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Frederic T. T ansill

Thomas .J. Ahern Wilson G. Br-ainerd George A. Brown .John B. Cun_ingham Charles Grime

'lrbe Junior ~romenabe Alumni H all , J anuary 31, 1921

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. Chairman

Merle S. M yers M. R. Mohnkern T enison W. Newsom Milton H. Richman R einhold E. Nordlund

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Frederic T. Tans ill

Thurston B. Macauley Horace A. Thompson Ned G. Kendall Kenneth N. Soule

Alumni Hall , December 11, 1919

~opbomore ~op Q!:ommittee

Robert G. Reynolds, ex-o.fficio

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Wilson G. Brainerd Elroy D. Racine Milton H. Richman Edward B. Hungerford

3f untor ~moker <!ommtttee MacAllister Reynold Mohnkern

Thomas Joseph Ahearn Robert Dennison Byrnes James Kingon Callaghan Clare Edward Cram Keale Hersh Gladstein

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Chairman

Morton Davis Graham Tenison Westenra Lewis Newsom Robert Johnston Plumb Frederic Talbert Tansill Howard Somerville Ortgies, ex-o.ff'icio

Merle Stephen M yer

Tenison W. Newsom Edward B . Hungerford R obert J . Plumb R obert G. R eynolds J ames K. Callaghan

~opbomore ~moker Alumni Hall , May 15, 1920

~opbomore ~molter ~ommittee

Thurston B. M acauley

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. Clwirman

R obert D . Byrnes Paul A. de {cCarthy Verner W. Clapp J ohn E . D oran Sherman C. Parker ·

jf resbman= 3f unior rs anquet (!Committee Wilson Gillette Brainerd, Chairrnan

Thomas Joseph Ahern George Andrew Brown Robert Dennison Byrnes John Bayard Cuningham

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Alfred Napoleon Guertin Thurston B. Macauley Robert Gardner Reynolds Frederic Talbot Tansill

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mrtnitp J!}op C!rommittee 1\I. R. l\Iohnkern .

F. H. Ameluxen J. E. Black W. G. Brill J . n. C:uningham

F. T . T ansill A. V. R. Tilton, ex-officio

. Chairman

F. S. Jones J. W. Lyon R. E. Nord lund H. T. Slattery

~tbletlc ~bbisorp C!rommitter Pres. R emsen B. Oai lby Prof. Edward F. Humphrey

Prof. Charles E. R ogers Theodore C. Hudson, Jr.

Managers of sports during season.

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Thurston B. Macauley, '22 Francis B .. Creamer, '23 James K. Callaghan, '22 G. Waldron O'Connor,·~,;, Frederick L. Bradley, '21 1\Iiss Hallie M. Gelbart

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mbe Jf e~ter~ ®fficers for 1920=21

President Business Manager

Production Manager Art Director

P1·operty anager Director

The Trinity Jesters have come to be recognized not only as a vital and active college organization, b ut as a valuable and highly respected part of Hart­ford's ocial life. The performances of The Je ters are counted as among the best amateur productions in the city, ranking second only to those of the Drama League.

The performances have been produced under the capable leadership of Miss Hallie F. Gelbart, of Hartford. Thurston B. Macauley, president of the

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organization, due to his enthusiasm and activity, was largely responsible for the interest which was taken and the success of the performances.

Four plays have been presented this year. The evening before President Ogilby's inauguration, November sixteenth, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs and L. N. Parker and "The Lost Silk Hat," by Lord Dunsany were given most artistically and with unusual skill. The casts of both plays were small and the performance was done with con iderable polish and brilliance. The casts of the plays were as follows: I

"m:be ;flflonhep's ~aw" Mr. White . Mrs. White . Herbert, their son Sergeant-Major Morris Mr. Sampson

