
Williams College

‘Importunity Which Mocked All Denial’: The Amherst Charity Fund and the Foundation of Amherst College

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl I Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Early Growth ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Williams College ◽  
Education Society ◽  
Amherst College ◽  
History Of ◽  
Noah Webster

This chapter discusses the complex history of the Amherst Charity Fund and Amherst College, located in western Massachusetts. The story of the Charity Fund, an independent fund which financed the foundation and early growth of Amherst College through designated scholarships and loans, incorporates many elements of the larger American myth. This chapter offers an alternative story based on the surviving historical record. In particular, it draws on the accounts of Noah Webster and Rufus Graves. It also cites the founding in 1815 of the Hampshire Education Society, whose aims contrast sharply with those embraced by the trustees of Amherst Academy, and how Amherst’s history was intertwined with that of Williams College. Finally, it highlights the important roles played by such men as Pastor David Parsons and Samuel F. Dickinson.

scholarly journals The Neo-Sumerian Texts in the Williams College Museum of Art

Orient ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (0) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Changyu LIU
Keyword(s):  
Williams College

The New Divinity and Williams College, 1793-1836*

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Williams College ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
New Divinity ◽  
Missionary Movement

The story is a familiar one, found in nearly every narrative text of American religious history In the summer of 1806, five Williams College students met in a grove of trees to pray for divine guidance and to discuss their religious faith and calling. While seeking refuge from a summer rainstorm under a haystack, Samuel J. Mills, Jr., and the other four students consecrated their lives to overseas missions. This incident, later publicized as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, became the pivotal event in the launching of American Protestantism's foreign missionary movement. Mills and several comrades carried their vision from Williams to Andover Theological Seminary, where they created a more formal organization that eventually led to the establishment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1810. In the hagiography of missions, Mills is revered as the “father” of American foreign missions and Williams as the birthplace. Subsequently, Mills's “sons”—the alumni of Williams—followed precedent: from 1810 to 1840, Williams provided more missionaries to the ABCFM than any other American College.

A Rating Scale of Intimate Disclosure between Late Adolescents and Their Friends

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis S. Klos ◽  
Diane F. Loomis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Target Person ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Williams College ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
High Level

Subjects were asked to recall actual intimate conversations with closest same-sex friend and closest opposite-sex friend and reconstruct the dialogue. Responses were used to form a reliable example-anchored scale. The criteria for rating were the topic of disclosure, the feeling-content and spontaneity of disclosure, and the receptivity of the target person. The sample was 128 Williams College students, evenly divided by sex, half freshmen and half seniors, Caucasian, and middle-class. An analysis of variance showed significant differences in level of intimate disclosure: freshman males to males, low; freshman males to females and senior males to males, moderate; senior males to females and females of either age to friends of either sex, high. Level of intimate disclosure was independent of the tendency to give socially desirable responses on the Marlowe-Crowne Scale. Using objective ratings as a standard, it was concluded that self-ratings of intimate disclosure are inflated and often inaccurate.

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