Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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. M' El 'L if -.1 ..-1 nd rf aa V I l gif' M ni' 4' MH ,J ,nv , .. . EX P E NS ES. The amount of the Treasurer's bills .each year is as follows: Tuition, ...V .... 15 1oo.oo Room-rent for each person, 1 5 from 3100.00 to . 325.00 Incidentals, . . . 30.00 f Heat, . . . ' 12.50 Total, from 5242.00 to ...... 3167.50 'Board is furnished in the College Dining-hall at 34. 50 per week. To this must be added laundry charges, together with the expense of books, furniture, clothing, travel, and society fees, which vary according to the taste and habits of the student, and of which no estimate can be given. ASCHOLARSHIPS. y T ' The amount of the Treasurer's bills can be considerably reduced to holders of scholarships. The income of these scholarships, which are of different values. is placed to the credi-t of students of limited means, and serves to meet the charges for tuition and room4rent in whole or in part. For holders of scholarships, remitting the entire charges for 'tuition and room-rent, the Treasurer's billis reduced to 342.505 and the necessary expenses of such students, including board and-other personal items. will not exceed 5250 or 5300 a year. I . 1 Rooms AND Bun.DiNos. 5 1 r 1 . The new buildings were commenced in 1875. They are thoroughlydrained, well ventilated, and unsurpassed for convenience and comfort. In 1881 the, Northam gateway was begun, and the western sideaof the great quadrangle is now completed. Easy access from the city is secured by means of street-cars running to the College grounds. An excellent athletic ground is pro- vided for ball playing and other out door sports, there arealso several tennis courts, and an excellent gymnasium. The rooms are arranged so as to provide for two students rooming to- gether, a common study and separate bedrooms. They are heated by steam, and lighted by gas, and ventilation is secured by open fire-places. VVater is carried to every floor. The site of the buildings is remarkable for its healthfulness. V A T NEW BUILDINGS-The Gymnasium ar1ol'iAlumni Hall. ' 1 - ' 1 The new Gymnasium and Alumni Hall for Theatrel stands to the eastof the proposed north quadrangle near the drive-way from Vernon Street, and faces the west. ' ' - It is substantially built of brick laid in red mortar, with a finish of Portland sandstone. The frontage is fifty-six feet, and the length one hundred and six feet. The entrance is at the level of the running track of the gymnasium, from the vestibule amplestairways lead down to the latter and up to the theatre, which has a seating capacity of 5oo. The equipment of the gymnasium embraces modern apparatus, and the latest patent appliances in this department. t THE JARVIS HALL OF' SCIENCE. . 4 . This building is built of brick in early French Romanesque style, and is 'two stories high with a basement, having a frontage of seventy-nine feet, -and a depth of sixty-five feet. The angles of the building' are emphasized by larger ventilating turrets, which not only serve a prac- tical purpose, but add greatly to the breadth of the wall-mass. The main object in constructing this building, has been to make ample provisions for laboratory work an chemistry and physics. The physical labratory will be equipped with a dynamo and engine, and the rooms have been arranged with special reference to making facilities for practical Work as complete as possible. The equipment in the' chemical laboratory, is such as is required 'for good work in qualitative and quantitative analysis and assaying. ' l CATALOGUES. - . 5 Catalogues and Examination Papers may be had on application to the Secretary of the Faculty. For Scholarships' and general information, application should be made to the Presi- dent, George Williarnson Smith, D. D. . ' QVIIJ

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in g:':.u.,- 75 , 'N . ..,...:m.,--,,..:. -' , gf-f'q , ? 'jg 'T ' '4-f T ' -' ' ' ' ' -..-.,,.. t .-. L tinitg r ullegz. 1 THIS College 'has no medical, law, divinity, or other professional school or department con- nected with it, but is intended to give a Liberal Education, adapted to fit young' men to enter most advantageously upon the study of the Learned Professions after graduation. By a Liberal Education is meant a non-professional education, conducted without reference to any future par- ticular profession, calling, or special pursuit on the part of the student in question, and designed not to make men specially clergymen, lawyers, physicians, soldiers, merchants, or engineers, but so to train and educate the mental faculties as to put them into their most efficient condition, and to qualify a student to enter with success upon the study of any of the professions, or upon any other pursuit in lifep , ' CVT? '

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