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Trinity College is a private, liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...

in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. The college enrolls 2,300 students and has been coeducational since 1969. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, and has a student to faculty ratio of 10:1. The college is also known as one of the few Little Ivies

Little Ivies

Little Ivies is a colloquialism referring to a group of small, selective American liberal arts colleges; however, it does not denote any official organization....

.

Trinity's stated mission is to "foster critical thinking, free the mind of parochialism and prejudice, and prepare students to lead examined lives that are personally satisfying, civilly responsible, and socially useful".

History

Early history

Trinity was founded in the spring of 1823 as Washington College, in downtown Hartford, receiving its current name in 1845. Because of the social dominance of rival Congregationalists in Connecticut and because Trinity's founder and first president, the Rt. Rev. Thomas Brownell

Thomas Church Brownell

Thomas Church Brownell was founder of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1852 until his death....

, was an Episcopal bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

, the college had some early difficulties obtaining its charter from the state. A condition imposed by the charter was that, despite its Episcopal roots, the college must prohibit any imposition of religious standards on students, faculty members, or other members of the college. A year after opening, Trinity moved to its first campus, which consisted of two Greek Revival-style buildings, one housing a chapel, library, and lecture rooms and the other a dormitory. Within a few years the student body grew to nearly one hundred, a size that was rarely exceeded until the 20th century.

A new campus

In 1872 Trinity College was persuaded by the State of Connecticut to move from its downtown “College Hill” location (now Capitol Hill, the site of the state capitol building) to its current 100 acres (40.5 ha) campus a mile to the southwest. Although the college sold its land overlooking the Park River

Park River

-Rivers:*Park River *Park River *Big Muddy Creek , also known as Park River...

and Bushnell Park

Bushnell Park

Bushnell Park in Hartford, Connecticut is the oldest publicly funded park in the United States. It was conceived by the Reverend Horace Bushnell in the mid-1850s at a time when the need for open public spaces was just starting to be recognized....

in 1872, it did not complete its move to its Gallows Hill campus until 1878. Trinity’s first plan for the Gallows Hill site proved to be too ambitious (and too expensive) to be completely built. Only one section of the proposed campus plan, the Long Walk

Trinity College Long Walk

The Trinity College Long Walk is a group of buildings that form the core of Trinity College's campus. This structure consists mainly of three buildings: Seabury Hall, Northam Towers, and Jarvis Hall.-History:...

, was completed.

Trinity in the twentieth century

Trinity ended the nineteenth century as an institution primarily serving the Hartford area. The founding of the University of Hartford

University of Hartford

The University of Hartford is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest levels of accreditation available in the US, including the Engineering Accreditation Commission of...

in 1877, however, allowed Trinity to focus on becoming a regional institution rather than a local one. The early years of the century were primarily growth years for Trinity. Enrollment was increased to 500 men. In 1932 under President Remsen Ogilby, the Gothic chapel was completed, becoming the symbol of Trinity College. It replaced the Seabury chapel which had become too small for the student body.

In 1968 the trustees of Trinity College voted to make a commitment to enroll (with financial aid as needed) more minority students. This decision was preceded by a siege of the administrative offices in the Downes and Williams Memorial buildings during which Trinity students would not allow the president or trustees to leave until they agreed to the resolution.

Less than one year later Trinity College became co-educational and admitted its first female students, as transfers from Vassar College

Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...

. Today, women make up about 50 percent of Trinity's student body.

Matriculation

The matriculation ceremony, sometimes referred to as the "signing of the books," first started in 1826 and is the oldest continuously observed tradition at Trinity. First year students formally join Trinity College as students by signing the matriculation register. By signing the register, students agree to the declaration found in The Charter and Standing Rules that reads: "I promise to observe the Statutes of Trinity College; to obey all its Rules and Regulations; to discharge faithfully all scholastic duties imposed upon me; and to maintain and defend all the rights, privileges, and immunities of the College according to my station and degree in the same." Symbolic of Trinity's becoming coeducational in 1969, the first student to sign the matriculation register was a woman.

The Bantam

Trinity's mascot, the bantam, was conceived by Hon. Joseph Buffington, Class of 1875, who was a federal judge and trustee of the College. He was a noted speaker, and gave an address during an 1899 dinner with alumni of other prestigious colleges. Giving his view on what a Trinity student is, and supporting his view that Trinity students are different from the "collegiate barnyard" consisting of Harvard and Yale (amongst others such as Amherst), Buffington said: "But I tell you, my fellow chanticleers, that the Trinity bantam has been brought up in the Trinity barnyard on different principles, and the most marked outcome of his collegiate training is the fostering of a habit which leads him to size things from his own standpoint, and not have somebody else size them for him." He continued, saying: "You will therefore understand, gentlemen, the spirit in which the Trinity bantam, game from comb to spur, crows at your door, hops in, shakes his tail feathers, and with a sociable nod to the venerable John, and a good natured "How d'ydo" to the ponderous old Elihu steps into the collegiate cock pit, makes his best bow to the tiger, says he is glad to be here, is not a whit abashed at your hugeness, [and] is satisfied with himself and his own particular coop."

