The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-03
of the college, beginning in 17O1. H

| of the college, beginning in 1701. He ! was graduated from Harvard in 1875
 and was one of the ancestors of the 1 Stokes family.
 The erection of the administration
 building will be followed immediately 1 by the destruction of the treasury build 1 ing, or old "Trumbull Gallery" which
 is, therefore, already in it's twilight. | The structure, while not so old as the | brick row, nor endeared to graduates l by memories, has an important his l tory of it's own. Col. John Trumbull, | in 1881, not long after he had painted the large pictures for the rotunda of the national capitol, and paid his debts, found himself poor in purse and not
 much richer in a collection of what he himself described as ito all appearance | unsalable' paintings. By contract with the college he agreed to transfer title to the collection for an annuity of $1,000 a year, with further provision that the college should provide suta- ble building keep the collection on ex hibition, and apply any fees over and above the annuity to indigent students. The thrifty college obtained grant of
 S7,000 from the state of Connecticut to
 build the gallery, but the admission fees
 fell far short of the annuity, which had
 to be made up largely by private sub
 scriptions. Trumbull himself designed
 the gallery, the tomb-like shape of
 which was forcibly suggested by his in-
 tention that both he and his wife should
 rest below it.. He died in 1S43, at the
 age of eighty-seven, and was buried in
 a vault below the structure and by the
 side of his wife. During the last
 twelve years of his life Trumbull, while
 enjoying the college annuity, added a
 number of paintings to the twenty-two
 of the original collection; in his own
 words, "as some compensation for liy-
 ing so long,"
 In 1884, when the foundations of the Art School building were laid, the
 corporation voted to commute the fees intended by Trumbull for poor students
 into regular payment of $500 -ear for the same purpose. Tn the same year the bodies of Trumbul and his wife were. disinterred and laid below the Art School, near it's southeast cor ner, where an inscription on the tier wall, much of the time hidden oy the ivy, and rarely noticed, records that John Trumbull, Patriot and Artist, born 1756, died 1S43, is buried here.'' On the inner wall, in the basement of the school, and even more saldomS seea, Is over the graves the original slab from Trumbull Gallery, bearing the el- der Sillimans inscription, closing with the words, ITO his country he gave his sword and pencil" Trumbul rests still beneath his own pictures and his paint ing of Washington, winch few years later were placed Il the south gallery of the school and the old Trumbull Gallery became such only tradition and brief title. ....a
 Since then the Trumbul Gallery, 1n- der the name of the frreasury' has been strictly utilitarian. It has sup piled, besides the Treaeurer's office. room for the President and for weekly faculty meetings. a janitor's room, q kind of dump for academic debris, and a music-room. AS a place for weekly faculty meetings, it has besn the centre of academ c discipline rsmem- bered still with terror by many Yaie offender. Among it's earlier uses, before it ceased to be a gellery of art, shoull not De oNerlOoheu tne ldct lIlaC l1f. i Taylor, Tn one ot It's smaller rooms, ei.- pounded his new theology; .vhlS the homely structure gains a certain his toric magnitude and dignity from the testimony of Prof. Salisbury that Trum- bulls gift deserves to be commemor- ated as the earliest step taken in this country expressly for the introduction of the study of the fine arts into our higher seats of learning" The gallery stimulated the gift of the fine art-school building by Augustus R. Street.