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- | =====Art Club===== | + | Student clubs are groups |
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- | =====Chemistry Club===== | + | |
- | The Chemistry Club, also known as The Chemical Society, is a club for students interested in chemistry that is sponsored | + | |
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- | The club first started appearing in Trinity media in the late 1930s, at that time as the " | + | |
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- | =====Athletic Clubs===== | + | |
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- | See Athletics]]. | + | |
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- | =====Drama / Theatrical Performance Clubs===== | + | |
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- | ====Dramatic Club==== | + | |
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- | The Dramatic Club was founded in 1871 by and for students | + | |
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- | The Shakespeare Club was another dramatics club formed | + | |
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- | ====Dramatic Combination==== | + | |
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- | The Dramatic Combination was another drama performance group formed in the late 19th century. Featured in the // | + | |
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- | ====Dramatic Society==== | + | |
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- | The Dramatic Society existed at least as far back as 1871 and is referenced in the //Trinity Ivy// as recently as 1986. It existed primarily to put on plays for the benefit of students, faculty, or alumni. | + | |
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- | ====Shakespeare Club==== | + | |
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- | The Shakespeare Club was formed in 1872 as an alternative drama performance group to the Dramatic Club, formed the year before. Some students were "not content" | + | |
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- | ====Thespian Club==== | + | |
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- | ====Trinity College Dramatic Association==== | + | |
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- | The Trinity College Dramatic Association was a drama performance group started in the 1870s. The group changed their name to the [[jesters|Trinity College Jesters]] in 1908, a previously established dramatic club. | + | |
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- | As the T.C.D.A, the association put on around 3 plays each year and held meetings to elect officers and edit the group' | + | |
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- | Some plays performed by the association included //A Thrice Told Tale// and //A Pretty Piece of Business// | + | |
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- | ====== Eating Clubs ====== | + | |
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- | Popular today among Ivy-league colleges Princeton, Yale, and Harvard, eating | + | |
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- | ====Castle Thunder==== | + | |
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- | ====City Hotel==== | + | |
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- | City Hotel was an eating club that existed at least from 1873-74. | + | |
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- | ====College Hall==== | + | |
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- | College Hall was an eating club that existed in 1873. | + | |
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- | ====MMC==== | + | |
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- | The MMC was an eating club that at least existed in 1875. They only identified their members through a series of numbers. Its motto was "I cannot eat but little meat/My stomach is not good:/But sure I think that I can drink/With him that wears a hood." | + | |
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- | ====Mutual Benefit Eating Club==== | + | |
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- | Mutual Benefit Eating Club was an eating club that existed in 1874. Its headquarters were located in Jarvis Hall. It had nine members in 1874. | + | |
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- | Organized in 1861, its motto was " | + | |
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- | ====(Trinity) Chess Club==== | + | |
- | The Chess Club was a club for students interested in playing chess to gather and compete against each other, faculty, and occasionally other colleges. | + | |
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- | The club was first formed in 1870, but reformed and reorganized in 1899 to encourage more participation, | + | |
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- | The club was reformed in 1933. Their charter membership upon forming was six members with President [[ogilby_remsen_brinckerhoff|Remsen Ogilby]] as the Honorary President. In 1934, the club prepared to play matches against Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, | + | |
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- | The Chess Club has since disappeared. | + | |
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- | ====(Trinity) Cribbage Club==== | + | |
- | Cribbage is a card game typically played between two players. The first mention of Trinity' | + | |
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- | The Cribbage Club had advertisements in // | + | |
- | Their feature in the 1876 addition of the Ivy included the tagline: "Not the golden, but the crib(b)age club." | + | |
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- | =====Euchre Clubs===== | + | |
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- | Euchre is a card game typically played between two teams of two using a standard deck of cards. Its peak popularity in the United States was in the 19th century. | + | |
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- | ====U(Cur) Club==== | + | |
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- | The U(Cur) Club at least existed in 1876 with four members. | + | |
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- | ====Ukur Klub==== | + | |
