Volume XVIII HARTFORD, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1922 Number 23

FIGURES SHOW THAT 1875 HAS C. C. N~ . Y. WINS ON I'NTERSCHO'LASTIC TRACK MEET BEST REC'O'RD IN CAMPAIGN OPENlNG DAY MAY 13 TO SET NEW RECORD Combined Tables of Members Subscribing and Amount Subscribed New Yorkers Pound Tuck for Four­ Forty-nine Prizes are Offered by Class of 1924 for Competition in the Gives '75 Best Record. teen Hits, Including Six for Annual Sophomore Smoker Track and Field Day. Extra Bases. CLASS OF .1876 STILL LEADS IN AMOUNT SUBSCRIBED. 1890 TOPS SEVEN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS AND FIFTEEN HIGH SCHOOLS ALL CLASSES IN MEMBERS SUBSCRIBING. TRINITY FIELDING SHOWS HAVE ENTERED TEAMS-TWO HUNDRED ATHLETES PRESENT. CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT. Every Class Aims to Have One Hundred Per Cent. of Members Subscribed Meet Will be Run Off Both Morning and Afternoon, with Preliminaries by Reunion Day in June. Rosonwitz Holds Team to Four Hits. in the Morning. Officials for the Day are Chosen. Ortgies' Long Double and Robinson's Which class, as a class, has done the most for Trinity in the all import­ ant matter of the Centennial Fund? At first glance at the tabulation below, Single Score Lone Run. The Interscholastic track meet this honor would seem to go to the Class of 1876 beyond all questioJ'l!, as scheduled for Saturday, May 13, as this class has contributed more money, and has oversubscribed its quota by The baseball team journeyed to WHAT TRINITY GAVE TO the major attraction of the Sopho­ a greater amount than has any other class. On the other hand, this class New York Saturday, April 29, and has been beaten by a number of other classes in the percentage of members ONE OF HER SONS-AND more Smoker, will set a new stand­ subscribing, and this is the real criterion of loyalty to the college-every furnished the opposition for the offi­ WHAT HE HAS RETURNED ard for these annual entertainments member of the class coming forward to help the college. cial opening of the home season of which Trinity gives to the prepara­ W. Putnam, '88, Writes to President, The first ten classes, in order of attaining their quotas are: 1876, 1877, C. C. N. Y. The metropolitans made tory and high schools of New Eng­ 1875, 1885, 1880, 1890, 1882, 1883, 1863, and 1898. In percentage of mem­ Telling What Trinity Means to the most of their home debut and land. bers subscribing, the first ten are: 1890, 1883, 1875, 1914, 1885, 1863, 1887, Him. Encloses Check for Fund. 1902 and 1912. Combining these two tables, the figures show that the tucked the game away easily, 12 to 1. Seven preparatory schools and fif­ Lake Cushman, Wash., Class of 1875, third in each group, has really the best record, and that the The fourth and eighth innings were teen high schools have accepted the April 22, 1922. others of the first ten, in order, are: 1890, 1885, 1883, 1877, 1863, 1887, 1876, Tuck's poor frames, and in these two invitation of the Class of 1924 to en­ 1898, 1912. To the President of Trinity, sessions the Violet scored most of its ter the meet, and, from the entry The present phase of the campaign is nearing its close and plenty of Hartford, Conn. total. In the first of these two or­ blanks already received, indications good hard work is necessary on the part of every single alumnus in order My dear Mr. President: to put the fund over that $375,000 mark which will insure $500,000 by Com­ gies of run-making two doubles and point to two hundred men as a con­ For a long time I have been re­ mencement. So far there are only nine classes which have oversubscribed three singles, interspersed with a lit­ servative estimate of the number of their quotas with one other class, 1898, within four points of the percentage ceiving appeals for help from various tle loose fielding, accounted for six athletes who will compete on Trinity which will entitle it to a line of full-face type in the tabulation. There are sources in the interest of the "Cen­ tallies, one-half of New York's total. Field. only four classes which have over half of their members subscribing. Most tennial Fund." One came in a few of these classes are