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...school was deep in the red, and Griswold smoothly made himself a crack fund raiser. He more than tripled endowment to $375 million, launched a $69.5 million capital-funds campaign, put $75 million into 26 new buildings, gave Gothic Yale a bold new look with daring designs by Eero Saarinen and other top modern architects. To emphasize liberal education, Griswold gave Yale College control of all 4,000-odd undergraduates, including the once separatist engineering students. To spur Yale scholars, he set up research fellowships for young teachers, more than doubled faculty salaries; top professors...
...factors saved the school: the G.I. Bill, which at last supplied paying students (current tuition: $1,250), and lavish fund-raising by Cardinal Gushing. At war's end, B.C. had eight lonely Gothic buildings; now it has 31 (and plans nine more), including the Joseph P. Kennedy School of Education and an indoor hockey rink bigger than Boston Garden. To shed its commuter image, it is rapidly raising dormitories that now house 2,000 students from 37 states...
...Morrisania Church in The Bronx stands as one of New York's finest examples of 19th century Gothic architecture. Its façade bears a plaque noting that Philanthropist Gouverneur Morris II built the church in memory of his mother and that Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Gouverneur Morris, who drafted the Constitution, are buried there. Nowadays no one notices the plaque, and the limestone structure is in bad repair. Once fashionable and famous, St. Ann's parish is today in the heart of one of the city's toughest...
There are four parts to Adams House; three of them are attractive, comfortable--relics of an era when the function of a building was still good living. Two of the three are Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, the former quietly Tudor, the latter faintly Gothic, both of them built around the turn of the century to provide elegant Gold Coast young gentlemen with elegant young apartments (F. D. Roosevelt '04 lived appropriately in Westmorly South, now B-entry). The third part is Apthorp House, Master Reuben A. Brower's official home, where he entertains and serves tea to students, guests...
...tell one New England prep school from another is "sometimes terribly difficult," says Taft's Headmaster Paul F. Cruikshank. But the name of his small (360 boys) school-an ivied Gothic campus in Watertown, Conn.-is hardly forgettable. It evokes the massive figure of President William Howard Taft, whose slimmer brother, Horace Button Taft, founded the school in 1890. A score of other Tafts* have since passed through; but these days another name makes Taft just as memorable-Cruikshank...