Buildings and Grounds, 1902-1968
Scope and Contents
• “25 Years Ago” (2/1/1955) • “25 Years Ago” (2/10/1954) • “25 Years Ago” (3/3/1957) • “25 Years Ago” (3/29/1961) • “25 Years Ago” (4/28/1956) • “25 Years Ago” (6/19/1957) • “25 Years Ago” (8/20/1957) • “25 Years Ago” (10/17/1956) • “50 Years Ago” (4/14/1955) • “Affirmative Takes Flag Pole Debate” (4/24/1961) • “Architect to Submit Plans For Fine Arts Building” (undated) • “Architect’s Drawing of Downes Memorial” (Trinity Tripod, 5/1/1957) • “Architect’s sketch of the revised Student Center Plan…” (undated) • “Athletic Fields” (Trinity Tripod, 9/28/1965) • “Building Committee Report” (Trinity Tripod, 4/23/1963) • “Bushnell Park at Time of Purchase About 1854” (undated) • “Cannons from Farragut’s Ship Memorial to Trinity Men Killed During Civil War” (undated) • “Ceremony in New Trinity Building” (2/13/1949) • “Clock Tower Rising at Trinity” (Hartford Times, 7/10/1958) • “Clock Tower for Trinity Campus” (undated) • “Concerning Sundials” (1957) • “Construction of Arts Center Will be Started This Week” (Trinity Tripod, 9/17/1963) • Dedication of Mathematics Physics Center program (9/23/1963) • “Dedication at Trinity” (undated) • “Dr. Alpert Protests Widening Dichotomy of Scientific and Humanistic Thinking” (Trinity Tripod, 9/24/1963) • “Dr. Alpert Says Colleges Are Lagging on Science” (9/24/1963) • “The Executive Committee also recommends…” (undated) • Executive Committee Meeting (12/5/1962) • Executive Committee notes on naming of Chemistry Laboratory (undated) • “Fine Arts and Science Centers to be Built” (Trinity Tripod, 10/2/1961) • “First Chapel—New Campus” (undated) • “The Flagpole Must Topple” (4/20/1960) • “Garden Accepted” (undated) • “Gift Clock Tower Soon to Adorn Trinity Campus” (undated) • “Gleaming Moment” (undated) • “Groundbreaking at Trinity” (Hartford Times, undated) • “Ground Breaking Set for Trinity Student Center” (undated) • “Hanging Followed at Trinity College Site” (4/1/1961) • “Hold Off on Proposed North Campus” (undated) • “In Earlier Hartford” (4/6/1956) • “In Earlier Hartford” (5/20/1953) • “In Earlier Hartford” (5/23/1964) • “In Earlier Hartford” (8/26/1952) • “In Earlier Hartford” (9/13/1957) • “In Earlier Hartford” (9/23/1902) • “In Earlier Hartford” (10/1/1951) • “In Earlier Hartford” (11/7/1955) • “In Earlier Hartford” (11/27/1950) • “In Earlier Hartford” (12/8/1950) • “In Older Hartford” (11/5/1953) • “In Older Hartford” (11/10/1953) • “Initial $15,000 Student Aim Buried by $136,000 Results” (2/12/1963) • Invitation to groundbreaking of Arts Center (undated) • “Jacobs, Gray, Schoff to Dedicate Mather Hall; Sports, Festivities Highlight Parents’ Weekend” (Trinity Tripod, 10/22/1960) • “J.G. Wiggins, 66, Dies; Carved Trinity Pew Ends” (11/27/1956) • “Jones gives Key to Funston” (undated) • “A Letter for Posterity: Trinity Lays Cornerstone” (Hartford Courant, 4/7/1968) • Letter from J.W. Getzendanner to George H. Hollister (12/2/1949) • Letter from J.W. Getzendanner to George H. Hollister (12/28/1949) • Letter from Newton Brainard to Robert S. Morris (2/3/1953) • Letter from Newton Brainard to Robert S. Morris (7/5/1961) • Letter from Robert S. Morris to Donald B. Engley (7/19/1961) • Letter from Robert S. Morris to Harold C. Bailey and Bailey reply (1/10/1964) • Letter from Robert S. Morris to Newton C. Brainard (6/30/1961) • “Long Ago” (undated) • “Long Range Program Begun to Renovate Quad Dorms” (summer, 1962) • “Mather Hall Dedicated; 300 Visitors Look On” (Trinity Tripod, 10/24/1960) • Memorandum from Office of the President to College Trustees (10/16/1962) • Memorandum from Office of the President to Trustee Committee on Buildings and Grounds (7/11/1962) • Miscellaneous notes on buildings and grounds at Trinity College • Miscellaneous portraits of Trinity College • “Misericords in the U.S.” (undated) • “National Defense Student Loan