going to hold reunions at Commencement, and it has In the eighth inning two singles, the The preparatory schools entered are: days ago and I am enclosing you this been suggested that every class set as its goal a hundred per cent. sub­ lone free transportation issued by Williston Seminary, of Easthampton, scription from among its membership before the time comes for the class check in response. I have mislaid Tuck, a triple and a sacrifice fly, Mass.; Loomis Institute, of Windsor; to gather in Hartford. · this little reminder and am not cer­ brought four more runs pattering The Collegiate Preparatory School, of Members Percentage Amount Percentage tain to whom the check should be Clnss Numbers Subscribing Subscribing Quota Subscribed Subscribed across the plate. A long drive by New Haven; Hotchkiss School, of made payable, I am not certain of 1853 1 0 0 $250 0 0 Hahn, which went for a home run, Lakeville; Suffield School, of Suf­ the spelling of your name and so I 1854 2 0 500 0 when it was poorly handled by the field; Norwich Free Academy, of 0 0 have made it as I have with the as­ 1856 1 0 0 250 0 0 outfielders, and a double and single Norwich; and Hopkins Grammar in succession, produced the remainder surance that you will see it gets to 1859 2 0 0 500 0 0 School, of New Haven. of the even dozen. Hahn's wallop its destination. Let me know later 1860 1 0 0 250 0 0 The high schools are: Bridgeport, came in the seventh, and the other how the fund grows. 1861 4 0 0 1,000 0 0 Bristol, Hartford, New Haven, South run in the third. It has been a great regret to me 1862 3 0 0 750 0 0 Manche ter, Technical High School, Trinity's lone tally was manufac­ for many years that I have been un­ 1863 4 2 50 1,000 $1,010 101 of Springfield; Torrington, Windham tured by Robinson and Ortgies, in able to do anything for the college. 1864 5 0 0 1,250 0 0 High School, of Willimantic; New the third inning. Robinson singled Leaving college in '88 in the middle 1866 6 2 33 1,500 275 18 Haven Commercial High School; New and Ortgies laced a long drive to of the Alumni dinner, I caught a 1867 1 0 0 250 0 0 Britain; High School of Commerce, of center field. Fast fielding cut the train for Seattle and later working 1868 4 0 0 1,000 0 0 Springfield; Meriden; Central High short stop off at third base, and the there a few months settled here in a 1869 9 2 23 2,250 510 23 School, of Springfield, Branford, and hit was credited as a double. Only beautiful little valley in the Olym­ 1870 14 6 43 3,500 690 20 Worcester. two other wearers of the Blue and pica; away out on the "unsurveyed.' 1871 13 5 3,250 2,390 74 39 Gold could connect with the slants of I became a "squatter." I have lived Events in Two Sections. 1872 15 6 41 3,750 2,058 54 Rosonwitz, the C. C. N. Y. hlirler. here ever since. To clear up a farm 1873 10 2 20 2,500 105 4 The events are in two sections, one (Concluded on page 3.) in the timber on Puget Sound is a for preparatory schools and one for 1874 12 3 25 3,000 85 3 man's job, the hymn of the Old Sett­ high schools. They include: the 100- 1875 15 8 53 3,750 12,210 326 ler says: yard dash, the 880-yard run, one mile 1876 13 5 39 3,250 15,185 467 "For two years I chopped and I relay, broad jump, high jump, and a 1877 16 7 44 4,000 15,975 399 WORK ON ALUMNI HALL niggered half-m_ile relay, in each section. In 1878 11 2 18 2,750 125 5 IS BEING PUSHED. BUILD­ But I never got down to the soil." addition, a 220-yard dash is scheduled, 1879 17 2 12 4,25() 200 4 A few months ago our home was open to any entry. Chairman Frank 1880 17 5 29 4,250 10,965 258 ING FINISHED JUNE I taken from us by the City of Tacoma S. Jones, of the sub-committee hand­ 1881 22 9 5,500 2,045 37 Slating of the Roof is Now Finished. to furnish a reservoir for a power 44 ' ling the meet, has announced the fol­ 1882 32 11 34 8,000 10,030 125 Steel Gir~rs Support Roof. plant and in the final showdown we lowing tentative schedule of events. 1883 18 11 61 4,500 5,332 119 Work on the rebuilding of Alumni were credited with 80 acres of plowed 10.30 a. m., trials for both prepara· 1884 20 7 35 5,000 1,885 37 Hall, destroyed by d'ire on February land. tory schools and high schools in the 1885 10 50 2,500 7,305 292 18, is 1Jrogressing so rapidly under My wife who was one of the early 5 100-yard dash, the broad jump, and 1886 . 