Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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HE I934 TRlNIl'TflYi'IV JN, ' A - 'A TJ sr A S.. 'EFF' I ' 2 EVALD LAURIDS SKAU, PH.D. . . ' Assistant Professor of Chemistry WILLIAM AGREGG- .BRILL, M.A .... . Alumni Secretary and Faculty Illanager of Athletics THURMAN LOSSON HOOD, PHD. , . L Dean and Assistant Professor of English JOSEPH CORNELIUS CLARKE, B.P.E. Instructor in Physical Education GILBERT VIVEN WRIGHT, B.P.E. . Instructor in Physical Education CHARLES JAMES ROHR, PHD. . . . Assistant Professor in History and Political Science 'CARL LEWIS ALTMAIER, PHD. . I . Instructor in Philosophy and Psychology WILLIAM CLARK HELMROLD, B.A. . . Instructor in Greek and Latin WENDELL HOLMES LANGDON, B.S. . Assistant Professor of Mathematics ALFRED KING MITCHELL, PHD. . . Assistant Professor of Mathematics BERNHARD ULMER, M.A. Instructor in German HOWARD CARTER WILEY Instructor in Drawing 23 .15 Seabury Hall A . 71 Brownell Avenue . A 123 Vernon Street 67 Irnlay Street . South Manchester 549 Prospect Avenue . 15 Northam Towers 268 Washington Street 63 Gillett Street 876 Farmington Avenue 14 Seabury Hall Wethersfield

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HE i934 TRI -JV. s: Q 13 lfiwc f - A lb Q5 History of the College 1 In 1822 a group of eighteen clergymengmet at the home of Bishop Brownell at Hartford to draw up a memorial in which they prayed the General Assembly of the state to grant a charter to a college with power to confer the usual literary honors. Once before, in 1810, an effort had been made to enlargethe charter of Seabury College, an Episcopal institution founded in 1801 at Cheshire, but the General Assembly had refused to grant the request. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Yale was the only college in Connecticut, and was not only closely connected with the Congregational Church in administration, but was in complete control of the legislature. Accordingly, any suggestions by the Episcopalians as to a charter for a second college were promptly discouraged. However, during the 'War of 1812 the Episcopalians in this part of the country conducted themselves with such undoubted loyalty as to win the respect of all, with the result that when Bishop Brownell and his associates made application for a charter under the name of Washington College, their petition was promptly granted by the legislature. The amount of ,money necessary for the incorporation was raised in a very short time, as well as 850,000 toward the endowment of the college. The trustees had adopted the same plan that had been used by Yale to determine the location, inviting the larger towns of the state to contribute to the funds of the college, in competition for its site. When the decision was finally 25 NITY IV