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()ne of the most important School organiza­ 1891 the sheet was entitled Daily Doings. When
tions w as formed before the move to Nmet\-first the paper was printed for the first time in 1892,
Street. 1 his was the Literary Society, which put this was translated into Greek, becoming Ephe­
out the publications and staged debates. In addi­ mera. Three years later Trinity went Latin, and
tion, about 1905, two separate debating societies the paper became the Acta Diana. In 1925 the
were established, the Alpha and Omega and the Trinity Times was established in mimeograph
Phi Epsilon Nu. Since the Literary Society ca­ form and the A eta became a sort of combination
tered only to the three upper classes, the fourth yearbook and Dramatics Program. In 1930
formed, in 1895, a short-lived Quarto Improve­ “Chalk Dust” was inaugurated as a Spotlight,
ment Club with the same purpose and program. and in 1932 the Times took the shape it has now.
One of the major activities of the Literary Except for a brief period from 1913 through
Society was the publication of a school monthly. 1916, and one issue in 1936, the Yearbook was
It was, however, some time before a newspaper the Acta Diurna or nothing until 1944. Dra­
was properly established and taken over by the matics also flourished at Trinity in the same
Society. In 1890, while Trinity was at 108 West period, but its existence dated from the nineties
45th Street, the first hand-written edition of and extended into the twenties. Some of the
The Trinity War-Cry was issued. The editor performances were given at the Plaza Hotel.
of the journal was determined for the first year
bv whoever happened to have a pad of paper. The Glee Club was another story. It seems

The name changed rapidly from The War-Cry, that it has always been a fine organization, al­
to the Trinity Illustrated Weekly, and then to though often through the ages inspiring com­
the Trinity Weekly when the illustrator lost ments like, “The Glee Club, because of a lack
interest. Eventually the Rector allowed the boys of cooperation among the boys, is not thriving as
to use the school duplicating equipment. And in well as it might.”

Trinity School Dramatic Society's presentation of The Woman Hater in 1911.

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