The Caller . The Laborer The Clerk The Poet The Policeman

Scene--A cottage in Full1am, England

Scene-A fa hionable London Street Scenery painted by G. W. O'Connor

J. K. Cal~han E. B. Hunge\'tord

T. B. Macauley . F. B. Creamer H . T. Kneeland

J. H. Callen G. W. O'Connor H. T. Kneeland T. B. Macauley

W. Crocker

On the evening of February twenty-eighth, the second performance took place. The plays were "The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife" by Anatole France, and "The Medicine Show" by Stuart Walker. Both plays were extrem_e­ly difficult, both to act and produce, and it is decidedly to the credit of Miss Gel­bart and the others connected with the productions that the performance was so smoothly and gracefully done. Both productions were a credit to the college, and it is unfortunate that support from the College was not as great and enthu­siastic as was the support from the city.

Thurston B. Macauley in the part of the Judge gave an exceptionally fine interpretation of his part, and the work of the three doctors was excellent and decidedly amusing. Ernest J. Cullum, as the dumb wife, played a difficult part with marked success.

The ca ts of the plays were as follows:

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H. T. Kneeland G. W. O'Connor Wilmac Crocker

Scene-The South Bank of the Ohio River

"m:be :ffflan mlbo ;ffflarrieb a 1Dumb mlife" Master Leonard Botal, Judge Master Adam Fu mee, Lawyer Master Simon Colline . Master Jean Maugier, Surgeon Master Serafin Dulaurier, Apothecary Giles Boiscourtier, Secretary A Blind Fiddler . Catherine, Botal's Wife Alison, Botal's Servant Mademoiselle de la Garandiere Madame de la Bruine The Chickweed Man The Watercress Man The Candle Man First Doctor's As istant Second Doctor's Assistant Footman to Mme. de la Bruine

T. B. Macauley F. B. Creamer

W. G. Brill H. T. Kneel3jld

E. B. Hungerf<ld R. G. Ives

G. W. O'Connor E. J. Cullum L. Browning

S. W. Webster H. S. Ortgies

A. V. R. Tilton B. R. L. Newsom

F. L. Bradley J. F. Mulford

J. M. Beard A. D. Mitchell

Scene: A street before the house of Judge Leonard Botal in Medieval Paris.

Four or five hours elapse between acts one and two. Setting de. igned and executed by G. Waldron O'Connor

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~en tor j!)onor arp ~ocietp Established 1893

~be JMebusa 1921 Edward Gabriel Armstrong John Holmes Callen

Arthur Van Riper Tilton

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John Alfred Ortgies Rollin Main Ransom

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~opbomore jllining QCiub Founded by the Class of '99 on February 15, 1897

1921 David James Walsh

1922 Thomas Joseph Ahern Reinhold Enoch Nordlund Verner Warren Clapp Richard Conrad Puels M acAllister Reynold Mohnkem R obert Gardner Reynolds

Frederic T albert Tansill

J ames Ernest Black Frederick Willia m Bowdidge Willia m Gregg Brill Waller William ·Canner J a me Walter D olan

1923

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Conrad H erbert Gesner Glover Johnson Stanley Potter M iller R obert Vincent Sinnott George Pomeroy Tenney

Arthur V. R. Tilton William Cleveland Hicks

Frederick H. Ameluxen George A. Boyce J. Ernest Black Frederick L. Bradley John B. Cuningham

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President Secretary

Tom T. Hawksworth Rollin M. R ansom Harold T. R eddish Norman C. Strong Stevenson W. Webster

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~be minion (!Committee William Cleveland Hicks Frederick H. Ameluxen Norman C. Strong

Verner W. Clapp John B. Cuningham Walfrid G. Lundborg

Cltainnan Secretary Treasurer

IacAllistet· R. l\Iohnkern Robert T. Parke Harold T. Slattery

Stevenson W. Webster Arthur V. R. Tilton, ex-officio

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Nor man C. Strong

1f na ugur at ion (!Committee

Frederick H. Ameluxen John B. Cuningham William Cleveland Hicks Harold T. Reddish Arthur V. R. Tilton, ex-officio

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~be 1fnter =..1fraternitp ~ouncil Thomas Gallaudet Budd

Frederick Henry Ameluxen Wilson Gillette Brainerd John Bayard Cuningham William Cleveland Hicks

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. President

Tenison 'Vestenra Lewis Newsom Rollin Main Ransom Robert Gardner Reynolds Harold Thompson Slattery

Edward B. Hungerford R obert D. Byrnes Tenison W. L. Newsom Richard C. Puel .

