Ivy
The Trinity Ivy is annual College student-run yearbook which was published from 1873 to 2019. Its name probably comes from the Class Day tradition of planting ivy on the old campus buildings.
Though it was conceived of years earlier, having seen “like publications coming to our notice year after year, from almost every college in the land,” it was first published in 1873 by the Class of 1874. The students “intended to represent the college in a way that cannot of course be done by the yearly catalogue…for the good of the college, and for the honor of the class…we need more life, all of us, faculty and students. Every new enterprise of this kind will start new blood through the system.” 1)
The earliest copies of the Ivy featured that year's academic calendar and course offerings, lists of the faculty and visitors to the campus, clubs, organizations, and their participants, and all of the enrolled students' names organized by class, including where they were from and where they lived on campus. Photographed portraits of students started appearing in the Ivy in 1907. It was initially published by the Junior Class, but that changed in 1946 when students of all class years were allowed to be elected to the Ivy board.
Ivy copies from each academic year have been uploaded to Trinity's Digital Repository so students may access past years online. Publication of the Ivy ceased periodicallyduring the years 1908, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1945, and 1946, often during times of war; however, the Ivy ceased publication entirely after 2019.
Sources
Trinity College in the Twentieth Century (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 31.
History of Trinity College (1967) by Glenn Weaver, p. 159.
The Trinity Tablet, May 1873.