Trinity College (Connecticut)

{{Short description|Private college in Hartford, Connecticut, US}}

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{{Infobox university

| name = Trinity College

| image = Trinity College Connecticut Seal.svg

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| motto = {{lang|la|Pro Ecclesia Et Patria}} (Latin)

| mottoeng = For Church and Country

| established = {{start date and age|1823|5}}

| former_names = Washington College (1823–1845)

| type = Private liberal arts college

| accreditation = NECHE

| endowment = $834.7 million (2024){{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}

| faculty = 230 full-time and 45 part-time (spring 2022){{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Trinity+College&s=all&id=130590|title = College Navigator - Trinity College}}

| president = Joanne Berger-Sweeney

| students = 2,241 (spring 2022){{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Trinity+College&s=all&id=130590|title = College Navigator - Trinity College}}

| undergrad = 2,200 (spring 2022){{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Trinity+College&s=all&id=130590|title = College Navigator - Trinity College}}

| postgrad = 41 (spring 2021){{cite web |url=https://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/InstitutionalResearchPlanning/Documents/Trinity%20College%20CDS_2018-2019.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019, Part B |publisher=Trinity College}}

| city = Hartford, Connecticut

| country = U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|41.747|N|72.690|W|type:edu_region:US-CT_dim:2000|display=inline,title}}

| campus = Urban, {{cvt|100|acre}}

| colors = {{color box|#1E388C}} {{color box|#FFC424}} Blue and gold

| sports_nickname = Bantams

| mascot = Bantam

| sporting_affiliations = NCAA Division IIINESCAC

| academic_affiliations = {{hlist|Annapolis Group|CIC|CLAC|COFHE|Oberlin Group|Space-grant}}

| website = {{url|https://www.trincoll.edu/ |trincoll.edu}}

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Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,235 students. Trinity offers 41 majors and 28 interdisciplinary minors.{{cite news|url=https://www.trincoll.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/ |title=Majors and Minors|newspaper=Academics|publisher=Trinity College|access-date=2020-05-21}} The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).

History

=19th century=

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Bishop Thomas Brownell opened "Washington College" in 1824 to nine male studentsAlbert E. Van Dusen, Connecticut (1961) pp 362-63 and the vigorous protest of Yale alumni.{{Clarify|date=November 2022|reason=Why did Yale alumni protest?}} A 14-acre site was chosen, at the time about a half-mile from the city of Hartford.

The college was renamed "Trinity College" in 1845; the original campus consisted of two Greek Revival buildings. One of the Greek Revival buildings housed a chapel, library, and lecture rooms. The other was a dormitory for the male students.Albert E. Van Dusen, Connecticut (1961) pp 362–63

File:Burgesplan.jpg's original plan for the Trinity College campus]]

In 1872, Trinity College was persuaded by the state to move from its downtown "College Hill" location (now Capitol Hill, site of the state capitol building) to its current {{convert|100|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus a mile southwest. Although the college sold its land overlooking the Park River and Bushnell Park in 1872, it did not complete its move to its Gallows Hill campus until 1878.{{cite web |url=http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/CollegeHistory.htm |title=Trinity College |publisher=Trincoll.edu |access-date=January 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110040953/http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/CollegeHistory.htm |archive-date=January 10, 2011}} The original plans for the Gallows Hill site were drawn by the noted Victorian architect William Burges but were too ambitious and too expensive to be fully realized. Only one section of the proposed campus plan, the Long Walk, was completed.

By 1889, the library contained 30,000 volumes, and the school graduated over 900 students.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/hartfordconnasma00hart/hartfordconnasma00hart#page/n170/mode/1up |title=Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions .. |date=1889 |publisher=Hartford (Conn) Board of Trade |location=Hartford, CT |pages=182–187 |access-date=1 September 2016}} Enrollment reached 122 in 1892.

=20th century=

President Remsen Ogilby (1920–1943) enlarged the campus, and more than doubled the endowment. The faculty grew from 25 to 62, and the student body from 167 to 530 men. Under President Keith Funston (1943–1951), returning veterans expanded the enrollment to 900.

