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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT April, 1921 TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN

Issued quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904<, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894-. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue, Reports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announcements and Circulars of Information.

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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT April, 1921 CONTENT.

Election of the Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, M.A., B.D., as President of Trinity College.

Programme of the day.

Delegates and invited gue ts.

The Ceremonies: , Invocation by the Rt. Rev. vVilliam Lawrence, D.D., LL.D.

Induction into Office-Sydney George Fisher, LL.D.

Presentation of the Keys by Professor Henry Augustus Perkins, M.A., E.E., Acting· President, 1915-1916 and 1919-1920.

Address of The Rt. Rev. Chauncey Bunce Brewster, D.D.

Addre s of The Reverend Professor John James Mc­ Cook, D.D., LL.D.

Address of Professor Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., L.H.D.

Address of Mr. jack Wibble Lyon.

Address of The Reverend President William Arnold Shanklin, D.D., LL.D.

The Inaugural Address of the Reverend President Remsen Brinckerhoff Ouilby, M.A., B.D. 4 TRINITY COLLEGE.

ELECTION BY THE TRUSTEES.

At a meeting of the Trustees of Trinity College held in Hartford on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1920, the Rever­ end Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, M.A., B.D., was unani­ mously elected President of the College. A Committee consisting of the Honorable William E. Curtis, LL.D., Robert Thorne, LL.B., The Rt. Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, D.D., William G. Mather, M.A., and Charles G. Woodward, M.A., was appointed to arrange for the Inauguration of the President-elect into office. The Com­ mittee selected November 17, 1920, as the date and made arrangements for the ceremonies, some account of which is presented herein. THE INAUGURATION OF THE

REV. REMSEN BRINCKERHOFF 0GILBY

AS TWELFTH PRESIDENT

OF TRINITY COLLEGE

ALUMNI HALL

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

NOVEMBER THE SEVENTEENTH A.D.MCMXX 6 TRINITY COLLEGE.

PROGRAM

CORONAT IO MARCH Meyerbeer

I VOCAT ION T he Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., LL.D. Bishop of Massachusetts

INDUCTION INTO OFFICE Sydney George Fisher, LL.D.

PRESENTATION OF THE KEYS Professor Henry Augustus Perkins, M.A., E.E. Acting President 1915-16, 1919-20

ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICE The Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby

HYMNUS ACADEMICUS MATUTINUS

M~tsic by Lorin Webster} J8o

COLLEGE CHOIR Nunc iubar solis trepidans rubescit, Nosque surgentes, animis refectis Laudibus claris hilares canemus Omnipotentem. Ut Deus nostras studiu diei Roboret mentes, tacitae per umbras N octis ut servet vigilans, fideli Corde precamur. Praesidem doctum et invenes et omnes Rore doctores benedictionis Ille suffundat Pater angelorum Hie et ubique. INAUGURATION. 7

Semper ut nobis liceat canamus Ad thronum stantes penitus beati Ut volens sanctos Deitas redemptos Fronde coronet. Herbert M. Hopkins.

ADDRESSES OF WELCOME

FOR THE TRUSTEES The Rt. Rev. Chauncey Bunce Brewster, D.D. Bi hop of Connecticut

FOR THE FACULTY The Rev. John James McCook, D.D., LL.D. Senior Member of the Faculty

FOR THE ALUMNI Charle McLean Andrews, Ph.D., L.H.D. Professor of American History at Yale University

FOR THE Ul\TDERGRADUATES Jack Wibble Lyon

of the Class of 1921

FOR THE COLLEGES OF NEW ENGLAND The Rev. William Arnold Shanklin, D.D., LL.D. President of Wesleyan University

ANDA TE FROM THE FIFTH SYMPHONY Beethoven

THE INAUGURAL ADDRE S OF THE PRESIDENT

CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES 8 TRINITY COLLEGE.

VALE

COLLEGE CHOIR

1. Trinitatis filii Hie beate vtxtmus, Nunc ponendi hederam, Tempus est quod diximus.

Chorus : T rini ta tis filii unc appropinquemus, Immortali hedera Matrem coronemus.

2 . Tempus est tristitiae, Nobis nam linquendum Omnes quos amavimus; Vale et dicendum.-Chorus.

3· Vale mater Trinitas Valete Professores, Valeatis socii, Etiam sorores-Chorus.

4· Haecce vitis parvula, Posita a nobis, Quanquam vos relinquimus, Nos ligabi t vobis.-Chorus. J. J. McCook, '63

ADDRESS The Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, D.D., LL.D. Bishop of Western ew York . - BE EDICTIO Bishop Brent

MINUET FROM THE MILITARY SYMPHONY Haydn INAUGURATION. 9

REPRESENTATIVES OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. Rt. Reverend William Lawrence, Harvard. Dean Fredick S. Jones, Yale. Professor Henry Bedinger Mitchell, Columbia. Dean Otis Everett Randall, Brown. Jacob G. N. Mitchell, Dartmouth. Professor George Willis Benedict, University of Vermont. President K. C. M. Sills, Bowdoin. Judge Fred H. Allen, Middlebury. Professor William A. Arnold, Andover Theological Seminary. Professor Raymond G. Gettell, Amherst. President Murray Bartlett, Hobart. Reverend William H . Dewart, Kenyon. President William Arnold Shanklin, Wesleyan. Dean Frederick Palmer, Jr., Haverford. President William Douglas McKenzie, Hartford Theological Seminary. Dean Florence Purington, Mt. Holyoke. Professor August'us H. Shearer, University of Buffalo. Professor William Kendall Dennison, Tufts. Dean William P. Ladd, Berkeley Divinity School. President Clifton D. Gr~y. Bates. Doctor Whitefield N. Thompson, Bates. Dean Alfred E. Burton, Mass. Institute of Technology. William C. Holden, University of Maine. Professor Z. W. K. Coombs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dean Henry B. Washburn, Episcopal Theological School. Reverend Edwin D. Drown, Episcopal Theological School. Dean William Marshall Warren, Boston University. President William A. Neilson, Smith. President Wallace Atwood, Clark. Professor Robert M. Gay, Simmons. Clement C. Hyde, Principal, Hartford High School. Headmaster Dan 0. S. Lowell, Roxbury Latin School. Louis 0. DeRonge, St. James's School. Reverend Godfrey M. Brinley, St. Paul's School. Willard Scudder, St. Paul's School. W. W. Barber, St. Mark's School. Reverend Lorin W. Webster, Holderness School. Louis Slade, Principal, New Britain High School. Reverend George E. Quaile, Salisbury School. Reverend Frank H. Sill, Kent School. Nathaniel Horton Batchelder, Head- master, Loomis Institute. 10 TRINITY COLLEGE.

