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./ class about 1895 in Room 17, now Room 33.

the programs for commencement exercises prior one occasion, at least, the precocious Sophomores
to 1920 are liberally studded with Latin and did vanquish the lofty Seniors.
Greek dialogues. Phis was not the limit of the underclassmen’s
But the scholars were often no different in derision of their betters. There often occurred
the degree of their devotion to their studies than in the column of class notes in the School news­
they are today. One example inspired this de­ paper comments that it had been “noticed that
scription, “We even saw one chap in chapel the several of the seniors no longer wear their pins.
other day whose Prayer Book ( ?) bore the title, They request to know just who the maidens are.
‘Burke on Conciliation.’ ” Oh, more victims of the all-conquering femi­
The students also indulged in interclass ath­ nine.” The present existence of rings instead of
letic contests. In one, “the baseball team of pins seems to have made no appreciable difference.
Quarto. B played that of Quarto A, beating them
by the score of 20 to 7. Both nines played ex­ The scholars of the nineties and, we can as­
ceedingly well, covering themselves with mud sume, all other periods of Trinity’s history led
and glory, chiefly mud.” The inter-class basket­ full lives. A School publication described one
ball tournaments were set up on a handicap basis case. “Fleming had been absent several days, but
and featured hotly contested battles that were he is now back feeling all right. Too much Rye
reported thoroughly in the School journal. On (N. Y.) probably.”