In 1962, Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) began its first broadcasts in the Trinity College Public Library, and later in Boardman Hall, a science building on campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.cpbn.org/our-history |title=Our History | Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network |publisher=Cpbn.org |access-date=2014-08-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/April-2013/CPTV-Celebrates-50-Years-Present-at-the-Creation/ |title=CPTV Celebrates 50 Years: Present at the Creation - Connecticut Magazine - April 2013 - Connecticut |publisher=Connecticutmag.com |date=1962-10-01 |access-date=2014-08-17}}

In 1968, the trustees voted to withdraw from the Association of Episcopal Colleges.{{Cite book|title=Trinity College in the twentieth century : a history|last=Knapp, Peter J. (Peter Jonathan), 1943-|date=2000|publisher=Trinity College|others=Knapp, Anne H.|isbn=0-911534-59-8|location=Hartford, Conn.|pages=209|oclc=45273021}} Also in 1968, the trustees of Trinity College voted to make a commitment to enroll more minority students, providing financial aid as needed. This decision was preceded by a siege of the administrative offices in the Downes and Williams Memorial buildings during which Trinity students would not allow the president or trustees to leave until they agreed to the resolution.{{cite journal |title=Exit Interview with Dr. Theodore Davidge Lockwood |url=https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/13/ |journal=Publications About Trinity |date=May 1981 |access-date=8 July 2019}}

In 1969, Trinity College became coeducational and admitted its first female students, as transfers from Vassar College and Smith College.{{cite web |last1=Carlesso |first1=Jenna |title=Former Trinity College president, known for admitting the school's first female students, dies |url=https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-trinity-lockwood-20190124-wxhdpayesrfppcdfj3g2rz4lcm-story.html |website=Hartford Courant |date=January 24, 2019 |access-date=8 July 2019}}

Academics

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Trinity offers undergraduate degrees in 41 majors with options of 28 minors and a self-designed major, and Masters of Arts in a few subjects. Trinity is part of a small group of liberal arts schools that offer degrees in engineering. Trinity has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/trinity-college-1414 |title=Overview|website=U.S. News Best Colleges|publisher=U.S. News|access-date=2020-05-21}} Its most popular undergraduate majors, by number out of 517 graduates in 2022, were:

  • Political Science and Government (80)
  • Economics (64)
  • Psychology (41)
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (38)
  • Engineering (28)
  • Neuroscience (24)
  • Biology/Biological Sciences (23){{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Trinity&s=all&id=130590#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Trinity College |access-date=March 13, 2023}}

= Trinity College, Rome Campus =

Trinity College, Rome Campus (TCRC), is a study abroad campus of Trinity College. It was established in 1970 and is in a residential area of Rome on the Aventine Hill close to the Basilica of Santa Sabina within the precincts of a convent run by an order of nuns.{{cite web|url=http://www.trincoll.edu/UrbanGlobal/StudyAway/programs/TrinityPrograms/Rome/Pages/default.aspx|title=The Trinity College Rome Campus|work=trincoll.edu}}

= Admissions =

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The 2020 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report categorizes Trinity as "more selective".{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/trinity-college-1414 |title=Trinity College |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=May 21, 2020}}

For the Class of 2028 (enrolling fall 2024), Trinity received 7,592 applications, accepted 29%, and ultimately enrolled 547 students.{{Cite journal |last=Trinity College (Hartford |first=Connecticut, USA) |title=The Trinity Tripod 2024-09-17: Tripod |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38302814 |series=College Archives. Trinity College Digital Repository |volume=123 |issue=1}}

As of fall 2015, Trinity College does not require the SAT or ACT for students applying for admission.{{cite web|url=https://www.trincoll.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/application-process/ |title=Application Process |publisher=Trinity College |access-date=May 21, 2020}} Of the 31% of enrolled freshmen submitting SAT scores, the middle 50% range was 630–710 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 670–750 for math, while of the 23% of enrolled freshmen submitting ACT results, the middle 50% range for the composite score was 29–32.{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019, Part C |url=https://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/InstitutionalResearchPlanning/Documents/Trinity%20College%20CDS_2018-2019.pdf |publisher=Trinity College}}

