This book tells the story of the beginnings, the blossoming, and the eventual banishment of fraternities at Williams College, together with the ensuing transformation of Williams, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as the old fraternal order was replaced with a new residential system in the nineteen-sixties and after. A key figure emerged: John Sawyer, president of the college between 1961-1973. In John Chandler's measured recounting of events, Sawyer oversaw not only the end of fraternity life at the college, but positioned Williams for its subsequent ascent to the top tier of liberal arts colleges.

"From the London Blitz to the entrance into Berlin, John MacVane was NBC's voice in Europe and North Africa. Here is his unique, on-the-spot story of those epic events. In a vividly personal account that is at once high adventure and authoritative, informative history, NBC's chief radio correspondent in the European theater relives the great conflict."--Cover.

Includes entries for maps and atlases

The authoritative modern history of Phillips Exeter Academy and its much-admired revolutionary educational style