Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Professor Cooke delivered the third of his lectures on English History to an audience which filled Boylston Hall completely. To begin with he showed a number of very interesting views of Westminster Abbey, telling how the whole style of Gothic architecture was developed during the reign of Henry III. When only thirteen years old, Henry led the procession which bore the coffin of one of the greatest saints of that time, Beckett, to interment in the Abbey in 1213. Fifty years later, Henry III again led a procession which was to bury another great saint, Edward the Confessor...
...present cathedral was built during the period when Gothic architecture was in its prime. It is uniform in style and has a spire 404 feet in length, which is at least twenty inches out of plumb, due to the settling of some of the arches...
...Falaise, the birth-place of William. Then he spoke of Caen and Rouen, the two capitals of Normandy. The views of the old churches in these places were excellent. Professor Cooke called especial attention to the different styles of architecture, and throughout his lecture contrasted the old Norman and Gothic designs of the abbeys and monasteries with the more modern style of the additions. His remarks on the various resting places of the Norman Dukes as well as the English Kings were very humorous...
...courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seem imposing enough to satisfy the most confirmed specialists, furnishing, as they do, instruction in such out-of-the-way languages as Ethiopic, Phoenician, Pali, Gothic, Icelandic, Old Saxon, etc. There is however no course in Celtic. Is it not possible to have one at Harvard? A knowledge of old Welsh, Gaelic and Celtic is important for those who study mediaeval literature and seek to trace the origin of various myths and legends which have been woven into the romances of old French and German. Courses in the field suggested would...
...sufficient to fill the first floor of the new art building. The collection will be in the same general line of work as the Boston Art Museum and the Slater Memorial of Norwich, differing from these collections in making all three collections co-operative in the advance of Romanesque, Gothic, Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture. The class of '81 in making this gift is keeping up with the old custom that each class ten years after graduation place some memorial stone or building on the campus as a monument of the generosity of the class...