Trinity College
Trinity College names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Trinity College a famous institution in Cambridge
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Trinity College or THE UNI- VERSITY OF DUBLIN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Trinity College a noteworthy college in Oxford
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Trinity College an American educational institution
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Trinity College a coeducational institution in Durham
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biggest change fell on the last entry: Trinity College at Durham, North Carolina, with its 896 students in 1919, was reorganized as Duke University in 1924 after James B. Duke's endowment, and is now a research university of some 17,000 students, with "Trinity College" surviving as the name of its undergraduate arts and sciences school. The Hartford Trinity, with 17 instructors and 200 students when Collier's wrote in 1921, is now a coeducational liberal arts college of roughly 2,000 students, having admitted women in 1969. The requirement Collier's records that Cambridge fellows "must take holy orders within seven years after their M.A." is long gone, and both Trinity Cambridge and Trinity Oxford, all-male in 1921, began admitting women at the end of the 1970s. Trinity College Dublin, described as Elizabeth's Protestant foundation, is now non-denominational; the Catholic hierarchy's discouragement of attendance there was lifted in 1970, and Catholics are today the majority of its students.
Written for this edition, 2026.