TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN MAGAZI E ISSUE • FEBRUARY 1955 • HARTF ORD, CONNECTICUT IN THIS ISSUE Photo Quiz Campus News Articles on Our Corporate Partners Fine Arts Survey Teaching Reading .... in College Lawson Purdy, '84 Wen dell Burger R emembered Books by Morse Allen (See Page 4) TRINITY editorial Comment COLLEGE On the Tuition Increase BULLETIN from the Hartford Times Vol. LII (New Series) No. II Trinity College, like Yale and ward if the best qualified teachers January 1955 others, finds it can no longer avoid and staff are to be retained or at­ Edited by Robert M. Bishop increasing its tuition charge. The tracted to Trinity. The academic Staff-Charles B. Saunders, Jr., Robert cause, of course, is higher costs, with program also must keep pace with a L. Sind, '55. larger enrollments a factor. The $50 larger institution and the expanding Issue Advisory Committee-Albert E. increase at Trinity is moderate, and needs of both students and faculty. Holland, '34, William R. Peelle, '44, will not absorb the full per capita There is a library that must have J.ohn F. Butler, '33, John A. Mason, student cost which is only half cov­ new books constantly. 34, Harold L. Dorwart. ered by tuition. The rest must come The $45,000 in new income from from endowments and gifts from the tuition increase is expected to alumni, parents and others for tide the college over a difficult scholarships and other needs. period until its new development The trustees have been doing program can show effective results. their best to avoid boosting tuition . Trinity is doing nothing more to $700 by making every possible than meeting its financial problem economy and, in fact, by bypassing realistically. It assures students, pressing needs which can no longer teachers, parents, and alumni that be neglected, if the college's high Dr. Jacobs intends to "preserve and standards are to be maintained. Fac­ to further the excellence of a Trinity ulty salaries must be adjusted up- education." Published eleven times a year by Trinity College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hart­ ford, Connecticut as second class matter, On The Trinity College Associates under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mall!ng at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103, from the Hartford Courant Act of October 3, 1917, authorized March 3, 1919. The Issues are as follows: Presi­ dent's Annual Report, September; College One of New England's richest re­ in training the men who may have Magazine, February, May, December; to find practical solutions. The Trin­ Alumni Newspaper , January, March, June, sources is its pool of educational fa­ November ; Catalogues, April (Summer), cilities. This has received growing ity College Associates are pledged to August (Evening). October (General). recognition in recent years. Agricul­ apply their joint resources to such ture has often been lent a helping ends .... hand by state educators. Labor has By putting Trinity's facilities to found a chance to study itself and use in studying regional problems, its problems, as seen through the the plan offers new ways to help eyes of specialists in industrial rela­ broaden the training of management. EDITOR'S CORNER tions. Government, of course, has At the same time, the support given found assistance in scientific and re­ by the corporations eases the finan­ Late News-Raymond J. Wean,­ search problems. Industry has had cial burden that the liberal arts col­ Ohioan and pioneer in the invention, help on specific questions. Now leges face today. design and manufacture of Hat steel Trinity College and a group of The corporations taking part in processing equipment, has been eighteen major corporations are go­ this program deserve congratulations elected to the college Board of Trus­ ing to explore this fruitful coopera­ for their venture into this uncharted tees . ... Recent additions to scholar­ tion in another field. field. Triruty believes this is the first ship endowments total more than The present announcement of the time such a program has been $50,000. 1955 Alumni and par­ first of a series of discussions of New worked out between liberal arts fac­ ents funds are running well ahead England problems shows what can ulties and business. It is a logical of any previous years. Bulletin and will be done. There is intensive step, and one that promises much of staff member Charles B. Saunders, research under way on regional value. The community, which per­ Jr. will leave Trinity in March to problems. But there is a need for haps stands to gain most by this pro­ join the public information staff of management and education to work gram, will watch it with interest. his alma mater, Princeton.... Chap­ together in understanding them, and lain Gerald B. O'Grady, Jr. in June will become rector of the American on Religious Life has