= Rankings and reputation =

{{Infobox US university ranking

| Forbes = 71

| THE_WSJ = 104

| USNWR_LA = 36

| Wamo_LA = 26

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Forbes magazine ranked Trinity College 17th amongst all liberal arts universities and 71st amongst all colleges and universities on its 2024-25 list.{{Cite web |title=Trinity College (CT) |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/trinity-college/?list=top-colleges |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Forbes |language=en}} In 2024, Washington Monthly ranked Trinity College 26th among 194 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.{{Cite web |title=2024 Liberal Arts Colleges Ranking |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024-college-guide/liberal-arts/ |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Washington Monthly |language=en-US}} U.S. News & World Report ranked Trinity tied for 36th in its 2025 ranking of best national liberal arts colleges in the United States. It was also ranked 27th for best value school.{{Cite web |title=Trinity College – Profile, Rankings and Data {{!}} US News Best Colleges |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/trinity-college-1414}} However, these US News rankings likely reflect that Trinity joined the "Annapolis Group" in August 2007, an organization of more than 100 of the nation's liberal arts schools, in refusing to participate in the magazine's rankings.{{cite web|url=https://www.collegechoice.net/rankings/best-colleges/ |title=Best National Liberal Arts Colleges |date=April 6, 2015}}{{cite press release |url=http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/070816_usnews.htm |title=TRINITY COLLEGE JOINS GROUP OF TOP LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITHDRAWING FROM U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT'S COLLEGE RANKINGS |publisher=Trinity College |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=January 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206213306/http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/070816_usnews.htm |archive-date=December 6, 2010}} Trinity College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.{{Citation|title=Connecticut Institutions – NECHE|work=NECHE |publisher=New England Commission of Higher Education|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/ct/|access-date=May 26, 2021}}

In 2016, authors Howard and Matthew Greene continued to include Trinity in the third edition of Hidden Ivies: 63 Top Colleges that Rival the Ivy League.{{Cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Howard |last2=Greene |first2=Matthew |title=The Hidden Ivies, third Edition: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-06-242090-9}} The Princeton Review has given Trinity a 93 (out of 99) for selectivity and in 2017 named Trinity as a best value college. Money.com magazine ranked Trinity College 55th among all colleges and universities in the nation.{{cite web |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college/trinity-college-ct-1023905 |title=Trinity College (CT) – the Princeton Review College Rankings & Reviews}}{{cite magazine |date=May 16, 2022 |title=The Best Colleges in America, Ranked by Value |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/ |url-status=live |magazine=Money.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527182645/https://money.com/best-colleges/ |archive-date=May 27, 2022}}

Student life

=Mascot=

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Trinity's mascot, the bantam, was conceived by Joseph Buffington, class of 1875, who was a federal judge and trustee of the college.{{cite web |url=http://library.trincoll.edu/research/watk/archives/trinitytraditions.cfm |title= Trinity Traditions|website=library.trincoll.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922215336/http://library.trincoll.edu/research/watk/archives/trinitytraditions.cfm |archive-date=September 22, 2009}}

=Student publication=

{{Main|The Trinity Tripod}}

The Trinity Tripod, founded in 1904, is Trinity College's student newspaper.

= Fraternities and sororities =

According to the college, 18% of the student body are affiliated with a Greek organization.{{cite web |author=e |url=http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/pubrel/development/Retired_Pages/about/colfacts.html |title=Trinity College - College Facts |publisher=Trincoll.edu |access-date=2015-08-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031609/http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/pubrel/development/Retired_Pages/about/colfacts.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}

In 2012, then-president James F. Jones proposed a social policy for Trinity College which made a commitment, among other things, to require all sororities and fraternities to achieve gender parity within two years or face closure. Trinity College's co-ed mandate for fraternities and sororities was withdrawn in September 2015 and replaced with the "Campaign for Community" effort to establish more inclusive social traditions on campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/president/CommunityLetters/Pages/StudentLifeAnnouncement.aspx|title=Important Message about Student Life|work=trincoll.edu|access-date=2015-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930095446/http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/president/CommunityLetters/Pages/StudentLifeAnnouncement.aspx|archive-date=2017-09-30|url-status=dead}}

Trinity currently has several sororities and fraternities:{{cite web |url= http://www.trincoll.edu/StudentLife/GreekLife/Pages/Organizations-.aspx |title= Organizations |work= Trinity College (Connecticut) |access-date= 30 May 2018}}

Hartford campus

= Long Walk buildings =

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The first buildings completed on the current campus were Seabury and Jarvis halls in 1878. Together with Northam Towers, these make up what is known as the "Long Walk".

These buildings are an early example of Collegiate Gothic architecture in the United States, built to plans drawn up by William Burges, with F.H. Kimball as supervising architect. The Long Walk has been expanded and is connected with several other buildings.

On the northernmost end there is the chapel, whose western side is connected to the Downes and Williams Memorial building. Heading south, the next building is Jarvis Hall, named after Abraham Jarvis. Jarvis becomes Northam Towers heading south, then Seabury Hall. Seabury Hall, named for Samuel Seabury, is connected to Hamlin Hall. To Hamlin's east is Cook, then Goodwin and then Woodward.

