Slideshow: Trivial-Quadrivial Pursuits 2017

This year’s celebration of St. Thomas Day ended, as always, with a beloved College tradition — Trivial and Quadrivial Pursuits, a campus-wide game famous for its extravagant costumes and over-the-top displays of creative gamesmanship. Three teams, each drawn from members of all four classes, vied in a competition to answer questions drawn from the College’s classical curriculum. A panel of tutors devised and posed the questions.

Per custom, each team chose a theme and appropriate costumes. Captained by Gerry Coughlin (’17), the Logicians dressed in costumes from Napoleonic France. The Rhetoricians, with captain Timmy Hartzell (’17), took for their theme the Bolshevik Revolution. Meanwhile, the Grammarians, in homage to the ancestry of their captain, Giorgio Navarini (’17) competed under the banner of “By Big Fat Italian Wedding.”

At the end of the competition, this year’s winners — the Rhetoricians — celebrated with the faculty at a party in the campus coffee shop.