Program” (undated) • “New $1.9 Million Dorm to be Trinity’s Biggest” (4/15/1964) • “A New Art Center for Trinity College” (1960) • “New Buildings to Rise ‘Neath the Elms” (Hartford Times, 5/23/1947) • “New Center at Trinity College Will Honor 10 McCook Men” (6/8/1964) • “New Dorm Opening; Big Squeeze Over” (1962) • “New Name” (11/16/1963) • “New Student Center Opens” (9/1960) • “New Studios and Galleries Highlight Fine Arts Center” (1/8/1962) • Note and clipping from Gary Merrill to Robert S. Morris (undated) • “Oldest Classroom is Restored” (Courant Magazine, 9/24/1967) • “The Past’s Present” (9/26/1967) • “Pew End Honors Beloved Professor” (Hartford Courant, 6/17/1951) • Photograph: plaque commemorating Trinity College’s centennial • Photograph: Trinity-Wesleyan game (11/15/1947) • “A Place of Honor” (undated) • “Plans Revealed for Dorm Area in ‘North Campus’” (Trinity Tripod, undated) • Postcard of Trinity College, Cambridge, Great Court • Postcards of Trinity College grounds (8) (undated) • “President, Active Alumni Break Ground for New Student Union” (11/8/1958) • “President Jackson, Class of 1837” (undated) • “Prof. Gwynn Gives Inaugural Address at Downes Dedication” (1/12/1958) • “Rebel Belles of Mobile Damn ‘Hartford’ Torpedo ‘Go Ahead’ for Memorial Berth” (undated) • “Removal of Elm Tree is Forced by Disease” (6/17/1955) • “’Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall’” (10/9/1962) • “Students Restore Oldest Lecture Room in College” (Trinity Tripod, 9/26/1967) • “TABLET Recalls Building of Jarvis Laboratory” (Trinity Tripod, 9/27/1963) • “These Trees Will be Felled for New Athletic Fields” (Trinity Tripod, undated) • Topographic Survey of Trinity College (1959) • “Trinity Announces Plans for Art Center” (6/25/1963) • “Trinity Art Center Named for Austin” (4/23/1964) • “Trinity Bares Life Sciences Center Plans” (Hartford Times, 10/10/1964) • “Trinity Chapel Builders Brave Fog for Reunion” (Hartford Courant, 12/13/1964) • Trinity College Alumni Magazine cover (1/1961) • “Trinity College to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Founding, on June 8-11” (Hartford Courant, 6/3/1923) (2 copies) • “Trinity College Chapel” (undated) • Trinity College Christmas and New Year’s cards (27) • “Trinity College Dedicates New Library on Nov. 8” (undated) • “Trinity Dedicates New Field House and Dormitory” (Hartford Times, 2/14/1949) • “Trinity Flagpole is Taken Down” (4/21/1960) • “Trinity Gets $752,000 Loan for Dormitory” (11/16/1960) • “Trinity Is for Whom the Bells Will Toll” (Courant Magazine, 7/26/1964) • “Trinity Opens Student Center” Hartford Times, (10/22/1960) • “Trinity Plans Dedication of New Student Center” (date illegible) • “Trinity Pushes Forward in 125th Anniversary Development Program” (Hartford Times, 5/22/1947) • “Trinity Rushes Freshman Dorm to Completion” (Hartford Courant, undated) • “Trinity to Recall Chapel’s History” (Hartford Times, 12/12/1952) • “Trinity to Seek Funds for Science Building” (undated) • “Trinity Students Are Assured on Fallout Shelters” (10/28/1962) • “Trinity Sunken Garden Will be Dedicated Today” (Hartford Courant, 5/23/1965) • “Trinity Will Name Chemistry Hall for Krieble, Ex-Department Head” (6/11/1964) • Trustees of Trinity College’s Progress Report on Civil Defense (10/20/1962) • “View of the Old College Campus, Now Part of Bushnell Park” (undated) • “Views on New Dorms Aired” (Trinity Tripod, 5/11/1960) • “Washington College Campus” (undated) • “William Gwinn Mather Hall at Trinity is the Student Center that Has Everything” (Hartford Courant, 1/1/1961)
Dates
- Creation: 1902-1968
Creator
- From the Collection: Morris, Robert S. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.
Extent
1 Folder(s)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Trinity College Archives Repository
Watkinson Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford CT 06106 USA