Prelude
Warren University started as a joke. Not to the founders—three vainglorious men who had been born with the world in their hands and their futures glittering like gold coins eager to be spent—but to the people of Hartford.
Suffice to say, building a prestigious university on the west bank of the Connecticut River, directly opposite the eventual industrial sprawl of East Hartford, was truly ridiculous.
Trinity College, though not yet coeducational, already smugly occupied its new campus in Gallows Hill.
The University of Hartford would not be built for another three years, but the University of Connecticut’s School of Law was already there and housing the Hartford Seminary as a bonus.
Warren University was expected to be a social experiment that swiftly closed or merged with a more prestigious school.
And if some of those students disappeared before graduation, well…every college needs a ghost story.