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On the second Monday of the first term in the year, if the weather be at all favorable, it has been customary from time immemorial to hold a college meeting and petition the president for "Gravel day" . . . The faculty grants this day for the purpose of fostering in the students the habit of physical labor and exercise, so essential to vigorous mental exertion.
--D.A. Wells' Sketches of Williams College, 1847
In old times, when the students were few and rather fonder of work than at the present, they turned out with spades, hoes, and other implements, and spread gravel over the walks to the college grounds. But in later days, they have preferred to tax themselves to a small amount and delegate the work to others, while they spend the day in visiting the Cascade, the Natural Bridge, or others of the numerous places of interest near us.
--Boston Daily Evening Traveller, July 12, 1854
January 16, 2018