8 3 36 2,000 602 30 Contraotor R. F. Jones that the build- graduates of the University of Wash­ the high jump. In the afternoon at 19 9 47 4,750 3,910 82 ing will be ready for occupancy well ington, and I, did more than clear up 1887 2 o'clock the finals of the above 1888 29 11 38 7,250 5,181 71 within the contract time, which calls these 80 acres. We have raised three events and all the remaining events 1889 20 6 30 5,000 910 18 for the completion of the work by boys, two of whom graduate this on the schedule, will be run off. It 4,750 10,870 229 1890 19 12 63 June 1. June from the State College in Pull­ is expected that this program can be 8,250 4,865 59 When college closed for the Easter 1891 33 12 36 man with the highest honors in their completed in time for the competitors vacation scaffolding had been placed 1892 30 10 33 7,500 5,105 68 departments, one a poultryman and to see the Trinity-St. Stephens base­ 1893 43 13 30 10,750 2,390 22 (Concluded on page 2.) the other a dairyman, and the third ball game. 1894 30 7 23 7,500 1,505 20 bids fair to make a name for himself Forty-nine Prizes. 1895 26 10 38 6,500 3,415 52 as a naturalist, having done much 1896 39 15 39 9,750 6,796 70 ...... • work for the University of Michigan Forty-nine prizes are offered by 1897 34 9 27 8,500 4,426 52 CALENDAR • and American Museum in New York. the class. These include six 9lh inch 1898 33 14 43 8,250 7,905 96 And why do I tell you all this? silver cups, nine 5 * inch silver cups, 1899 46 18 39 11,500 4,554 37 Saturday, May 6: • Just to let you know that what Trin- twenty-five silver medals, and nine 1900 34 14 41 8,500 1,5!!5 18 Track Meet, Union at Schen- • ity gave me, I have been able to pass i bronze medals. The winning team in 1901 41 12 29 10,250 4,170 41 • ectady. • on to the coming generation and ex- I each of the relays will receive a 9lh 1902 41 19 47 10,250 3,262 32 Baseball, WHliams at Wil- • plain why at this late date only, I am I inch cup, and each member of the 1903 35 12 34 8,750 1,545 18 • liamstown. able in a measure to repay the debt.\ team a silver medal. The school scar- 1904 26 8 30 6,500 686 11 Wednesday, May 10: • We a:re still here on the old farm, Iing the highest total of points in each 1905 40 14 35 10,000 1,650 17 Baseball, N. Y. U., at Hart- : living in the log house I built when division receives a 9lh inch cup. 1906 45 20 44 11,250 3,350 30 • ford. • I was married and will be here for First place in each event, except 1907 48 10 21 12,000 1,700 14 Thursday, May 11: • perhaps a year more by which tim'e those above mentioned, carries with 1908 58 16 27 14,500 4,493 31 Junior Smoker, St. Anthony : we hope to have been able to find a it a 5* inch cup, second place a sil- 1909 58 23 39 14,500 5,586 39 • Hall. • new location. Later, I may be able ver medal, and third place a bronze 1910 60 20 33 15,000 6,185 41 Friday, May 12: • to do more, but just now I cannot medal. 1911 68 24 35 17,000 3,143 19 Sophomore Smoker. tell what we may need to start the I Officials who have been invited to 1912 63 30 46 15,750 6,855 44 Interscholastic Tennis Match. : boys on a new place. officiate at the meet are: r eferee, 1913 63 23 34 15,750 3,245 21 Saturday, May 13: I see an occasional Trinity man Horace B. Olmstead, '08; judges at 1914 75 38 51 18,750 3,660 20 Sophomore Smoker. • once in a while. Many years ago Dr. finish, Professor Charles E. Rogers, 191G 95 32 33 23,750 4,52.1 19 Interscholastic Track Meet, • and Mrs. Smith drifted out to the Owen Morgan, '06, Melville Schul- 1916 81 35 42 20,250 2,570 13 • Trinity Field. • Sound and spent a week with me. thiess, '19; timers, Dr. Horace C. 1917 84 26 31 21 ,000 3,981 19 Baseball, St. Stephens at : He used to try to drum Metaphysics Swan, Professor Haroutune M. Da- 1!H8 60 16 26 15,250 1,950 13 • Hartford. • into my head in the old days and I dourian, Harvey Pond, '08; clerk o£ 1919 79 33 42 19,750 3,346 17 Sophomore Smoker show, • got back at him by trying to teach course, Robert S. Morris, '16; assist- 1920 No records compiled. : Alumni Hall, 8 p. m. • him to cast a fly. He wielded a very) ant clerks of course, Robert D. 1921 No records ·compiled. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • (Concluded on page 2.) 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treaty and he is dumb. Speak about preserve, support and continue their ~ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ·~ HARTFORD MINISTER 1 a prof. and he agrees with you to work. Trinity College is both an 1 <• • ~ ~be~ripob save argument. If you find your PREACHES SERMON asset and a liability of the Episcopal : Timely . Suggestions host is playing bridge don't try to ON TRINITY COLLEGE Church. She has provided many : TRINITY COLLEGE, talk at all, for to do so may mean the leaders for the Church in the past • t s Hartford, Conn. end of a casual acquaintance. Bridge More Than Five Hundred Dollars century, including over 600 clergy : aor port Kember, Eutem Intereolleslate Newapaper is not like poker, being first and fore­ Realized From Offering for and 26 bishops. We must see to it : Aaeoelation. most an intellectual game, limited to Centennial Fund. that many more are trained· there in • Published Weekly throu&"hout the Collece Year. Enthusi·asts the elite, who are almost always too In the course of his sermon on the the next hundred years. This is our : busy to play with a beginner, and first Sunday after Easter, the Rever­ responsibility. We cannot refuse to : Subscribers are urged to report promptly then bridge is so intricate that it dis­ meet it. Every member of the Just received a new stock any serious irregularity in the receipt of end Mr. E. C. Thomas, rector of St. THE TRIPOD. All complaints and business courages conversation. James's Church, Hartford, spoke to Church must accept and carry a : of Wright & Ditson Golf communications should be addressed to the Trinity needs someone with the his congregation about Trinity Col­ share of this responsibility. The an- • Clubs, Mashies, Putters, CiTh~a~~I':,,!~n~~erTHE TRIPOD are at all skill of a pyromaniac who will bring swer to the question, "Where can we : Niblics, l\Iid-Irons, Mashie times open to alumni, undergraduatee and lege and the Centennial Fund. The others for the free discussion of matters of about an intellectual renaissance text was St. Luke 24: 48, "Ye are best help to make the future better : Niblics, Drivers, Brassi~s, interest to Trinity men. No anonymous com­ here. We must find some antidote than the past?" is "Religious educa- : priced $3.00 and up. • munications will be published, and THE witnesses of these things", and he TRIPOD assumes no responsibility for senti· for the gaudy attractions of the city tion." We must give our sons to be • Special, "Fore" Golf : ments expressed by correspondents. showed how the chief business of and its people, we must awaken an Christians today is the _same as it trained, and we must give our labor : Balls, our own importation, intellectual interest in college and was when these words were spoken and our money to train them. : 35c each; $4 a dozen. EXECUTIVE BOARD college life as such, else the college to the first disciples, viz. to bear wit­ Mr. Thomas concluded by saying : Golf Bags, complete stock Robert D. Byrnes, '22 ...... Editor-in-chief will become no more than a factory ness to the Truth as revealed in that the association between the Col- • all the best makes~ priced • William G. Brill, '23 ...... Managing Editor where men work certain hours a day lege and the Parish had always been • from to each. Ri~h>~rd C. Puels, '22 ...... Circulation Manager Jesus Christ and especially in His 98c $10 Luca Celentano, '23 ...... Advertising Manager at certain tasks, only because their death and resurrection. In addition intimate and helpful and that he : masters have set these tasks. We AUXILIARY BOARD to that, we of today have inherited a trusted it would always continue to • Brown,Thomson &Co. J. M. England, '22 T. S. Bradley, '23 are rapidly approaching that state responsibility to support and perpet­ be so. He said that he would like : H. H. Thomas, '24 Chas. E. Cuningh,am, '24 now, and soon we will be truly fac­ uate the testimony made by our the Parish to be the first to have a • Hartford'• Shoppiq Center ~ tory hands, with only a factory fathers in the faith all along the line. share in the effort to rais·e the Cen- ~ ~ Entered as second-class matter Sept. 2(, 1109, hand's idea of relaxation and recrea­ tennial Fund and that an offering ~·~·~·~~·~·~·~·~·~·~· ~·~·~~·~·~·~·~· <®·~·~·~·~<®•-

