The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age
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镀金时代
DOI:
10.5040/9781350063785.0011
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2021
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A. Jackson
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A. Jackson
ABNER JAcKSON was, if anything, an organizer. When he began his tenure as President of Trinity College in 1867, there were few societies or other formal groups. There were then the Missionary Society, Phi Beta Kappa, four fraternities, two moribund literary societies, a choir, and the Grand Tribunal. Three years later there were these ten organizations plus the Guild of the Holy Trinity, a revived Boat Club, a Baseball Club, the Euterpean Society, Iota Phi, something called "Po Pai Paig," The Tablet, Ye Mystic Crew of Comus, K.S.C., Phi Theta Chi, Ye Pipes of Peace, Oxyposes, the Chess Club, and the Whist Club.1 Some of these groups were quite ancient; others were new. Several were little more than drinking clubs; some have been totally forgotten even as to nature and purpose. And in the next few years, the societies on the Trinity campus were to proliferate by an almost geometric progression. Of the older groups, the Missionary Society had survived the Civil War as the most active organization on campus. Meetings were held twice each month. Small donations were made from the regular "collections" to various missionary and educational purposes. And although the membership remained relatively smallperhaps from twelve to fifteenthe Society's function remaiqed purely that designated in its title. 2 In 1870, several members of the Missionary Society organized the Guild of the Holy Trinity. The Guild was a "branch" of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross which had recently been organized in New York City as a federation of the CHAPTER X