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mtnttr mcmlltt Hew roalV times has it Perhaps,!) now and later.~~ this been said that College is the issue of the Trinitt Tatler w.i.ll happiest time of a man! s life? bring back some ofhese laded P rhaps this is so because it is memories., at this time that the capacity f r enjoying life is greatest and The Tatler has been written a s~e t irresponsibilit.y is and edited bY the students of strong enough to banish cares English 203 9 Introduction to which would9 otherwise11 spoil Writing for PublicationG Much much f the pleasureo credit and thanks are in order for Messrso Parker,p Williams~ ·It. T'.i!.ll alway~ be a joy and Hartford, and the staff of to leok back upon College Life the Public Relations Offic 1 far in later years but perhaps it was their cooperation and time Wii.ll dull these memories help which makes this publication and. make them less clear o possibleo EDITORIAL BOARD

Walter Ce Shannon Ecfitor-in-Chief Neil "Me"' DB\f THE TRINITY TATLER Robert A., Shaw Art Editors Volume I Winter, 1956 No., 1 EDITORIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ASSOCIATES Do M. c-ardwell Editorial By W. C. Shannon 1 E., L., Mortimer Pipl Pipl w., 0., Richards By D.M. Cardwell 3 H. H., Orenstein Verno:ra Street By w.o. Richards 4 N., M., Day To New Trinity Brown Baggers B., C., Headle By H.H. Orenstein S., N. Bowen Back When By B.C. Headle 6 R., M. Stevenson The First Janitor J. P., Miller By N.M. Day 8 D., N. Spear Parasites Profuse By E.Lo Mortimer 9 w., J., Zito Fire, Fire Everywhere! w.. F., Morrison By W. C. Shanncm 11 Meet Mr. Klimczak _By W.F. Morrison 12 "Pigskin Parade at Trinity• By D.N. Spear 13 Meet Frankie Carle By R.M. Stevenson, Jr., 14 St., Patrick' s Day, 1905 13,- S.N. Bowen 15

"Cap 11 By J.P. Miller 18

White Rats in a Test Tube By W., J. Zito 19 Pip£ Pip1

1 Neath the elms the learned men lie sprawled Trin seniors» mighty~ fallen. Commencement weekj) though formal thought, Is more like jolly brawling. •Tis pity as we watch them there To see fine Harris tweed And flannel of imported make Pressed close 1 gainst campus weed. Long have their eager minds divined The splendor of the Muse. Read Aristophanes and laughed; Enjoyed the Trojan ruse. They've fought with stout Napoleon, Saw Caesar to his grave; And lauded all the ancient greats, Round coffee at the "Cave.n Their genteelness is gilded now True connoisseurs all. Who drank "White Horsett so furtively Must now for "Glen Grant" call. The high school lass with baton bright Once loved - "But sir» be muml" The Vassar and .the Holyoke dame Must play the fife and drum.

Ah1 waitl A stir. A. sigh. A groan. Then one _among them cries, •Letts off ~ merr.r~ white-shoed lads; There's gin at Delta Phi•s.•

Yes~ off they go with song and laugh In quest of added spree. God~ st~ their academic heads From harsh reality. V~RfNOM ST~ - [~lF ..-: WoOe RllC~ A~ D$

Saturd~ night on Vernon Street Just as the first division of the during a partyless winter weekend "flick squad" returns, the "health can be a very dull and miserable club" gathers its number for the time for the few disallusioned nightly pilgrimage to A.C. souls who feel compelled to remain Petersen's Dairy.. One of the there and study o Good intentions returning moviegoers nearly goes depart as, one by one, the more along with the milkshake men, but realistic fraternity members begin is saved from such a cruel fate by their off-campi ventures.. The a trio heading toward the Heublein. remaining few then begin discussion A very 11 shoe" and proper pair of various methods of relaxing take off for an evening of Orange for that "short break before Blossoms and Ogden at the Adajian getting down to the business at Room .. handott Back at the ranch, the pennyless A quick glance at a newspaper ones are exercising the pool and evolves into a detailed survey of ping pong tables, not to mention the "flick sheet,n the focal point of the beer cooler. A sole TV addict collegiate interest in contemporary is draped over the back of an over­ art and literature. nrt•ll be great stuffed armchair amid a clutter of for us to knock off a bit and we crushed beer cans. Suddenly ., .. • won•t lose much time at all if we the phone ringsl Nothing really catch the early show o We can finim unusual. One of the clan has made off this stuff in half the time a slight error in the proqess of when we come back". Hurry up boys, parking his vehicle and requires aid Saturd~ night brings out a in extricating it from a flowerbed. horde of frivilous people Who have Just which flowerbed and how it no intention of doing anything all happened were not made too constructive.. Those parking spaces clear, but a rescue party immed­ will be hard to find.. Don•t forget iately begins the search equipped to take along a few tins to quench with the usual hastily collected your thirst on that long, grueling bail fund. drive along Washington Street .. Gradually the house quiets down Let•s not forget the boys in the as the industrious students put card roomo They've just completed away their bottles, cans and play­ a lengthy bull session condemning things, and one by one retire. the evils of •• flicking"; completed Somewhere down the hall someone it in favor of adjourning to ''Joe's" mutters something about not exactly or the "Birdn for a steak sandvnch feeling like going to chapel next and a few lagers.. Who can blame them morning ..... then silence. Thus, if they spend an hour or two friends, as they say in the movies, watching the Canadians tromp the we take leave of another "study Rangers in Madison Squard Garden via night" on Vernon Street.. Worrlerful barside TV once they get there? what creative thinking is fostered within the time-honored and ivy­ covered walls of old Trino -4- B~ :Bo..~ ~~ ~a__. hJ H (')J@Jn s trJ1rrv