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- | The Ukur Klub was another group for students interested in playing the card game euchre. The club was mentioned in the 1874 edition of the //Ivy// just under the other Trinity club dedicated to the game (aptly named Euchre Club). | + | |
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- | Their motto in the yearbook was "Never turn it down," and their members had titles using terminology related to the game (one member being a king, another listed as a counter). Following the list of members was the phrase "No jokers allowed." | + | |
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- | =====Physics Club===== | + | |
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- | The Trinity Physics Club was founded in 1947 for students who were interested in physics and willing to "drink a cup of tea with the staff" and talk about new developments and research in the field. The club had a bulletin board organized that displayed updates found in newspapers and magazines, attended lectures by visiting scientists, and provided students with information about employment and graduate school opportunities. | + | |
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- | The club required students to have completed one semester of physics to be able to join, as stated in the 1960-191 edition of //The Trinity Handbook//. The handbook also stated that everyone who joined would be given a subscription to //Physics Today//, the American Institution of Physics magazine. | + | |
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- | =====Pre-Medical Club===== | + | |
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- | =====Political Party Clubs====== | + | |
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- | ====Trinity College Democratic Club==== | + | |
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- | The Trinity College Democratic Club first appeared on campus in 1868, and has had many different chapters and reformations since. Typically, the club forms during election season in order to organize support for the Democratic candidate in the Presidential elections. | + | |
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- | During the election season, the club attends and organizes rallies, finds ways to get involved in the general and Presidential elections, and attends intercollegiate conferences with other Democratic groups. The club allows students interested in politics to get involved at both national and local levels. | + | |
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- | ====Trinity College Grant Club==== | + | |
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- | The Trinity College Grant Club was formed for the political campaign of 1868. The group included the quote "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer" | + | |
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- | =====Political Science Club===== | + | |
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- | The Political Science Club officially formed in 1913 as a way for students to study and talk about current affairs and encourage participation in civic work. The constitution drawn by its founding members stated that the club was open to any students that had taken at least one course on the American Government or in Political Science. The original club limited its membership to only 12 students. The constitution also had an article that outlined how political discussions at meetings would be structured and how they could later be published by the executive committee of the club. | + | |
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- | During meetings, the club holds mock debates, reads papers concerning different topics, and discusses current affairs relating to Political Science. The club would also regularly sponsor speakers to give lectures during meetings that were open to other students to attend. Speakers included principles of colleges, local governors, and even the Dutch nobility. The topics of these lectures greatly varied. For example, the Dutch nobility talked about the politics and economy of the Netherlands. In 1962, a prominent leader of the American Communist Party came to campus to talk about communist tactics in the United States. Multiple lectures took place in 1964 debating the apartheid happening in South Africa. | + | |
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- | The club was also cited as being important during war time. In 1918, the club was sent literature pertaining to World War I by the government that they redistributed to the entire campus. The club eventually donated 17 books about the war to Trinity' | + | |
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- | =====Skating Club===== | + | |
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- | The Skating Club was founded in 1869 due to, as the //Trinity Tablet// put it, " | + | |
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- | =====Spanish Club===== | + | |
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- | The Spanish club was founded in 1954 according to the //Trinity Handbook// and is open to all levels of Spanish speakers. They submitted their constitution to the campus [[senate|Senate]] and were officially recognized in 1956. | + | |
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- | The club focuses on teaching and utilizing Spanish in a way that is applicable to the real world. Lectures, movies, and discussions presented by the club are done in Spanish in order to immerse club members in the language. Lectures have included a discussion of Fidel Castro presented by a native Cuban that focused on how the country reacts to outside criticism. | + | |
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- | =====Telegraph Clubs===== | + | |
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- | Like students today, the students of the past interested in new technology found ways to implement, learn, and experiment with new and upcoming technologies. Telegraph | + | |
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- | ====Brownell Hall Telegraph Company==== | + | |
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- | This may refer to the first telegraph lines set up in Brownell hall by two members of the senior class in early 1873 "in room 28, Brownell Hall, the first wire extending from the table to the window." | + | |