Subsequent to this address, word spread throughout campus, and newspapers began to refer to the Trinity athletic teams as the "bantams." Soon after, the bantam became accepted at Trinity and at fellow colleges as the mascot and has been so ever since.

Alma Mater

Trinity's alma mater is "’Neath the Elms." It was written in 1882 by Trinity student Augustus P. Burgwin to the tune of a song that his butler often sang. When "'Neath the Elms" was written, the College had been planting elm trees on the quad, which remain today. Trinity alumni use this as a motto when referencing Trinity; for example, a Trinity alumnus would say to another: "I'll see you 'neath the elms." The alma mater of Trinity College is also the basis for other terms used on campus, such as "Ol' Trin."

’Neath the elms of our old Trinity,

’Neath the elms of our dear old Trinity,

No more shall we meet,

Our classmates to greet,

’Neath the elms of our old Trinity.

’Neath the elms of our dear old Trinity

Oh it’s seldom we’ll meet,

In the moonlight so sweet,

’Neath the elms of our old Trinity.

On the hills of our old Trinity,

In the halls of our dear old Trinity,

There is bright merry cheer,

There are friends true and dear,

In the halls of our old Trinity.

College days are from care and sorrow free.

And oft will we seek in memory

Those days that are past,

Far too joyous to last,

’Neath the elms of our old Trinity.

Then we’ll sing to our old Trinity,

To our dear old Alma Mater, Trinity;

We’re together today,

And tomorrow away,

Far away from our old Trinity.

The Hartford Campus

The first buildings completed on the current campus were Seabury and Jarvis halls in 1878. Together with Northam Towers, these make up what is known as the "Long Walk

Trinity College Long Walk

". These buildings are the earliest examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture in the United States, built to plans drawn up by William Burges

William Burges (architect)

William Burges was an English architect and designer. Amongst the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, Burges sought in his work an escape from 19th century industrialisation and a return to the values, architectural and social, of an imagined mediaeval England...

, with F.H. Kimball

Francis Kimball

Francis Hatch Kimball was an American architect practicing in New York City, best known for his work on skyscrapers in lower Manhattan and terra-cotta ornamentation. He was an associate with the firm Kimball & Thompson.-Life:...

as supervising architect. The Long Walk has been expanded and is connected with several other buildings. On the northernmost end there is the Chapel, whose western side is connected to the Downes and Williams Memorial building. Heading south, the next building is Jarvis. Jarvis becomes Northam Towers heading south, then Seabury Hall. Seabury Hall, named for Samuel Seabury (1729–1796), is connected to Hamlin Hall. To Hamlin's east is Cook, then Goodwin and then Woodard. The dormitories on the Long Walk end there, and the terminal building on the south end of the long walk is Clement/Cinestudio

Cinestudio

Cinestudio is an independent film theater located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The theater is a single-screen venue with a seating capacity of approximately 500. Regionally, it is known for its large screen, 70 mm film projection capability, and classic movie palace...

. Clement is the chemistry building; Cinestudio

Cinestudio

a student run movie theater. If one travels to the south of Hamlin there will be Mather Hall and the Dean of Students Office.

Trinity's other landmark is its distinctive chapel. The Trinity College Chapel was built in the 1930s to replace Trinity's original chapel, located in Seabury Hall (now a lecture hall). The Chapel's facade is made almost entirely of limestone and therefore blends into the adjacent Downes Memorial Clock Tower. Its primary architect was Philip Hubert Frohman, of Frohman, Robb and Little, who was also responsible for the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. There are two dormitories named after these three people. The first is the Frohman-Robb dormitory known colloquially as "Frobb." There is another dormitory called Little in honor of the third architect. The two dormitories are adjacent and are on the south side of campus, behind the Life Science Center (LSC).

Another feature of Trinity's campus is its central green known as the Main Quad, which is bound on the west by the Long Walk, on the east by the Lower Long Walk, on the north by the Chapel, and on the south by the Cook, Goodwin and Woodard dormitories.. While a central green is a feature of many college campuses, Trinity's is notable for its unusually large size, running the entire length of the Long Walk and with no paved or unpaved walkways traversing it. Trees on the Quad have been planted in a 'T' configuration (for Trinity) with the letter's base located at the statue of Bishop Brownell and its top running the length of the Long Walk. Tradition holds that the trees were intended to distinguish Trinity's campus from Yale's. Also located on the Quad are two cannons used on the USS Hartford, flagship of Admiral David Farragut

David Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the...

during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

.

