The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-28
TRINITY SCHOOLS 200 YEARS
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED WITH
A DINNER OF THE GRADUA TES.
It Began In 100 in the Tower Of the Old
church Building and Has Worked Iii
Way to DIST Street-Bishop Greer
and DR.. Butler Among the Guests

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church Building n Has Worked It's
! Way to DIST street-Btshop Greer
j. and DIR. Butler Among b Guests.
Trinity school. which a started in the
tower Of the first Trinity Church when II
was in the outskirts OF the city. celebrated
it's 2oOth birthday yesterday. There were
special services at Trinity In the morning
COMMUNICATING the event, and last night
at the Hotel Aston some Of the old boys
who went to the school in Varick street
fifty years ago got together with some
| OF the youngsters at a 2OOth birthday
dinner.
There weren't any Of the l7oa boys
present TO give their class yell. but some
OF the men present did it for them and
the ballroom through the evening rang
with the Trinity cry: @Rah. rah. rah.
ri. ri, ri, T-R-I-N-I-T-Yl' The old orange
and blue flag. the colors adopted by
Headmaster Huddlestone and his boys
OF 1909, hung over the speakers table.
and when the different classes got through
giving their yells they turned saluted
the Rev. DR.. Thomas r. Sill, the oldest
| Trinity boy present, who gave the class
| Of 81 yell all by himself.
Most of the Trinity boys at last nights
feast seemed TO be proud Of the fact that
they went TO Trinity. and the fact that they
hadn't had a chance to keep a birthday for
fifty years made them let loose with u ven
| eeance. +. II. Hartman went to Trinity
Sohool and was present at the last birth
day fifty years ago. as he recalled last
night in a letter he ser expressing his
regret at not being able to attend the re-
union.
At the speakers table we're Bishop
| Greer, DR.. William T. Manning. rector OF
| Triiity; President Butler Of Columbia,
President Winthrop Of the Board OF Edu-
cation, the Rev. Robert B. Kimber. the
| Rev. William H. Vibbert. John A. Beall.
Elihu Chauncey. the Rev. l.. I. Cole. f.. s..
| Hackett, the Rev. William j. Seabury,
c. d. Simmons, Dean j. H. Van Amringe,
A. II. vesey. D. l.. Lowther and z. +.
Luther. Seated at some Of the smaller
! tables we're 4. l.. Mooney. George F. Bam-
| back. +. C. Garfield, Lubin Palmer. Will
/ lam o. Inglis, the Rev, Joseph Hooper,
A. r. Hawfey, W. L.. Molyneux. G. H. Tut
tie and Harold Webbe.
DIR. Vibbert. who acted as toastmaster.
J read q ietttT itoih Dioiiop "aisoi" "o'N
| ern New York. who recalled the line
| when he vent to the old school. 1t was
when business men had country residences
at Kip's Bay and Greenwich village.
Bishop Greer, who got a great yell from
the Trinity men. said that II was hard TO
realize that anything in New York was
200 years old, and that Trinity School.
like the church, taught the value and i'm
portance OF a historic perspective:
"a GOOD MANY seem to him now
adays,S he said, -that everything ancient
must be wrong and everything modern
must be right, who believe that modern
soience and modern thought are solving
ali our riddles for us. There is no solvent
of the mysteries Of life, but the Church
contends that they are more closely
Illuminated when looked at through the
wisdom OF all the Christian ages
Trinity School. said the Bishop, had
been turning out boys for 200 years
been contributing the right kind Of lay.
men to the help of the church.
DR.. Manning ran yer some Of the his
tory OF the old school. which has been
swept northward with the growth Of the
CITY until II is o lodged In West Ninety,
first street. 1t was a charity school
when 1t started, though 1t has some paid
Br. Butler OF Columbia spoke OF the
old school as one OF a very few that hao
survived the struggle between CONNER
cialism and liberia learning.
you have a real and personal relation
ship,r he told the Trinity graduates
with an institution that has seen govern
ments come and go and a village grow
into a city OF millions. 1t is well worth
something to come nde the ranse o.
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