Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wooded, 900-acre campus. One day last week it suddenly came alive with young women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...
...acquired a majestic new administration building named Hetty Green Hall, a zoology laboratory, another co-operative dormitory and the beginnings of a physics & chemistry building which will be completed next autumn. All these are part of President Ellen Fitz Pendleton's longtime campaign to construct a handsome, Collegiate-Gothic "New Wellesley" out of the ashes of 1914. Now 70 and beginning her 23rd year as president, shy, deliberate, precise "Pres-Penn" intends to see the program through. She wants three more residence halls, an infirmary and additions to art building, gymnasium and library. No Wellesley woman doubts that...
Berkeley College, latest addition to the Yale Gothic collection, has been dubbed "The Great White Way" by Elf's men. For a short time it was called "Times Square" because of its network of tunnels. But this was changed when darkness fell upon the buildings. Now a battery of floodlights, augmented by several brilliant advertising signs from local emporiums, have occasioned the rechristening...
...Chronicle took rooms for his newshawks at a hotel across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land of teargas, brickbats, bullets and flying railroad spikes...
...Prague Castle's gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...