The whole of Trinity's campus is set out on a 100 acres (40.5 ha) parcel of land that is bound on the south by New Britain Avenue, on the west by Summit Street, on the east by Broad Street, and on the north by Allen Place. Trinity's former northern border, Vernon Street, has been transferred from the city of Hartford to Trinity College and closed off at one end (Broad Street), creating a cul-de-sac within Trinity's borders. Completed in 2001, and located on what was formerly an abandoned bus depot adjacent to Trinity's campus, the Learning Corridor is a collection of K-12 public magnet schools co-created by Trinity and the governments of Hartford and Connecticut.

Crescent Street is the only through street on Trinity's campus. The only other exception until its recent closure was Vernon Street, at the north end of the campus. Since the street was transferred to the school from the city, Trinity widened and repaved it, as well as installing light posts about every ten feet and adding granite crosswalks, curbs, benches, and fenceposts. Vernon Street is the location of most of the campus' cultural houses and Greek organizations, as well as Vernon Social Center. There are also various residences on that street, including the President's house and the Smith House for visitors.

Important buildings on campus

Albert C. Jacobs Life Sciences Center – Built in 1967 in the architectural style of Brutalism, the Life Science Center, or LSC, was designed to be an abstract representation of the Long Walk. The building houses Trinity's departments of Biology and Psychology. It contains several classrooms, an auditorium, teaching labs, research labs, and a greenhouse. Trinity's first dedicated neuroscience lab is to be built in LSC in 2011. Fund raising is underway to construct a neuroscience suite and a music rehearsal hall on the north side of LSC.
Austin Arts Center – The AAC was designed in the 1960s, and contains art exhibition spaces, two theaters (Garmany and Goodwin) , a few classrooms, and is home to the offices of Theater and Dance and Music professors.
Clement - The Clement Center, is home to the Chemistry department. Clement contains four teaching laboratories, eight research laboratories, instrument rooms, computer rooms, and classrooms. It also offers its own library, conducive to scholarly pursuits and thoughtful concentration. During the summer of 2011, the building will undergo of $750,000 renovation of five of its laboratories through funds provided by the National Science Foundation. Clement is also home to Cinestudio
Cinestudio
Cinestudio is an independent film theater located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The theater is a single-screen venue with a seating capacity of approximately 500. Regionally, it is known for its large screen, 70 mm film projection capability, and classic movie palace...

, the on campus movie theater.
Facilities (Formerly Buildings and Grounds) The facilities building is the home of various departments that relate to the maintenance of the physical (as opposed to the academic) aspects of the College. Included in this building is the Director of Facilities, the Superintendent of Grounds, the Superintendent of Construction Trades (who is also the Superintendent of Access Control), various engineers, electricians, painters, carpenters and mechanics.
Ferris Athletic Center*- Ferris Athletic Center includes a field house, an eight-lane, 37-meter swimming pool with a movable bulkhead, 16 international-size squash courts, two basketball courts, 2 weight rooms, one of which that is new and used for varsity team athletes, two crew tanks, a wrestling room and a 1/10-mile indoor track. Adjacent to Ferris are 19 acres of playing fields for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, and baseball as well as the multi- purpose Robin L. Sheppard Field and the 6,500- seat Dan Jessee/Don Miller Football Field and Track
Jessee/Miller Field
Jessee/Miller Field is located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. It is the home field of the Trinity College football team...

.
Jarvis Hall – This section of the Long Walk contains single, double and quad dorms, primarily for juniors and seniors. It is rumored that the doubles were originally designed for students while the singles across the hallway were intended for their servants. In actuality, the single rooms were single bedrooms, which opened into living areas, which are currently the doubles and the hallway, and six rooms retain this layout. As of the 2008 school year, the massive Long Walk Reconstruction project has been completed, and the dorms are built in a classic style.
Mather Hall – located just south of Hamlin Hall (the southern terminus of the long walk), Mather Hall is the main student center of Trinity College. The building contains the main dining hall as well as "The Cave" dining hall, a post office and student mail boxes, a coffee house, as well as meeting rooms and a large auditorium.
Math, Computing, and Engineering Center – also known as the MCEC, is located on the Life Sciences Quad (named for the Life Sciences Center, which dominates the eastern side of the quad) it is made of brick and sandstone.
Northam Towers – This central tower on the Long Walk, flanked by the Fuller archway, connects Jarvis and Seabury Halls. It contains upperclassman housing. The National Fraternity of Alpha Chi Rho was founded in a room within Northam Towers.
Raether Library and Information Technology Center – Trinity's main library was originally built at the southeast corner of the main quad in the 1950s to replace the library in Williams Memorial. Additional wings were constructed in the 1970s, and a major renovation and restoration took place in 2002, at which time the building was given its present name. The Watkinson Library, which houses rare books and manuscripts, occupies an annex of the first floor. The latest renovations, which enlarged the facility to 172000 square feet (15,979.3 m²) and more than 1 million volumes, include an atrium, grand reading room, three new computing centers, a multimedia development studio, a music and media center, private study rooms, and a cafe. Though a private academic library, more than 2,800 outside visitors were recorded between November, 2006 and March, 2007.
Seabury Hall – This section of the Long Walk contains classrooms, professor's offices, and four dance studios. Its recent $32.7 million renovation project was completed in 2008. In addition, the old Seabury chapel was renovated into a classroom, maintaining the pews for student seating.
Trinity Commons * – Located on the south end of campus on New Britain and Summit St., Trinity Commons is the new arts mecca on campus. It is contains 4 studio classrooms and the newly constructed Performance Lab. The Performance Lab is a massive black box theater that can sit at least 100 people, but can accommodate much more with standing room. It has a set lighting plot with about 100 lights and is the new performance venue for most new student and faculty shows. It also houses many offices on the other side of the building. It is one of the newest buildings on campus and only houses Theater and Dance classes and administrative offices.
Vernon Social Center – Vernon Social Center, located on Vernon Street, is a multipurpose auditorium used on campus for various events, including concerts and lectures. It is attached to Vernon Place, a dormitory, and makes up the quad housing North Campus Hall and High Rise Hall.

