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 ====== Centennial Celebration ====== ====== Centennial Celebration ======
 Trinity College celebrated its 100th year of existence in May 1923 with a variety of events and activities which took place over the course of several days. Students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, friends of Trinity, and residents of the greater [[Hartford|Hartford]] area participated in marking this momentous occasion, which began with an audacious [[centennial_fund|fundraising effort]] in 1921. Trinity College celebrated its 100th year of existence in May 1923 with a variety of events and activities which took place over the course of several days. Students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, friends of Trinity, and residents of the greater [[Hartford|Hartford]] area participated in marking this momentous occasion, which began with an audacious [[centennial_fund|fundraising effort]] in 1921.
  
-The first events of the [[commencement|Commencement]] and Centennial Celebration were the [[class_day|Class Day]] exercises, held the afternoon of Friday, June 8. The speaker was chairman of the Centennial Drive Committee, Robert C. Buell, who was made an honorary member of the Class of 1923 that day. The history of the 1923 class was read aloud, favorite professors were elected, football was voted to be the best activity on campus, and the greatest worries outside of studies in college were voted to be “women, dates, the price of liquor and money.” Awards were given out to exemplary athletes in all sports represented by the class. There was also the revival of the [[lemon_squeezer|lemon squeezer]], presented to the freshman class of 1926 as a surprise event on behalf of the [[medusa|Medusa Society]].+The first events of the [[commencement|Commencement]] and Centennial Celebration were the [[class_day|Class Day]] exercises, held the afternoon of Friday, June 8. The speaker was chairman of the Centennial Drive Committee, Robert C. Buell, who was made an honorary member of the Class of 1923 that day. The history of the 1923 class was read aloud, favorite professors were elected, football was voted to be the best activity on campus, and the greatest worries outside of studies in college were voted to be “women, dates, the price of liquor and money.” Awards were given out to exemplary athletes in all [[athletics|sports]] represented by the class. There was also the revival of the [[lemon_squeezer|lemon squeezer]], presented to the freshman class of 1926 as a surprise event on behalf of the [[medusa|Medusa Society]].
  
-Saturday, June 9 was “Alumni Day,” starting with prayer in the [[chapel|Chapel]], after which [[fraternities|fraternity]] meetings took place around campus. In the afternoon, informal sports games were put on to entertain the alumni, and a luncheon took place in the [[old_gymnasium|gymnasium]]. The Trinity Centennial Midway, a raucous variety show put on by the undergraduates, drew a large crowd and loud laughter; included in the “congress of monstrosities” were several freak attractions, including a cherry-colored cat, Russian army impersonators, a lion named Bazuka who devoured hot dogs, a headless man, hula dancers, a recreation of King Tut’s tomb, and wild west and marionette shows. The event is cited in //[[tripod|The Trinity Tripod]]// Class Day issue as being “the most realistic mob scene that had ever been focused on a moving picture reel.” +Saturday, June 9 was “Alumni Day,” starting with prayer in the [[chapel|Chapel]], after which [[fraternities|fraternity]] meetings took place around campus. In the afternoon, informal sports games were put on to entertain the alumni, and a luncheon took place in the [[old_gymnasium|gymnasium]]. The Trinity Centennial Midway, a raucous variety show put on by the undergraduates, drew a large crowd and loud laughter; included in the “congress of monstrosities” were several sideshow attractions, including a cherry-colored cat, Russian army impersonators, a lion named Bazuka who devoured hot dogs, a headless man, hula dancers, a recreation of King Tut’s tomb, and wild west and marionette shows. The event is cited in //[[tripod|The Trinity Tripod]]// Class Day issue as being “the most realistic mob scene that had ever been focused on a moving picture reel.” 
  