been named by Janeiro by Professor-on-leave Lau­ Church in Geneva, Switzerland . President Jacobs to appraise present rence L. Barber, and an article on The Glee Club will be at the Bruns­ campus religious life and work teacher preparation by Professor wick School in Greenwich, Conn. toward maintaining Trinity's leader­ Richard K. Morris. on March 30; at Adelphi College, ship in helping each student grow President Jacobs presentation talk the Garden City Rotary Club and a toward spiritual maturity within his at the football Coach of the Year Trinity Alumni Concert on Long own faith .... dinner in New York, broadcast by Island on March 31; and at Hood Coming in the next magazine is a Mutual, has been widely noted as a College in Frederick, Md. on April 4. survey of Trinity alumni in the medi­ forthright statement on college A 13-member faculty Committee cal profession, a report from Rio de sports... 2 sonic speeds to several times the speed of sound, and Professor Nil­ son will carry out its calibration this summer with UAC engineers. Cali­ bration is an intricate procedure since the tunnel walls of flexible steel plate must change shape for each change of speed. The purpose of Professor Nilson's trip was to study new methods of calibration de­ veloped at CIT. retirement, Professor Humphrey this * * * * On Campu s :« :« »: year paid respect to Governor Wake­ field in exchanging information of FALL SPORTS chalked up an out­ TRINITY HAS JOINED with 91 mutual value between the College standing record with an overall win­ other institutions of higher learning and the Faribault County Historical ning average of 68 percent. Mem­ in the newly-formed College Scholar­ Society, now housed in the Wake­ bers of the undefeated, untied foot­ ship Service. Established by the field home. ball team won wide recognition, College Entrance Examination Board * * * * with 10 players receiving honors at the request of the colleges, the ranging from placement on the All U DER THE SPONSORSHIP of Connecticut selections to the Little aim of the Service is to develop pro­ the United Aircraft Corporation, As­ cedures which will assist the colleges sociate Professor of Mathematics All-America second team. Coach to compute the actual extent of a Edwin N. Nilson spent Christmas Dan Jessee received his second Coach students resources so that they may recess at the Jet Propulsion Labo­ of the Year award from Connecticut take steps to meet his need. A basic ratory of California Institute of sportswriters. The soccer team, which assumption of the Service is that Technology. Professor Nilson in won five, lost two and tied one to families which want their children 1948 designed a supersonic nozzle rank seventh in New England, also to go to college have the obligation which UAC built and which was received its share of honors includ­ to assist them, insofar as they are later modified at MIT for use in its ing five other places on the All-New able, and that the college should not new flexible-wall supersonic wind England first, second and honorable be expected to provide more financ­ tunnel. UAC is now building its own mention teams. Ace backs Charlie cial aid of any kind than the differ­ supersonic tunnel for a range from Sticka and Dick Nissi were named ence between the judicious maxi­ co-captains in football; goalie Phil mum which the family can spare Stiles was named to lead the boot- from its income and assets and the ers. actual total expense of the student * * * * in college. LIBRARY EXHIBIT for this month * * * * features English dictionaries in ob­ THE FRIENDSHIP of a distin­ servance of the 200th anniversary guished Trinity graduate of 1844 of Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. and a teen age boy has continued A selection of books on Jamaica from the influence of this Trinity man in the rare collection given to the Col­ college life 114 years after his col­ lege Library by Richardson Wright lege entrance. '10 was the subject for January. James Beach Wakefield, 12 years Children's book illustrations from after his graduation from Trinity the 15th Century to the present were in 1844, was a founder of Blue featured in December. Earth, Minnesota, organized Fari­ * * * * bault County, and served as first chairman of the county commission­ ENCOURAC"ING CORPORATE ers, was elected a representative SUPPORT for higher education has first in the state legislature, then in come from two large companies who Congress for two terms, was an Indi­ have included the College in their an agent, speaker of the State House, programs. Standard Oil Company of a State Senator, Lieutenant Govern­ The scratchboard drawing above New Jersey has awarded Trinity a or of Minnesota, and a delegate to of Wallace Stevens, Hartford poet, $3,500 gift to be used for under­ the national conventions which nom­ is an example of the artistry of Inez graduate education.