Music groups were popular with Trinity students during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Along with students are Professors Riggs, Johnson, and Mrs. Kate Gillespie.
This a view of the original Trinity building shortly after it was completed in 1873. This is the southside of the building and the people in front of the building appear to be faculty, trustees, and townspeople.
Bodenhamer joined the Trinity faculty in 1883 as an assistant instructor and two years later became the Johnson Professor Mathematics. Later he served as professor Greek, Bible, and astronomy and the Aston Lecturer on Theology and Homiletics. He...
Campbell was professor of music at Trinity during the last decade on the Tehuacana campus. During his tenure the music program was expanded to include male and female quartettes, a choir, and various musical clubs.
Samuel Hornbeak first attended Trinity as a student in 1873 when he was eight years old. (Trinity then had a primary department.) He received a B.A. degree in 1885 and joined the TU faculty in 1891 as professor of science. He later served as dean...
Meeting room for the Ratio-Genic student literary societie located in the administrative/classroom building. This group consisted of male and female students.
Literature Societies, etc.; Students' societies; Classrooms
Philo-Sophronian student literary society room in the Tehuacana main building. Students were free to decorate the room and conducted their meetings free of faculty oversight. Debates and recitations were frequently held.
The Timothean Society originally functioned as a theology class for preministerial students and reorganized in 1891 as a pre-ministerial literary society. Pictured with students in photograph is President Benjamin McLeskey.
College teachers; Johnson, Luther A.; College presidents
Photo of Trinity University Faculty in 1889. On the back of the original, all the members are identified. President Luther A. Johnson is seated center of first row.