Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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Qooms cmb Qguifbings The new buildings were commenced in 1875. They are thoroughly drained, well ventilated, and unsurpassed for convenience and comfort. In 1881 the Northam gateway was begun, and the western side of 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 provided for ball playing and other out-door sportsg there are also several tennis courts, andan excellent gymnasium. Most of the rooms are arranged so as to provide for two students rooming together, a common study, and separate bedrooms. All the rooms and hall-ways are heated by steam, and ventilation is secured by open ire-places. Water is carried to every iioor. ' The site of the building is remarkable for its healthfulness. Qjfje Cbgmnaaium emo Qlfumni Eat? , The new Gymnasium and Alumni Hall for Theatrej stands to the east of the proposed north quadrangle near the driveway 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 Hfty-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 vesti- bule ample stairways lead down to the latter and up to the theatre, which has a seating capacity of 5oo. The equipment of the gymnasium embraces modern appa- ratus, and the latest patent appliances in this department. An instructor in athletics is in charge of the building. Qj8e Harbin Eat? of gciencen q 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 large Ventilating turrets, which not only serve a practical 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 in chemistry and physics. The physical laboratory is 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. Thekequipment in the chemical laboratory is such as is required for good work in qualitative and quantitative analysis and assaying. . Cafafogues 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 President. HD

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trinity i6ZoBl?ege -iiiiiif , , t of Washington College was granted in I823 by the General Assembly HEf Cihar gltate of Connecticut' and by vote of the Trustees, in consequence of r 4 O e 7 i h l'beral ifts of the citizens of Hartford, the College was located in that city. 1 3 t enlthe pefition of the Alumni and the Corporation, the name of the 'College was H I 45, 0 4 changed to Trinity College- ', 11 h s no prepara ory p v i . n but igligtfpoeieeis aio afford the opportunity for obtaining a liberal education-that is, an education conducted without reference to any future particular profession, cal-ling, or special pursuit on the part of the student. The requirements for admission and the course of instruction for degrees in the Arts have always been practically the same as 111 the other New England Colleges. Q t de artment or professional schools for graduates, p dgxpemses The amount of the Treasurer's bill each year is as follows : Tuition, . . ' .... . 95100.00 1 Room-rent for each person, from 945100.00 to 35-00 Incidentals, ..... 30-00 Heat, ' .... . I2-50 Total from 3242.00 to . . 4 . . . . 3177.50 There are besides, fees for the use of the Chemical and Physical Laboratories. Board is furnished in the College at 34.50 per week. Students may obtain board at private houses in the neighborhood, at rates greater or less, as they may desire. 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. 5cl5o?arsBips 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 credit of students with limited means, and serves to meet the charges for tuition and room-rent in whole or in part. For holders of scholarships remitting the entire charges for tuition and room-rent, u - i - - ilflurgieisgrer S bln 15 reduced to 3542.50 g and the necessary expenses of such students, ms Oard and Other personal items, will not exceed S2 50 or S5300 a year. C65

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Qgequtrementa for Qlbmisaion f +-i 1. Course in Cqrfs i Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the following studies 1 cgreeg Grammar QHadley or Goodvvinj. Xenophon : Anabasis, four Books. Homer: Iliad, three Books, with Prosody. Prose Composition Q History of Greece. The translation of average passages not previously read, from Xenophon and l ' . . . . Homer, will be accepted as an alternative to the above-mentioned quantities in these ones or White : the exercises in the Hrst half of the bookj. autliorsj ' E ff Cl Ifl Grammar. Caesar: Gallic War, four Books. Virgil : Aeneid, six Books, with Prosody. Cicero : The Orations against Catiline, and that for the Poet Archiasi Prose Composition : Translation into Latin of a passage of connected English narrative based upon some passage in Caesar's Gallic War. Roman History : Outlines, to the death of Marcus Aurelius. Ancient Geography. Candidates are also examined at sight upon average passages from Caesar's Works and Cicero's Orations, and from Virgil'sAeneid and 0vid's Metamorphoses. . ' Qtllafliemafics Arithmetic, including the Metric System. Alge-bra, through Radicals and Quadratic Equations, together with Proportion, Progressions, and the Binomial Theorem. Plane Geometry. - CEngf'iBB uniimclzi candidate is required to Write a short English composition correct in spelling, Slmouna 1311, grammar, division by paragraphs, and expression, upon a subject the folpev. at the time of the examination. In 1892 the subject will be chosen from Awarmzslvlni Woglii- Bhakespeares falzias Caesar and As You Lzlte fz',' Scott's Papem ig thillgse ows Coarishzp W fWz'!es SZaaa'z1sa,' The Sz? Roger-a'e Coverley f7effflf0f',' MaCaulay's Second Essay on the Ear! of Ckafaamy Websters F' 1 B - . , , El- t, S WS imkgy H211 Q7'4ll'2021,' Irvings Afaambffay Scott's Talzsflzang George io s cezzesfrow Clerzcla Lyfgl. Hawthornds Hausa WIDS-even Gables. . C35