Sustainability Initiatives

Trinity is a signatory of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Students are involved with programs such as Green Campus, ConnPIRG, and The TREEhouse (Trinity Recreational and Environmental Education House). Students also have access to Zipcars, UPass bus passes.

Academics

Trinity offers three types of degrees: B.A.'s, B.S.'s, as well as M.A.'s in a few subjects. Trinity offers 38 majors. Students also have the option of creating a self-designed major or adding an interdisciplinary or departmental minor. Trinity is one of the only liberal arts schools to offer a degree in engineering. Trinity has a student to faculty ratio of 10:1.

Admission

Admission to Trinity has been increasingly competitive in recent years; this may be attributed to a large increase in admission applications as of late. For the class of 2015, the acceptance rate was 26.70%. In January 2011, Trinity's Dean of Admissions reported a 45% application increase, one of the highest ever. A New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

article in January 2011 noted a 47.38% increase, the highest increase of the nation's most selective colleges. Trinity's President James F. Jones

James F. Jones

James F. Jones, Jr., is the 21st president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Jones is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He and his wife, Jan, have three children.- Education :...

commented saying, "The 48.4 percent increase in completed apps is unprecedented: at Trinity or anywhere else for that matter as far as we know. Trinity has become a very hot school because of the vast opportunities we offer, all of which are being better publicized through our new admissions materials, the new website, and our ever-evolving use of social media." The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

ranked Trinity as one of the top 50 best "feeder schools" for top graduate school programs. Data compiled by the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

lists Trinity as a liberal arts college that graduates disproportionately high numbers of future scientists.

U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

ranked Trinity #36 among liberal arts colleges in the United States. In August 2007, however, the college joined the "Annapolis Group

Annapolis Group

The Annapolis Group is an American organization that describes itself as "a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges." It represents approximately 130 liberal arts colleges in the United States...

", an organization of more than 100 of the nation's liberal arts schools, in refusing to participate in the magazine's rankings.

In 2009, The Princeton Review gave Trinity a 95 (out of 100) for selectivity. In 2011 "The Princeton Review" named Trinity as a best value college for 2011.Also in 2011, Forbes Magazine listed Trinity College among the top 100 colleges in the nation.

A 2011 Huffington Post article named Trinity one of the top 10 Trendiest Schools in America, along with other exclusive schools such as Yale and Columbia. The article noted Trinity's "drastic application increases and soaring student reviews" and "close-knit student body."

Fraternities and sororities

Officially, approximately 18% of the student body are affiliated with a Greek organization. During the late 1980s and 1990s, under pressure from the college administration, many of the single-sex fraternities and sororities merged and formed co-educational Greek organizations. Among those currently on campus are:

Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho is a men's collegiate fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut by the Reverend Paul Ziegler, his son Carl Ziegler, and Carl's friends William Rouse, Herbert T. Sherriff and William A.D. Eardeley. It is a charter member of the North-American...

(Crow) founded at Trinity College in 1895.
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi is a Greek-letter social college fraternity and the fourth-oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada. Alpha Delta Phi was founded on October 29, 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College and includes former U.S. Presidents, Chief Justices of the U.S....
Cleo Literary Society
Ivy Society
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma is a collegiate women's fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted that October 13, 1870 should be recognized at the official Founders Day, because no...
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon is the fifth oldest college fraternity in the United States, founded at Union College in 1833. It has chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America. For most of its history, Psi Upsilon, like most social fraternities, limited its membership to men only...
St. Anthony Hall
St. Anthony Hall
St. Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St. Anthony, is a national college literary society also known as the Fraternity of Delta Psi at colleges in the United States of America. St...
Zeta Omega Eta
Zeta Omega Eta
Zeta Omega Eta is a sorority at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. , it is the only active feminist sorority in the United States....