INVOCATION BY THE RT. REV. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, D.D., LL.D.

0 Almighty God, and Heavenly Father, who art only source of Light and Life, we give Thee unfeigned for Thy goodness and loving kindness. Thou put it into the hearts of Thy servants in years to found and endow this college. Thou through the and devotion of Thy servants, the patrons, officers, students, and graduates, hast built it up and in beneficent influence. It is meet, right, and our bounden to praise Thy name, and especially to offer thanksgi · the good example of all who having served Thee here, finished their course and now rest from their labors.

0 Thou, who art our Guide and Counsellor, be with us, we beseech Thee, as we enter upon another tion, and dedicate this Thy servant to his high office. guidance of Thy spirit give him a right judgment in all In his devotion to the Truth, his patience, faith, and enable him to lead the youth to higher realms of ~nr\wl••n.,. and character.

To all teachers and students in this college give power to think according to Thy law, and do according Thy will. Humble before the revelation of Thy glory, fident in Thy goodness, and united in Thy service, may carry on the work for Thee and Thy Church.

Bless our country, we pray Thee, with sound '"a,•u•u.,. and honest industry, and so guide those who are in that this Nation may do her part in bringing to the world just and lasting peace.

Lift up, we pray Thee, Thy countenance upon us, enable us to see Thee face to face, 0 God of Truth and of Righteousness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. INAUGURATION. 11

INDUCTION INTO OFFICE BY SYDNEY GEORGE FISHER, LL.D. OF THE TRUSTEES.

In behalf of The Trustees of Trinity College, I have the honor to certify to all here present that on 1:he 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1920, the said Trustees did by a unanimous ·vote elect the Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, M.A., B.D., to be President of Trinity College from and after the first of July in that year, and that he, being notified thereof, signified his acceptance of such election. Wherefore, the time appointed having been accomplished, I here present him to you, acting in the name of said Trustees, and to the Faculty, to the Undergraduates, and to the Alumni of Trinity College, to the representatives of sister colleges and other institutions of learning, to the dignitaries of the commonwealth of Connecticut and of the city of Hartford, and to all others here assembled, to be by them duly received and acknowledged in the exercises of his said office of Presi­ dent of Trinity College. 12 TRINITY COLLEGE.

PRESENTATION OF KEYS BY PROFESSOR HENRY AUGUSTUS PERKINS, M.A., EE., Acting President 1915-1916 and 1919-1920.

Mr. President: When I gave you the keys of the Col­ lege office on the last day of June, it was with a strong feel­ ing of confidence that they would be in safe hands, and that the trust that had been mine for a time was being transferred to one well qualified to assume it. That feeling has only deepened as the passing months have justified it, and now that I perform this ceremony of handing you publicly the key of office, I can truthfully assure you of my pleasure and satisfaction in the act. The position of a College President carries with it both authority and responsibility. You have just been invested with the former, but the key stands for the latter. In re­ ceiving it you become guardian of the College property and of its good name which you are thus pledged to protect with all your power. This is the key of the library, the focus of our intellectual life. It is therefore an emblem of the way to wisdom, and you will hereafter stand ready to open the portal to the young men who knock there, and show them the road to their goal. In a still more figurative sense, we may think of this symbol as the key to the hearts of our Trustees, Faculty, Students, and Alumni, and of all who love Trinity College. You do not need this, however, for you have already gained an entrance there; but let me assure you how real is that entrance, and how gladly I give over to you this emblem of responsibility, of the open door to learning, this symbol of entrance to the hearts of aJl Trinity men. May you retain it during long years of happiness and success. INAUGURATION. 13

ADDRESS OF THE RT. REV. CHAUNCEY B. BREWSTER, D.D., ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES.

