Discus: Individual Schools: Top Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs):
Williams College
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, or as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel-and to dare, to do, and to suffer. ------------ At each Commencement, a watch is dropped from the 80-foot spire of the college chapel. If the watch breaks, tradition now holds that the class will be lucky.