: founded at Trinity College in 2003.

Several other Greek organizations, while active, are not officially affiliated with the school. They include:

Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma , commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig, is an international fraternity with currently 282 active chapters and colonies in North America. Kappa Sigma has initiated more than 240,000 men on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Today, the Fraternity has over 175,000 living...

Colony established in 2011.
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha is a Greek social fraternity with over 230 chapters and colonies and over 250,000 lifetime initiates in the United States and Canada.-History:...

(Pike). The Epsilon Alpha chapter was established in 1953, and has been unaffiliated with the school since 1993.
Theta Delta Sigma A national co-ed, multicultural Greek society was colonized in 2005.
Cha Ki Ryan the Alpha chapter was founded at Trinity College in 2005.
National Pan-Hellenic Council (Historically Black)
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
  
  sorority
- Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
  
  fraternity
- Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...
  
  sorority
- Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
  
  fraternity

Coffee Houses

The Underground Coffee House: Located below Mather dining hall, The Underground is a spot for students to relax, study, and participate in cultural events. It is the only completely student-run business on campus.

Peter B's Cafe: Located on the first floor of the library.

A cappella groups

Trinity's a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

groups are:

The Accidentals: The Accidentals were founded in 1993 as an all-male a capella singing group. Their repertoire includes classic rock, R&B, barbershop, jazz and pop.
The Dischords: The Dischords are Trinity’s newest co-ed a cappella group, organized in 2005. They sing a wide variety of music ranging from old classics to the soulful one-hit wonders of the 80’s to contemporary hits of today and tomorrow.
The Trinitones: The Trinitones are Trinity's first all-female vocal group. The Trinitones sing a cappella music in close harmony, in styles ranging from jazzy 1920's music to current popular songs.
The Trinity Pipes: The Trinity Pipes are Trinity's oldest a cappella group. They are a small, coed singing group, which was founded in 1938 by four men from St. Anthony Hall and sings a wide variety of music from 1940s close harmony to modern pop and rock arrangements.
The Quirks: The Quirks are Trinity’s newest all-female a capella group. Founded by two students in 2003 as their Tutorial College project, the Quirks' repertoire includes close harmony arrangements of a wide range of musical genres, including jazz, rock, R&B, and pop.

Athletics

The Trinity College Department of Athletics currently sponsors Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Swimming, Football, Lacrosse, Golf, Tennis, Track & Field, Wrestling, Rowing, Squash and Ice Hockey along with Women's Intercollegiate Softball, Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Swimming, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Squash, Tennis, Track & Field and Rowing. They compete in the NCAA Division III in most sports.

The Trinity Bantams squash team holds the record for the longest winning streak in any inter-collegiate sport in the nation, at 244 consecutive victories. The Bantams have won 13 consecutive national titles since 1998, when they first took home the Potter Trophy. They have also garnered attention and praise from major media outlets such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and USA Today, among others.

The Trinity Baseball team won the Division III national title in 2008, after having started the season 44–0, shattering numerous records in the process. After having been handed their first loss of the year by Johns Hopkins (to fall to 44–1), the Bantams clinched the national title by beating Johns Hopkins in the bottom of the ninth of the championship game. They finished the season with a 45–1 record.

The Trinity Football team has gone undefeated in several recent seasons (2003–2005, 2008) and has won the NESCAC championship in five of the past seven seasons (2002–2005, 2008).

Both the men's and women's rowing teams are consistently ranked within the top five teams in NCAA Division III competition. In 2008, the women's Varsity 8+ won the Division III NCAA Rowing Championship

NCAA Rowing Championship

The NCAA Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division I, II and III women's heavyweight collegiate crews. It was first held in 1997. In 2002, the NCAA added championships for Division II and Division III. All races are 2,000 meters long...

title and placed second as a team and later went on to win the Jeffries Cup at Henley Women's Regatta

Henley Women's Regatta

Henley Women's Regatta is a rowing regatta held at Henley-on-Thames, England. It was formed as a result of the lack of women's events at Henley Royal Regatta and first held in 1988...