Youvv got a problem, Brown­ These new ideas that you encounter Bagger. At least, I hope you have, daily are probably common talk among because if you havenvt you're not them., Not so with you, Brawn-Bagger. getting your moneyss worth out of You 1 re going to have a pretty rough old Coll., Trin. Sane., rtos going to time of it when you go hone and tell show itself.P but probably not for a your dad that you're ·thinking of while. The problem is that you•re becoming a Latin teacher for the getting a liberal education! satisfaction of it., He'll pro­ That's a problem? · Indeed it is. bably tell you that you're in Unconsciously probably, but none college spending some $4000 or more the less drastically, you1re and some four years ef your life for changing, Brown-Bagger, and it's the purpose ·or learning something probab~ going to cause arguments worthwhile - like how to make a buck. all around., Maybe these arguments You figure college is the same will be with mater and pater. as high-school as far as yeu are M~be they'll be with your one and concerned. After all, you're home only. As a matter of fact, chances every night; you go back a.trl forth are that you 111 shed your high­ to school every day. Yes, you school sweetheart before ver.y long. think it•s like high school, but All this will happen and more unless it•s not .and the sooner you realize 1.). Your folks are college grads it.P the better. 2.,) Your girl is a college student. If you're a B.s. boy, you're not The arguments with your folks :may likely to .have this problem., That's be about nearly anything. As for what most BoSe boys tell me. your girl, chances are that they'll Their education here seems to be a be because of lack of common interests. sort of extenuation of previous Why all this hubub? Because knowledge. The B.A., boy, now.P you•re changing, Brown-Bagger., that 1 s a different story. If you Every d~ you are associating with get anything more out of History men on the top rung of the ladder 101-102 than a few dates and events, of education. Every day you are and you should .P you' 11 grasp a whele being exposed to new ideas. Every new slant on life, yours in d~ you're growing little by little particular and those in general., until suddenly you feel that you're What I vm saying .P Brown-Bagger, a completely different person than is that you're going to be a very you were a scant few months ago. lonely guy., .The fact that you're But your folks and your girl hav.n•t here at Trinity terns to indicate changed, and therein lies the you're likely to absorb these mature problem. ideas I ' ve been talking about am Many of the boys on campus you 1 re going to be impressed by haven't got your problem, Brown­ those around you. You'r going to Bagger., They're growing together. think like Hell, mayb for the They can talk_to each other., They're first time in your life.. Then probably getting acquainted with you1 re going to go home and realize the girls from nearby colleges., that coll ege is not like high school., For one thing» you're not their roommates, have bull going to have anybody to talk to. sessions an:i the lile., Not You'll want to talk to somebody - you, Brown-Bagger., deep talk, talk that will bring So you'll try to r ead your these new ideas of yours to life. papers to the only one yound You're going to want someone else expect to care about your new ideas - to grow with you., You're going to your girl., But, remember? You want someone else to be interested liked her from the start because in your new ideas., she was a sweet~ unspoiled little The arguments with your folks thingo You used to help her with her shouldn't be too serious., Your homework in return for a kiss. She girl,p now, is another story., made you feel like a man, a pro­ You'll likely find that what you tector, a hero., Now, all of a sud­ wanted in a girl in high school den, you see her in a different doesn't matter as much now, and light. You give and she takes. what you never cared for before She's still sweet and unspoiled is all of a sudden the most (maybe)., She's also a kid with a important characteristic you're high-school education or less and looking for in a girl. You're no idea at all of what your in­ going to want· intellectual. terested in now., You don't call companionship, ·boy., Remember I'm her naive ~ore; the word is talking to you, Brown-Bagger., To stupid., She doesn't go for such the on..campus lad, a date is apt pleasantry. She decides you've to be still the same: a good time, developed a swelled head and are probably more physical than mental, too impressed with your blue and a break in studies., They 111 gold jacket with the seven letters probably read their papers to on the back. Too bad, Brown-Bagger. Nobody un:ierstands you., You've got a problem, Brown-Bagger.

