A newspaper clipping of an article published in The Springfield Daily News about why Smith College was the first college to be located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The article describes how Amherst College, Williams College, and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst ended up in the towns in which they are located rather than in Northampton, which had been under consideration as a location for all three colleges at different points in time, or in Springfield which had been under consideration for UMass. Also discussed is how Smith College came to be located in Northampton rather than in Hatfield, Massachusetts.