Student publications

The Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod is the primary student newspaper of Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Since Spring 2006 the Tripod has been arranged with six sections, in order, News, Opinions, Features, Arts, Announcements, and Sports. Each of those sections has two co-editors save Announcements which has one...
4legs.org
4legs.org
4legs.org was founded as an online newspaper serving Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Since its launch on October 26, 2010, it quickly became the most viewed student newspaper at Trinity College, CT. 4legs has six major sections, Featured, News, Entertainment, Science/Tech, Sports, and Other. ...
Slate Literary Magazine

Student clubs and organizations

Student clubs are a huge part of the Trinity experience. There are more than 100 student-run organizations representing the full spectrum of student life at the College. Clubs are categorized by: community service organizations, cultural organizations, special interest groups, club sports and recreation, media organizations, musical organizations, and student government. A few of the student clubs offered at Trinity are:

Amnesty International: Trinity College Chapter
Anime Club
Asian American Student Association
Bantam Brew Club
BBQ Club
Caribbean Students Association
Chapel Singers
Club Tennis Team
Green Campus
Habitat for Humanity
Hillel
Investment Club
M.D. Fox Mentoring Program
Mock Trial Team
Society of Physics Students
Trap and Skeet Shooting Club
Trinity College Black Women's Organization
Trinity College Democrats
Trinity College Emergency Response Team
Trintity College Gospel Choir
Trinity College Republicans
UMOJA- black student organization

Residence halls

Trinity College houses its students in 27 dorms organized into four "areas", each with a local area coordinator, who is responsible for administering the area.

Area 1 ("Crescent Street"):
- Stowe
- Clemens
- Anadama
- Wiggins
- Little - First Year
- Frohman-Robb - First Year

Area 2 ("South Campus"):
- Summit North
- Summit South
- Summit East (The Fred)
- Jackson- First Year
- Smith
- Wheaton
- Funston

Area 3 ("The Long Walk"):
- Jarvis
- Northam Towers
- Cook
- Goodwin-Woodward
- Jones- First Year
- Elton- First Year

(Note that Jones and Elton are not part of the same structure as the Long Walk proper, but are in the same general vicinity.)

Area 4 ("Vernon Street"):
- Boardwalk
- Park Place
- Vernon
- High Rise
- North Campus- First Year
- Hansen
- Doonesbury
- Ogilby

Study Away

Study away is an integral part of the Trinity experience and is also a critical component of Trinity’s urban/global focus. Approximately 70 percent of Trinity undergraduates study abroad or in another U.S. city before graduating. In addition to the Trinity College, Rome Campus, Trinity has programs in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Trinidad and Tobago, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires that are partially staffed by Trinity professors. In addition there are many other study abroad programs which Trinity students are approved to take part in. In 2012 Trinity will establish a program in Shanghai through a partnership with Fudan University

Fudan University

Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in China, and is a member of the C9 League. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty...

Trinity College, Rome Campus

Trinity College, Rome Campus (TCRC) is a study abroad campus of Trinity College. It was established in 1970 and is located in a residential area of Rome on the Aventine Hill

Aventine Hill

The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa, the twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome.-Location and boundaries:The Aventine hill is the southernmost of Rome's seven hills...

close to the Basilica of Santa Sabina within the precincts of a convent run by an order of nuns.

The program usually consists of 50–70 students from different American colleges and universities. Students can either attend TCRC for a semester or for their summer program. Each semester, there are usually a range of courses from economics to art history. Most courses make use of the city of Rome by conducting numerous walking tours and trips. Every student enrolled in the program is required to take the appropriate level of study of Italian language

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

. The program also regularly makes trips to other parts of Italy, such as Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, and Capri

Capri

Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy...

Notable people

Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...

, playwright
Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history...

, Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning historian and professor
James Roosevelt Bayley
James Roosevelt Bayley
James Roosevelt Bayley was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore .-Early life and education:...

, Archbishop of Baltimore
Jonah Bayliss
Jonah Bayliss
Jonah James Bayliss is an American professional baseball relief pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization...

, Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

pitcher
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel...

, journalist, editor and founder of The Daily Caller, former host of Tucker
Tucker (television program)
Tucker is an American television program on MSNBC that focused on politics, hosted by Tucker Carlson. The show aired from June 6, 2005–March 14, 2008....
Thomas M. Chappell, co-founder and CEO of Tom's of Maine
Tom's of Maine
Tom's of Maine is a brandname and manufacturer of natural-ingredients-only personal care products, a partially owned subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive since 2006. The company's products are intentionally made without ingredients that are either chemically derived, have a negative environmental...
Moe Drabowsky
Moe Drabowsky
Myron Walter Drabowsky was a Polish-American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , Milwaukee Braves , Cincinnati Reds , Kansas City Athletics , Baltimore Orioles , Kansas City Royals , St...

, Major League Baseball pitcher
Edward Miner Gallaudet
Edward Miner Gallaudet
Edward Miner Gallaudet , son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, was a famous early educator of the deaf in Washington, DC...

, founder of Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University is a federally-chartered university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing, located in the District of Columbia, U.S...
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Stephen Gyllenhaal
-Personal life:Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Virginia Lowrie and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. The Gyllenhaal family is a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name,...

