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Though Williams College officially began the process of coeducation in the late 1960s, women integrated the college as early as the 1930s. Beatrice Irene Wasserscheid (née Acly) was the first woman to be awarded a Williams degree after successfully petitioning the trustees to pursue a master of arts degree in American literature. [22]
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755.
On October 15, 2012, Williams College President Adam Falk announced a $22 million renovation project with new facilities for football, field hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, and men's and women's track. Construction began immediately after the 2013 Williams-Amherst football game and was completed in time for the 2014 football season.
Williams College is a liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
William posed for some photos on the shore outside of St Andrews. Pool/Tim Graham Picture Library - Getty Images William was originally studying art history in college, but switched to geography ...
Women's varsity athletics began at Williams after the college became coeducational in the 1970–1971 school year. As a result, most of the college's 16 women's sports programs began varsity play during the 1970s, [ 18 ] with three exceptions (softball in 1987, [ 19 ] ice hockey in 1993, [ 20 ] and golf in 2004–2005 [ 21 ] ).
Lawrence Hall, soon to house Williams College Museum of Art, before the addition of the two wings designed by Francis R. Allen in 1890. WCMA was established in 1926 by Karl Weston, an art history professor who made it his mission to provide students with a place to experience art directly, rather than as slides or in textbooks.
Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a woman. [1]Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of the inventor Henry Fox Talbot, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.