To me has been assigned the honor of speaking on be­ half of the Trustees. You, Sir, a graduate of our oldest University and of the Divinity School there situated, we wel­ come to this city, colonized from that Massachusetts town in the year in which its great university was born. The theocratic provision in Massachusetts, that none but church members should vote or hold office, had been opposed by Thomas Hooker, the leader of this migration on behalf of a larger liberty. Hooker here in Hartford preached in 1638 that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." To his virile brain and soul is to be ascribed the first written constitution known to history, that created a government. To Thomas Hooker rather than Thomas Jefferson, belongs, according to the historian, John Fiske, the title, father of American democracy. So we welcome you to this town, which was at its founding dedicated to liberty and was the cradle of American democracy. It was not possible to build a university on the meadow which was the scene of Magna Charta. But on the hills of Hartford was founded a college in the spirit of the place. The charter of Washington, now Trinity College, explicitly provides that the religious tenets of any person can never "be made a condition of admission to any privilege in this college," and that "no president or professor or other officer shall be made ineligible for or by reason of any religious tenets that he may profess, or be compelled to subscribe to any religious test whatsoever." Up to that time such tests were required, e.g., by my own university, Yale. This College was in this spirit founded by members of the Church which is daughter of the Ecclesia Anglicana of Magna Charta. While the College is under no ecclesiastical control, and has official relations to nd convention, synod, or church council, yet its atmosphere and traditions are those of a Church which, manifesting as it does an essential unity with a very wide diver ity, may claim in itself to illustrate Christian liberty. This College is not denominational, rather 14 TRINITY COLLEGE. super-denominational. Its religious origin and traditions, however, are to be remembered and cherished in a large loyalty to its charter. This. you, Sir, I know, are determined upon. Thankful am I that we need not dwell upon ecclesiastical controversy and all those ". . . . old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago." We have the vision of a new time. We want to turn our faces not to the past but to the future that beckons on to vaster issues, and go forward in brave expectancy. Of vital import to the progress of society is the deepen­ ing and the broadening of education: its deepening by genuine faith in God and in His purposes for the world; its broadening in accordance with those principles we have touched upon, of liberty and democracy. Genuine liberty means :freedom for creative self-express'ion. Democracy demands breadth of sympathy and surrender of self to ser­ vice on behalf of the common weal. Academic life has certain temptations to concentration upon the past and for­ getfulness of the living masses of mankind to-day. The College must train men but, moreover, citizens, alert to the call of worthy causes. It should be, as Bishop Westcott once said, "a training-place of public souls." That would be far from involving loss of personal power. Rather in self­ surrender lies self-realization. The administration to-day inaugurated will be, we trust, in line with the best traditions of the College. The Trustees are confident they have made the right choice of a President. To you, Sir, in the fulfillment of the honorable task you enter upon, the Trustees pledge their hearty and unfailing support. To that task you bring unique and varied expe­ riences won in a working parish in a great city, in the far­ away Philippines as missionary and as successful educator, in a great American school, at the nation's Military Academy, and in its Army Service. In confident hope the Trustees look to you for such qualities of leadership that there shall be something here prevailing, in the spirit of this institution, a constraining and inspiring reverence for God and desire to enter into co-operation with His purposes, a breadth of out­ look, a spiritual, that is, personal vitality, a manly sturdiness and high-hearted daring in endeavor, an unsparing generosity in giving of self to service, which shall, altog-ether mean in the men going forth from this place, a contribution of value to the life of the nation in the coming time. INAUGURATION. 15

ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE REV. PROFESSOR JOHN JAMES McCOOK, D .D., LL.D., FOR THE FACULTY.

Mr. President: The Faculty have done me the honor to ask me to tender you on their behalf a welcome to-day. We welcome you to the great business, of which by the act of the Trustees we have joint charge, you as head, we as helpers, the government and education of the students of this college. You will find the task, so far as they are con­ cerned, relatively easy. For their traditions are all in the direction of friendship and co-operation with us, as also ours are towards them. And the task of presiding over our ses­ sions you will find not too hard. Having regard to our number, a score or so, and to the still greater number of the institutions from which we derive our professional training, you will not be surprised at divergency of opinion. But we can promise you sympathy and friendship and through every­ thing loyalty. We welcome you too to our college. Although but one of us is a Trinity graduate, our separate loyalties have been so fused into one that it is our college, our Trinity. From now on it will be yours too-your Trinity. To t his indeed your very career seems to have predestinated you, epitomiz­ ing as it does the device upon our escutcheon, leading you to the ends of the earth for your church and back again for your country. And the "Ecclesia" for which we stand is, I like to think, the very one which Magna Charta had in mind in its first stipulation, "Ut Ecclesia Anglicana Iibera sit!" And we point with pride to the unusual circumstance that Trinity College has never denied to others the liberty which in 1823 she secured for herself. Jor in this alone has Trinity been conspicuous. Among the first, if not the first, she gave French and German a place of honor close by the side of Latin and Greek; she emphasized natural science , providing for her young Professor of chemistry and physics a year of special study in Paris and equipping him for his return with $5,000 worth of French- 16 TRINITY COLLEGE. made apparatus, long the wonder of the world hereabouts. She set up a botanical garden, said to have been a real marvel; she gave obligatory lectures in anatomy and physiology, finally in r86o she broke the prescription, universal I think up to that time, and put Samuel Eliot, a layman, in the presiden­ tial chair. Wherefore, Mr. President, if you and others, being clergymen, have succeeded to that chair, it may be assumed that it is because you have been found to be, first of all, Men. Finally, Sir, we welcome you to this city-great in its founder, Thomas Hooker, the Reverend Thomas Hooker, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, proponent of that great theorem of modern government, ~enshrined two centuries later in Abraham Lincoln's immortal oration; great in its writers, its inventors, its journalists, its merchants, its manu­ facturers, its business men; great in its philanthropies, in several of which it was a pioneer, as in its school for the deaf and dumb, and its care of the insane, great in the alleviation of universal pain that it wrought and in the whole world of beneficient surgical intervention that it opened up througlt Horace Wells' epoch-making discovery of anesthaesia. To this splendid city you have come, the home of piety and intelligence, of wealth and of art, which has grown from its 25,000 of my student days to its rso,ooo of to-day, and. which seems marked by nature to be the site of a vast metrop­ olis. And in this Hartford you will have the happy fortune to live and to help valiantly in working out the manifest destiny of Trinity College. She has indeed, as the wide dispersal of her sons attests, a primary vocation for every city and for every state both here and around the circuit of the globe, and to this world vocation she may never dare. to be untrue; but she may well find her most immediate in this town as the logical, and more and more the ac head of the city's elaborate and excellent educational syst Into her lap this opulent community will pour its treasu Upon her superb estate, every acre of which has sight of sun from his rising to his going down, buildings and s more buildings will arise. In and out through their d will pour in unbroken succession crowds of busy, bri faced young men, clear-eyed, clean-limbed, pure of heart. And over all will float the same dear flag, then as n01f\ the symbol of hope, of aspiration, of honest toil and its ward, of everything that we mean by home, by country b religion, by education. ' INAUGURAT[ON. 17

ADDRESS 0 BEHALF OF THE ALUMNI BY PROFES OR CHARLE McLEAN ANDREWS, PH.D., L.H.D., OF YALE UNIVERSITY.

