. Williamstown, the "Berkshire hills" and thereabout .. . pen spot across the fields beyond residence. All of these buildings are on thesouth side of Main Street. On the noi th side, oppositeWest College, stands the White House, the resi-dence of President Franklin Carter. The neighboring 39elevation, beyond the Congregational Church, is occu-pied by Goodrich Hall, dating from 1870, Griffin Hall,the old chapel building, in which the College cabinetis lodged, from 1828. Between the CongregationalChurch and Goodrich Hall is the Mark HopkinsMemorial, erected through the liberality of
. Williamstown, the "Berkshire hills" and thereabout .. . pen spot across the fields beyond residence. All of these buildings are on thesouth side of Main Street. On the noi th side, oppositeWest College, stands the White House, the resi-dence of President Franklin Carter. The neighboring 39elevation, beyond the Congregational Church, is occu-pied by Goodrich Hall, dating from 1870, Griffin Hall,the old chapel building, in which the College cabinetis lodged, from 1828. Between the CongregationalChurch and Goodrich Hall is the Mark HopkinsMemorial, erected through the liberality of FrederickF. Thompson and the Alumni of the College, to com-memorate the servnces of Dr. Mark Hopkins, Presidentof Williams College from 1836 to 1872. For thesebuildings and other benefactions the College cherishesthe names of John Z. Goodrich, Amos Lawrence,Edward Clark, Edwin D. Morgan, David DudleyField, Frederick F. Thompson, and many additionalgivers of larger or smaller sums, not forgetting thedebt of gratitude to Presidents Griffin, Hopkins, Chad-. MARK HOPKINS MEMORIAL—WILLIAMS COLLEGE. 40bourne and Carter for their constant devotion to thefinancial as well as the educational interests of OldWilliams/ Nine secret or Greek letter societies have homes withmore or less ample grounds, in different parts of thevillage. They are known as the Kappa Alpha Lodge,the Sigma Phi Place, the Delta Psi Lodge, and the ChiPsi, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Phi Delta Theta, Zeta Psi,Alpha Delta Phi and Delta Upsilon Houses. Some ofthese chapter houses are gems of substantial andattractive architecture, the more noteworthy being theSigma Phi Place, between the Congregational Churchand Goodrich Hall, the Chi Psi, adjoining West Col-lege, the Alpha Delta Phi House, east of Taconic Inn,and the Delta Psi and Kappa Alpha Lodges, on oppo-site sides of Main Street, north and south of FieldPark. Mission Park is a famous part of the College prop-erty. It lies on the northern side of the village, slop-ing
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