------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLD SERIES, MAY, 1886. NEW SERIES, VOL. IV. NO. 5. VOL. I. NO. 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright, 1886, by Bay State Monthly Company. All rights reserved. #TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD.# BY SAMUEL HART, D.D., PROFESSOR OF LATIN. [Illustration: TRINITY COLLEGE IN 1869.] The plan for the establishment of a second college in Connecticut was not carried into effect until after the time of the political and religious revolution which secured the adoption of a State Constitution in 1818. Probably no such plan was seriously entertained till after the close of the war of Independence. The Episcopal church in Connecticut had, one may almost say, been born in the library of Yale College; and though Episcopalians, with other dissenters from the "standing order," had been excluded from taking any part in the government or the instruction of the institution, they did not forget how much they owed to it as the place where so many of their clergy had received their education. In fact, when judged by the standards of that day, it would appear that they had at first little cause to complain of illiberal treatment, while on the other hand they did their best to assist the college in the important work which it had in hand. But Yale College, under the presidency of Dr. Clap, assumed a more decidedly theological character than before, and set itself decidedly in opposition to those who dissented from the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Saybrook Platform of Discipline. Besides, King's College, which had been lately founded in New York, drew away some Episcopal students from Connecticut and made others dissatisfied; and had not the war with the mother country rudely put a stop to the growth of Episcopacy in the colony, it would seem that steps might have been soon taken for the establishment of some institution of learning, at least a school of theology, under the care of the clergy of the Church of England. [Illustration: (signature) T. C. Brownell] [Illustration: TRINITY COLLEGE IN 1828.]