The dormitories on the Long Walk end there, and the terminal building on the south end of the long walk is Clement/Cinestudio. Clement is the chemistry building; Cinestudio a student run movie theater. If one travels to the south of Hamlin there will be Mather Hall and the Dean of Students Office.http://www.trincoll.edu/NR/rdonlyres/49EA971F-5F57-43DA-A0F0-A276AE77F148/0/CampusMap2009.pdf {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=BlevintronBot}}

= Main quadrangle =

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Trinity's campus features a central green known as the Main Quad, designed by famed architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The large expanse of grass is bound on the west by the Long Walk, on the east by the Lower Long Walk, on the north by the chapel, and on the south by the Cook and Goodwin-Woodward dormitories. Trinity's green is notable for its unusually large, rectangular size, running the entire length of the Long Walk and with no walkways traversing it. Trees on the Quad have been planted in a 'T' configuration (for Trinity) with the letter's base at the statue of Bishop Brownell (built 1867).{{cite book |title=Where to educate, 1898-1899. A guide to the best private schools, higher institutions of learning, etc., in the United States |last=Thomas |first=Grace Powers |year=1898 |publisher=Brown and Company |location=Boston |page=26 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url=https://archive.org/stream/wheretoeducate1800thomrich#page/26/mode/1up}} and its top running the length of the Long Walk.

== Film ==

Cinestudio is an art cinema with 1930s-style design. An article in the Hartford Advocate described this non-profit organization, which depends solely on grants and the efforts of volunteer workers who are paid in free movies.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinestudio.org/about |title=About |publisher=Cinestudio |date=September 25, 2008 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}

== Music ==

Trinity College hosts the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, one of the top competitions for young organists in North America.[https://www.asofhartford.org Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival]. Retrieved 12 March 2024. The festival features performances on the chapel organ, which was designed by Charles Nazarian, a college alumnus and pipe organ designer, in consultation with Clarence Watters, who was the chapel organist and head of the college's music department from 1932 to 1967.[https://www.trincoll.edu/spiritualandreligiouslife/chapelmusic/trinity-college-chapel-organ/ Trinity College, Hartford: The Organ]. Retrieved 12 March 2024. The organ incorporates pipes from the chapel’s original 1932 Aeolian-Skinner organ and was built in 1971 by Austin Organs of Hartford.

The Chapel Singers perform concerts on campus as well as on domestic and international tours. Trinity also hosts the annual Trinity International Hip Hop Festival. The festival was founded in 2006 with the goal of unifying Trinity with the city of Hartford.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4950692.stm |agency=BBC News |title=World hip-hop questions US rap|date=2006-04-29|access-date=2019-11-21|language=en-GB}}

Since 2006, Trinity's WRTC FM radio station has broadcast the [https://commons.trincoll.edu/sambafest/ Trinity Samba Fest] from the Hartford waterfront featuring regional and international talent.{{cite press release|url=http://commons.trincoll.edu/sambafest/|title=Samba Fest|publisher=Trinity College}}{{cite web|title=Samba Fest: A Day Of Brazilian Culture, Music, Food|date=April 30, 2015|author=Hamad, Michael |url=http://www.courant.com/entertainment/music/hc-samba-fest-brings-brazilian-music-and-culture-to-hartford-0430-20150430-story.html|work=Hartford Courant}}{{cite web|title=Ninth Annual Samba Fest at Hartford Riverfront, May 2|url=https://www.metrohartford.com/newsroom/alliance-news/2015/03/31/Ninth-Annual-Samba-Fest-at-Hartford-Riverfront-May-2|author1=Boyer, Brian |author2=Dell, Barbara Glassman |work=MetroHartford Alliance}}

=Academic regalia=

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|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022

Race and ethnicity{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: Trinity College|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130590-Trinity-College |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=November 14, 2023}}

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|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2

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|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2

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Asian

|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2

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|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2

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|align=right| {{bartable|13|%|2

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|align=right| {{bartable|87|%|2

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Trinity followed the European pattern of using academic regalia from its foundation,{{cite book|url=https://issuu.com/tcdigitalrepository/docs/may1957|title=Academic Costume|work=Trinity College Bulletin|date=May 1957|page=7}} and was one of only four US institutions (all associated with the Episcopal Church) to assign gowns and hoods for its degrees in 1883.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/degreesgownshood00wooduoft/page/31/mode/1up|pages=31–36|title=The degrees, gowns and hoods of the British, Colonial, Indian and American universities and colleges|author= T. W. Wood|publisher=Thomas Pratt and Sons, London|date=1883}} There were six degrees awarded at the time, all taking a black gown of silk or stuff and a hood of black silk lined according to the degree: B.A. white silk, M.A. dove-colored silk, B.D. crimson silk, D.D. scarlet silk, L.L.D. pink silk, Mus.D. purple silk.

