The beginnings of Flag Day were in 1893, when the alumni asked of the trustees and obtained leave to erect and maintain upon the campus a flag-staff upon which should be displayed the national colors. Thirty-two years earlier, in the darkness of gathering war clouds, citizens of Hartford had presented to the students of the college a flag, which for many years was floated from the top of the old Seabury Hall, now the site of the present capitol building. So it was natural and appropriate that the new flag of the new and better America should be offered in much the same fashion.

Trinity Ivy, 1896.