, film producer and director
Dean Hamer
Dean Hamer
Dr. Dean Hamer is an American geneticist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for his contributions to biotechnology and AIDS prevention, his research on the genetics of human behavior including sexual orientation and spirituality, and his popular books and documentaries on a wide range of...

, discoverer of the controversial "gay gene" and "God gene
God gene
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"
Alfred Harding
Alfred Harding (bishop)
Alfred Harding was the second Episcopal Bishop of Washington. He was elected in 1909 to succeed the Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, the founding bishop of the Diocese of Washington . Harding was de facto dean of the Cathedral from 1909 until 1916.-Biography:He was born on August 15, 1852 in...

, Episcopal
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
The Episcopal Diocese of Washington is the ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington in the United States. The territory comprises the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Charles, St. Mary's, Prince George's and Montgomery...

Bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

of Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

.
Barbara B. Kennelly
Barbara B. Kennelly
Barbara Bailey Kennelly was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.-Family and Education:...

, U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
Mickey Kobrosky
Mickey Kobrosky
Mickey Kobrosky was an American football player. He played in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011.-References:...

, College Football Hall of Fame Member (2001), Former NFL, MLB athlete
Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
Ernest de Koven Leffingwell was an arctic explorer, geologist and Spanish-American War veteran.During the period from 1906 to 1914, Leffingwell spent 9 summers and 6 winters on the Arctic coast of Alaska, making 31 trips by dog sled and/or small boats. He created the first accurate map of a large...

geologist and Arctic explorer
Mary McCormack
Mary McCormack
Mary Catherine McCormack is an American actress. Best known for her work in television, she has had leading roles as Justine Appleton in the series Murder One , as Deputy National Security Adviser Kate Harper in The West Wing and as Mary Shannon in In Plain Sight .Her film roles include Private...

, American actress
Thomas Joseph Meskill
Thomas Joseph Meskill
Thomas Joseph Meskill was a longtime judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He previously served as the 82nd Governor of Connecticut, as a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut, and as the mayor of New Britain, Connecticut...

, U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

and Governor of Connecticut
Roy Nutt
Roy Nutt
Roy Nutt was an American businessman and computer pioneer who co-founded Computer Sciences Corporation and was a co-creator of FORTRAN....

, Co-Founder Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA...

, co-creator of FORTRAN
Fortran
Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

.
Jane M. Swift
Jane M. Swift
Jane Maria Swift is an American politician, who served as the 69th lieutenant governor from 1999 to 2003 and acting governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003. She is the only woman to perform the duties of governor of Massachusetts, doing so from April 2001 to January 2003...

, Class of 1987, Governor of Massachusetts
Governor of Massachusetts
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...

(2001–2003)
J. H. Hobart Ward
J. H. Hobart Ward
John Henry Hobart Ward , most commonly referred to as J.H. Hobart Ward, was a career United States Army soldier who fought in the Mexican–American War and served in the New York state militia...

, American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

general
George Will
George Will
George Frederick Will is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics...

, Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning newspaper columnist, author, and ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...

political journalist
George A. Woodward
George A. Woodward
George Abisha Woodward was a jurist and a Brigadier General in the United States Army.-Biography:Woodward was born on February 14, 1835 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His father was U.S. Representative George Washington Woodward. He obtained a B.A. from Trinity College in 1855 and married Charlotte...

, U.S. Army general

Faculty

Michael C. FitzGerald
Michael C. FitzGerald
Michael C. FitzGerald—born 1953—is professor of fine arts and director of the program in art history at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. After his A.B. in 1976 from Stanford University, FitzGerald obtained both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1986 and 1987 respectively...

, Picasso scholar and art historian .
William Woodruff Niles
William Woodruff Niles
William Woodruff Niles was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and served as such from 1870 until his death in 1914.-Early life and education:...

, A.B. 1857, professor of Latin, 1864–70, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, 1870–1914.

Trinity College and Hartford

Trinity is located in urban Hartford, within walking distance of the state capital of Connecticut. The main campus is bordered by Summit Street, Allen Place, Broad Street and New Britain Avenue.

Trinity and the community

Along with Trinity, the Learning Corridor, Hartford Hospital

Hartford Hospital

Hartford Hospital is an acute care hospital located in the South End of Hartford, Connecticut. The hospital was formed in 1854 after the State of Connecticut granted a charter for the Formation of Hartford Hospital following a boiler explosion and resulting fire at the Fales and Grey Car Works...

, and The Institute of Living

The Institute of Living

The Institute of Living is a mental health center in Hartford, Connecticut which merged with Hartford Hospital in 1994. The hospital was built in 1823, and was opened to admissions in 1824. Eli Todd was its first director. The hospital cost $12,000 to build and could serve up to 40 patients at a time...

make up the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, or SINA. SINA aims to create affordable housing in Hartford's Frog Hollow and Barry Square neighborhoods as well as in the creation of the Learning Corridor and the Trinity College Boys and Girls Club.