Would you be able to get into a freshmen at Trinity· in the early college which gave an entrance days of the co llege9 when it was examination for proficiency in known as Washington College. Once English Grammar~ Greek, Latin, over this barrier, the student was English to Latin translation, faced with little relief, since he Geography, math, Cicero, Sallust, was given practically no Choice of Virgil, Jacob's Greek Reader, St., subjects., The studies of Greek Luke, St., John, and Acts? Those philosophers an:i math were dominant, were the requirements for potential while such things as modern languages could only be taken' at hours of 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. he extra cost. was required to study, and was Speaking of cost, the tuition specifically not permitted to lie amounted to $ll for each of the down on his bed. Bad conduct three tenns. Other prices per was divided into two classifications: term were $3.50 for rooma $lo00 for high offenses, and misd.emeanors. The use of the librar,r, and $2.00 far high offenses included a general fee. In apologizing for associating with an expelled the high price of mealsa the college stuienta possessing a dirk or sword­ made this statement: "The price of cane» being an actor or spectator in board must necessarily depend on the any theatrical entertainment price of provisions$ and during during term time, and taking part the high prices of the last three in public celebration, except with years has been about $2.50 per permission of the facultyo weeko" The $3.50 for room did not Misdemeanors inclu:led going to a really cover mucha however, since ball or assembly without the the student was required to provide president's consent, pla,ying a bed, bedding, furniture, fire wood, musical ins trurnent s on Sunday, and and candles o It was also required "pl~ng cards or dice or any other that, "Each room shall be kept unlawful game • tt furnished with a good and sufficient A college Bursar was appointed bucket, at the expense of the to handl all of the studentsv occupants ott This was for use in money. In fact a student could case of fir o be expelled for keeping money in The nine faculty members w re his own possession. To prevent required to attend chapel each morning extravagance, a uniform dress was at 6:00 a.mo, and each evening, as was prescribed by the president9 and no the entire stui ent body o Sunday student was allo1o1ed to appear in services were also requisites. Each public in any other clothes during professor was assigned a room term time. 1vhich he was obliged to occupy as The school year was longer than much as possible, especially in the it is now. · The college opened in evenings. Each member of the September, with a two-week faculty was also placed in charge vacation for Christmasa and a three­ of several students, and could fine week spring vacation in April or them up to $lo00 for misbehavior. May. The commencement a which the If a stuient refused admittance entire student body was required of a faculty member to his room, to attend, was always held on the the professor had the right to first Wednesday in August. A six­ break down the door, with the week vacation followed before the student p~ the bill. next school year o The restrictions to which the Maybe in those old days, the students were subjected ~ere quite students did get more for their strict. At 6:00 aom. everyone money, and perhaps they received a went to chapela and at 10:00 Porno better education, but they certain­ everyone went to bed. Between the . ly worked for it. THIE r ~IRST

The histor,y of Trinity College is braceG Shortly, he escaped and littered with interesting personal­ served the duration of the war as a ities6 Professors and alumni who llpowder monkey" on the American have done great things and taken frigat e, "The True Blooded Yankee.'' prominent roles in t he drama of his­ This service he found much to his tory6 Yet I propose t hat Trinity's liking, and manned the nunb er one most fantastic personage was not .a gun in some of the most spectacular professor or an alumnus = but a low­ action of the war o The remaining ly janitor6 His name was Professor time he spent at sea was aboarti Jim Wi lliams, and he was the negro China traders - and even for a short servant of Bishop BrownellG Profes­ time was a pirate under Duress. sor Jim was head janitor and bell He jumped ship in Brazil and forsook ringer at Trinity for almost five a large cut of the spoils for his decades, building in that period a peace of mind. warm and lasting legendG This man in his seafaring days Jim was born a slave o His first proved himself a brave aQd competent distinct memory was of his mother warrior 6 However, wishing to telling him, "Washington's dead1 11 settle, he became contracted to He and his mother were slaves on the the Brownell family as a servant. plantation of a Colonel Roberts in Bishop Brownell came to Trinity in Yonkers, New York., Roberts was an 1823 and Professor Jim with him. intimate friend of Aaron Burr., Pro­ Both became much a part of Trinity fessor Jim' s memories of Burr have legem. Jim's primary capacity was augmented historical works on the that of bell ringer. At a very life of t he fiery dualisto In fact, early hour, probably six a.,m.,, he Professor Jim developed in his early awoke the student body., This was life the knack of being where his­ accomplished despite the plots of tory was being made., When Professor five decades of students., A favorite Jim wanted to see the world, he ran trick ef the students was to awa:y on the Fulton, the first Amer­ invert the bell and pour water ican steamship. Soon after, he put to into it, hoping that the winter sea on a West India trader and seldom cold would freeze it solid., Often again during his youth was he on it did, but Professor Jim's duty was l and. For three years during the never neglected., He also sUITIIIlOned War of 1812, he served on the Brit­ stuients before the faculty fer ish sloQp of war "The Shepherdess," reprimand or reading of papers., after being kidnapped at sea., Dur­ Often the pursuit of an evasive ing this time he was almost de~ student took the better portion of voured by cannibals in the Congo, the day, but Professor Jim always but escaped by giving them the sil­ delivered his man despite locked ver buttons off his coat. Objecting doors, secret hiding places, and many to firing on his own countrymen, he falsehoods., Regardless of these at one time attempted to scuttle unpleasant tasks, Professor Jim the sloop by drilling hol es in its became the intimate of each Trinity bottom with a homemade drill and mano He was a large, jovial negro If it ' s golsi it will canker, if whose head~ in later years, was it's silver it will rust; if it's wreathed by feathery white haire copperheads it will tarnish, but your " His laughter was thunderous; but his friendship will last always e 0 0 manner was gentle; his heart kind; your secrets was mine o o though you and his simple, uncultured wisdom stopped up the keyhole with putty o ·" was well heededo He was well loved by all, ana because he was well Professor Jim Williams livad trusted was dubbed the "Professor of long enough to outlive a hundred Secrets.n At each graduation, he and fifty a1. umni that had lived rendered a short speech of farewell about himo He gained the distinc­ to "histt class, which was a gem of tion of founding the African Zion soft wito It becams customary for Methodist Church in Hartfordo each class to present him with a He was once nominated, as a jest, pouch of gold and his reply oft n as vice-president of the United followed this pattern~ States. He had several books written about him and was often "· •• I thank you for this purse. quoted as a reliable witness to many No matter how little it is ~ no great historic events. His greatest matter how great it is, it ain't enshrinement, however, was in the so precious as friemso A man that hearts of those who knew and loved ain't got a cent in his pocket and him, and in the legend of Trinity has a friend near o o o is richo Collegeo

