Hamilton College

Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. It is sometimes referred to as the 'School on the Hill', due to the school's location on top of College Hill, just outside of downtown Clinton. Hamilton College was ranked as the 15th best Liberal Arts College in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report in 2006{{an|1}}.

College Trivia

• The relatively obscure 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo (which starred a young Liza Minnelli) was based up the novel of the same name written by Hamilton alum John Nichols. A fictionalized version of Hamilton was the location of most of the plot action in The Sterile Cuckoo and portions of the film were shot on the Hamilton Campus.
• Also, Alex Haley was a professor at Hamilton for a brief period immediately before he wrote '. Though he was not an active faculty member when he wrote Roots, Haley was living in the Village of Clinton when he wrote most of Roots.
• In Act III of Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, the character Mr. Webb was returning on the early-morning train after having been away for several days in Clinton, New York, to make a speech at Hamilton College, his alma mater.