Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compare with this curtailment in educational activities the phenomenal growth in building that is taking place at Yale. Luxurious Gothic structures are rising in the form of libraries, gymnasiums, dormitories, and classrooms. In years of prosperity the educational program grows along with the architecture, but never at any equal pace. Though Yale has been more fortunate than most institutions in acquiring gifts, the same situation part on many other education is building itself a beautiful shell, but in years like this the hollowness rings painfully in our ears...
Like all good architecture, the International Style demands that the new materials at the service of modern architects (reinforced concrete, plate glass, steel, etc.) shall be used honestly. Cement walls must look like cement walls and not be disguised as Gothic masonry...
...capital to the left has in Gothic lettering the inscription "Petrus Caro Prior (F) Ecit Ista Eclesia Et Domus Et Claustra Et Omaque Ab E Fudat Era MCCXXLLL", a free translation being: "the dear prior Pedro built the church, the monastery, and the cloister in the year...
...humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead him, the Vagabond succeeds in escaping the Georgian in order to turn back again to the shadowed richness of the Gothic...
...Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life...