By established custom-and a most laudable custom it is-we are gathered here today to greet our new academic chief and to extend to him, the elected head of our corporate body, a cordial and hearty welcome, We come here to offer him our loyal support, to express our confidence in his ability to meet the demands of his new office, and to make a declara­ tion of our faith in him as an intellectual leader of men. W e do this from an unqualified conviction that our trustees in their wisdom have chosen even better than they knew and that we can rest content, assured that the future of the college is in the hands of one who will guide its destinies with sagacity and foresight. All this I am proud to say in the name of the Alumni, whom I have the honor to represent here today. But I wish to say more. I am interested to discover, if I may, not only what our new president means to us, but also, and in a way much more important, what we are going to mean to him. I do not believe that he wishes us to indulge merely in hurrahs and hallelujahs, in words of praise, and statements of faith. He has a right to know, and we are under bond to tell him, how best we can serve him and the college, not only ih the old time ways familiar to us all, but also in other ways characteristic of the present day and generation and of the new era of history upon which we are embarked. In the first place, we of the Alumni can be of enormous service by not clamoring too loudly or too soon for tangible 'results' in the form of dollars and cents, numbers of students, or size of plant. Properly speaking, these are all of seconda­ ry consideration, for a college is a thing not of money and bricks but of men, and a college President is an in­ tellectual leader not the manager of a business concern. There is far too marked a tendency today among the Alumni of our American colleges to judge their college presidents according to their success or otherwise in promoting bigness and wealth. 18 TRINITY COLLEGE.

In the second place, we can do heartening service to our President by showing our confidence in the college as a place of truth, light, and practical wisdom. I agree that it will take a long time to live down the popular estimate of the college professor. But the fact remains that among col­ lege faculties of today there is a great searching of hearts as to the framing of new policies and the reconstruction of educational ideals. There is among them less adherence to tradition, more openness to conviction, and greater will­ ingness to recognize deficiencies and eagerness to correct them than was the case in the past. ] ust as mere learning is no longer the only aim of a college education, so mere utilitarianism has lost much of its glamour. The college seeks to enlarge and enrich the mind and to give it a cubical d-imension of breadth, height, and depth, but it also strives, and very earnestly, to teach the younger generation not only what has been, but what is and what should be. The best of our college faculties today are as open-minded, progressive, and shrewd in their judgments as are the best of the Alumni. In the third place, we can all serve as educational factors in our own communities, no matter how far we may be re­ moved from college centers. The war has unloosed upon the world a new social element, possessing wealth, but not in equal measure intelligence, balance, and cor)trol in the finer things of the mind and the heart. There are thousands who deem education unnecessary because they have got rich without it. We all know the type, the high wage-earner, the profiteer, and the successful but uncultured man of busi­ ness, and we are all familiar with their phrases, imitation pearls of wisdom, "Lea,rning is no good," "Education is a flam," "History is bunk." The new distribution of wealth has fired the financial passions of millions and is in danger of becoming a menace to educational progress. The Alumni of our colleges should stand shoulder to shoulder against this invasion, and should not only re ist its advance but like picked troops should infiltrate and break up this insidious propaganda. In the last place, ours is the task, which begin with the cradle, of preparing our boys and girls for their college careers. The younger generation-those Wild Young Peo­ ple, as Mr. Grundy has recently called them-seem to be frightening their elders and to be causing much parental anxiety. But why? They are an absorbingly interesting INAUGURATION. 19

study in themselves, these youngsters, the more so because they are in so many ways different from what we were our­ selves when we were of college age. They are extraordinarily frank, serious, and honest, temperamental, wilful, independ­ ent, and outspoken, without reverence but not without respect. They do not often make game of their professors or cheat in examinations, and if they seem to hold faculties in less awe as their superiors, they certainly hold them in greater affection as their friends. The college of the future will be shaped to no small extent by those who are to be the students of the future, and upon the Alumni of our colleges will rest in no small measure the training of these youngsters for their later college careers. President Ogilby. It is my great privilege to bring to you today the greeting of the Alumni of Trinity College. I beg that you will not view us as a mere crowd standing on the side lines, ready to applaud you for the work which you are to do, but rather as a great reserve army of education, a part of the fighting force of which you are the head, prepared to take part in the fray and support you and the cause which you represent with heart, brain, hand, and material resources. I think we know somewhat of the difficulties of the task to which you have set your hand. Ex-President Taft once said that to be the President of a college was in his opinion more difficult than to be the President of the United States, and he knew whereof he spoke, for the president of a college is principal, vice-chancellor, and rector all in one, and stands in the light that beats fiercely upon the throne. But what­ ever the college president may be called upon to do, there is one thing that transcends all else, he must cultivate in the men under his charge the idea and ideal of service-service to God, service to the state, service to the community, service to education, and service to scholarship. The student trained to service-whatever the object of that service may be-and possessed of sanity of mind, broadness of vision, and an unswerving sense of obligation to his fellow-men-all of which are among the ends that the college of today seeks to accomplish-will be a factor making for righteousness in an aspiring but confu ed and troubled world. To mould such men is your high calling, and from you, therefore, must come the greatest service of all. In its performance may you have strength, courage, and unbounded faith-faith in your students, faith in your faculty, faith in the community in which you are placed, and above all else faith in the loyalty and good-will of the Alumni of Trinity College. 20 TRINITY COLLEGE.

ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE UNDERGRADUATE BY MR. JACK WIBBLE LYON OF THE

CLASS OF 1921.

It is my privilege, this morning, to speak in behalf of the undergraduates of Trinity College. The average undergraduate is a most critical person. A newcomer in his particular college world is subjected to a shrewd but unbiased judgment and if he is found wanting in the least particular that inevitable adverse judgment which results, may perhaps, seem most unjust. But if accepted­ the newcomer enters into an atmosphere charged with loyalty and fidelity. The undergraduate body of Trinity is no exception to this general rule. Because of its limited numbers it makes closer friendships and bears out this rule of keen judgment and criticism to an unusual degree. To be accepted-carries a very definite stamp of approval. From the very first, Mr. Ogilby has won our approval and affection. We have felt his dynamic force and true sympathy in all of our activities. His very nature and per­ sonality have won our admiration and respect to such an ex­ tent that we could not fail but accept him as our friend and leader. True-he has been here but a short time-short in num­ ber of days, weeks, or months-but sufficiently long to instill and encourage in us a new enthusiasm and renewed pride in our college. Life and force are again ours-we feel again that great ambition to go forward. We have found a leader whom we shall all follow gladly to · that goal-a greater Trinity. Sir-we pledge you the loyal support of the under­ graduate body of this-our college. INAUGURATION. 21

ADDRESS OF THE REVEREND WILLIAM ARNOLD SHANKLIN, DD., LL.D., OF WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY-FOR THE COLLEGES OF NEW ENGLAND.

As you enter upon your great office, Mr. President, the responsibilities of which are as solemn and as sacred as any that can be assumed, it is my privilege to bring to the old College and its new President, the greetings, the congratula­ tions, the good wishes of those with whom you are most intimately associated, the New England Colleges. Though bound by no legal pact, the bonds of union, of mutual con­ fidence and common purpose in the service of our country and our pursuit after truth, constitute a genuinely sym­ pathetic fraternity, "confederate to one golden end," as to­ gether we mobilize the forces of civilization to fight the ever­ lasting fight and exalt the everlasting ideal. And in our congratulations of Trinity College upon her history of nearly a century of glorious achievement, we de- ire to express our confidence that all the mighty forces of the magnificent past are waiting, only to be summoned by you, Mr. President, that, with their collective influence, they may be wielded with the new forces which are now being set in motion-the deepening and broadening influences which are her destiny in her service to the nation and the world. We congratulate you upon the auspicious circumstances under which you enter upon your administrative career as the head of the College. We are not unmindful of our friend and comrade, stalwart and true, the splendid man you follow, owing to whose untiring efforts Trinity has been set in a high place. Solid and substantial as are these college halls, they are the least substantial of all the things which make Trinity College what it is. The devotion to truth, the noble lives which have consecrated this campus, the high endeavor which prevades the atmosphere of this home of literature and learning and life,-these are the substantial elements of that life that will endure after the stone and mortar have crumbled into dust, enduring as the life of man and the pro­ gress of the world. 22 TRINITY COLLEGE.

You are to be congratulated also because you come to the Presidency of Trinity at a time when new problems call for new educational policies. Too largely the colleges of America had been seeking to train each man along the line of his own personal ambition. But the challenge of today is for the college to prove that it is "strong for service still, and unimpaired," by sending out men with a keen apprecia­ tion of the meaning of citizenship and with adequate prepara­ tion for fulfilling its duties-"tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog in public duty and in private thinking." A cynic has recently defined the modern college as an institu­ tion where they have a football and a baseball team in opera­ tion, with an occasional lapse into literary pursuits. It ha been soberly defined as the means by which the highest culture of one generation is best transmitted to the youth of the next. That it must do; but it must do more,-it mu t deliver each generation into the hands of society trained and developed and adjusted to the moral relations of life. The moral sense of the modern world makes character a more important element than it used to be in the ideals of a cul­ tivated man. Now, character is formed, as Goethe said, in the "stream of life"-not in stillness or isolation, but in the quick, flowing- tides of the busy world of nature and of man­ kind. The educated man of the twentieth century must think and feel keenly just where the men and women who con­ stitute the actual human world are thinking and feeling mot today. Knowledge alone is not the end of education, but knowledge penetrated by insight and alive with motive. While each college has its own peculiar field of work, each possesses its own distinguishing characteristics, all of them have the common mission of "the forming of that imagination which g-eneralizes and dares, the clarity of moral decision and a public purpose, the disciplining and ripening of personality." The man whom we must send forth from our colleges is the man, great as he is able to take up the most of other men into himself, and great further because he is not afraid or unable to put his con cience into all his mental operations. The world is loudly calling for such men-men with intellectual length and moral girth. Moral leadership blended with intellectual leadership-this is the meaning of education. And by morals I mean far more than correct prin­ ciples and good habits. I mean a morality that takes charge of the whole man and makes his will its servant to do its work- a will so informed with duty that one will stand and stay with majority or minority, it matters not which, if it INAUGURATION. 23 be on the side of right, but will stand and never yield. Cour­ ageous, joyous, efficient, the college man today is making citizenship a high profession and birthright-within the nation a holy trust. One of the most striking utterances I have seen in years is that entitled "Whither" in a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Contrasting the day when youths were taught that they had immortal souls to whose safeguarding thought and care and endeavor must be given, with the present era of the physical and its influence, the writer states that the chief question was "Is it right?" The chief question today is "Is it sterilized?" Our colleges must continue to teach that there are some things that are right and some things that' are wrong,-and that it is safe and sane to tie up to those old fashioned and fundamental distinctions and to have a kind of scorn for that incapacity for nobler things which leads one to do the meaner things. To a large and honorable part in this our common task of training such men, I congratulate you that you are called, Mr. President. My prayer for Trinity College is that she may hold fast to her integrity as a school of rounded man­ hood, building to and not away from her past, and for you, entering into your holy heritage while you are still on the "morning side" of life, a long and prosperous administration of this old College. 24 TRINITY COLLEGE.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE REVERE D PRESIDENT REMSEN BRINCKERHOFF OGILBY, M.A., B.D.

