Trinity College Bulletin, November 1951

1-1RINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS ISSUE NOVEMBER 1951 HARTFORD CONNECTICUT Bulletin President's Page To Trinity Alumni: By this time we are well into the one hundred twenty-ninth academic year of the College. In a few more days, half of the 1951 football season will have gone by, the Sophomore Hop will have been held or thrown (annually, the proper verb becomes apparent only in retrospect ), and even the hardiest of our undergraduates will have formed the conclusion that the climate of Hartford in late October calls for clothing a little more substantial than summer sports jackets. Text books have all been purchased, R.O.T.C. uniforms have come or are arriving, no more changing of courses is permitted and classes have thus settled down to something like a normal routine, and Dean Clarke's very commendable social program for the Freshmen has shown the Class of 1955 the road to N'ohhampton. The fraternities have chosen their pledges, and both groups are justifiably happy about the re sults. For reasons that evade my comprehension, students still ride in automobiles from the houses on Vernon Street to the Chapel and to classes. In short, the old order has not changed so very much since the days of many of you. There is, however, one distinctive aspect of the fall of 1951 which all of you, if you come here, would perceive and, I am sure, regret. We do not have enough dormitory space. There are 922 undergraduates registered at the College this year, 614 of whom are in residence on the campus. Perhaps it is true that we have not yet reached but are only approaching the point where the overcrowding becomes a serious, not to say, critical problem. Cer tainly we are getting closer to that point from year to year at far too rapid a rate. Consider, for instance, that to maintain the optimum size of our student body we shall have tO enroll 250 freshmen next year in the Class of 1956 and that only 121 beds will be released when the present Seniors are graduated. You will agree with me, I think, that the acquiring of more dormitory space is a paramount need at Trinity. Then, too, the perennial needs of a college, dollars and boys, exist in the middle of the century just as they did at its beginning and as they will exist at its end. Faculty salaries, despite increases during the summer which in themselves oblige us to call on you for your help in the Alumni Fund, are by no means what one might call handsome. Rising costs and a fixed income tell an old srory and one that does not have a humorous side for those of us who wish to preserve the values of privately controlled education. At the same time, I see much from day to day at Trinity that pleases me and of which we can all be proud. We have a fine, alert Faculty and a well-planned curriculum. The student body will compare favorably with any that you remember from your time on the Hillrop. Ted Thomas and the College Senate under his presidency, to single out one group, are providing stuqent leadership of a high caliber. We all like what we have seen of the new Freshman class which is rapidly being assimilated and which, I have no doubt, will give a good account of itself as the years go by. Finally, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the good wishes that so many of you have sent to me for my stint as Acting President. You know, history shows that an interrex has at least a fifty-fifty chance of doing a good job. I promise you that I shall do everything in my power to advance the welfare of Trinity Col lege. In return, I bespeak your continued support and cooperation for whatever interregnum ensues until Presi dent Funston's successor has been chosen. ARTHUR H . HUGHES Dean and Acting President October 16, 1951 COVER PICTURE Final Steel Girder Being Placed on New Library Roof Issued eight times a year by Trinity College--March, April, May, July, August, September, October and November. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Connecticut, as second-class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted /or mailing at special rate of postage provided fo r in Section 1103, A ct of October 3, 1917, autho rized March 3, 1919. EDITED BY JOHN A . MASON , '34 VOLUME XLVIIl NEW S E RI E S NUMBER 8 (November, 1951 ) Hughes Is Named Acting President; Brainard, Chairman of Board; Moses, Treasurer For the second time Dean Arthur H. Hughes has accepted the office of Acting President and will serve until President Funston's successor has been chosen. The trustee com mittee to select a new president consisting of A. Northey Jones, '17, chairman; Newton C. Brainard, H. '46; lyman B. Brainerd, '30; Martin W. Clement, '01; Harold l. Smith, '23; James B. Webber, Jr., '34 and Dr. Jerome P. Webster, '10, have held three meetings and although progress has been made it appears that it will be some time before the committee will be in a position to recommend a successor. At the Trustees' October meet ing, the Board elected Newton C. Brainard chairman and G. Keith G. Keith Funston, '_32, newly appointed trustee, congrarulates Newton C. Brat~ard upon hts electton to Chairman of the Board of Trustees while Acting Funston, '32, a life trustee. A. Prestdent Arthur H . Hughes, left, and Treasurer A. Henry Moses, '28, right, look on. Henry Moses, '28, was named Treasurer and J. Kenneth Robert time. He is a member of the Ex Chapel Is Play Scene son was appointed Comptroller. ecutive Committee, the Grounds Dean Hughes joined the faculty and Buildings Committee, the Next spring the Jesters plan to in 1935 as an instructor in German. Memorials Committee and the Joint produce "Murder in the Cathedral" He was promoted to Assistant Pro Committee on Educational Policy. by T. S. Eliot in the College Chapel, fessor in 1938 and became Dean in President Funston served as an and "The Importance of Being 1941. When the late President ex-officio member of the Board of Earnest" by Oscar Wilde for the Remsen B. Ogilby died in August Trustees while at College the past weekend of the Senior Prom. 1943, Dean Hughes held the office six years. He left the Hilltop on An amplifying system for music of Acting President until President September 7 to assume the presi and sound effects is being built and Funston was released from the Navy dency of the New York Stock Ex it is hoped that a portable switch in the fall of 1945. Dean Hughes change and is living at Vineyard board can be constructed to facili was also promoted to the rank of lane, Greenwich, Conn. His elec tate the lighting of the shows in Associate Professor of German in tion to the Board fills the vacancy Alumni Hall. 1944 and the following year to created by the death of the late The Jesters will also welcome any Professor of Modern languages. William G. Mather, '77. contributions of modern or old cos He has done extensive research and Mr. Moses, vice president and tumes, materials, drapes, proper writing on nineteenth century Ger cashier of the .lEma life Affiliated ties or furni~ · to augment their man literature. A member of the Companies, undertook the treasure small collection. There is almost committee on institutions of higher ship on a voluntary basis in his nothing which cannot, at one time education of the New England As capacity as a trustee following the or another, be used in a play! Please sociation of Colleges and Secondary resignation of Joseph W. Getzen contact James S. Stanley, '52, Presi Schools, he is also chairman of the danner, Jr., to become assistant dent, or Mr. George Nichols, Facul committee on accreditation of the comptroller of the National City ty Advisor. Connecticut Council on Higher Ed Bank of Cleveland. ucation. The actual operation of the col Debaters Active Mr. Brainard is the senior mem lege's business affairs will be under The Atheneum Society, under ber of the Board of Trustees having the direction of Comptroller J. the direction of John Wynne, '52, been elected thirty years ago. A Kenneth Robertson. A graduate of President, and Mr. John Dando, trusted friend and counselor to both Yale, he received his Master of Faculty Advisor, plans another ac President Ogilby and President Business Administration degree tive season with many intra-dub Funston, he has always been a tower from Harvard Business School in debates for Freshmen and new mem of strength and has never failed to 1932. Since 1943 he has been busi bers and outside competition against give unstintingly of his advice and ness manager of Taft School. Georgetown, Bucknell, and Rutgers. 3 The Function of the Alumni Office by William R. Peelle, '44 Alumni are assuming such an sponsible for carrying our the plans so that they will realize that the ever greater importance in Ameri for June reunions under the guid college takes a very real interest in can colleges that you will want to ance of an alumni committee. This them. It has often been said that a know how the alumni office at Trin has been in line with the policy of college is interested in irs alumni ity is operated. the Executive Committee. They only when it wants them to give Undoubtedly the most important have brought alumni into the plan money.

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