Editing Trinity College, Cambridge (section)

===Minor traditions===
Trinity College undergraduate gowns are readily distinguished from the black gowns favoured by most other Cambridge colleges. They are instead dark blue with black facings. They are expected to be worn to formal events such as formal halls and also when an undergraduate sees the Dean of the College in a formal capacity. Trinity students, along with those of [[King's College, Cambridge|King's]] and [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's]], are the first to be presented to the Congregation of the Regent House at graduation.

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==Trinity in literature==
[[File:NewtonsPrincipia.jpg|thumb|Newton's own copy of the [[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]], with handwritten corrections, on display in the Wren Library]]
{{poemquote|Near me hung Trinity's loquacious clock,
Who never let the quarters, night or day,
Slip by him unproclaimed, and told the hours
Twice over with a male and female voice.
Her pealing organ was my neighbour too;
And from my pillow, looking forth by light
Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold
The antechapel where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.|[[William Wordsworth]], ''[[The Prelude]]'' (1850), Book Third, describing his view from [[St John's College, Cambridge]].}}

{{blockquote|One night, just before ten o'clock, he [Maurice] slipped into Trinity and waited in the Great Court until the gates were shut behind him. Looking up, he noticed the night. He was indifferent to beauty as a rule, but "what a show of stars!" he thought. And how the fountain splashed when the chimes died away, and the gates and doors all over Cambridge had been fastened up. Trinity men were around him – all of enormous intellect and culture. Maurice's set had laughed at Trinity, but they could not ignore its disdainful radiance, or deny the superiority it scarcely troubles to affirm. He had come to it without their knowledge, humbly, to ask its help. His witty speech faded in its atmosphere, and his heart beat violently.|[[E. M. Forster]], graduate of [[King's College Cambridge]], writes of Maurice Hall's search for homosexual love at Trinity College in his novel, ''[[Maurice (novel)|Maurice]]'' (completed 1914, published 1970).}}

{{blockquote|[B]ut here I was actually at the door which leads into the library itself. I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the college or furnished with a letter of introduction.

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep for ever.|[[Virginia Woolf]] describes her attempt at entry to the Wren, ''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929)}} -->