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.
Beeson was Trinity's first president (1869-1883). A veteran of the Confederate Army, Beeson had previously served as President of Chapel Hill College in Texas.
In 1895 at the cost of $6,000, the university purchased a private residence in Tehuacana and remodeled and enlarged it into a dormitory for women. President L. A. Johnson and his wife lived in the house as supervisors.