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- | ==== College Union Telegraphic Association ==== | + | |
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- | The Trinity College Telegraphic Association, | + | |
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- | Its main office was located at 41 Jarvis Hall (Later 13 [[brownell_hall|Brownell Hall]]), and it had multiple branch offices in Jarvis Hall, Brownell Hall, down Washington Street, at Western Union Telegraph Co., and Hartford Depot. | + | |
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- | It is unclear whether this club was a continuation or formalization of the Brownell Hall Telegraphic Company, or whether it was a separate/ | + | |
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- | =====Walking Clubs===== | + | |
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- | ====Globe Trotters==== | + | |
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- | ====Knickerbocker Walking Club==== | + | |
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- | The Knickerbocker Walking Club was a walking club that was " | + | |
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- | ====Pedestrian Club==== | + | |
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- | The Pedestrian Club was formed in 1892 for "men who have an aversion to horses" | + | |
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- | ====Walking Club==== | + | |
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- | The Walking Club existed at least from 1874-76. In 1876, it had 10 members. | + | |
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- | =====Whist Clubs===== | + | |
- | Whist is a card game typically played between two teams of two using a standard deck of cards. It was most popular during the 18th and 19th centuries. | + | |
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- | ====Alpha Delta Phi Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Alpha Delta Phi Whist Club existed at least in 1879 in which they played 1,046 total points. | + | |
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- | ====Brownell Hall Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Brownell Hall Whist Club was established in the early 1870s. They were featured in the 1874 edition of the Ivy, callings themselves " | + | |
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- | ====Champion Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Champion Whist Club at least existed in 1874 with eight members. | + | |
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- | ====Freshmen Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Freshmen Whist Club at least existed in 1874. | + | |
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- | ====Class of '75 Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | ====Class of '77 Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Class of '77 Whist Club at least existed in 1874 with four members, listed as the "Ace, King, Queen, and Knave." | + | |
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- | ====Knights of the Mystic Spot==== | + | |
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- | The Knights of the Mystic Spot existed in 1874. | + | |
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- | ====Merry Whistlers==== | + | |
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- | The Merry Whistlers at least existed from 1875-76 with the motto "Birds of a Feather, etc." | + | |
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- | ====SPFD Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The SPFD Whist Club at least existed in 1874 with four members. | + | |
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- | ====Trinity College Whist Club==== | + | |
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- | The Trinity College Whist Club at least existed in 1873 when it had four members. | + | |
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- | ====W(H)ist Ye Not Club==== | + | |
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- | The W(H)ist Ye Not Club at least existed in 1876 with eight members. | + | |
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- | The Whis T Ling Club at least existed in 1876 with four members, listed as tenors or basses. | + | |
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- | **Dramatic Club** | + | |
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- | **Shakespeare Club** | + | |
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- | **Thespian Club** | + | |
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- | **Trinity College Dramatic Association** | + | |
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- | **City Hotel** | + | |
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- | **College Hall** | + | |
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- | **MMC** | + | |
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- | **Mutual Benefit Eating Club** | + | |
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- | **(Trinity) Chess Club** | + | |
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- | **(Trinity) Cribbage Club** | + | |
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- | **Euchre Clubs** | + | |
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- | **U(Cur) Club** | + | |
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- | **Physics Club** | + | |
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- | **Pre-Medical Club** | + | |
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- | **Trinity College Democratic Club** | + | |
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- | **Trinity College Grant Club** | + | |
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- | **Political Science Club** | + | |
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- | **Skating Club** | + | |
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- | **Spanish Club** | + | |
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- | **Brownell Hall Telegraph Company** | + | |
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- | **Globe Trotters** | + | |
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- | **Whist Clubs** | + | |
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- | **W(H)ist Ye Not** | + | |
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