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Decaying animan carcasses and the bird specieso illegally parked Tr init y student's To park one's car on Summitt St. automobiles have a l ot in common. near the Hamlin Arch and leave it They each attract a certain species for perhaps a few hours, and upon of vultures. One species flies, returning find a parking ticket whereas the other rides in radio­ fron1 the Hartford Police Department .. equipped police carso Both have the stuck under one's windshield wiper, same obnoxious mission at heart, and is nothing unusual for most Trinity both earn their livelihood by meno Without the slightest hesita­ heinous machinations on unwary vic­ tion, the out-of- state Trinity tims o Let us rather concern our­ drivers tear up t he green slip of selves with the radio-equipped type paper, or add it to t heir col lections, of vulture, than their close kin, if they are hardened fugi tives

-9- from justice., Connecticut drivers, crime ., Their· guns are still in however, are obligated to pay the their holsters, but a s lightly fine in order to renew their yearly crouched position is noticeable as driving permits., Obviously, this each man carries out his pre­ phase of Connecticut Motor Vehicle determined phase of the mission. law does not hinder the out-of~ Except for the lack of aerial state Trinity driver, who goes support and heavy artillery, one merrily on his way with a glove would imagine the entire area to be compartment full of parking tickets. under military siege., The only party who seems to Upon the arrival of sufficient register any concern about. the forces, a general war council is incident is the donor of the green called, during which each of the tickets, the Hartford Police Dept., arresting officers stands with a who, in desperation, have begun, foot on the bumper of the blighted in a vulture-like_manner, to impound auto and wears his most grimacing cars parked illegally on Summitt st. and vulture-like expression, all A cost of almost ten dollars is the while hoping against desperate the minimum fine in the case of an hope that the owner of the car impounded vehicle. For ten dollars will arrive apologetic and bearing the police can afford to make a gifts unto his prosecutors., When, spectacle of it 1 however, the owner does not arrive Can you imagine an uncivilized and in sufficient time, the tow truck unhousebroken vulture wearing a blue winch is lowered and the rear suit, shining badge, visor cap, and wheels of the car are hoisted off grim expression? It looks more the ground. As the car is being like a monkey circus act than the raised into the towing position, tmdng away of an illegally parked the four or five attending automobile., Watching the actual officers jubilantly join hands in 11 hoisttt of an auto by the gendarmes a circle and participate in a type is an interesting experience in of native tribal dance of uncanny adolescent or abnormal psychology exhuberance and progressive excite­ (take your choice!). manto With a certain ten dollars After discovering a car parked coming from some driver's pocket illegally, the vulture scouts perhaps they dance for joy, communicate across the air waves financial joy., 1vith the main corps of police The grand recessional to the car stationed nearby, who maintain the pound led by the motorcycles, heavy trucks and the additional behind· them the tow truck with its manpower necessary to descend upon trophy, and behind that the two the empty but ill egally parked auto. police cars, resembles a fleet of ~'lith their sirens wailing, two Florida fishing boats returning to police cars, two motorcycle cops, and port after a good day's catch. One the actual tow truck v.rith a crew of would imagine that the police t-vm men converge from all feared the escape of their dead directions upon the scene of the carcass in towl

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FlRE111 !1 It wasn't anything really After this the fire was soon exting- serious» just a small blaze in the uishedo The fire chiefts investiga- upper shelf of a book case in Dr. tion shoed t hat the fire had started McCook's officeo It occurred on the in the painted scenery canvas used 9th of February 1923, but was prac- by the Jesterso The highly waxed tically forgotten by the next morning. floor facilitated the easy and rapid Following a quiet three days, a spread of the fire, and t he result fire was discovered on Feb. 12th in is nov1 history. the public speaking room just over Further investigation showed that the·post officeo Mulligan, class of no one had occassion to use the '25, had turned in the alarmo The floor building that day nor had there been in an area around the pipe and rad- any occassion to use it in the pre- iator was burned. At first it was ceeaing two weekso The junior prom thought that heat had caused the was the last event to be held in oily floor to combust, but then it the hallo The final verdict showed was discovered that no heat had arson to be the causeo But who been turned on. The fire had started could have committed this $15,000 act. on the floor and spread around the A student, professor, local person? piping. It was most perplexing, but No one knew, but efforts were being no definite cause was produc ed. coordinated to fim the culprito Everyone tended to shrug it off as For over a week secret investiga- just something that had happened. tion was held but all remained The crowning blow occurred on Sat- quieto Administration officials could urdey, Feb. 12. Alumni Hall had find no clueso Then, an the 2oth caught on fire. Four companies of of Feb., that famjljar cry was firemen arrived on the scene along heard againo FJREg R 1 The scene with a squad of police. The fires, was Prof o Barrettv s latin roomo so innocent before, now took on At 2:45 pm, his last class ended a suspicious natureo Students and the Professor went home 51 leaving managed to carry out all the athletic the door open as was his custom. At and school equipment, but the class 3:20pm the fire was discovered in the flags dating from 1878 were lost. wastebasket under the desko This Students helped firemen battle the time definite traces of oil were flames. foundo Because of similarities In the ensuing battle hoses were between this and the fire in the cut by· falling slate, ladders were public speaking room positive action broken, but fortunately no injuries was takeno resulted. Less than twenty minutes after A student guard, under the direct- the start of the blaze the roof caved ion of Fred StoneD basketball coach, in and the south wall collapsedo was posted in all buildingso Do you