In general we may say that the physical appearance of a person reflects his soul. Old King Duncan in Macbeth in a moment of irritation and disappointment at the defection of a trusted follower said that there was no art that could find the mind's construction in the face-but he was a king and ought as a leader of men to have known better. Only within certain limits is human camouflage 'possible. So it is with an institution: its architecture reflects not only its history but also its aspirations and its very soul. I came to know Trinity College during this last summer vacation. There were two or three hasty visits in the spring time, but the long summer days on the campus brought more real knowledge. Those who would visit an institution like a college only in term time forget the fact that bricks and mortar may really be an outward and visible sign and often shout loudly the story of the development of the soul of the institution which they represent. Our stately pile of buildings, dating from the removal of the college from the heart of the city to this strategic position on the ridge, not only tell the story of the architec­ tural vision which the founders had, but it also has the com­ bination of solidity and grace which makes Gothic architec- - -ture such a splendid vehicle for the expression of the Christian religion. One might go further and draw con­ clusions from the newly finished administration end of the original scheme and from the dignified library. On the other hand we find the Science buildings somewhat detached from the general plant. I s it at all significant that they have so little in common with the architecture of the original build­ ings? Does anyone still feel that laboratories are an un­ worthy intrusion upon the classic peace of our campus? Never was that campus more beautiful than in mid-summer when the green lawns and the sturdy young trees breathed the atmosphere of distinct self respect. But the first bit of real self-expression that I found in the architecture of Trinity was the note of expectancy, through indications of a noble plan no le s nobly begun : everything about the college build- INAUGURATION. 25 ings suggested a promise of greater things in store. While one might develop this idea further and talk in terms of the architectural a pirations of our college-the obvious need of additional equipment in the way of laboratory buildings and a gymnasium-the lack of a suitable chapel is the most ob­ Yious need of all. Until it comes the buildings in mid­ summer seem to wait in hushed expectancy for what should be the culmination of the ideals of a church college as ex­ pre ed in its architecture. Let us consider for a moment a question which comes up here. What is a church college? Historically almost everyone of our older American colleges was founded prim­ arily to educate young men for the ministry. Higher educa­ tion in the youthful days of our country meant that and little more. Great has been the obvious gain as college after col­ lege ha shaken off the shackles that committed it to a denomi­ national interpretation of truth, and there might be some who would go as far as to say that the term "church college" was an anachronism or best an atrophied survival. Trinity men, however, know that our college is still a church college and, plea e God, it always will be. But what do we mean by a church college? If we mean an institution under the government of central or diocesan ecclesiastical authority, Trinity is not such. The matter of ecclesiastical control, once an issue, was settled years ago by an appeal to the legislature, and the control of Trinity college lies in a board of trustees. There is no desire apparent to establish any formal church control. ' Again, if by a church college is meant one where the faculty is predominately of a single faith, Trinity is not such. We cherish the original provision of the 1823 charter which provides that no president or professor or other officer shall be made ineligible for or by reason of any religious tenet. That was a broad tatement for 1823, and it shows that the founders of our college were indeed men of vision beyond their contemporaries. or is there any religious requirement laid upon our student body. It is gloriously representative. Forty-three and one-half per cent. of our present undergraduate body are Episcopalian , 18 per cent. Roman Catholics, 16y; per cent. Congregationalist , a total of 78 per cent. The remaining 22 per cent. are divided among eleven religious bodies. In asserting then that Trinity is a church college we do so by defining it, not in terms of control or restriction, but in terms of loyalty and devotion. A famous college 26 TRINITY CQLLEGE. president said recently, in discussing the comparative strength of regulations and traditions, that if he wished to make some­ thing permanent he would much prefer the power of tradition to that of regulation. Regulations may be changed by gov­ erning bodies in one way or another, but traditions are death­ less. W e are reminded here of Burke's phrase in his speech on conciliation with America, "Ties which though light as air are as strong as links of iron." We ask then to be known by our fruits. We ask that Trinity be known as a church college because of its service to Christianity. The question of religious education comes in here. If we are agreed that the interests of education, especially at the collegiate age, are best furthered when there is no segre­ gation along denominational lines, the problem remains what the religious life of any given institution should be. On the one hand it might be said that when a body of young men united by loyalty to their alma mater meet together for their devotions, one should so respect individual prejudices as to eliminate from their religious service everything which might be a basis for disagreement. The difficulty is that the irre­ ducible minimum would be so slight as to have lost all of the driving motive power that makes religion worth while for men. At Trinity we pursue a different policy. We admit without question to our student body young men of varying religious training and affiliations. Then we put before them w ithout apology or compromise the conception of Christianity which our church holds dear. Far from spreading things out thin, we would focus them with burning intensity and put before our young men a conception of a loyal Christian stal­ wart in his faith. Some may react from that in various direc­ tions. All, however, seem to respect it. Along such lines as these Trinity ,is a church college. One of the shortest definitions that can be given of the purpose of a college is to give training for leadership in service. Necessarily the young men who knock at our gates are but a small fraction numerically of their contemporaries, but it is our hope that they are a properly selected fraction. America and the world are crying out for leadership and are looking to our college graduates to supply it. There was a time when the college man was at a disadvantage in business life and was laughed at as a theorist by self-called practical men. That is not so to-day. If we are to devote ourselves to the cause of giving specialized instruction to those whom we hope to make into leaders, we would do well to consider for a moment what the factors are in the process by which INAUGURATION. 27 the election of our fraction is made. Time was when higher education was restricted along social lines to a few. That day is past, and we need say no more about it. We cannot, however, always rely upon the justice of the economic processes of elimination of those who would qualify for leadership; our zeal for democracy impels us to resist any tendency to reserve college education for those only whose parents can afford to delay the time when they must be self supporting. Historians have always seen the danger of supplanting an aristocracy of birth by an aristocracy of wealth, and so we do not want to keep higher education largely for the wealthy. Trinity college is fortu­ nate indeed in being located in a city which offers opportuni­ ties for partial self support to ambitious students. It must be our endeavor so to arrange our relations with the com­ munity of Hartford that it may be possible for us to say to any lad of promise who wants higher education but who has little or no financial backing from his family, "Come; if you want your education enough to work for it, you can get it here." While we rely on the friends of the college and patrons of education in general to supply us with funds to minimize certain of the fixed charges in the form of scholar­ ship aid, still we would not wish to insult young America by saying that all the student has to do is to lie on his back in the orchard of learning and let the peaches drop into his mouth. One cannot get something for nothing in this relent­ less world of ours, and it is too much to ask of our students that they pay for their education in terms of self-respect. That price is too high. There seems to be an impression abroad that Trinity college is so heavily endowed that it can offer free tuition to all who ask for it. This is very far from being the case. I was fortunate enough myself at Harvard to win scholarship aid amounting to 40 per cent. of my ex­ penses, and I earned the remaining 6o per cent. myself. The process was of itself educative. Whether this proportion is a fair one and how much it should vary with the individual are interesting questions; it is my purpose to make the problem involved a matter of serious consideration. It is obvious that if a student chooses or is compelled by circum­ stances to spend too large a proportion of his time in self­ support his college work suffers, and he may fail to get high enough standing in his studies to win such scholarship aid as would relieve him of some financial stress. This is a dis­ tinctly vicious circle and leaves him worse off than he was 28 TRINITY COLLEGE. before. We must remember also the fact that much of the work done down town by Trinity men is evening work. How­ ever valuable such a job may be, it compels the holder to give up the campus activities which are such potent factors in the social side of . education and will provide precious memories ·in years to come. The relation of the college authorities to the students, in part in loco parentis, demands not only that aid should be given in finding employment but also it should offer some check in the way of friendly advice, which should be ready in case any individual student is unwise enough to sacrifice too much of his waking hours or his sleep in an endeavor to earn his e'Xpenses. The next factor in the selection of our students to be considered is the mental one. There are two attitudes to take here. Shall we make our colleges easy of entrance and weed out all those who are not fit for intellectual leader­ ship by ruthless examinations during the course? On the other hand shall we make entrance to college the test of mental fitness and by difficult entrance examinations establish a system which will work out so that when once a young man is in college ordinary diligence will keep him there? It is sate to say that the tendency of the colleges in the last few college generations has been to make the entrance require­ ments less difficult. That is specially true in relation to the requirement of the classic languages. Entrance by certificate in lieu of examinations is becoming more and more popular except at a few of the larger universities. Theoretically this is a good thing, and a properly attested school certificate should be worth more than examinations taken under especial strain and stress. At a college like Trinity, which has set for itself the ideal of giving a thorough education to a small group of leaders, there should be no scramble to keep up with the other colleges in lowering the bars at entrance. The present endeavors of our faculty to work out a group system for the different courses offered will bring about the best results if there is a careful scrutiny of the intellectual attain­ ments and equipment of the men who undertake it. At most colleges there is some point system so that the authori­ ties in order to determine who are mentally fit to go out as graduates of the college require a certain number of units to be passed off. The examination comes, the student passes the course and burns the book, feeling that he is through with that subject for all time. because, as he says, he has "passed" it. We welcome here the example set by Harvard in requir­ ing up to the last that whatever knowledge a student has acquired in a course he must retain in order to get his degree. INAUGURATION. 29

