The design is intended to be symmetrical and does not strain for effect. "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." 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 brilliancy 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. 3 Perry American Episcopal Church (Prof. S. Hart), 11, 538, 547. The design is futended to be symmetrical and does not strain for "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." 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. II. 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 brilliancy 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 Perry American Episcopal Church (Prof. S. Hart), 11, 538, 547. |