Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton University is building a new chapel, one of the largest university chapels in the world, modeled in collegiate Gothic after King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Workmen went to work on it last fortnight. Their wages and the materials and the fee to Architects Cram and Ferguson, will total $1,750,000. This great sum must come, is coming, from Princeton's alumni and friends. Last week President John Grier Hibben announced that $1,419,000 had come, including $25,000 from a modest, retiring old gentleman who has served Princeton in this way and that longer than any other...
...Ralph Adams Cram, U. S. authority on Gothic architecture, recently made some sketches for Mr. Rockefeller personally. He advocates churches constructed entirely of stone, walls supported by flying buttresses...
...Brussels eager citizens peeped and peered from the windows of the ancient guild houses which still surround La Grande Place. Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination...
That he had asked for funds to investigate further the work of American sculptors, and proposed to use just as many of them as could work in accord with the Gothic style of the Cathedral...
...miracle play, which this year will be performed on December 16 and 17 at 9 o'clock in the evening, will have as its setting the Gothic entrance in the Germanic Museum. The play itself is an adaptation of "Benediktbeurer Weihuachtsspiel", a medieval German play...