Trinity's library, computer resources and the new Community Sports Complex are available to Hartford residents. The new sports complex functions both as a rink for Trinity’s ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

teams and as a public skating rink. Trinity also runs the Trinfo Café which provides Hartford residents with internet and computer access as well as computing services/education.

Trinity has recently entered into a partnership with the Hartford Magnet Middle School

Hartford Magnet Middle School

Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy is a magnet school in Hartford, Connecticut which recently was named a Blue Ribbon School and operates as part of the Hartford Public Schools...

located across the street. Trinity will now advise the school with academic affairs, provide professors to lead summer courses and will open up some Trinity courses to qualified seniors at Hartford Magnet Middle School which is in the process of adding grades 9–12.

In the summer months, when not in session, the college opens its campus to the community for its Plumb Memorial Carillon Concerts that are held on Wednesday nights. Trinity's 49-bell Carillon is one of approximately 200 such instruments in North America.

Contributions to the arts

Cinestudio

is an art cinema with 1930s-style design. An article in the Hartford Advocate described this non-profit organization, which depends solely on grants and the efforts of volunteer workers who are paid in free movies. Cinestudio has been located in the Clement Chemistry Building since it was founded in the 1970s.

Cinestudio is host to the annual Eyeball Film Festival, in which young film makers premier their latest works in front of their peers. The festival has judges, each schooled in film from a different perspective, who judge the students' films.

Trinity also hosts the annual Trinity International Hip Hop Festival

Trinity International Hip Hop Festival

The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival is a free music festival that brings together Hip Hop artists from around the world. It has been held annually at Trinity College in Hartford, CT since 2006...

. A three-day celebration of global hip hop culture, the festival features lectures, panel discussions, workshops and live performances. The festival was founded in 2006 with the goal of unifying Trinity with the city of Hartford.

Trinity has a strong faculty in fine arts, including Picasso scholar and art historian Michael C. FitzGerald

Michael C. FitzGerald

Michael C. FitzGerald—born 1953—is professor of fine arts and director of the program in art history at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. After his A.B. in 1976 from Stanford University, FitzGerald obtained both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1986 and 1987 respectively...

Trinity College presidents

James Fleming Jones, Jr.
James F. Jones
James F. Jones, Jr., is the 21st president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Jones is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He and his wife, Jan, have three children.- Education :...

, 2004–present
Evan Dobelle
Evan Dobelle
Evan Samuel Dobelle is a public official and higher-education administrator, is known for promoting higher-education investment in the Creative Economy, public-private partnerships and the "College Ready" model that helps students graduate from high school and college.-Life:Evan Samuel Dobelle...

H'01 1995–2001
Tom Gerety
Tom Gerety
Tom Gerety, a lawyer, philosopher, and self-proclaimed "60s radical", is the former president of both Trinity College and Amherst College . After leaving Amherst College, he became the executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law...

1989–1994
John Barrett Kerfoot
John Barrett Kerfoot
John Barrett Kerfoot was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and a president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut....

H'65 1864–1866
John Williams '35 1848–1853
Thomas Church Brownell
Thomas Church Brownell
Thomas Church Brownell was founder of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1852 until his death....

1824–1831

Trinity in modern culture

In the opening sequence of the 1975 film Jaws
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...

, the male character Cassidy mentions that he attends Trinity. When Police Chief Brody asks, "Do you live here?", Cassidy replies, "Na, Hartford, I go to Trinity. My folks live in Greenwich."

Trinity is mentioned several times in Lisa Birnbach's 2010 book True Prep, as well as in her 1980 bestseller The Official Preppy Handbook, where Trinity is listed among the preppiest colleges. In 2010, Birnbach described Trinity as "a hot school that everyone wants to go to".

It is believed that Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...

in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...

based the college in the play on Trinity College. Trinity was also the set for the film version of the play.

Rt. Rev. Lyman C. Ogilby, whose father was Trinity president Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, named Trinity University of Asia
Trinity University of Asia
Trinity University of Asia , also known as TUA or simply Trinity, is a non-sectarian private university located in Quezon City, Philippines. Originally established in 1963 as an elementary, high school and collegiate educational institution, Trinity eventually university status on July 18, 2006...

after Trinity College.

In a 1963 article written by Gene Hawes titled, "The Colleges of America's Upper Class," which measured the social standing of alumni, Trinity was cited among the exclusively Ivy League group. Trinity ranked fifth behind Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania; was ahead of Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia and Cornell.

In a 2011 Bollywood film, Desi Boyz, the main character attends a fictitious Trinity College in the UK. However, Trinity's seal and school colors are used.

External links

Official website

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