Word: gothically
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...itself, largely home-ruled, resisted change. Another is that James Angell is not deeply impressed by Yale College either as a parcel of ancient traditions or as a seat of learning. Even now his eye wanders when visitors babble about the almost flagrant picturesqueness of the acres of neo-Gothic and neo-Colonial stone and brick with which some $60,000,000 of Edward Stephen Harkness' and the late John William Sterling's money has entirely redecorated the city of New Haven. If anyone typifies the elegance of the nine undergraduate colleges' 28 squash courts, the urbanity...
...Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself as a happy compromise between studious Bryn Mawr and social Smith and Vassar...
...15th century French tapestry of the Gothic period and it is interesting for its clear and careful depiction of both human figures and Gothic architecture...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
Last Sunday morning a Crimson editor, loyal as ever to the cradle in which he was reared, drove out to Groton to attend Easter services. The scene was Easter to the last degree, with the stained-glass windows, the brightly-scrubbed Gothic pillars, the staunch lilies, and the choir boys resplendent in what F. P. A. once called "red surpluses". When the collection plate came round, even that had a hallowed tone in keeping with the sacred morning. As it passed the Crimson editor, piled high with bounty, a white slip of paper detached itself from the pile of money...