~11- think this stopped the fi nd?·At Jarvis 39., Starting in the closet the 11:38 pro, Febo 22, during the chang­ fire burned through the door and ing of the guard the culprit strook scorched the walls, even though in Jarvis 41 .. A bureau, emptied. of George had just left his room, all the owner's clothes, was set on locking the door., fireo With this fire the administra­ Circumstantial evidence pointed tion finally turned the case over heavily toward George, who was the to local ani state police, who began first one at each fire, had turned an intensive investigation, but lack in a number of the alarms, who of clues hindered their success., couldn't account for most of his time The next day, Feb. 23, the sixth before .each fire., Psychiatric tests and final fire was set., It was proved his sanity, and after a few just past 6 pro when most people d~s he was freed because of a lack usually went to dinner., The fire of conclusive evidence., was in George Mulligan's room, The culprit was never founi:, the whole affair was a mifsterious one indeed., Was it George, someene else, or -- just one of those things - 'Z

It was the Saturday after the project for t e Uo S., Ar~., Junior Prom at Trinity and the A native of New Haven, Connecticut, students and their dates were in he grew up in t he shadow of Yale the college auditorium for an and decided t hat that was the entertaining winter's afternoon., only school for him., So after Most were quite rightfully graduation from Hillhouse High shocked when Mr., Walter Klimczak, School, he became a son of old Eli of the Mathematics Department., in the class of t 37 0 He had never was introduced., They couldn't played sports in high school, but believe their eyes when they saw decided to go out for freshman him bring a guitar, nor could baseball anyway o He developed they believe their ears when they quickly, and soon was starting heard him sing. To the older third baseman for the yearling members of the audience this was squad., In his sophomore year he was nothing new. They knew that any­ the regular third baseman, a spot thing could be expected from this which he held for three years., man, who · almost played Major League His senior year saw the team win Baseball, twice defeated TB, and the E.I.Co League championship, now is working on a special math with Walt a big gun for the team.

-12- Clyde Engle, a former star with the 1948 he received his PhD. and then Boston Red Sox~ was the freshman the next year saw him in the hos­ coach at Yale. He helped Walt and pital again with his second attack when he saw that this young man of TB. would be a better catcher 9 he This time it was a much severer started to make him into one o During case o He was operated upon and Mr. Klimczak's last year at Yale for some time had a lung collapsed. he caught batting practice~ and It was during this stat that an when Engle 3 who was also a scout old hobby, started during the first for the Toronto club~ signed him9 TB attack9 became more important. To he was a full-time catcher. He help pass the time he learned folk played with Cornwall in the Can­ songs. At first by rote with a adian-American League.!) then simple guitar accomp~ent, moved to the SallY League before later by music. He did it just for taking the big jump to the Toronto himself, but when he came to Maple Leafs. This was just one Trinity in 1951 and people found step away from the majors. out about this talent, he was He was sold to the Philadelphia A•s, called upon many times. but war interrupted, and he went He has played for Mro Dando's on the voluntar,y retired list so radio program;, "Behind the Pages", that he could serve in the Navy. woman's clubs, English classes, and He was just a gob for a few months other school and social events. when TB struck. A year in hospitals In August of '54 he married Miss cleared up the situation, and he Pat Smith, a secretary for the 'tvas discharged. He returned to Yale college. Pat junior came in June to help out in the Navy's V-12 of the following year. The pro­ program. When it was over, he ject for the Army is just the first stayed and continued teachingo Ia step to fame for this versatile man.

