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 Initially, commencement was held on the first Thursday of August, but was moved in the 1850s to the last Thursday in June in order to allow for more comfortable weather. The ceremony was consistently held in June for over 100 years, with the switch to May ceremonies occurring in the 1970s.
-The location of commencement has also changed. In the early years of the College, when it was still at its [[old_campus|original location]], the ceremony would start by the (old) [[chapel|Chapel]] at 8:30 a.m. At 9:30, the group would leave campus and head to Asylum Street, where they would stop at [[brownell_thomas_church|Bishop Thomas Church Brownell's]] house and sing "Auld Lang Syne." The procession then would continue to the venue where the commencement ceremony was to be held. The earliest ceremonies were held in Central Congregational Church until 1831, when the location was changed to the newly completed Christ Church. The church, along with Trinity students and staff, was also often full of children from the local community, as many [[hartford|Hartford]] schools gave students the day off on Trinity's commencement day.
+The location of commencement has also changed. In the early years of the College, when it was still at its [[old_campus|original location]], the ceremony would start by the (old) [[chapel|Chapel]] at 8:30 a.m. At 9:30, the group would leave campus and cross Bushnell Park to Asylum Street, where they would stop at [[brownell_thomas_church|Bishop Thomas Church Brownell's]] house and sing "Auld Lang Syne." The procession then would continue to the venue where the commencement ceremony was to be held. The earliest ceremonies were held in Central Congregational Church until 1831, when the location was changed to the newly completed Christ Church. The church, along with Trinity students and staff, was also often full of children from the local community, as many [[hartford|Hartford]] schools gave students the day off on Trinity's commencement day.
 The last ceremony to be held in Christ Church was in 1860. It was moved to St. John's Church in 1861, but due to the large number of people the space had to hold, the ceremony was moved again the following year to Allyn Hall. The commencement ceremony of 1878 was the last one to be held at the old campus, and the president's reception that year took place in the newly built [[seabury_hall|Seabury Hall]] on the [[summit_campus|new campus]].