Professor John C. Williams of the Classics Department giving a Horizons Lecture in 1976. Photo credit: Rich Sager

Beginning in the 1976-1977 academic year, the Horizons Lecture Series was a weekly lecture on a variety of topics under the guidance of English Professor J. Bard McNulty '38.

The lectures carried credit and were given by different faculty, allowing students to learn beyond the classroom. McNulty described this as, “a gargantuan feast in which they can sample dishes never available before.”

Lectures were open to the public and became quite popular with Hartford residents. Among students, though many attended, opinions were split. In one Tripod editorial, the student-writer felt that giving credit for these lectures “corrupted” the program, arguing that students, when finished with homework, no longer want to think. Instead, the writer believes, students took advantage of the opportunity.

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 394.

Trinity Tripod, 02/08/1977.

Trinity Tripod, 11/02/1976.