TIME TRIALS FOR TRACK DR. OGILBY AD­ MEN HELD-MEET UNION SATURDAY MAY SIXTH D'RESSES R'OTA:RY Nash and Johnson Promise to be Stars of the Season. Weight President and Trinity Quartette Events Doubtful. Appear Before International Time trials in the various track Rotary Club of. Hartford. events were held last Saturday in preparation for the coming meet with SPEAKS ON "WHAT SHOULD A Union at Schenectady on May 6. One COLLEGE EDUCATION GIVE?" of the surprises of the trials was the fact that Wilbor, Freshman from Invites Club to be Guests at Base­ Hartford, won the two-mile race ball Game. Quartette Well from Captain Clapp. The Freshman Received. led the race almost the entire dis­ tance, and was nearly one hundred An un-official Trinity day was ob­ yards ahead of Clapp at the finish. served by the International Rotary Clapp finished second while Coxeter Club, of Hartford, on Monday, May came in third. 1. At the weekly luncheon of the Allen, '24, won the 220 low hurdles, In Medicine- club President Ogilby addressed the with Wilcox coming in second. But members and the Trinity Quartette, in the high hurdles Allen disqualified 'l "I ]HEN you get out into the medical world, you'll find composed of E. Cullum, '23, S. Cul­ and Wilcox won. The time for the VV young doctors are judged by something more than lum, '23, Brill, '23, and Bowdidge, '23, high hurdles was poor. diagnostic ability and knowledge of their subject. The at• entertained the club members and Nash, '24, won the 100-yard dash, mosphere of success plays its part-the evidence that you their guests with several numbers. with Guertin, '22, finishing a close have "arrived." And among the little details that indicate Dr. Ogilby took for his subject, second. Nash also won the high · success, there's the habit of preferri~·.g "What Should be the Aim of a Col­ jump by defeating Gesner, '23. lege Education?" He brought out Nash succeeded in winning the run­ the changing conditions in America ning broad jump. Walsh and Gesner since the war, which have sent many took second and third places, re­ I men who never before thought of a spectively, in this event. college education to institutions of Johnson, '25. a former Hartford higher learning. He declared that High School track man, won the 220- this was one of the most difficult and the 440-yard dashes. problems American colleges have Nash had a hard time to take sec­ rzno ever faced, and they are all trying to ond place from Healey in the 220- t~The One Cigarette Sold the World OYer" answer the question, "What shall we yard dash, while in the 440 Healey do with them?" captured second place and Guertin Rememberthat Melachrino is a master blend The speaker then went on to a dis­ came in third. of the finest Turkish Tobaccos as originated cussion of the question of technical Captain Clapp succeeded in win­ by MiltiadesMelachrino. Egyptian cigarettes schools, and the advisability of the ning the mile race, with Beard finish­ are simply those that originated in Egypt. colleges changing their curricula to ing second and Wilbor third. The But the tobacco is what you want to know about-and if it's Melachrino- it's right. special subjects. He stated that half mile was a close race between Trinity has been subjected to great Palmer, M'orton and Buckley. Mor­ pressure from different sources to ton finally won the race while Pal­ make this change, but that the col­ mer came in a close second. · lege authorities thought this to be No trials were held in the weight inadvisable. events at this time. Fischer, '24, has An interesting bit of information been showing up well in practice which Dr. Ogilby · gave the Rotary while Brill and O'Connor are vete­ Club was that when he first came to .rans of last year's team. Hartford to assume the presidency Kunkel has also been doing good of the college he invited various work in