Berkeley Divinity School. As the cares of his diocese increased and the new divinity school at Middletown needed his presence, he resigned his presidency of Trinity in 1853.1

PRESIDENT DANIEL R. GOODWIN (1853–260).

During this presidency the Scovill Professorship of Chemistry and Natural Science was founded, for which J. L. M. Scovill gave $10,000, his brother, W. H. Scovill, $5,000, and Scovill M. Buckingham $3,000. In 1856 Mrs. Sarah Gregor of Norwalk, Conn., founded the Brownell professorship. John P. Elton gave $5,000 for the library, and a special effort to add $100,000 to the college's permanent fund was crowned with success, nearly the whole amount being from Connecticut men. Dr. Goodwin is described as "preeminent as a logician and a man of high scholarly attainments."3 He was born in North Berwick, Me., April 12, 1811, graduated at Bowdoin in 1832, and was professor of modern languages there from 1835 to 1853. From 1860 to 1868 he was provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and after 1865 professor of systematic theology in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School at Philadelphia. President Goodwin died in April, 1890.

PRESIDENT SAMUEL ELIOT (1860–64).

The next president was born December 22, 1821, and graduated from Harvard in 1839. He is described as a "gentleman of marked intellectual and social culture." The civil war, occurring during his term of office, crippled the college by depriving it of its Southern students. Since his resignation of the presidency he has been principal of the girl's high school at Boston, Mass., from 1872 to 1876, and superintendent of public schools in that city from 1878 to 1880.

PRESIDENT JOHN B. KERFOOT (1864–266).

Bishop Kerfoot was born in Dublin, Ireland, March 1, 1816, and was brought to this country when 3 years old. He studied theology with Dr. Muhlenberg, and was president of St. James College, Maryland, from 1842 to 1864, when he came to Trinity. In 1866 he was chosen. the first bishop of Pittsburg and resigned his presidency. He died July 10, 1881.

PROF. JOHN BROCKLESBY, LL. D., ACTING PRESIDENT (1866–267).

Prof. Brocklesby, who held the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy from 1842 to 1882, acted as president for the next year. He was born in West Bromwich, England, October 8, 1811, and died in

'New England Magazine, May, 1886, p. 404; College Book, p. 268.

Beardsley Church in Connecticut, 11, 382.

Hartford June 21, 1889. He graduated at Yale in 1835, studied law, served as a tutor in his alma mater, and then was called, after beginning the practice of law, to his lifelong position. Prof. Hart in his commemorative address delivered before the alumni said he was "faithful and diligent in every duty, a kind and sympathetic friend of the students, a wise and earnest counsellor of his colleagues, an honored and esteemed citizen." His long connection with Trinity made him " esteemed among the alumni for many kind qualities of head and heart."

PRESIDENT ABNER JACKSON (1867–274).

President Jackson, the only one who has died in office, was born at Washington, Pa., November 4, 1811. He studied first at Washington College, Pennsylvania, and then at Washington (Trinity) College, Con necticut, and graduated from the latter in 1837. He was professor of ethics and metaphysics from 1840 to 1858, when he was chosen president of Hobart College. From thence he was recalled, as president of his alma mater, and died in Hartford April 19, 1874. His adminis tration was emphatically a successful one. He was "a determined and energetic man, with great breadth of intellect and liberal culture; he was eminently fitted to occupy the position he had filled with marked ability; sincere and with manners most affable and winning. Through him the college became more identified with Hartford and was at the same time making itself favorably felt among similar institutions with whose members the president cultivated the most friendly terms." Under him there was a marked increase in students, the number reaching 100 for the first time in 1871-72. In 1869 the statue of Bishop Brownell, previously spoken of, was given by Gordon W. Burnham, of New York, his son-in-law. In 1871 Mr. Chester Adams, of Hartford, left the college about $65,000, the largest gift from any individual up to that date.3 Under his presidency, the site of the college was changed and he himself sent to England, where he secured elaborate plans for new buildings.2

THE NEW SITE.

In 1872, after much deliberation, the trustees accepted the offer of the city of Hartford, which wished to buy the college campus for a large sum, that it might offer it to the State as a site for the new capitol. The college reserved the right to occupy for some five or six years so much of the buildings as it should not be necessary to remove. In 1873 a site of some 80 acres, a mile from the old campus, was purchased. This is situated on Rocky Hill, a ridge of trap running southward from the city. On the cast lies the city; on the west, "beyond an escarpment of rock, fertile fields stretch away" to far-off hills.

3 New England Magazine, May, 1886, p. 404; College Book, p.

269.

The design is intended to be symmetrical and does not strain for offeet. "The style is simple in character and free from excessive ornamentation, presenting picturesque effects by boldness of detail and grouping of prominent features, as well as the introduction of emblematical sculpture at objective points." The original plans made by Mr. Burgess, the eminent English architect, were intended to supply the needs of the college for all coming time. Mr. J. H. Kimball, of Hartford, was sent abroad to acquaint himself with the minutiae of the work, and several changes in the plan were made; among them were a change from four to three quadrangles. The design was to have a great quadrangle, flanked by a smaller one for students on the north and another for professors on the south. The north quadrangle was to contain a chapel and dining hall; the south, a library and museum. On the west side were to be blocks of buildings for dormitory and lecture rooms. A theater for public occasions was to be on the north side of the north quadrangle and the observatory in a tower in the northwest corner.1

The grounds were laid out by Fred. Law Olmsted and ground broken July 1, 1875. It was not to be expected that this great mass of buildings could be built at once, and only the west side of the great “quad " is completed. The architecture is in the French secular Gothic style; the material of the buildings, brown Portland stone, trimmed with white Ohio sandstone.2

PROGRESS-1849-74.

Among the students during this period were, in the class of 1849, Dr. C. A. Lindsley, of the Yale Medical School; in that of 1851, the Hon. C. J. Hoadley, State librarian of Connecticut, and Governor C. C. VanZandt, of Rhode Island. In 1852, Bishop John W. Beckwith, of Georgia, was graduated, as was Bishop David B. Knickerbocker, of Indiana, a year later. Another Bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Scarborough, of New Jersey, is an alumnus of 1854, and the class of 1857 adds still another in Bishop William W. Niles, of New Hampshire, called to his present post from the chair of Latin in Trinity. The Rev. E. C. Bolles is a member of the class of 1855 and the Rev. G. S. Mallory of that of 1858, as are Dr. James E. Mears, of Philadelphia, the late Prof. H. H. Prince, of the University of Virginia, and the Rev. W. H. Vibbert, formerly of the Berkely Divinity School. The first professor of Trinity to die in office was the Rev. E. E. Johnson, of the class of 1859. One of his associates says of him, "the brillianey and enthusiasm of his genius was only equaled by his untiring devotion to duty."3 Other graduates of note before 1860 were John F. Mines, better known as Felix Oldboy, of the class of 1854, Prof. A. A. Benton, of the University of the South, and Pres. E.

Report Committee on Education, 1874, p.48; College Book, p. 273

2 New England Magazine, May, 1886, p. 407.

3

Perry American Episcopal Church (Prof. S. Hart), 11, 538, 547.