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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...centre in which a clock is to be placed. The work is under the personal supervision of the founder, who devotes his entire time and attention to the welfare of the college. It is his intention to found this college after the method of the old European universities, although it will be modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control of the funds, choice of instructors, etc. They will assist the founder in carrying out the plans already conceived by him, but will be free...
Little is known at Harvard about Trinity College, although it is hardly more than a hundred miles from Cambridge. Few know more than that it is a small Episcopal college, situated in Hartford, Conn. This knowledge is correct as far as it goes, but it does not do justice to Trinity...
...board, although but $4.50 a week is far superior to that of Memorial Hall, both in point of quality of food and in service; and this, in spite of the fact that the number of boarders is little more than a hundred. Cigars and cigarettes appear on the order list; and each man is allowed to have his own beer...
...Although Trinity can count but one hundred and twenty-five students, yet she has won herself an honorable position in athletics. Brinley, Paddock and Wright have well represented her in tennis. The college boasts of a nine and an eleven which have been victorious over colleges of much larger size, and it is seldom that a prize is not brought back from the Mott Haven games...
...back, Beecher; half-backs, Morrison, Graves, '88's; back, Graves, '91. Of these Wallace, Gill, Corbin, Woodruff, Beecher and Morrison were on last year's team. Cross was substitute on last year's crew and gives promise of being a valuable man. Rhodes is also a good man and although a good rusher, is not at all sure of his position. Pratt was a substitute last year. He gets through very well but in general tackles too high. Graves, '88 and Graves '91 are both new men and give promise of being valuable acquisitions to the team. They are both...