the broad jump, in fact, he heads of banks, insurance companies, promises to be a very valuable man and manufacturing concerns in the in that event. city to a dinner at which he asked The first meet of the season is to them to state their ideal of a college take place next Saturday, with Union education. Almost without exception at Schenectedy, N. Y. Union recent­ these leaders of business stated that ly lost a meet. The two teams seem a college should not attempt to train to be rather evenly matched. experts in any particular line, but HENRY ANTZ'S EXCLUSIVE AGENTS that the kind of men needed in busi- TRINITY'S pART IN FOUNDING ness were men whose minds had been DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH. BARBER SHOP ~riting .t}aptr~ trained to think, and who were poten- Article in "The Church News" Tells Florsheim for MEN tial leaders in life. of Foundation of Diocese. Trinity 10 Chairs. CRANE'S JAPANESE LINEN Dr. Ogilby gave this as one of the Men in "Who's Who in America." Shoes GENTLEMEN'S CLUB reasons that Trinity chooses to re- The Hon. Joseph Buffington, '75, CLUB LETTERS main a small college. In addition, in his article on Trinity in "The H. FICHTNER G. CODRARO Propri.tor. BERKSHIRE he said that a small student body Church News" for April, 1922, writes Bill Battey's Shoe Shop TYPEWRITER PAPERS tends to create a feeling of social of the important part the college has For All Business and Academic Uses Strand Theatre Bulldinr. unity and a realization of social du- played in the establishment of the A1k for theu at your dealer'I ties, that cannot be obtained in a diocese of Pittsburgh. 1023 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD. 27 Pearl Street, Hartford, Ct. EATON, CRANE&PIKECOMPANY larger institution. The first Bishop of the Diocese ------New York Pittsfield, Mass. During the course of his address was John Barrett Kerfoot, who at Eleetrie Massage and Hair Cuttinr. Dr. Ogilby announced that the Senate the time was president of the college. At had extended an invitation to the. The rectorship of Trinity Church, Rotary Club of Hartford, to be guests the' next most important place in the Barber Shop G. F. Warfield & Co. of the college at the baseball game diocese, was given to John Scarbor­ 996 BROAD STREET. with St. Stephens, on May 13, and ough, also a Trinity man, and it was Booksellers and to inspect the college after the game, through his influence that Old Trin­ Men's OITO BRINK, Proprietor Stationers so that residents of Hartford would ity, Pittsburgh, was built. Another feel in closer touch with the college. connecting link is found in the pres- 77-7t Asylulll Street, Hartforcl, ConL During the luncheon the quartette ent rector of this church, Dr. Trav­ The Bryant & Chapman Co. rendered several numbers which were ers, also a Trinity man. Later came THE JOSEPH L. BESSE CO. loudly encored by the members of the third of the Trinity trio, McKay, Distributors of Properly the club. the rector of St. Peter's. Suits Pasteurized Milk and Cream CATERERS French an,d American Ice Creams, These men by their influence sent Hartford, ·Conn. many towards the college they loved College men favor the "Down· French Pastry, Conlfectionery, ete. ALUMNI NOTES. and added many Trinity College lay­ ing"-a four-button Sport Model, 701 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD. men. Telephone, Charter 2134. '15-Among those from Hartford with belt all around. It's Society IF you are feeling hungry, or want a Trinity is called the "Personal Col­ who passed the recent state bar ex­ GOOD SMOKE, drop in at LOUIS lege", because of the influence her Brand tailored-so its good looks aminations was James J. O'Connor. TULIN'S - 44 Vernon Street - O'Connor served overseas with the faculty has on the character of the will last as long as the fabric students and in proportion to her 10•2nd Infantry during the late war. does. The .College Store He is a memlber of Alpha Tau Kappa. graduates Trinity has more men in '18--R. Buechner, Trinity, '18, and "Who's Who in America" than any Come in and see it. Princeton, '22, has become a member other university or college in America. TRIED - TESTED - TRUE of the Triangle