Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extensive, consisting of a block of recitation rooms, an observatory, a chemical and a physical laboratory. The residence of the provost and fellows, with the dormitories, inclose a small quadrangle in the centre of which stands a bronze statue of the founder. The chapel is a good gothic structure, and the library is well supplied with the usual amount of manuscripts, etc. There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate...
...most celebrated colleges of the "town of learning." The view of the college from the High street on which it stands is disappointing, and it is only on walking out upon the bridge over the river that the beauty of the buildings appears. The most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround it. One of the curious customs of the college, handed down from remote times, is that early Mayday morning the choir ascend to the top of the tower and greet the rising sun with a hymn...
...city lives for the university. All the deliciously beautiful architecture of the quaint old city is, in one way or another, connected with the university. All in all, there are twenty-five colleges affiliated with the university; and besides these, all of which have their own middle-age Gothic buildings, with halls, chapels, and libraries, there are university libraries, museums, presses, and schools, or university building where the university examinations are held...
These massive old buildings, for the most part of Gothic architecture or at least of the general type of architecture that goes under the general term, line the High street on both sides. In each instance, I believe, the college quadrangle is entered by an archway. Most of these archways are high and wide and the stonework is most elaborately carved. Facing the uniform quadrangle are the chapel, the hall, the library, and the students' rooms. There is usually a back quadrangle or garden. Some of these are very large and are very beautifully kept. The buildings themselves...
Sophomore theme III. is due tomorrow. Subjects: 1. A description of either a Gothic Cathedral or a Greek Temple. 2. "Patience" or "Pinafore" turned into a Narrative. 3. On the meaning of the word "Swell." 4. The Present Situation of the Republican party. 5. The Comparative Merits of Base-ball and Foot-ball. 6. "Why I came to Harvard...