The Trustees were and are responsible for the final approval of decisions regarding finances, appointments to the Board, Fellows and Board committees, faculty, staff, and presidency, adopting and eliminating by-laws, ordinances, policies and curricula, changes to buildings and grounds, and conferring degrees and honorary degrees. Board Minutes record the decisions made by the board beginning with the College's Charter and establishment.
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Extracts from the Record: Change of College Site
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A selection of typed excerpts from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes from 1872-1900.
The extracts include the College's changing site from downtown to Summit Street (1872). Subsequent abstracts dating up to 1900 detail the construction of buildings and negotiations with the City of Hartford relating to removal of rock and grading.
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Extracts from the Record: General Funds
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Extracts from the Record: General Funds includes typewritten transcriptions of the first two volumes of the Trustees minutes, from 1823 to 1901.
The extracts focus on the General Funds, which consist of the financial expenses and income for the daily and long-term operations of the College.
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Extracts from the Record: Handwritten Extracts
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A selection of handwritten subject headings from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes Vol 1 (1823-1887) to Vol 2 (1888-1908) including page numbers, which were not completed into typed extracts.
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Extracts from the Record: Holland Scholarships
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A selection of typed excerpts from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes from 1892-1901 regarding the Holland Scholarships.
In 1889, Mrs. Frances J. Holland bequeathed Trinity College $50,000 for the establishment of three scholarships, to be paid from that sum, called the Holland Trust.
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Extracts from the Record: Library
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A selection of typed excerpts from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes from 1826 to 1900, relating to the library collections, purchases, Librarian's duties, Library Committee, and Librarian's reports.
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Extracts from the Record: Policy of the College
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A transcription of a Special Meeting of the Trustees held March 15, 1889, in which the Trustees discussed that the college had capacity for fewer students than were currently attending. They discussed the College's growing needs, among which were more dormitories, professors, a library, dining hall, etc.
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Extracts from the Record: Technical School
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A selection of typed excerpts from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes, 1896, discussing the creation of a Hartford Technical School in connection with the Hartford Board of Trade, to include modern equipment and courses in mechanical engineering.
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Extracts from the Record: Various Financial Gifts, Funds, Scholarships, Trusts, etc.
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A selection of typed excerpts from the Trinity College Trustee Minutes Vol 1 (1823-1887) to Vol 2 (1888-1908) on the various scholarships, endowments, funds, and trusts:
Maria L. Ripley Scholarship, Jacock's Fund, Henry and Walter Keney Fund, Samuel Hart Library Fund, Tuttle Will, Nathan S. Warren, J.P. Morgan Professorship of Natural History, Mary J. Keney Fund, Lemuel J. Curtis Scholarship, Frank W. Whitlock Prize Fund, Pardee and Clark Scholarships, F. A. Brown Prize, Henry E. Russell Fellowship, Charles Scott Legacy, Henrietta Perry Fund, Ferguson Prize in the Department of History and Political Science, Buckingham Fund, Legacy of Chester Adams, Gift of Walter Keney, Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Scholarship, Louis M. Cheesman Trust Fund, Scholarship of St. Paul's Church, Kirby Scholarship, Contingent Gift of Junius S. Morgan, Toucey Scholarships, Isaac Toucey Trust, Goodwin Greek Prize, Daniel Goodwin Hospital Legacy, Daniel Goodwin Scholarships, Bequests of Charles H. Northam, Jarvis Hall of Science, Trinity Curch (NYC) Scholarship, Heartt Scholarship, Thomas Backus Scholarship, Gregor Endowment, Junior Fellow Premium, Scovill Professorship, William Allen Mather Scholarship, Bequest of the Rev. Daniel Burhans, Hobart Professorship, Rogers Scholarship, Seabury Professorship, Brownell Professorship, Brownell Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Chapel.
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol. 1 (Part 2) (1860-1887)
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June 28, 1860-June 29, 1887
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 2 (1888-1908)
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June 27, 1888-June 23, 1908
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 3 (1908-1926)
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October 31, 1908-June 12, 1926
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 4 (1926-1937)
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October 30, 1926-October 30, 1937
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 5 (1938-1947)
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January 15, 1938-October 25, 1947
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 6 (1948-1953)
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January 24, 1948-April 18, 1953
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 7 (1953-1961)
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June 5, 1953-June 9, 1961
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Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 8 (1961-1967)
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October 14, 1961-January 14, 1967
