Catalogue of the Officers and Students

TRINITY COLLEGE,

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

THE charter of Washington College was granted in 1823 by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut; and by vote of the Trustees; in consequence of the liberal gifts of citizens of Hartford, the College was located in that city. In 1824 the work of instruction was begun; and two buildings, Seabury Hall and Jarvis Hall, were erected on an ample site near the city. In 1845, on the petition of the Alumni and the Corporation, the name of the College was changed to TRINITY COLLEGE; and the Alumni, who had formed a voluntary association in 1831, were organized into a constituent part of the Academic body. In the same year

Brownell Hall was erected.

The College campus having been sold in 1872 to the city of Hartford as a site for the State Capitol, a new site of about eighty acres was purchased, where ground was broken in 1875 for the new buildings, which were occupied in 1878. Five years later the west side of the great quadrangle, more than six hundred feet in length, was completed by the erection of the central building, which, after the name of its donor, is called Northam Tower. The St. John observatory was built on the south campus in 1883, and the President's house on the north campus in 1885. In 1883 the charter was so amended as to provide for the election of three of the Trustees by the Alumni.

The requirements for admission and the course of instruction for degrees in the Arts have always been practically the same as in the other New England Colleges. The College has from the first made provision for the admission of students in special courses; and in 1884 three new courses of study were established, two of which lead to a degree in Science, and elective studies were introduced into all the courses. Copies of catalogues and examination-papers, and information concerning the courses of instruction, scholarships, etc., can be obtained from the President or from the Secretary of the Faculty.

The last edition of the Quinquennial Catalogue of the officers and graduates of the College was published in May, 1885. It is requested that memoranda of errors or omissions in this Catalogue, or of material for the next edition, be sent to the Professor of Latin.