E. Thurston B. Macauley James K. Callaghan

MacAllister R. Mohnkern Thomas J . Ahearn

jhloarll of Cfbitors

Cfbitorial jhloarb

Robert S. Plumb

Verner W. Clapp

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. Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor

Business Manager Associate Business Manager

Keale H. Gladstein Merle S. Myers

John B. Cuningham Henry Kneeland

\!Cue \!Crtpob JSoarb Arthur V. R. Tilton, E ditor-in-Chief

Robert D. Byrnes, Managing Edi tor T . W. L . Newsom, Business M mwger Richard C. Puels, Circulating M anager

J . Mitchell England Barent T . E. Schuyler

Luca Celentano

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Thomas S. Bradley H arris H. Thomas

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l)olitical ~tience ~lub Member of the Federation of the International Polity Clubs

Edward F. Humphrey, Ph.D. James K. Callaghan, '22 Stevenson W. Webster, '23

illleetings

Advisor and Director President

. Secretary

October 12, 1920, in the Trinity College Union.

Speaker-Rev. R. B. Ogilby, President of Trinity College. Subject-"America in the Pacific."

November 9, 1920, in the Public Speaking Room.

Speaker- George B. Art? stead, Sunday Editor of the Hartford Courant. Subject- "Development of Egypt and Palestine."

December 7, 1920, in the D.K.E. Fraternity House.

Speaker-Anson T. McCook, '02. Subject-"Ob ervations of Western Europe" and "The International

Chamber of Commerce."

February 15, 1921, in the Public Speaking Room.

Speaker- Bishop Nicholai, Bishop of Ochrida, ~erbia. Subject- "Reconstruction of Europe."

March 10, 1921, in the Public Speaking Room.

Speaker- Dr. Eric A. Horne, of the University of Patna, India. Subject-"The Dyarchy as a Constitutional Experiment in India."

May 3, 1921, in the Public Speaking Room.

Speaker-Dr. Lindsey Roger , of Harvard University. Subject-"I,abor, and International Relations."

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Ernest J. J. Cullum

Frederick W. Bowdidge Thomas S. Bradley William Gregg Brill Luca Celentano

Robert I. Parke

Loomis School, Windsor Fourth Congregational Church Broad Street Auditorium Loomis School, Windsor

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Director

Harry B. Franchere Henry T. Kneeland Richard C. Puel G. Waldron O'Connor

Organist

November Fourteenth November Twenty-Eighth December Sixteenth May Fifteenth

George Arthur Boyce Carl Gustave Holm

Thomas Gallaudet Budd

John Bayard Cuningham

1Sappa fjeta ~bt 1920

Jack Wible Lyon Harold Theodore Reddish

1921 David James Walsh

1922 Frederic Talbert Tansill

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~bt 3Jnauguration of tbe

l\eb. l\emsen fJjrtntktrf}off <!&gilbp as 'Qi::bJ elftb ~resib ent of 'Qi::rinit!' <!tollege

Alumni Hall, Hartford, Connecticut, November the Seventeenth, A.D. MCMXX

Coronation March Invocation .

~rogram

Mcyerbeer The Rt. Rev. Wi ll iam Lawrence, D.D ., LL.D .

Induction Into Office Presentation of the Keys

Bishop of Massachusetts Sydney George Fisher

Professor Henry Augustus Perkins, M .A., E .E.

Acceptance of Office Hymnus Academicus Matutinus

Acting President 1915-16, 1919-20 The Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogi lby

College Choir

Music by Lorin W ebster, '80

Nunc iubar solis trepidans rubescit, Nosque surgentes, animis refectis Laudibus claris hilares canemus

Omnipotentem.