In 1894, a year before the introduction of the intercollegiate code on academic costume, the college brought in a new scheme of academic regalia. The hoods and gowns followed the shape of those used at the University of Oxford except that the hood for Doctors of Divinity was of the shape used at the University of Cambridge.

A variety of different colours and fabrics were used for the hoods: B.A. black stuff edged palatinate purple, B.S. black stuff edged light blue silk, B.Litt. black stuff edged russet brown silk, B.D. black silk edged scarlet silk (not in use by 1957), L.L.B. black silk edged dark blue silk (not in use by 1957), Mus.B. black silk edged pink silk (not in use by 1957), M.A. black silk lined palatinate purple silk, M.S. black stuff lined light blue silk, D.D. scarlet cloth lined black silk, D.Litt. scarlet silk-lined russet brown silk, L.L.D. scarlet silk lined dark blue silk, D.C.L. crimson silk lined black silk, Mus.D. white silk-lined pink silk, D.Sc. black silk lined light blue silk, Ph.D. black silk lined people silk (not in use by 1957), M.D. scarlet silk lined maroon silk (not in use by 1957).{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uD6fIDctDEUC&pg=PA118|page=118|title=Athena|publisher=Macmillan, New York|date=1920|editor=C. A. Ealand}}

D.P.H. black cloth lined salmon pink silk (1945), D.H.Litt. scarlet silk-lined people silk (1947), D.Hum. white silk-lined crimson (1957), and D.S.T. scarlet silk-lined blue with a gold chevron (1957) were later added.

As of 2018, the hoods for doctorates (except the Ph.D. and M.D.) and for the M.Mus. remain in use for honorary degrees, with the further addition since 1957 of the D.F.A. wrote lined white with a red Chevron.{{cite web|url=https://www.trincoll.edu/commencement/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/03/2018CommencementProgram.pdf|title=Commencement Program|date=2018|access-date=16 May 2020|page=34}}

Athletics

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Trinity's athletic teams teams are named the Bantams. They compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The College offers 27 varsity teams, plus club sports, intramural sports.{{cite web|title=Trinity Athletics|url=http://athletics.trincoll.edu/landing/index|publisher=Trinity College|access-date=4 August 2011}}

Notable alumni

{{main|List of Trinity College (Connecticut) people}}

{{Alumni|date=April 2024}}

File:Tucker Carlson (51771495255) (cropped).jpg|Tucker Carlson, right wing political commentator formerly employed by Fox News

File:Christine Quinn VF 2012 Shankbone.JPG|Christine Quinn, former Speaker of the New York City Council

File:David Chang David Shankbone 2010.jpg|David Chang, restaurateur and television personality

File:Jesse Watters (51774147854) (cropped).jpg|Jesse Watters, conservative commentator and Fox News host

File:EdwardAlbee.jpg|Edward Albee, playwright

File:Ari Graynor 2017.jpg|Ari Graynor, actress

File:Kellybensimon.jpg|Kelly Killoren Bensimon, cast member on The Real Housewives of New York City

File:Danny Meyer FT Charity Wine Dinner 2010.jpg|Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shack

File:George Will (52540061656) (cropped).jpg|George Will, libertarian-conservative political commentator and author

File:Mary McCormack.jpg|Mary McCormack, actress

File:Jane Swift 2001.jpeg|Jane Swift, former Acting Governor of Massachusetts

File:Stephen gyllenhaal2010.jpg|Stephen Gyllenhaal, film director

File:Isaac Toucey - Brady-Handy.jpg|Isaac Toucey, former United States Attorney General

File:Rachel Platten 11 16 2017 -11 (27521703399).jpg|Rachel Platten, singer-songwriter

Trinity College's distinguished alumni include many influential and historical people, including governors, US Cabinet members, federal judges, political commentators and journalists, and senior executives in business and industry.

Notable alumni of Trinity College include:

Notes

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References

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