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- Dt tL 0 s~Oit; r "Pigskin Par ade" can be des­ d'efeats, and personnel of every cribed as a labor of love . R0bert Trinity team from 1877 to the present. Morris, author and Trinity Trustee, Quite successfully Mr . Mor ris has is not a professional vJriter ; but cap ured the spirit and enthusiasm his love of football, and even 1r1hich seems always to have surround­ greater love of Trinity, plus seven ed Trinity football. years of methodical research and The astute football fan will writing have produced an except­ appreci ate the unusual bits of human ionally fine history of collegiate interest which have become part of football as it has been played at the lore that is .American football Trinity over the past seventy years. today. In 1877, historian Morris Comprising three hundred and tells us, the most unusual feature eighty pages.~~ "Pigskin Paradett of the Yale - Trinity contest was faithfully records the victories, the uniform of the Tri.nl.ty teamt

-13- "The shirts were made of tight­ Corbin went on to captain the f amous canvas~ fitting thoroughly greased Yale team of 1888, whi ch scored r with lard, so that it was imposs­ 698 points to their opponents zero. ible to get a hold on them. They Of inmeasurable importance to would slip through the crowd of the football f an are the compo site their opponents like eels, and go statistics which Mr. Morris has dancing down the field, in a way so laboriously compiled. Going into that was horrifying to the Yale this season Trinity has won 234 ball students present ••••• They wer e games against 209 defeats. There therefore as difficult t o catch have been 33 ties. Since Dan as eels, and it was not until the Jessee's arrival in 1932 the vic­ Yale men had counteracted this tory percentage has been raised to a by grasping great handfuls of sand resounding 72%. that they were .able to do anything Football at Trinit,r College is like successful tackling.tt not a commercial money making pro­ In 1888 the Trinity freshmen position. Rather, for those who were thoroughly humiliated by have watched and those who have Hartford High School who had a played.~~ it was a stimulating host of stars: esthetic experience--one which •Prominent among them was could be relived in retelling. William H. Corbin who had the hon­ This is the genius which Mr. Morris or of never playing in a losing has recaptured, the thread which game either •• high school or college." connects the past, present, and future of the Trinity College foot­ ball story.

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One of the most highly compet­ Frankie started out his musical itive businesses in this country career -with Horace Height• s orch­ today is show busi ness; the appeal estra . That was when he was nine­ of an entertainer is the sole mea­ teen. After leaving Horace Height, sure of his success. For the past Mr. Carle played with such famous fifteen years, Franki e Carle has men as Paul Whiteman and TollliT.W been enjoying this very same succ­ Dorseyo Since then, there have been ess, a continuous popularity which many pianists who have eome and gone is rarely achieved by modern per­ along with the fads they created. formers, who seem to flare up sud­ Frankie, however, is still playing denly and then.~~ just as quickly, to capacity crowds in hotels and die out. Frankie, however ~ is a nightclubs t hroughout the country. slow burner. In the long run, it When he formed his own band, back is showmen like pianist Carle who in the early forties, Mro Carle benefit the most - financially as realized that it would be much wiser well as popularlyo to select musicians who were very

-14- good as a group, rather than thos has put this man where he is. who were outstanding soloists. Frankie Carle is one f an unfor­ ) This move was indeed wise, be- tunate~ few professional musicians e a us the resulting orchestral who are sincerely proud of their baekgroum is complementary and field. His first consideration is brings out, rather than conceals, making good music; second come making the pianist's fine work. good money. He is a shy and rather One of the key men in arrr modest person, with a quiet manner orchestra i8 it's arranger. For and an amiable, pleasing person­ this job 1 Frankie chose George ality. Barnes, who was Artie Shaw's gui­ Frankie Carle is very much like tar player for many years • . George his .music. He's charming, but un­ has written his arrangements obtrusive. He .is attractive, but bearing in mind the importance not imposing. And, like his music, of providing a restrained, but Frankie Carle will still be popular colorful, background for piano. long after other musicians have Frankie insists that he has been quickly blossomed, am - just as lucky in keeping such a superlative quickly - faded from the musical group of musicians in his orchestra, scene. but it is much more than 1 uck that

