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Trumbull College is one of twelve undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The college is named for Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut from 1769 to 1784 and advisor and friend to General George Washington. A Harvard College graduate, Trumbull was the only colonial governor to support the American Revolution. Opened in September 1933, Trumbull College is one of the eight Yale colleges designed by James Gamble Rogers and the only one funded by John W. Sterling. Its Collegiate Gothic buildings form the Sterling Quadrangle, which Rogers planned to harmonize with his adjacent Sterling Memorial Library. ==History== One of the University's nine original colleges, Trumbull was originally two free-standing dormitory buildings flanking the old gymnasium. When University President James Rowland Angell instituted the residential college system in 1931, the gym was torn down and the dormitories connected with a new building in the Collegiate Gothic style, forming the Sterling Quadrangle named for university benefactor John W. Sterling. The quadrangle contains the Trumbull dining hall, common room, and library, and a new dorm wing was constructed parallel to the originals. A Master's House was also constructed in the southeast corner of the quadrangle, and its north side is bounded by the Sterling Memorial Library. Of the nine colleges completed by 1935, Trumbull was the only one not funded and endowed by Edward Harkness. James Gamble Rogers, architect of eight of Yale's colleges, considered the dormitories that would later be incorporated into Trumbull his magnum opus and inscribed the initials of the men who worked on the project on shield carvings along the outside of the buildings. The buildings of Trumbull are modeled after King's College, Cambridge. Three separate courtyards — Alvarez (Main) Court, Potty Court, and Stone Court — grace Trumbull's interior. The university chose its first college masters to reflect a diverse range of disciplines. President Angell, a psychologist, was especially keen to have a scientist among them. He recruited Stanhope Bayne-Jones, a Yale College graduate and Dean of University of Rochester Medical School, to come to Yale as Trumbull's first master. Because Trumbull was pieced together using existing buildings, and on a small area of land, its student rooms were older and its amenities were less generous than those of some of its sister colleges. Still, the first group of students and faculty to occupy the college put the space to some creative uses. For example, Clements Fry, pioneering psychiatrist in the Department of University Health, opened an office providing therapy and counseling to Yale students in a fourth-floor room off Stone Court.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=General Histories of Medicine Oral Histories: Stanhope Bayne-Jones )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Clements Collard Fry )〕 During World War II, Yale turned much of its campus over to the military for training. By 1943 Trumbull was one of only three colleges that continued to house undergraduates (Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards were the others). In the first two decades of Yale's residential college system, students would apply for entry to their choice of college at the end of their freshman year. Although the university sought to give each college a diverse population, the colleges acquired reputations. Freshmen from wealthy families with social connections tended to shun Trumbull. As one chronicler of the university's history noted, "Calhoun and Davenport were strongly athletic and ‘white shoe,’ only engineers (it was whispered) congregated in Silliman and Timothy Dwight, and no one knew ''who'' lived in Trumbull." Put more charitably, Trumbull maintained a reputation for housing serious students, many of whom were on scholarships. Some called Trumbull "the bursar's college." To overcome these social differences, the university began assigning most students to colleges randomly — beginning in 1954 at the end of the student's freshman year, and beginning in 1962 upon admission to Yale. In 1968, Yale President Kingman Brewster announced a plan for admitting women to Yale and proposed that Trumbull be turned into housing for freshmen women. Brewster held a "stormy" meeting with Trumbull students, who would have been forced to vacate their college. In response to the protest, Brewster changed his plan and reserved one of the Old Campus dormitories for women. The Trumbull College Council passed a motion "vigorously endorsing with rampant enthusiasm" the revised proposal. Helen Brown Nicholas, wife of former master John Spangler Nicholas, died in 1972〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Helen Benton Brown Nicholas )〕 and left the college a bequest to fund building of a chapel. Yale architecture professor Herbert Newman and his students designed the chapel, modifying an existing squash court in the Trumbull basement. It was dedicated in 1974. Frequently used as a theater, "Nick" Chapel remains in high demand by Yale students of all colleges. The college was extensively remodeled during the 2005–2006 academic year, thanks in part to donations from the Alvarez family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Trumbull College Rededication Celebrated )〕 All dorm rooms and bathrooms were renovated, and the dining hall kitchen and the activity areas in the basement received comprehensive upgrades and modernization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trumbull College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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