The Undergraduate Publication of ~rinitp <!toUtge COMMENCEMENT DAY NUMBER Volume XIX HARTFORD, CONN., MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1923 Number 30 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TAKE PLACE BEFORE NORTHAM $1 ,000,000 QUOTA OF FUND REACH:ED AS CELEBRATlOIN ENDS Contribution of $5,000 by J. P. Morgan Makes Campaign Exercises Success. of the Day CENTENNIAL DRIVE BEGUN FOR GENERAL ENDOWMENT Purdy, Bishop Hall, Angell Close of 1921 Saw $290,000 and Herford Speake;rs. Pledged- Within $65,000 Sunday. DEGREES CONFERRED. The centennial fund quota of $1,- 000,000 was attained on the morning of commencement day by the $5,000 The ninety-seventh annual com­ contr'libution of J . Pierpont Morgan, mencement was held under cloudless thus completing successfully a cam­ skies at the base of that magnificent paign which was inaugurated in edifice, Northam Towers. The cere­ May, 1921. The announcement of mony opened with the procession of the contribution of Mr. Morgan oc­ curred at the meeting of the trustees the graduating students, faculty, on the morning of commencement trustees, alumni and honorarii from day. Mr. Morgan is an honorarius Williams Memorial to the platform of the college, having had the degree at the entrance to Northam. The of LL. D. conferred upon him in 1918. platform was decorated with blue and Sunday afterno·on the fund was (Courtesy of "Hartford Times.") gold, the national colors, and laurel lacking $65,000 of the $1,000,000 Photograph taken during tJhe delivering of the salutatory address by Gaudian, '23. The faculty, trustees, wreaths. The procession moved goal. A final avalanche of sub­ honorarii and guests are seated on the platform erected before his tori ~ Northam Towers. slowly to the somber melody of Mey­ seriptions on Monday morning swell­ erbeer's "Coronation March." ed the total to the point ~thin $5,- The Rt. Rev. A. Crawshay A. Hall, 000 of the mark. • t • •• • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • bishop of the diocese of Vermont, The Williams Memorial building, D e d zca lO n who received the honorary degree of which was completed in 1914, was 'Tf bl t INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET. Doctor of Divinity in 1894, strongly erected by Mr. Morgan's father in 0 f .l. a e : Upon the brow of this hill stood the fi1· st buildings of Trinity: recommended the building of a ·new memory of Bishop John Williams. • College, which w as found ed h er e a s Washing·ton Colleg e A . D.: chapel, in which the ideals Trinity The plans for the endowment were • 1823. It was moved to its present site A. D. 875, when the: had- striven tu atlarrr t!Tr uugh t he · .attgurat t!u, hen · as -felt that a Original Site of College at • State Capitol was built. On its one hundredth a nnive rsary this • past hundred years might be preach- crisis in the college affairs was at • tablet w a s placed h e r e b y the Colleg e in g rate ful r!:m embrance :· ed. "Set yourselves to make the hand. It was felt that without more State Capitol Grounds. • of the founders : • Church system and worship as at- money the college could not meet the • tractive as possible", he advised. He Thomas C. Brownell John S. Peters A sa Chapman responsibilities ahead. The immedi­ • warned Trinity not to allow any pro- ate need was for an endowment to The site on which Trinity, then • Samuel W. Johnson Henry Croswell Elijah Boardman • fessional short cuts which might tend Nathaniel S. Wheaton Birdsey G. Noble Samuel Merwin increase and maintain the salaries of Washington College, was founded by • • to lower her standards. Thomas McDonough E lisha Cushman Charles Sigourney professors and to provide funds for Bishop Brownell and his followers in • "We find it easy to repent the sins general endowment. The endowment Ebenezer Young Richard Adams David Watkinson • of our fathers", said President J amos 1823 was fittingly marked by a me- • .John Thompson Peters J onathan Starr, Jr. Nathan Smith fund will furthermore provide pen­ moria! tablet dedicated in the east • Luther Loomis Elias Perkins • Rowland Angell of Yale University, sions for the members of the faculty • speaking for the sister colleges of and be used for additional needs of potico of the State Capitol on the af- : . •• ••••••••••••• • •• • ••• • •••• • ••••••••••••••••••••• Trinity and especially for Yale, "for the college. ternoon of commencement day. it is a well-known fact that before It was t he expressed aim, in rais­ At 2.30 a parade of tlhe faculty, Trinity College during this dynamic I CENTENNIAL PROMENADE the founding of Trinity the sons of ing the f und, that "Tr inity's torch, the alumni, the student body