The third important element in the selection of the young men of our age who are to get the benefit of higher education is character. This has been in time past largely automatic. Entrance into college has been beset with enough difficulties to deter those lacking in zeal and the finer qualities ~hich are essential to leadership. Too much financial aid, how­ ever, for those who are in straits and simplification of the entrance requirement which makes it easy for any high school boy with a good stand to continue on his way through college may mean that there will be an increasing number in our colleges who may prove themselves unworthy of the heritage which the community passes on to them through college channels. It is to the everlasting glory of the spirit of our American colleges that their alumni in general have shown themselves worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by past and present generations in their direct intere t. The loyalty of a college student is proverbial, and in later life he usually interprets that loyalty in terms of service. If the qualification for character is so extended as to admit those who perhaps are lacking in the capacity for leadership, two things follow: First, the college should see to it definitely that the faint-hearted and inefficient are headed off into less responsible callings than the college man should be trained to undertake. Then greater and greater attention should be paid in our colleges to that side of the undergraduate life which is to be sized up in the term which our army service gave to us, "The morale of the institution." Woe to that college man who does not consider the position which his education gives him from an altruistic point of view. He has been picked from among his fellows to receive the ac­ cumulated wisdom of the ages and to get the benefit of all the acrifices made by past benefactors and present teachers. If the college man, therefore, does not use his education for the good of other , if he at bottom considers himself more highly trained and therefore entitled to increased compensa­ tion for his own selfish purpose, he alienates himself from his fellow and is a marked man for generations to come. It is important at a time like this to reconstruct for our­ selves the ideal of what our college should be. At the time of the inauguration of my predecessor this was done and has been done since. I find some variation between the ideals of Trinity men, variation along important lines. Let us take up first the question of size. The small college is distinctively America's contribution to the problem of education. England and Europe have de- 30 TRINITY COLLEGE. veloped the large universities of which our own are tions. Being a "citizen of no mean city" myself I brought up to consider numerical size as a criterion of a lege. Since graduation I have seen universities already increase greatly in numbers. On the other hand it has my good fortune to be thrown into close contact the graduates of some of our smaller New England and through fellowship with them I have acquired keen miration for the institutions which gave them an education no whit inferior to my own. In conserving the the past and in promoting scientific investigation universities have most certainly justified their The smaller colleges. on the other hand have made tinctive contribution by qualifying as exceedingly machines for turning raw high school graduates into with zeal for intelligent service. How much their "u"'"""'~• along these lines has been due to the fact that they colleges may be in some minds an open question. would consider it closed and would say that the :~rrnw•~ dimensions of the undergraduate circle do not serve restriction but as the channel through which the tide of may rush with more impelling impetus. The broad of university life has its depth and its ability to float ships, but a lot of ruck accumulates in the eddies along shores. · It has none of the ability of the small college to out its own channel and make every atom vibrant with bling motion. How small is a small college? This is partly an eco,notldl problem. It would, for instance, be possible to d size of the student body at Trinity without any increase in the number of professors. There would assistants and more instructors, but the cost of teaching faculty for four hundred men is certainly not . the cost of providing for two hundred. It seems to been the experience of other colleges that five hundred is natural limit beyond which the small college should strive. Beyond that number problems of administration to loom very large with resultant impossibility of keeping administrative officers and the professors in intimate with the student body. Should it be the aim of Trinity men to make their double its present numbers? Would there be a doubling of power and capacity for leadership all along line? It certainly would not double the administration of the college although, of course, it would entail rather INAUGURATION. 31 superv1s1on. There are those among the alumni, however, who are quite satisfied with the present size of our institu­ tion. There is much to be said for their position. It is indeed a worthy mission in life to direct the education of a few boys and build it upon such solid foundations as will endure. On the other hand the needs of the country and of the community must be met, and we have the possibility of being compelled to increase our present plant. If this makes for economy of managemen~ it is not altogether to be regretted. Looking again at our college from the ideal point of view what shall we say about our raw material and about our pro­ duct? There need be no question about what we have to offer to the student from a small high school. His social pos­ sibilities have not in all likelihood been given their full scope. The compact nature of the life at Trinity is sure to make him feel some responsibility toward those in his immediate group, and he also should get no little keenness for the education doled out by professors with whom he has an opportunity for close fellowship. What about the young man from our board­ ing schools? Has Trinity any distinctive contribution to offer them? It is obvious that at present our college cannot compete with the larger universities in plant. Most of our large American colleges have developed their institutional life to the full, expressing it in term of chapel, gymnasium, and library, the three buildings which reflect the relationship which a college student should have to his institution. Those who are interested in boys at boarding schools would do well to bear in mind the large fraction of school boys who go to a big college prompted by gregarious motives, simply for being with friends. The situation is such in our larger colleges that the social responsibilities which are the chief agency for building up morale are often in the hands of a few men and they commonly prominent in athletics. There is many a boy who follows his school crowd blindly, not realizing the possi­ bilities that a small college has for developing into potential leaders those who have never been great figures in the dis­ tinctively athletic life of a large preparatory school. This leads directly to the final words to be said about our ideals for our college. Our aim is to produce leaders rather than specialists. A college as small as Trinity can­ not be expected to furnish in any single field technical instruc­ tion which will fit a man for immediate practice of any pro­ fession. Vocational instruction ha been a familiar byword in the teacher's vocabulary of these days. This should not mean that Trinity must offer a regular commercial course 32 TRINITY COLLEGE.