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Many of us, the undergraduate members of surrounding our quad as any student could Trinity, · are inclined to forget about the ask for. The whole trouble lies in the fact heritage, histo1"1' arxl custom that surroums that no one wants to take the time to inves- our four year,.hoM. There are many who sq, tigate it, let alone perpetuate it. "the thing that's wrong with Trinity is that The following story was taken from the March ther is no tradition like other New England 21, 1905 issue of the Trinity Tripod and con­ institutions possess." These irxlividuals are cerns itself with the long-forgotten st. far from correct as there is as much tradition Patrick's Day tradition carried out by Trin- _, ity students. 11A large supply of posters bearing the 1908 looking sight they were to • This was head­ numerals was stored previous to St. Pat­ quarters for the Whole class. They were up and ( rick's Day at the house of R.W. Stevens, '08, stirring again, however, long befor e seven on Webster Street. Here President Trumbull and succeeded in raising a large banner assembled his forces at 11 P.M. on Thurs- bearing '19T08 1 across Main Street f r om Fran­ day nighto The class at once set to work past­ cis' hardware store to the Goodwin building. ing these in conspicuous places in all parts They assembled under this and formed a of the city. Billboards, telegraph poles, triumphial procession. This was headed by store windows and the sides of trolley cars, Ferguson's automobile, handsomely adorned all came in f or their share. Most of the fresh­ with the purple posters of •o8. They pro­ men stuck together, but a few chose to dis­ ceeded to the college with much demonstra- tribute their wares by a separate route. tion and secured a new prize of war at the ~on Main Street a band of freshmen were corner of Broad and Vernon Streets in the per­ encountered by Kenyon, the sophomore president, son of R.I. Spier, '07, who was bound and and two of his classmates, Myers and G., Cunning­ gagged and hoisted into the chariot of vic­ ham. In defiance of all ·college tradition tory. Chamberlain, '07, barely escaped a these men were captured and bound by the •08 similar fate. Leaving the auto outside of the men who detected them in the act of tearing college grounds the freshmen gathered at the down some of their posters. A general mix-up gym. The sophomores were waiting for them on ensued in Which the police thought fit to in­ the college walk. The freshmen divided into terfere. But the Sophs prevented any further pairs and each pair was assigned to a certain trouble by giving their parcle. So they were sophomore. When the clash came nearly every set free. Other 1907 men were busy, however, sophomore was rolling in the mud trying to and when morning came few of the numerals cepe with two disciples of the art of jui­ remained in si ght. Among these Sophs were jitsu. Maplesdon, •oB, climbed the north elec- > Ferguson and de Mauriac, who found an auto­ tric light pole and a guard around the pole mobile a convenient aid in their work. Stop­ prevented anyone from reaching the flag which ping at 6:30 t o refresh themselves at the Bal­ he hung up there. timore Lunch they were seized by a number of "The seniors this year decided that if the freshmen, who bound them and locked them in flag be kept up for ten minutes the victory t he Y.M.C.A. building from which they stib­ should be given to the freshmen. So the offic­ ·sequently escaped. The automobile was then ial victory of the day was declared >-TOn by appropriated to the use of the class of 1 08. 1908 at half past eight o'clock. But this ~The great acheivment of the freshmen, how­ by no means ended the day. Several sophomores ever, was the raising of their banner on the carried out some very brilliant ideans down City Hall flag staff. Karl A. Reiche got on town, showing that what this class lacks in the right side of the city officials the day numbers it makes up for in cleverness. before and obtained permission to have this "Kenyon, de Mauriac and Bryant put their done. It was to be kept there from midnight heads together and tried to conceive a way to midnight on the 17th of March. Along in the to remove the banner which appeared to them small hours of the morning a tired, mud-smeared to mar the landscape on Main Street. Rid­ band of freshmen was to be seen in the Y.M.C . A. ing under it on the top of a trolley car was building trying to snatch a half-hours sleep decided to be too dangerous a plan of oper­ on t he lounges or the bare ·floor. A sorry ation, so they concluded to set out to

-16- hire a truck. But just then they encountered up until 5:30 when they decided to take it a large load of hay going down the street down of their own accord ~ and chartered it for t heir purpose. De "Meanwhile the banner which had been float­ ; Mauriac went up to the poli ceman who was com­ ing over City Hall was displayed on t he roof missioned to guard the banner and proceeded of the Connecticut l1ut ual Building and later to condol e him with a number of troublesome the freshmen placed it above t he First Nation­ questions which he had to answer in the pursuit al Bank a Some grocery clerks who befriended of his vocation ~ The other two sophs on t he the Sophs, went up there and secured it, in­ hay wagon had cast an anchor under the banner tending to give it to •07. But Donnelly, •08, and were attempting to tear it down with a met them as they were coming down the f ire­ l ong po le ~ They s ucceeded i n disfiguring t he escape with it and cornered them in a room ~ nan before t he pol i ceman woke up to t he situa­ He worked on their sympathies, telling them tion and r an out to pull t he horses away what a loss it would be to t heir class if the f rom t he place. Sophs got it, as the freshmen class wished to "Later i n t he day a sophomore went around to keep it for their Senior Prom, so finally they various business places and telephoned to turned it over to him ~ This ended t he flag Mayor Henney r eque st ing in t he name of the episode. firm that the flag on Ci ty Hall be removed ~ ttThe annual St" Patrick's Day parade was The good mayor was led to believe t hat t he held in the evening , A drum corps was hired business me n of Hartford object ed to this col­ for the occasion and t he whole undergraduate lege prank being played on such a sacred body took parto The streets were packed building and at 3:30 o 1 clock ordered it taken down town ard. long "Trin" yells were given down. at nearly every block., The affair wound up nMeamrhile many members of t he freshmen with an informal banquet at the college com­ class had stationed them~elves on each of the mons where those who had any voices left buildings f rom which t he banner was hanging indulged in songso

~ and were cheering back and forths This attracted liThe Sophomores seized James Page, •08 9 a large number of bystanders _who lined the and locked him up until t he following morn­ streets as if a ci rcus parade was about to ap pear ing to prevent his reporting the events of waiting to s ee what would happe n next ,. the day to the "Courant",. They of fered the tt The vari ous ent rances to· t he buildings from "Courant" an account of their own, which, the which t he :Hain Street flag was hung were freshmen are glad to say, was not acceptedo guarded by the freshmen, but Bryant and Kenyon This was the last incident in t he most event­ managed to el ude t he •08 men near Francis' ful Sto Patrick's D~ which the College has store ~ and r ushi ng up _t he stairs they climbed seen in many a year ,. ttt out of a scuttle and ran along t he roofs till The annual St ., Patrick's Day scrap was held t hey got ne ar t he pl ace where t he flag was until 1931 when it was forgotten, or at least tied ~ Then t hey succeeded in c utting t he was not important enough to gain recognition r ope and t he banner swung across the street from the Tripod. Perhaps it's better t hat we ~~ dangled against the wall of t he building don't try to revive some of t he old tradi ­ opposite, It was not long, however, before t i ons that are woven into our daily life, but t he f reshmen had it up again and it stayed we should remember them and take an interest in learning about them$