Ut Deus no tras studius diei Roboret mentes, tacitae per umbras Noctis ut servet vigil ans, fideli

Cor·de precamur.

Praesidem doctum et invenes et omnes Rore doctores benedictionis Ille suffundat Pater angelorum

Hie et ubique.

Semper ut nobis liceat canamus Ad thronum tantes penitus beati Ut volens sanctos Deitas redemptos

Fronde coronet.

Herbert M. H opl.,-ins

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For the Trustees The Rt. Rev. Chauncey Bunce Brewster, D.D.

For the Faculty

For th e Alumni

Bishop of Connecticut The Rev. John James McCook, D.D., LL.D.

Senior Member of the Faculty Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., L.H.D.

Professor of American History at Yale University For the Undergraduate Jack Wible Lyon, of the Clas of 1921 For the Colleges of New England The Rev. William Arnold Shanklin, D.D., LL.D.

Pre ident of Wesleyan University Andante from the Fifth Symphony Beethoven The Inaugural Address of the President Conferring of Honorary Degrees Vale, Air: "Lauriger Horatius" College Choir Address The Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, D.D., LL.D.

Benediction Minuet from the Military Symphony

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Ninety-Fourth Annual Commencement, Alumni Hall, June 21, 1920

- <!&tber of ~xercises Music

Salutatory . Announcement of Prizes Conferring of Degrees, in Com·se Valedictory .

Address

Conferring of Honorary D egrees D oxology-

Music

Music

'Villiam James Cahill , Connecticut

Caleb Alfred Harding, Connecticut

John Marshall Holcombe, M.A.

Praise God, from Whom all ble sings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below

Benediction

Praise Him above, angelic host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

J}onor% anb ~ri?e% .1f or tbe ~eat 1920

Valedictorian:-George Kolodny

Salutatorian:-William James Cahill

The Alumni Prizes in English Composition

First Prize : Harold Leonard Smith Subject: "The American Soldier"

Second Prize: Paul Stephen Parsons Subject: "Education of Youth"

Third Prize: Ernest Emory Norris Subject: "The War of The S. 0. S."

Committee of Award : Mrs. Gustavus A. Kleene

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Address of Welcome The Class History The Class Poem Statistics Athletic Awards

ctrla!i!i 1l\ap larogram Saturday, June Twenty-Sixth

Jack Wible Lyon Hall Pierce

Joseph W. Stansfield George A. Boyce

President Henry A. Perkins Presentation of "T" Certificates

Presentation of "aTa" Certificates A ward of George Sheldon McCook Trophy

to James E. Breslin The Class Prophecy Address- "The Pilgrim Fathers" Song- " 'Neath the Elms"

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mbe C!CoUege on C!Capitol J!.)iU It appears from the latest list of living Alumni that there remain only about

one hundred men who were students in the old buildings prior to their, at least, partial, demolition. These men easily summon back before their two hundred eyes the dear old picture-Jarvis Hall, Seabury Hall, Brownell Hall, in a north and south line along the crest of the elevation overlooking Trinity Street. Capi­tol A venue was then College Street. It terminated at Washington Street, through a rough road somewhat derisively called Rifle A venue, went on to Sharp's Rifle factory-later a part of the plant of the Pope Manufacturing Com­pany.

Of the three handsome brown stone bui ldings named above, Jarvis and Brownell were dormitories, though a Professor' family lived in each, and there was at least one recitation room in each. The students' quarters varied largely. ln some cases the study was connected with a bed-room; more frequently an alcove furnished opportunity for temporary and welcome if incomplete retire­ment. Many of the bedrooms were without windows or other ventilation save through the door. However, as we of that date did not know that sleeping in a dark, airless room was fatal to human life, we got on very nicely. Every room had a coal closet and every pair of students owned or owed for a stove. Fuel could be borrowed from the other students. The components of each such pair fJUarreled bitterly over problems of building fire and caring for them, hating each other as roommates often do even in this era of steam and electricity. I remember that two students once lived fireless for three months, each asserting and proving that it was the duty of the other to steal some kindling. I could name these men, but I will not. I was N 0 T one of them.

