Through this post, we are releasing the digital scan of two issues of St. Thomas College Trichur Magazine published in the year 1938 in the month of September and December.
St. Thomas’ College, Thrissur is one of Kerala’s oldest and most prestigious institutions. Founded in 1889 by Rt. Rev. Adolphus E. Medlycott, it started as a school and became a Second Grade College in 1918, later upgrading to First Grade in 1925. It holds the distinction of being Kerala’s first Catholic college, run by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur, and is affiliated with the University of Calicut.
The Magazine in published twice in a year. In these issues, the contents are Articles in different topics and literary articles written by eminent writers and students in English and Malayalam languages.
These documents are digitized as part of the Madras University Library digitization project.
Metadata and link to the digitized document
Metadata and link to the digitized document are provided below.
Document – 1
- Name: St. Thomas College Trichur Magazine
- Published Year: 1938
- Number of pages: 82
- Scan link: Link
Document – 2
- Name: St. Thomas College Trichur Magazine
- Published Year: 1938
- Number of pages: 74
- Scan link: Link
It’s fascinating to see how St. Thomas College has maintained its rich tradition of education for so many years. The magazine from 1938 must provide a unique glimpse into the culture and academic life of that time.
Great article with a lot of practical takeaways. The way the information is organized makes it easy to apply rather than just read once and forget.
Fascinating archive piece — college magazines from 1938 are rare finds and offer such a vivid snapshot of that era. For historical content presentations, I’ve been experimenting with AI-generated period-influenced music using Lyria 4. It adds atmosphere to digital archiving projects.
Fascinating archival find — two issues of the St. Thomas College Trichur magazine from 1938. Historical documents like these offer a rare window into academic life and regional culture of that era. Valuable preservation work.
Remarkable preservation work — these 1938 college magazines are a genuine window into pre-independence academic culture in Kerala. The effort to digitize and share this material is invaluable for anyone studying the history of higher education in the region. Would love to see more issues from this era archived.
Digitizing historical college publications like these 1938 issues of St. Thomas College magazine is invaluable work. The content gives a fascinating window into academic and cultural life in Trichur nearly nine decades ago. Archival projects like this are great candidates for audio narration to reach wider audiences.
Fascinating historical preservation work — college magazines from the 1930s are rare primary sources that capture student life and institutional culture of the era. The digitization effort makes this accessible to researchers and alumni who would not otherwise have access. It is a great model for how institutions can surface archival material with relatively modest effort.
Excellent guide to corbina fishing along California piers. The habitat notes and bait preferences are spot on — this is exactly the kind of detailed info that is hard to find elsewhere.
What a remarkable historical preservation effort — 1938 college magazines from St. Thomas Trichur are a genuinely rare primary source for understanding academic and social life in pre-independence Kerala. The digitization work your organization is doing ensures these materials survive beyond the physical copies. Visual restoration of historical documents has become much more accessible with modern AI tools.
What an incredible archival find — digitizing these 1938 magazines is genuinely valuable for historical scholarship. The fact that college publications from that era captured so much about campus life makes them primary sources in their own right. Thank you for preserving and sharing this.