or the thorough knowledge in a scientific subject which would be an immediate guarantee of a position on graduation. Let us say that our function is to produce leaders of men: To do that we do not need to cover a wide field. We must make it our purpose to intensify the cultivation of such qualities as will make for leadership rather than for expert technical know­ ledge along a single line.

And now the voyage has begun. Our little ship i clear­ ing the harbor and already we begin to feel the heave and lift of the long ocean rollers under our bows. It looks as if we were putting to sea in a driving storm; I rather like that. I find the helm I hold has been well worn by the hands of master mariner, and it is good to take the command him. The Captain was not aboard for the last voyage, the First Mate sailed a good true cour e. To all our f · who have crowded down to the dock this day to see our craft put to sea we extend our thanks, as the flu their handkerchiefs and the waving of their hands grow in the distance. To you, 0 Deep Sea Pilots, who have come out in sou'westers and pea-jackets to help us work the ship the harbor, I give my gratitude before you go over the You know all the shoals and rocks; we shall think of often and of your wise advice in the days to come. to you, 0 Pilot from my own college, do I owe much; I shall never forget that it was you who gave me my compass. To you, 0 owners of this staunch little craft, we pay farewell, for we know that it is your faith that makes voyage possible. And 0 Friend of a Thousand Years, with whom I travelled much by sea and land, you and I alone know woulcj. never undertake this voyage without the ben of your presence as we set sail. Comrades of the Quarterdeck, we shall have long together, you and I. Some of you will help me shoot the to determine our positions. Others will work stowing or even in the galley. Do not forget that we do it all comrades. And now a last word to the Crew. vVhen the time that I put my head down the fo'castle hatch and cry "All hands on deck," I do not want to have a single I asleep in his bunk. There will be no pa sengers on voyage.