 [{{ ::centennial-foot_guard.jpg?400|The Governor's Foot Guard outside the Capitol, 1923. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34652592|Trinity College Archives]]}}] [{{ ::centennial-foot_guard.jpg?400|The Governor's Foot Guard outside the Capitol, 1923. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34652592|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
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 Sunday, June 10 was billed “Commemoration Day,” beginning with Holy Communion in the Chapel. Afterwards, an Open Air Memorial Service was held on campus. Among the military and veteran groups present were two ceremonial honor guards, the Governor’s Foot Guard and the Putnam Phalanx, as well as veteran groups from the American [[civil_war|Civil War]], the Spanish-American War, and World War I. Sunday, June 10 was billed “Commemoration Day,” beginning with Holy Communion in the Chapel. Afterwards, an Open Air Memorial Service was held on campus. Among the military and veteran groups present were two ceremonial honor guards, the Governor’s Foot Guard and the Putnam Phalanx, as well as veteran groups from the American [[civil_war|Civil War]], the Spanish-American War, and World War I.
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-{Major General James G. Harboard, Chief of Staff to General Pershing during the Great War, delivered a piercing address on the subject of post-war apathy and communist sympathizing, condemning “the parlor bolshevist, the half-baked student of political science, the theorist, drifted out of the mainstream of life’s effort and always in contact with the immature and the uninstructed, the hyphenate, the defective, the dulled and the degenerated, the senile and the juvenile” as a growing “threat to our civilization.”} 
  
 The undergraduates performed the Presentation of Colors in memory of Trinity men who died in service during the century’s wars. Later in the afternoon, a memorial clock was presented to the College [[library|Library]] by the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity in honor of the Reverend Paul Ziegler, a graduate of the Class of 1872 and the founder of the fraternity at Trinity. A portrait of the Reverend Dr. John James McCook painted by James Goodwin McManus was also presented to the College that afternoon. The undergraduates performed the Presentation of Colors in memory of Trinity men who died in service during the century’s wars. Later in the afternoon, a memorial clock was presented to the College [[library|Library]] by the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity in honor of the Reverend Paul Ziegler, a graduate of the Class of 1872 and the founder of the fraternity at Trinity. A portrait of the Reverend Dr. John James McCook painted by James Goodwin McManus was also presented to the College that afternoon.
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 [{{::centennial-capitol_plaque.jpg?400 |Unveiling of the Trinity plaque at the State Capitol, 1923. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34652590|Trinity College Archives]]}}]  [{{::centennial-capitol_plaque.jpg?400 |Unveiling of the Trinity plaque at the State Capitol, 1923. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34652590|Trinity College Archives]]}}] 
  
-There were also nine [[honorary_degrees|honorary degrees]] awarded at the Centennial Commencement, which included two Masters of Arts, three Doctors of Science, two Doctors of Law, and three Doctors of Divinity.+There were also 10 [[honorary_degrees|honorary degrees]] awarded at the Centennial Commencement, which included two Masters of Arts, three Doctors of Science, two Doctors of Law, and three Doctors of Divinity.
  
 Following the commencement ceremony, a parade of alumni, undergraduates, and guests led by President Ogilby marched down Washington Street from the College to the State Capitol, where a tablet was dedicated to commemorate the founding of Trinity in 1823 on the [[old_campus|site]] where the first of its buildings stood. The tablet was unveiled by Charles Aldrich, Jr., the great-great grandson of [[brownell_thomas_church|Bishop Thomas Church Brownell]], the first [[presidents|president]] of Trinity College. The tablet was designed by Howard Jones of Boston and features a base relief of the original three buildings of the College and an inscription of the names of Trinity’s founders. The plaque still remains fixed on the wall of the East Porch of the Capitol building. Following the commencement ceremony, a parade of alumni, undergraduates, and guests led by President Ogilby marched down Washington Street from the College to the State Capitol, where a tablet was dedicated to commemorate the founding of Trinity in 1823 on the [[old_campus|site]] where the first of its buildings stood. The tablet was unveiled by Charles Aldrich, Jr., the great-great grandson of [[brownell_thomas_church|Bishop Thomas Church Brownell]], the first [[presidents|president]] of Trinity College. The tablet was designed by Howard Jones of Boston and features a base relief of the original three buildings of the College and an inscription of the names of Trinity’s founders. The plaque still remains fixed on the wall of the East Porch of the Capitol building.
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