Trinidad (City and county-seat of Las)
a city and county-seat of Las Animas co., Col.; on Las Animas river, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Denver and Rio Grande, the Colorado and Southern, and the Colorado and Wyoming railroads; 200 miles S. of Denver. Here are National and savings banks, numerous churches, St. Joseph's Academy, several daily and weekly newspapers, and electric lights. The city has grist mills, railroad car shops, powder mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,204; (1920) 10,906.
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Trinitarians
Important: Safety Warning This page contains instructions involving gunpowder or other explosive or pyrotechnic compositions. Preparing explosives as described has caused severe injuries and deaths, and is illegal in most places. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. an order of monks founded at Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, a native of Provence, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, to redeem Christian captives out of the hands of the infidels. The order was sanctioned by Innocent III.; the rule was that of St. Austin, with particular statutes; the diet was of great austerity; and the habit, at least in France, was a soutane and scapular of white serge, with a red and blue cross on the right breast. At one time the order possessed 250 houses, and it was estimated in the 17th century, that, since its foundation, it had been instrumental in rescuing more than 30,000 Christian captives from what was practically slavery. A reform took place in 1599, and resulted in the erection of the congregation of Discalced Trinitarians in Spain, in which country the order (reformed and unreformed) was suppressed in the reign of Isabella II.
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Trinitrotoluenes
substances formed by the nitration of toluene, having the general formula CoH2CH3 (NO2) 3. There are three compounds of this name, all having the same chemical constitution, but differing in the arrangement of the nitro groups in the molecule. These three are known respectively as A, B, and I trinitrotoluene. The most important of the three is A or symmetrical trinitrotoluene, which forms the constituent of the explosive well known as T. N. T. B and I trinitrotoluene, when fused with sodium sulphide and sulphur, yield dyes which give a deep khaki-brown shade. Most of the T. N. T. used for explosive purposes contains small amounts of the B and I isomers, but for some purposes a very pure T. N. T. is required, and this is produced by recrystallizing the crude product from various solvents such as alcohol, benzene or a mixture of the two. The nitration of toluene can be carried out in two stages or in three. In the three-stage process, mono-nitrotoluene is first produced by nitrating toluene with a comparatively weak solution of mixed nitric and sulphuric acids. From this, by further nitration, dinitrotoluene is produced, and finally by treating the dinitrotoluene with strong mixed acids, trinitrotoluene is produced. By the twostage process, mononitrotoluene is first produced, as above, and then converted direct to trinitrotoluene by treatment with strong mixed acids. A one-stage process has been tried, but is viewed with disfavor, owing to the danger of introducing strong acid direct into toluene. See EXPLOSIVES.
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Trinity Bay
a large bay on the N. E. coast of Newfoundland. The peninsula of Avalon is nearly surrounded by it. Its chief ports are Trinity and Heart's Content.
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Trinity College
an American educational institution, established in Hartford, Conn., in 1823. It bore the name of Washington College till 1845. At the close of 1919 it reported: Professors and instructors, 17; students, 200; president, F. S. Luther, LL. D.
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Trinity College
a coeducational institution in Durham, N. C.; founded in 1853 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 61; students, 896; president W. P. Few, LL. D.
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Trinity College
or THE UNI- VERSITY OF DUBLIN, the largest and most important educational institution in Ireland. It is believed to have been founded by Queen Elizabeth in 1591, though some authorities assert that she merely endowed and Protestantized the school. These latter give the credit for its establishment to Alexander Bigner or Bignor, an ecclesiastic of the 13th century. It has extensive buildings which inclose several quadrangles. Corinthian columns ornament the principal front the chapel has a Corinthian portico and the decorations of the fine library are also Corinthian.
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Trinity College (Famous institution)
a famous institution in Cambridge, England; founded by Henry VIII. in 1546 on the site and out of the revenues of Michael-house (1324), King's Hall (1337), and other ancient societies. To the 60 fellowships and scholarships of his foundation Queen Ma Mary added 20 scholarships. The fellows, with certain exceptions, must take holy orders within seven years after their M. A., and the college may elect professors or other distinguished literary or scientific men to regular or honorary fellowships. The greatest of all the Cambridge colleges, Trinity, is more conspicuous for the extent than the special architectural beauty of its buildings. Noteworthy, however, are Nevill's Fountain, the three great gateways by which the three chief courts are entered, the Gothic Hall with its high-peaked roof, the chapel (redecorated 1875), the library designed by Wren, the Masters' Lodge, with its state rooms, where royalty and judges are received, and the rich collection of busts and statues of former members of Newton by Roubillac, Porson by Chantrey, Byron by Thorwaldsen, Barrow, Macauley, Whewell, Sedgewick, Tennyson, etc.
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Trinity College (Noteworthy college in Oxford)
a noteworthy college in Oxford, England: founded by Richard de Hoton, Prior of Durham, in 1290, for the education of student-monks of Durham. It was the first college after Balliol, which was founded by a layman, and was further remarkable as having been, like St. John's, founded by a Roman Catholic after the Reformation. It was rebuilt and improved by Sir Thomas Pope, in 1554. A Renaissance chapel was built in 1694, in which is a fine altar-piece, and a beautiful carved screen.
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Trinity House
a name borne by five maritime societies of Great Britain situated in London, Hull, Newcastle-on- Tyne, Leith, and Dundee. Probably all, or most of them, were originally partly religious and and partly secular establishments founded b by seamen, their chief original objects being probably mutual assistance and the care of aged and infirm seamen. From the 14th century onward various public duties and privileges were assigned to them by royal charters or acts of Parliament, such as providing lighthouses, buoying channels, and licensing pilots; and powers were given to them to levy dues on shipping or cargoes. With one important exception, these duties and powers have been reduced or withdrawn. Dundee House is now only a benefit society. Leith retains its public duties as a pilotage authority, as also do Newcastle and Hull, while the last also looks after the lighthouses and buoys of the Humber. All of them continue to give pensions, or homes and pensions, to members, and some assistance to destitute seafarers.
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