Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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I2 THE 1vY voL. XXXIV A full course in civil engineering has been in operation for three years, and a course in sanitary engineering has just been established. In certain departments the college offers, also, instruction for graduate students. The departments of instruction in the College number twenty-five, in- cluding ninety-eight elective and voluntary courses. THE PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTION. The number of the teaching force, large relatively to the number of those taught, admits of a close relation between instructors and students. Each student is held accountable for his work every day, and receives per- sonal encouragement and guidance to a degree impossible Where the num- ber of the taught is greater. Practical research and laboratary methods are applied wherever possible.

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T907 TRINITY COLLEGE II Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. i' ' HIS College was chartered by the State of Connecticut in 1823 in response to a petition presented to the General As- fn' sembly representing that great advantages would accure K-w,, AH:' to the State, as well as to the general interests of literature and science, by establishing within the State another Col- legiate lnstitutionf' The College is governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees, under a charter providing that the board shall not make tl1e religious tenets of any person a condition of admission to any privilege in the said College, and that no President or Professor, or other ofhcer, shall be made ineligible for or by reason of any religious tenet that he may profess, or be compelled, by any By-Law or otherwise, to subscribe to any reli- gious test whatsoeverf' The College includes and has included among its Trustees, Faculty, and Students, men of many denominational affiliations. It is a generous- ly equipped secular institution, religious in spirit and motive, its religious services conducted in harmony with the liturgical forms of the Protes- tant Episcopal Churchg but it is not ecclesiastical and is controlled by no ecclesiastical organization. The corps of instruction consists of sixteen professors and assistant professors, five instructors, a librarian, and a medical director. tr ywn flhi I - Sw .gm ,nu png T ',j+-' - . -wrt A 9 1 1' . . ' X ' I - ' 7 ' ' '.,. s , :wi M. 4 .A 1' . ' ' 7l'f1f7 Qm COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. The College offers four courses of instruction, viz.: I. A Course in Arts. H. A Course in Letters and Science. III. A Course in Science. TV. A Course in Letters. ' . The courses extend over four years. Students completing the Course of Arts receive the degree of Bachelor ot Arts. Students completing the Course of Science receive the degree of Bachelor of Science, and those completing the Course in Letters receive the degree of Bachelor of Letters. U . Students who do not propose to pursue all the studies of any of the regular courses may be pernlitted, under the name of special students, to attend any class in such studies as, upon examination, they are found qualified to pursue. Upon honorable dismissal, they are entitled to a certificate from the President, stating the studies which they have pursued.

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1907 TRINITY CQLLEGE I3 THE LIBRARY. The College Library, numbering 50,000 volumes, is under the su- perintendence of a professional librarian, who guides the students in the use of books. They have also at their command the Wfatlcinson Refer- ence Library of 53,000 volumes, the Library of the Connecticut Histori- cal Society, the Hartford Public Library with its well-stocked reading rooms, and the Case Memorial Library. .ay J , ' 1 ., V- M, '-X , , . - .- , -A , --wa - 2 LABORATORIES AND OBSERVATORY. The Jarvis Physical Laboratory contains, in addition to the lecture and apparatus rooms, a large laboratory for work in the elementary courses, a reference library and several smaller laboratories adapted and devoted to advanced work of a special character. The laboratory has a