Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale is handsome. That is, in its libraries there are sets and sets of very handsome blueprints, holy with the deep purity of Gothic tradition. When you look at the sandstone Gothic of Yale remember these prints and the mellowed dreams in back of them...
Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...
...course of his travels this summer, Dr Kuhn also purchased 40 reproductions of German and Dutch paintings, as well as a 16th century chest made in Westphalia, and an accounting table on which the date 1417 is whittled in Gothic numerals...
...worth of steel girders, tan Gothic stonework* and shiny plumbing given by Edward Stephen Harkness to Yale as an eleven college "house plan" development (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, March 9, 1931), names out of Yale's past will be given. Already named are Pierson, John Davenport, Branford, Saybrook and Berkeley Colleges. Three new names were added last week...
...Save for John Davenport and Pierson, recently completed, which are red brick Georgian. To match nearby buildings Davenport has a novel Gothic facade. Scornful of Yale's architecture, the perky Harkness Hoot this month lists these styles, all to be found on the campus: Nondescript-General Grant, American Colonial-Georgian, French Renaissance Classic, Moorish, Lombard-Romanesque, Venetian, Greek Temple, Gothic...