Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...15th century French tapestry of the Gothic period and it is interesting for its clear and careful depiction of both human figures and Gothic architecture...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
Last Sunday morning a Crimson editor, loyal as ever to the cradle in which he was reared, drove out to Groton to attend Easter services. The scene was Easter to the last degree, with the stained-glass windows, the brightly-scrubbed Gothic pillars, the staunch lilies, and the choir boys resplendent in what F. P. A. once called "red surpluses". When the collection plate came round, even that had a hallowed tone in keeping with the sacred morning. As it passed the Crimson editor, piled high with bounty, a white slip of paper detached itself from the pile of money...
...Gothic shadow cast across Philadelphia by the ancient and excellent University of Pennsylvania, Temple University has spent ten years clamoring for public recognition. Cheap (tuition: $200) and teeming (enrollment: 10,106), Temple is comparable to City College of New York...
...gate a crack, they allowed Harris Teachers College to scoot gratefully out. Then the professors set about penning up a big, grimy animal which had long been running free. This was the University of Pittsburgh, whose chancellor is pale, Messianic John Gabbert Bowman and whose home is a handsome Gothic skyscraper, in the heart of Pittsburgh, which will cost $10,000,000 before it is finished. Pitt first got into trouble by firing a loud liberal named Ralph E. Turner. When an A. A. U. P. committee investigated Pitt, it found that Professor Turner was only the latest of many...