I managed to catch the last part, thanks to Larry’s tip. I see that Williams came in first overall, although that last 800 yd freestyle was Amherst with an almost 11 second lead!

Gotta go back to the swimming. All that swimming was wearing me out and I needed a little break. Williams is doing very well, which is wonderful after the men’s basketball team lost to Amherst this evening. Some of the first-year Ephwomen are particularly impressive.

And my other continuing criticism is that there are so few trustees who have been students at Williams at all recently (and that is a broad definition of “recent”). One member from ’95, one from ’86, one from ’85, and one from ’80. A 1980 graduate has been out of Williams for more than a quarter century. We are thus missing any substantial representation from an entire generation or two of Williams students.

Lately it seems that there have been a larger diversity of potential trustees to some extent. I hope that continues.

Don’t think that the make-up of these boards is inconsequential in terms of setting institutional priorities. For example, I suspect that Morty Schapiro would be feeling more heat on the drinking issue and the heavy-emphasis on athletics at Williams if the board were divided equally male/female.