Trinity College - Trinilogue Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Bzdiratinn One there was, Silent and Clear-visioned, Who looked out Beyond the sea of turbulence The whirlwind of hostility, And saw in a sunlit meadow The golden symbol of A new Age, Enriched, yet unborn . . . A new Path, Clear paved, yet unswept . . A new Life To be moulded By a love, A care, A wisdom, And an infinite sacrifice.

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SISTER SUPERIOR JULIA, S.N.D. Foundress of Trinity College Q

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iaighfbnulzd iaupzs 1892511100 o the average American the year 1897 calls up general pictures of a quaint and comparatively peaceful era, when the favorite pin-up girl was the Gibson ideal and bicycles were built for two, when mandolins and straw rides and comedy a la Weber and Field were the amusements of the hourg when Mr. Dooley and Mr. I-Iennessey were forming public opinion with their homespun phi- losophy, and President McKinley was preoccupied with thoughts of a possible war with Spain. But to us, the year 1897 had a very special significance, for it was the year of the founding of Trinity College. When we consider that the College was founded to build Catholic principles firmly into the lives of young American girls, it is something of a coincidence to learn that the site chosen for the institution was the one which held the manor lands of the pious Sir Dudley Diggs, whose love of his faith brought him to this country with Lord Balti- more to help found a colony where Catholics might practice their religion in peace. The association of the Diggs family with Trinity remains even to this day in the person of the faithful john Diggs, the son of a slave of Sir Dudley's brother. It is john's proud boast that he came to Trinity in IQOO three weeks before the Sisters, to get the place ready for them. And here he has been ever since, a sort of lord in his own domain, serving in his inimitable way the inter- ests of the house, and reflecting on the comings and goings, the inno- vations and renovations of all the years with the superior wisdom of one who was here when traditions were born. In 1897 the present campus of Trinity College was a broad ex- panse of verdant land, with pleasant stretches of cedar, pine, and sycamore groves to the north and east, a picturesque camping ground 16