Jarvis and Brownell were covered with beautiful ivy. So were the north and south sides and the west end of Seabury. This Seabury, the central building, was really strikingly handsoine. Four tall pillars ornamented the east front. Be­tween these pillars and the east wall was a roofed stone floor, the gathering place of the student body while awaiting the chapel service. For the east ground-floor room in Seabury was our chapel; a dingy SfJuare room with seats arranged in four squares in the corners for the four classes. A huge stove stood in the center. Seabury also contained lecture-rooms, the chemical laboratory, the Museum (then called "the cabinet") and the library. The library then consisted of about fifteen or twenty thousand volumes, accessible, according to my memory, about an hour on each Saturday morning. Our dances were held in the cabinet. I still have one or two "dance-cards" of that time bearing the nctmes of the grand­mothers of some of the "prom girls" of recent festivities.

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I must not forget the Athenaeum Hall, also in Seabury. For there were two literary societies, according to the excellent custom then prevailing in most colleges, the Athenaeum and the Parthenon. The latter had its room in the attic of Jarvis Hall. Both these societies had useful libraries which, when the societies unhappily died, were added to the college library.

Our front campus between the buildings and Trinity Street was, I am certain, far more beautiful than the present campus. Great elms, the inspiration of the song so dear to us all, stood in picturesque irregularity over the entire area; yet the shade was not dense enough to hinder the growth of a thick carpet of grass. All this was in the simple, pre-lawn-mower age, and the grass grew up until cut for hay in July, after which it grew up again. Mrs. Brownell, the wife of Trinity's founder, had, early in our history, sown this campus with violets. And so, in May or early June, the whole expanse was as blue as the Mediterranean and sweet with tender fragrance.

Back of the buildings toward the west, was another large area extending to and down a sharp declivity at whose foot babbled or grumbled a stream variously called Park River, The Meandering Swine, or The Hog, according as the speaker was a prominent citizen, a class-day poet, or a student conditioned in trigonome­try. The water in the creek was rather thinner than it is now, but was not invit­mg.

At the extreme south-west of the college property was a relatively level place where baseball could be practiced, though with difficulty. This back campus was the scene of some study, and of occasional activities not intended either for "publication or as guarantees of good faith." Such, in few words, was the general lay-out ·of the old college.

I have already hinted at some features of student life which must seem primitive to the undergraduates of today. But it is a profound, if obvious, truth that we do not feel the lack of luxuries that we never heard of. And while it is probably true that the better houses in the Hartford of that date were equip­ped with conveniences wholly wanting in college quarters, yet we were comfort­able and happy. Not more than half-a-dozen of the dormitory rooms had gas­light. Nearly all of us had brass "student lamps," usually nearly out of oil. The pleasant gurgle of these lamps was a real stimulus to scholastic effort; and the light perhaps wa preferable, if one really wished to read or study, to our modern devices. The "base-burning" coal stove was a very recent invention. I believe there was only one in college in my time. Most of us had cylinders of iron and fire-brick which consumed a maximum of coal, giving out a minimum of heat. Fire could be kept over night by leaving the stove door open. Of course the room was often filled with gas, which should have killed us but never did. Theo-