and century tis no insrgnific~nt thing, . for CONCLUDES CELEBRATIO Ya1e University left no stone unturn­ which was lighted a hundred years she has not stood behmd the lmes friends of the college f.ormed on the I N ed to prevent its founding. It is for­ ago, and whlich has been kept ·alight watclhing the marching troops going 1 tunate that they were not successful campus and marched down Washing­ t hrough her f irst century, should not up to the front, but has borne her full in their efforts as we look about to­ be dimmed, but should burn ever ton Street behind the centennial band part w~ll up on the firing line. Si~ - 350 Couples Attend All- · ht day and see the change in the state. more bright ly in the years to come." to the .capitol building. President ua.ted m one ·of the most energetic Dig There were two questions which form~ 'Jihe college closed t he year of 1921 0g'ilby and Kennedy, '24, college mar- states of the union, in a most beauti- Dance in Alumni Hall. ed the basis of contention; one was with approximately $290,000 pledged. ful and enterprising city, with a shal, led the procession. religion, for Connecticut was still Due to general financial depression strong faculty of far seeing profes- bound to sup.port the Congregational The exercises were conducted in and competition by other colleges and sors, she has received young men 'Ilhe centennial week-end concluded faith, and t he other whether the state organizations seeking funds from pub­ the east portico, before which rows from all sections of the country, she on t he morning of Tuesday, J une 12, could support another college. lic subscriptions, man'y diffliculties of benches had been placed f,or the has freely given them the best there "In spilte of opposition Trinity has were faced rby the fund committees. when, af.ter a nlght of dancing in audience. The actual unveiling of was to be given, and sent them out succeeded as one of the New Eng­ However, led by t heir district chair­ into the world well eouipped for l i: !:' Alumni Hall, those who had been in­ the tablet was done by Charles AI- land colleges in stpite of the fact men, the alumni entered int o the cam­ demands and honors. They have been dulging in three days of hectic cele­ that it has always tbeen one of the drich, Jr., great-great-great gTand­ paign with miUch enthusiasm and measured and not found wanting. bration saw the f irst gleams of dawn smaller ones. No one can doubt the achieved very satisfactory results. son of Bishop Brownell, and a de- "Especially does the college desire steal through the blue and gold cur­ visible advantage of a big university, The original plans suggested an scendant of Priscilla Alden. The tab- and challenge the love and approval tain s on the windows of the hall. but over and against these are the average grift of $250 per alumnus. let, which was designed by I. Howard and supp01t of its mlother city. It is The centennial prom started at advantages held by a small college On January 1, 1922, alumni of the Jones of Boston, bears a base relief but one of her own natural children. 8.30 on the evening of commencement which attract many who turn their college had pledged $237,793, the picturing the original three buildings One hundred years ·ago Hartford sub- day and ended at '5 the fo!J.owing backs on the doors of the large insti­ average individual gift being approx­ scdbed more than several neighbor- morning. About 350 couples attend­ tution. imately $318. of the college, Jarvis Hall, BroWnell ing cities that this college might be ed the affair. Yaffe's Orcihestra of "Yale will cooperate with Trinity In August, 1921, the district of Hall and Seabury Hall. located in its midst, and has e"·er Hartford offered a repertoire of the completely in working for the high­ Texas, under the leadership of its The invocation was mlade by the cherished its growth with many gen- latest numbers and some of the old est tyrpes of citizenship. May I con­ chairman, the Rev. Bertram L. Smith, Rt. Rev. Chauncey C. Brewster, hon- erous benefactions. The cilty has al- / favorites. gratulate Trinity College on entering '15, exceeded its quota of $2,250, be­ orarius of the college, '97, bishop of ways wished the college well by no- I The grand march was led by Mrs. the class of centenarians and also ing the first reported. table acts and deeds. In turn the Richard Barthelmess, wife of Bar­ the class of millionaires." The raising of the endowment fund Connecticut. Governor Charles A. 1 college has dutifully recognized its j thelmess, '17, the movie celebrity, Professor Charles H. Herford, pro­ has been in the hands of a general Templeton extended greetings to the liabilities to the city.