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While the new Georgian Harvard has been growing up off every hand, little has been said about preserving or even recognizing Harvard's heritage of genuine Colonial buildings. In particular, though Holden Chapel is conceded to be an unusual felicitous example in miniature of Colonial design, the inside of the building cannot be shown to visitors without apology. It has been allowed to degenerate into a dreary classroom whose mutilated boners and chairs are suggestive of some foreign country school...
...estate of William Howard Ganett, retired publisher of Comfort.* Colby declined. Its loyalty to Waterville was rewarded: Citizens donated 600 acres on Mayflower Hill in the outskirts. There, when the $3,000,000 is raised, a new Colby will rise, on a cruciform campus with redbrick, white-columned Georgian buildings...
...Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life...
...over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed up on the top of St. Paul...
...Save for John Davenport and Pierson, recently completed, which are red brick Georgian. To match nearby buildings Davenport has a novel Gothic facade. Scornful of Yale's architecture, the perky Harkness Hoot this month lists these styles, all to be found on the campus: Nondescript-General Grant, American Colonial-Georgian, French Renaissance Classic, Moorish, Lombard-Romanesque, Venetian, Greek Temple, Gothic...