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retically a college janitor cared for our rooms. H e did fill our water pitchers and remove ashes; but bed-making, dusting, etc., wa. done by the students or not at all. The more wealthy men however, had private service at their own expense, thus living in what seemed to the rank and file ostentatious ease and luxury. A colored man named Adams lived somewhere in the basement of Brownell Hall, and acted as valet or butler for those who were willing to pay his bills. There was one water faucet in each dormitory and not a bath tub in the whole institu­tion! Indeed, I doubt whether there were many in the city . In the old Allyn House barber shop was a "battery" of six or eight zinc bath tubs where one might wash up for twenty-five cents. Lacking the quarter, we washed otherwise, yet I think we somehow kept decently clean. I doubt if any of us had ever seen a "shower" unless in the play "Our American Cousin." One of the most promi­nent factors in the administration of our College wa. Professor Jim. He was an old, black, white-whiskered inheritance from a remote past. His history was most remarkable and varied delightfully from time to time. He had been a slave, a pirate, Aaron Burr's body-serva nt, an African Chief, and other things. He rang the bell which summoned us to our various duties and kept our secrets, particularly if he did not know them. An interesting account of him, written by a student of my time, is in the College library . His picture hangs or did hang in the Treasurer ' office. Our academic life varied but little really from that of this later time. P erhaps there was more of it. We had two chapels a day and we had to go. "Allowed ab ences" had not been invented. Thirteen absences equal six weeks wa the formidable equation of life's problem.

On Sundays we attended a chosen church in the morning, and a t four in the afternoon a service in the chapel. To this latter service we often brought our best girls, as a charming antidote to di satisfaction with collegiate regulations.

What were the students like? 'Veil , they averaged perhaps two years young­er than now. Of course they were much the same sort of fellows. But we had grown up under the tragic shadow of the great Civil War. R eading stories of battles by sea a nd land, the violent death of those dear to us, the passions of a terrible conflict between brothers, had been practically our total experience. Several of the older students had served in one or the other of the contending hosts. So, possibl'y, we were a bit more romantic, less business-like than the students of earlier and later times. We read more poetry, our oratory wa more exuberant, our habitual po e more theatrical than you will find prevalent today. Were we ridiculous? Probably, a little, but we were much in earnest.

The students of 1917-18-19, through the S. A. T. C. and in other ways, learned more of the hard practicalities of war than we did. Moreover, the World War was in the other hemisphere. Its effects were and wil l be different.

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Of course, I knew much more about student life in the period from 1866 to 1870 than I did from 1883 to 1919, when I was, so to speak, on the other side of the fence. But I can hardly be entirely mistaken as to the likeness and the unlike­ness of the undergraduates of those eras. The likenesses predominate. We tudied, played, sang, abused the faculty, agitated for voluntary chapel, flunked,

reformed, fell in love and out, gdt engaged, and in debt, paid up, graduated, married, "all similar;" in the words of my favorite hero of fiction. I believe we sang more than the students have of late. "I,auriger Horatius," "Gaudeamus Igitur," "The Last Cigar," and "Music in the Air" were the prime favorites. There was ve1·y little instrumental music however; one man of my time had a cabinet organ in his room from which he drew awful noises and the life-long hatred of his neighbors. Another man had a violin, but be also was not highly e teemed. We had no such thing as organized athletics. Baseball reached New England in 1865 with the returning soldiers and was played as enthusiastically then as now but not so skilfully. Games were not encouraged then by the powers that were. Shall I ever forget President J ackson's reply to a humble request that the nine might be excused from Chapel so as to catch the boat for Middle­town where we were to play Wesleyan? "What?" said Prexie; "Excuse you from Chapel to play ball? I think not, gentlemen, I think not." We thpught not also, but the captain of the boat was more worldly and held his craft, so that we played our game and won it.

There was no gymnasium until 1871. In that year was erected for Trinity as fine a gymnasium as could be found in any college. The same thing took place in 1888. May the gymnasium of 1921 or 22 be equally adequate to greater needs.

It is my opinion that the average physique of the students of half-a-century ago was inferior to the average today. But what is the use of new times, except to surpass the old times?

There were no better fellows, there are no better fellows, however, than the Trinity men of the earlier generations. It was my good fortune to know them, to live with them, as it was also my happy lot to live with their successors for nearly fifty years. Young and old they are one brotherhood, and the affection of my youth and old age clings about them all.

F. S. L., '70.

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