Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief sources of Yale's visible wealth, immortalized in such forms as its Gothic buildings and great research projects, are huge U. S. fortunes (e. g. Harkness, Rockefeller). But the bulk of Yale's endowment, like that of many another U. S. college,* comes from the gifts of sentimental old grads like Edward Benedict Cobb...
Paul Frankl, famous in Europe as an authority on medieval art, is speaking on late Gothic architecture this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. A former professor of art history at the University of Halle in Germany, Frankl is noted for his extensive studies of the Middle Ages...
...Manhattan's best-known buildings is the neo-Gothic tower of funereal black brick, topped by a gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good...
...Gothic Prison...
...According to Plans... Silliman College would have a handsome brick front facing the Georgian-federalist Timothy Dwight, tapering off to a forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...