RAMBLES IN OLD COLLEGE TOWNS The Path Sweeps up to the SV w Centrd Tower RAMBLES IN OLD COLLEGE TOWNS By Hildegarde Hawthorne Author of The Lure of the Garden, Old Seaport Towns of New England, etc, with drawings by John Albert Seaford New York Dodd, Mead Company 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1917, BT DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I JEFFERSONS COLLEGE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE 1 II WILLIAM AND MARY 34 - III ANNAPOLIS 68 IV PRINCJETON 93 V YALE AND NEW HAVEN …. 125 VI PROVIDENCE AND BROWN UNIVERSITY . 155 VII HARVARD AND CAMBRIDGE …. 183 VIII WELLESLEY COLLEGE IN WELLESLEY . 205 IX BOWDOIN AND OLD BRUNSWICK … 223 X DARTMOUTH AND HANOVER …. 240 XI AMHERST 259 XII SMITH AND NORTHAMPTON …. 276 XIII WILLIAMS OF THE MOUNTAINS … 293 XIV VASSAR 310 XV WEST POINT 328 XVI CORNELL 347 ILLUSTRATIONS The Path Sweeps Up to the Square Central Tower Frontispiece FACING PAGB The Arcades of West Lawn and the Rotunda . . 16 The Main Building Has an Effect of Serene Dignity and Welcome 44 The Centre of All Is the State House … 80 Fine Old Connecticut Hall Strikes a Note of Peculiar Charm …132 In the Same Row with University Hall Is Manning, with Its Doric Columns 166 The Lofty Fence and Various Superb Gates . . 190 A Charming Path and Steps Lead Down from Stone Hall 212 The Severely Architectural Gateway of the Class of 1878 230 The Beautiful Old Row 246 Johnson Chapel, with Its Doric Pillars and Delight ful Square Tower 268 The Old Homestead of Judge Dewey, with Its Col umns and Doric Simplicity 282 Thompson Chapel, Whose Stone Tower Points Its Exquisite White Finials Above the Arching Elms 300 The Library, Perhaps the Most Beautiful of Vassars Buildings 318 The Chapel, West Point 336The Great Library, with Its Uprising Tower ., 352 RAMBLES IN OLD COLLEGE TOWNS