-17- CRP c 0 The formerly retired supervisor ginia. At the end of the war Cap of the Hartford Post Office and went on inactive reserve. He was present postmaster at Trinity Col~ too old to serve in the First lege, Hartf ord, was eighty one World War, and in 1929 Congress years old on January 22 . Francis passed an act placing men of his P. Horan, bet t er known to all rank and age on the retired list. on the campus as 11 Capn , has been When Cap came to Trinity in postmaster at Trinity since 1946, 1946, the post office was located when he came out of retirement in the office of the property to take the job. After reaching manager and there was very little four score and one y ars ~ Cap says mail to be sorted. As the college that he has ttno plans f or a second began to expand an:i the volume retirement on of incoming an:i outgoing mail Born in 1875, Cap is a native of increased, the campus post office Hartfordo He refers to his birth­ was moved to lower Seabury Hall, place and the location of his home where sufficient facilities were for most of these eighty-one years made available for four hundred as "Frog Hollow, tt the area faculty and student post office surrounding Broad and Zion Streets boxes. The campus postal service near Trinity College in Hartford. has since expan:ied to such an Before his forty- six year· tour of extent that under Cap is employed duty with the postal service, Cap one full-time postman and tw played center field and first base students for part time sorting of on several local baseball teams the many letters and parcels. of almost professional ratingo Cap has an uncanny- memory for Early in t he 1890' s he played names and numbers, and by the end for the Pratt and .Whitney team of the first month of school and in 1894 and 1895 he played he has memorized the names and box for t he Hartford Teamo The Hart­ numbers of the 650 resident stud­ ford Team was an independent group ents and the 100 faculty and admin­ who played their games at Trinity istration. He can identify many College when there were less than persons by t heir voices alone. one hundred studentso At that Always in the field of public ser­ time the baseball diamond was vice, Cap served as President of located near the present field the Connecticut Association of house site, and Cap says that, as Post Office Clerks and was twice center fielder, he used to stand in Grand Knight of the Hartford Chap­ the middle of what is now the Mem­ ter of the Knights of Columbus. orial Field House. Cap has been married fifty years. During the Spanish American One of his four sons graduated War he achieved the rank of Captain from Trinity and is now with the and carried the nickname of "Cap" Federal Bureau of Investigation. from his army days with him through­ He has six grandchildren, lives on out the postal system. In the Rodney Street in Frog Hollow with al'IIl\V Cap was stationed with a his wife, Mrs. Agnes Hor&no Connecticut Infantry Di vision at Camp Alger in Falls Church, Vir-

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At times we are inclined to times a day with intervals of six forget that psychology is a science - minutes between each trial., The the science which studies the be­ other group is tested once every havior an::l experience of living or­ twenty-four hourso It does not ganisms. Like chemistry, physics, take very long for the rats to be­ or biology ~ psychology has labor­ come ''psychologically sophisticated", atories for experL~ents and testing that is to become used to the lab­ also ., However, when we hear the oratory conditions, and no longer word "laboratory", we usually think have fears of being handled@ The of test tubes or microscopes ~ Have rat is placed into a seven-point you ever wondered what ~pe of equip­ linear maze, which was assembled ment would be used in a "psych lab11 ? by the students.. Sire e the rats The senior seminar class Which is are fed well, there is no food re­ studying If learning theory", decided ward for learning the correct path to work on an extra project under the of the maze c guidance of Dr. Andrew Ho Souerwine, The experiment)) which will last Assistant Professor of the Psychology six weeks p is designed to determine De p artment ~ The purpose is to give whether any motivation is necessary the students an opportunity to "get for learning •. The big question is, a feel" for some of the experimental ''Why do the animals learn vrhat the problems in psychology., It also in"" experimenter wants them to learn?n forms students about the contemporary It is assumed that some motivation status of this comparatively young is necessary for learning$ but with science., these rats, who have all their Before this experiment could be­ physical needs fulfilled, the drives gin, however, much planning was nec­ for learning are not knowno essary ~ Many problems had to be It is hoped that some day the solved and agreed upon by everyone results of this and other ex­ in the groupo The class had to de­ periments _, which will be written cide the purpose of the experiment~ for publication, may be applied the type of equipment to be used, am to the learning problems of human how long it would last~ After these beings ., It would be of great preliminary factors were resolved, value to our educational system, actual work on the test began ~ since psychologists and educators Since animal experiment is used are interested in learning prob­ as a basis f.or the development of lems not only from an academic "learning theory", white rats were viewpoint but from a practical selected for this trial,, (They are viewpoint as well ~ If valid theo­ a favorite in psychology laborator­ ries of learning are developed by ies). The rats, about 170 days oldi scientific methods, we will be more are marked with dyes in order to dis­ capable of solving problems relat­ tinguish them, and separated into ing to educationm The present argu­ two groups ., One group is tested ten ments over the methods of teaching, reading, writing and spelling, show the need for new and improved ideas in teaching techniques~

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